The Glove
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| The Glove | |
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| Background information | |
| Genre(s) | Post-punk New Wave |
| Years active | 1983 |
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| Robert Smith Steven Severin Jeanette Landray Andy Anderson Martin McCarrick Ginny Heyes Anne Stephenson |
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The Glove is a supergroup that was a side project of Robert Smith and Steven Severin from British alternative rock bands The Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees, respectively. They recorded only one album, Blue Sunshine (1983), and two singles followed.
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[edit] Overview
The Glove project was founded in 1983 as a diversion when both Smith and Severin were under heavy stress in their respective bands. Smith was on the verge of breakdown, drained from production of The Cure's bleakest album, 1982's Pornography, and its tour, from substance abuse (see, for example, the booklet enclosed with the recent re-release of the CD version) and from band infighting that had led to bassist Simon Gallup's departure. Smith and Severin had already worked together when Smith filled in as guitarist with the Banshees.
The band's name refers to the enormous flying glove in The Beatles' 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine, and the album's title refers to a little-known eponymous horror film in which people who took the fictional "Blue Sunshine" variety of LSD became psychotic murderers ten years later.
Since Smith was contractually prohibited from singing with another band (one of the reasons he cited for the 2001 split from The Cure's longtime label), former dancer Jeanette Landray (then-girlfriend of Severin's bandmate Budgie) was recruited as the lead singer. Smith sings on two of the songs, "Mr. Alphabet Says" and "Perfect Murder."
In 2005, Severin proposed re-releasing Blue Sunshine. (Smith is gradually re-releasing The Cure's back catalog, remastered with unreleased tracks, studio outtakes, live versions and B-sides of each album's era.) Smith agreed and the remaster was released as a two-CD set on August 8th, 2006 alongside three Cure re-releases. The second disc has demo versions of all the songs, with Smith on vocals, and also includes several previously unreleased tracks.
[edit] Personnel
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- Steve Severin - bass
- Robert Smith - guitar, vocals on original recording of "Mr. Alphabet Says", "Perfect Murder", and Disc 2 of Deluxe Edition
- Jeanette Landray - vocals on majority of tracks on original album
- Martin McCarrick - keyboards, real strings (later joined Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- Ginny Heyes - real strings
- Anne Stephenson - real strings
- Andy Anderson - real drums (later joined The Cure)
- The Man From Nowhere - musical interludes between tracks
[edit] Special Guest
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- Porl Thompson - played keyboard and violin in music videos [1]
[edit] Discography
- Albums
- Singles
