I always thought this is a Cure song but it is from the brief collaboration between Steve Severin (of Siouxsie & the Banshees) and Robert Smith (The Cure). I think there were in a drug induced stupor of some kind when they wrote this album in 1983-84. I'll bet this is based on a children's story of some kind.
Severin remembers the sessions as, "Pretty insane. There was an ongoing 'happening' in Britannia Row [Studios]... Marc Almond's band would be there, the Associates, John McGeoch... it was like a mainline train station. We recorded from 6 pm to 6 am, then Robert and I would go back to my flat and watch video nasties!"
Severin remembers the sessions as, "Pretty insane. There was an ongoing 'happening' in Britannia Row [Studios]... Marc Almond's band would be there, the Associates, John McGeoch... it was like a mainline train station. We recorded from 6 pm to 6 am, then Robert and I would go back to my flat and watch video nasties!"
But even the video nasties - Bad Timing, Videodrome, The Evil Dead, etc. - formed part of The Glove's master plan. The idea was that by drowning themselves in acid and junk culture the pair would produce the kind...
But even the video nasties - Bad Timing, Videodrome, The Evil Dead, etc. - formed part of The Glove's master plan. The idea was that by drowning themselves in acid and junk culture the pair would produce the kind of mental disorientation essential to the creation of genuinely psychedelic music.
I always thought this is a Cure song but it is from the brief collaboration between Steve Severin (of Siouxsie & the Banshees) and Robert Smith (The Cure). I think there were in a drug induced stupor of some kind when they wrote this album in 1983-84. I'll bet this is based on a children's story of some kind.
From the reissued CD liner notes:
From the reissued CD liner notes:
Severin remembers the sessions as, "Pretty insane. There was an ongoing 'happening' in Britannia Row [Studios]... Marc Almond's band would be there, the Associates, John McGeoch... it was like a mainline train station. We recorded from 6 pm to 6 am, then Robert and I would go back to my flat and watch video nasties!"
Severin remembers the sessions as, "Pretty insane. There was an ongoing 'happening' in Britannia Row [Studios]... Marc Almond's band would be there, the Associates, John McGeoch... it was like a mainline train station. We recorded from 6 pm to 6 am, then Robert and I would go back to my flat and watch video nasties!"
But even the video nasties - Bad Timing, Videodrome, The Evil Dead, etc. - formed part of The Glove's master plan. The idea was that by drowning themselves in acid and junk culture the pair would produce the kind...
But even the video nasties - Bad Timing, Videodrome, The Evil Dead, etc. - formed part of The Glove's master plan. The idea was that by drowning themselves in acid and junk culture the pair would produce the kind of mental disorientation essential to the creation of genuinely psychedelic music.