Editing Robert Smith (musician) (section)

====The Glove: 1983====
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Smith and Severin had first discussed collaborating on an external side-project in 1981, although their respective commitments to the Cure and the Banshees had previously left no time for the project.<ref name="Greene, 1986, p. 33"/> From May 1983, however, with the Cure on hold and Siouxsie and Budgie working together as [[the Creatures]], recording of the Glove's album ''[[Blue Sunshine (album)|Blue Sunshine]]'' began in earnest.<ref name="Sutherland 2"/><ref name="Thompson & Greene, p. 42"/> Budgie's then girlfriend Jeanette Landray, formerly a dancer with [[Zoo (dance troupe)|Zoo]], was recruited to perform vocals, while [[Andy Anderson (drummer)|Andy Anderson]] from [[Brilliant (band)|Brilliant]] was brought in to play drums.<ref name="Sutherland 2"/><ref name="Greene, 1986, p. 33"/> The Venomettes with [[Martin McCarrick]] were hired to perform strings in studio. The Glove took its name from the "murder mitten" from the Beatles' animated feature ''[[Yellow Submarine (film)|Yellow Submarine]]'', while the album title came from [[Blue Sunshine (film)|a B-movie by the same name]] about a potent strain of [[LSD]] that caused people to lose their hair and turn into homicidal maniacs many years after their first trip.<ref name="Sutherland 3">Sutherland, Steve, "The Glove Will Tear Us Apart", ''Melody Maker'', 3 September 1983.</ref> Severin said of the project: {{Blockquote|Obviously there was an interest in [[psychedelia]]. We didn't have any set idea of what we wanted to do. After a few pointless discussions we just went in and started writing songs, and eventually honed in on shared interests, one of which happened to be late 60's garbage, but nothing hippy-dippy. The problem for us was how can we get ''[[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]]'' onto a record sleeve and not be seen as idiots.<ref>Hoskyns, Barney, "Don't Look Back", ''[[NME]]'', 24 December 1983.</ref>}} Smith described the creation of the album by saying: {{Blockquote|I thought it was a real attack on the senses when we were doing it. We were virtually coming out of the studio at six in the morning, coming back here and watching all these really mental films and then going to sleep and having really demented dreams and then, as soon as we woke up at four in the afternoon, we'd go virtually straight back into the studio, so, it was a bit like a mental assault course towards the end ... I mean, God, we must have watched about 600 videos at the time!<ref name="Sutherland 3"/>}} As well as ''Barbarella'', ''Yellow Submarine'' and the eponymous ''Blue Sunshine'', films cited as having fuelled the project included ''[[The Brood]]'', ''[[Evil Dead]]'', ''[[The Helicopter Spies]]'' and ''[[Inferno (1953 film)|Inferno]]''.<ref name="Sutherland 3"/> Retrospectively, the ''Melody Maker'''s Steve Sutherland described the Glove as "a manic psychedelic pastiche".<ref name="Sutherland 2"/>