Additionally an electro techno project is called "The Glove".
It all started at the YMCA....
Robert Smith of The Cure first encountered Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees when they both pitched up at the bar of the YMCA in London's Tottenham Court Road during a Throbbing Gristle gig on August 3, 1979. "I was wearing sunglasses and a very distinctive green check suit" remembers Robert. "I thought I looked pretty hip and happening. Severin came over to me and whispered in my ear "Charlie Caroli I presume?" That made me laugh! We got to talking, and by the end of the night had agreed The Cure should play with the Banshees on their forthcoming UK tour" During the course of this tour, which included Robert's stint as emergency Banshee's guitarist, the pair discovered mutual interests in music, literature, cinema and more, and so began an enduring friendship that led in the spring of 1983 to work on their new infamous joint project The Glove. "We had first talked seriously about doing something together in late 1980 when Robert was working on Faith," Remembers Steven. At that time Robert was completely in The Cure and I was of course in The Banshees, so a collaboration couldn't really have worked, we had to wait....when it finally happened it seemed to the outside world like 'the other half' of The Banshees side project, even though we'd planned it all long before The Creatures stuff!" Named after the evil animated glove in the Beatles film Yellow Submarine, Robert and Steve's psychedelic project was originally conceived as a few weird singles to be aimed at the Japanese market with hopes of bigger things to follow. Having booked Britannia Row Studios in London, in part because of its historic connections with Pink Floyd. Steven and Robert suddenly had their rainbow-hued feathers ruffled by Chris Parry, head of The Cure's label Fiction Records, who reminded the pair that Fictions contract with Robert specifically precluded him from singing on anything except Cure records. Parry's concern was that Robert had been taking too much time out from The Cure. He had already toured twice as the Banshees guitarist and reasoned Parry, if he enjoyed doing The Glove, he might abandon The Cure altogether. Parry's fears were far from unfounded because Robert had been somewhat dissatisfied with The Cure ever since the acrimonious departure of bassist Simon Gallup nine months earlier. Robert and Chris Parry now locked horns. "It was a real struggle" explains Robert, "as I was insisting on my right to sing on something other than The Cure. The irony of it of course, was that I didn't have a clue as to what I was actually going to record as we didn't have any songs!" At the eleventh hour a deal was thrashed out green-lighting Robert to sing on two tracks of The Glove project, which had now assumed the dimensions of a full-blown album. "So now we needed a vocalist for the rest of the album" points out Robert, "and after a few very truppy auditions we decided on Jeanette Landray, girlfriend of The Banshees drummer Budgie." A member of ZOO. The top of the pops dance troupe Landray had never sung before. Severin remembers the sessions as, "pretty insane" There was an ongoing 'happening' in Britannia Row...Marc Almond of Soft Cell would be there, The Associats, John McGeoch,...it was like a mainline train station. We recorded from 6pm to 6am, then Robert would go back to my flat and watch video nasties!" but even after the video nasties, Bad Timing, Videorome, 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. Another technique involved the use of exotic instruments. "We thought that if we stuck to the instruments we had always played we would end up sounding like a cross The Cure and The Banshees." explains Steven. "instead we experimented and came up with new ways of working. Landray meanwhile was realizing that as The Glove was very much Robert And Steven's project, her contributions were going to be limited. "I had a strange role involved, but not with any say in the way things turned out..almost like a session musician really." Readily acknowledging that Jeanette had been thrust into an awkward position Robert admits that he found it disconcerting to hear somone else singing songs he had demo'd with himself in mind. "I remember Jeanette being a bit unsure as to how to sing certain songs...but she was very determined and very patient which she had to be as I'm pretty sure that my advice was at best cryptic!"
Members of "The Glove" ~~~
Robert Smith - guitar, vocals on original recording of "Mr. Alphabet Says", "Perfect Murder", and Disc 2 of Deluxe Edition
Steve Severin - bass
Martin McCarrick - keyboards, real strings (later joined Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Jeanette Landray - vocals on majority of tracks on original album
Andy Anderson - real drums (later joined The Cure)
Ginny Heyes - real strings
Anne Stephenson - real strings
Porl Thompson- Special Guest in The Glove's Videos (From The Cure)
Sexy-Eye-Make-Up
The Glove Lyrics
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It's the best thing money can buy
Or leave me on the stairs with my feet in the air
I think that I'm jazzy like christ
One more cigarette and the car burns
Burning like the body waiting at home
Throw out your teeth and call all your friends
Inches of glass all shiny and new
Screaming laughing - fucks me to death
One more boy full of writhing white mice
Rolls over again in a london disguise
The blood bath woman in room number one
Sex-eye-make-up tonight
She just woke up today to do as she's told
Do you want to touch her?
The lyrics of The Glove's song "Sexy-Eye-Make-Up" are full of surreal and absurd imagery that paints a picture of a twisted and decadent world. The opening lines "Run around the chairs in your Sunday dress / It's the best thing money can buy" suggest an empty and meaningless existence, where material possessions are all that matter. The next line, "Or leave me on the stairs with my feet in the air / I think that I'm jazzy like Christ" is a reference to the crucifixion, implying that the singer is willing to suffer for their art.
The following lines continue in a similar vein, with references to burning cars, coughing, and blood baths. The line "Someone coughing took away my breath" suggests a sense of suffocation and claustrophobia, while "Inches of glass all shiny and new / Screaming laughing - fucks me to death" conjures up an image of a masochistic pleasure derived from pain.
The final lines introduce a character known as "the Sex-eye-make-up woman", who seems to exist purely for the pleasure of others. The line "She just woke up today to do as she's told" implies a sense of powerlessness and objectification, while "Do you want to touch her?" brings the song to a disturbing and unsettling conclusion.
Line by Line Meaning
Run around the chairs in your sunday dress
Have fun and be carefree, even if you're dressed up formally like on a Sunday
It's the best thing money can buy
Enjoying yourself doesn't always require material wealth
Or leave me on the stairs with my feet in the air
Leave me dizzy and confused as if I'm lying on the stairs with no sense of direction
I think that I'm jazzy like christ
I feel confident in my coolness, like a jazz musician or religious figure
One more cigarette and the car burns
One more self-destructive habit and everything I have could go up in smoke
Burning like the body waiting at home
Mysterious and haunting, like the flames of a body purposely set on fire
Throw out your teeth and call all your friends
Let go of your inhibitions and reach out to others for connection and camaraderie
Someone coughing took away my breath
Unexpected and startling, as if choked by a sudden coughing fit
Inches of glass all shiny and new
Surrounded by an abundance of shiny, new material possessions
Screaming laughing - fucks me to death
It's both exhilarating and exhausting, like screaming and laughing until one's energy is drained
One more boy full of writhing white mice
Another boy with secrets and potential, represented by writhing white mice
Rolls over again in a london disguise
Pretending to be someone else, in this case as if in the city of London
The blood bath woman in room number one
A mysterious, gruesome woman who resides in the first room of a building
Sex-eye-make-up tonight
Tonight's all about sex appeal, as expressed through eye makeup
She just woke up today to do as she's told
She's submissive, following orders without question
Do you want to touch her?
Do you desire her sexually?
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: ROBERT JAMES SMITH, STEVEN SEVERIN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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