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Musicians:
Blue Sunshine:
- Robert
Smith & Steven
Severin recorded an album
as The Glove, titled 'Blue
Sunshine' Budgie's
then girlfriend Ginette Landray provided vocals for the
majority of the tracks including the singles 'Like
An Animal'
& 'Punish
Me With Kisses'
- 'The Glove' is a character in The
Beatles film Yellow
Submarine and 'Blue Sunshine' is the name used for a
hallucinogenic drug. Blue
Sunshine is also
the name of a film
Like An Animal:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment: A newspaper article concerning
a woman who progressed from dropping eggs from her tower block flat
to dropping a television
- No promo video was made for the release of 'Like
An Animal'
- A Side of 12" single has 'So
Anyway There I Was' scratched into the run out groove
- B Side of 12" single has 'But
Everything Was A Dream' scratched into the run out groove
- A Side of 7" single has 'What's
The Plan Mac?' scratched into the run out groove
- B Side of 7" single has 'The
Plan Is This John' scratched into the run out groove
Sex Eye Make Up:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment: The initial inspiration was director Nicolas Roeg's
1980 film Bad
Timing
A Blues In Drag:
Perfect Murder:
Punish Me With Kisses:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:
The
title of this song was derived from the 'trash novel' of the same
name Punish
Me With Kisses by
William Bayer
- No promo video was made for the release of 'Punish
Me With Kisses'
- A Side of 7" single has
'Please Don't Interrupt While I'm Soliloquizing' scratched into the
run out groove
- B Side of 7" single has 'Laughter
There Was Never Laughter' scratched into the run out groove
Tightrope:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:
Inspired
by the circus dream sequence in the film Girl
On A Motorcycle
Lament:
- Severin mixed and produced
Lament, a song by The Cure that can be found on a flexidisc given
away free with Flexipop magazine.
Siamese
Twins:
- In 1983 Robert Smith was
approached by Royal Ballet choreographer Nicholas Dixon to score the
music for a production of Les Enfants Terrible.. Smith instead
suggested a smaller project and Dixon choreographed 'Siamese Twins'
from The Cure's 'Pornography' album. When the piece received a
public airing on TV's Riverside, Severin could be found playing
bass.
School Heroes:
- Severin attended the same
school in Bromley as childhood hero David Bowie.
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