The Glove

The Glove
Robert Smith, Jeanette Landray, and Steven Severin
Background information
Genres	Alternative rock New Wave Gothic rock Dance
Years active	1983
Associated acts	Siouxsie and the Banshees The Cure
Past members
Robert Smith Steven Severin

The Glove was a 1982 musical collaboration and recording project by The Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees' Steven Severin.

History

Smith and Severin founded The Glove during a period when they were under heavy stress in their respective bands, The Cure and Siouxsie & The Banshees.

In June 1982 Robert Smith was on the verge of breakdown, drained from production of The Cure's bleakest album, 1982's Pornography, its tour, substance abuse and band infighting, that led to the departure of bassist Simon Gallup.

In October 1982, guitarist John McGeoch left Siouxsie & the Banshees due to illness, shortly before the announcement of an important European tour. In a matter of days, Smith filled in and officially became a member of Siouxsie & the Banshees in November 1982.

Two months later, in January 1983, Siouxsie & drummer Budgie left England to record an album on their own as The Creatures.

Meanwhile, Severin and Smith both started to work on a project called The Glove. 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 the horror film Blue Sunshine, 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 catalogue, 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 8, 2006 alongside three Cure re-releases. On the second disc, a dozen unreleased demo versions sung by Robert Smith appeared for the first time.

Personnel

• Jeanette Landray: Main Vocals
• Robert Smith: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Various
• Steven Severin: Bass, Keyboards, Various

Discography

Albums

• Blue Sunshine

Singles

• "Like an Animal"
• "Punish Me with Kisses"

Sources

The Glove. 2006 Rhino Records CD Re-Release booklet.

External links

• The Glove on Myspace