BLUE SUNSHINE - TRIVIA

 
 
  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.