The Glove's female vocalist???
Barbara Petersen
I recently picked up "Blue Sunshine" by The Glove, a one-shot collaboration
between Robert Smith (The Cure) and Steve Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees).
Most of the vocals are done by a woman who is described cryptically in the CD
insert as "Guest Vocalist: Landray"; an article I have on the history of The
Cure refers to her as "Zoo dancer Jeanette Landray". Big help. So -- does
anyone know anything more about Ms. Landray? Where did she come from, where
did she go, what else has she done? Anything at all?
[The album is well worth checking out, BTW -- more or less what you'd expect
from a Cure/Banshees cross, with a strong weird/exotic/psychedelic/dreamy
element thrown in....]
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Brian Hoffman
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>I recently picked up "Blue Sunshine" by The Glove, a one-shot collaboration
>between Robert Smith (The Cure) and Steve Severin (Siouxsie and the Banshees).
>Most of the vocals are done by a woman who is described cryptically in the CD
>insert as "Guest Vocalist: Landray"; an article I have on the history of The
>Cure refers to her as "Zoo dancer Jeanette Landray". Big help. So -- does
>anyone know anything more about Ms. Landray? Where did she come from, where
>did she go, what else has she done? Anything at all?
>
As the story goes, Landray was some prostitute that was hanging out around
the studio. They invited her in and let her sing. End of story.
You're right, it is a great album. I really love "Mr. Alphabet Says."
You picked it up a little late, didn't you? It came out around 1984.
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Michael Wertheim
>You're right, it is a great album. I really love "Mr. Alphabet Says."
>You picked it up a little late, didn't you? It came out around 1984.
It was re-released this year by Rough Trade.
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>Most of the vocals are done by a woman who is described cryptically in the CD
>insert as "Guest Vocalist: Landray"; an article I have on the history of The
>Cure refers to her as "Zoo dancer Jeanette Landray". Big help. So -- does
>anyone know anything more about Ms. Landray?
alls i know is that she is/was Severin's girlfriend and i don't think she's
ever done any other recordings aside from the Glove. pity.
>[The album is well worth checking out, BTW -- more or less what you'd expect
> from a Cure/Banshees cross, with a strong weird/exotic/psychedelic/dreamy
> element thrown in....]
the title, Blue Sunshine refers to a kind of LSD used in a bad B-type
horror flick wherein the user at some unknown point in the future would
experience a "flash forward" due to this drug. in any case, it's been
documented (check out the book Ten Imaginary Years) that Robert and Severin
had intended the album to be a combination of a feel like this with
a modest sprinkling of Japanese influence, seeing as Smith and the
Banshees and just returned from a tour there. if you listen to the
album you can feel the Japanese influence. it's not the "traditional"
feel we're talking about here. it's more of a modern interpretation.
cheers.--d
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