The Cure

[10]Drozdowski, Ted (November 1, 2000). "Reeves Gabrels: Scary Monsters and Other Nasty Noises" (http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ document?doc_id=81878). Guitar.com. .

[11]Ross, Michael. "Review: Reverend Reeves Gabrels Signature Model" (http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/

Reverend-Reeves-Gabrels-Signature-Model/1657). Guitar Player online. .

[12] Bosso, Joe (5 Mar 2012). "Reeves Gabrels on his new Reverend Signature Model Guitar" (http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ reeves-gabrels-on-his-new-reverend-signature-model-guitar-532618). Musicradar.com. .

External links

•reevesgabrels.net (http://www.reevesgabrels.net/) The Official Website.

•Official My Space page (http://www.myspace.com/reevesgabrels).

•Reevz.net (http://www.reevz.net/) A fan site.

•(http://www.ricktorres.com/music/Mephistopheles_no_Bass.mp3) Reeves on lead guitar

•(http://www.ricktorres.com/music/Tea_and_Sympathy_Delay.mp3) Reeves on lead guitar

The Glove

The Glove

Robert Smith, Jeanette Landray, and Steven Severin

The Glove was a 1982 musical collaboration and recording project by The Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees' Steven Severin.

History

Smith and Severin founded The Glove during a period when they were under heavy stress in their respective bands, The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

In June 1982 Robert Smith was on the verge of breakdown, drained from production of The Cure's bleakest album, 1982's Pornography, its tour, substance abuse and band infighting, that led to the departure of bassist Simon Gallup.

In October 1982, guitarist John McGeoch left Siouxsie and the Banshees due to illness, shortly before the start of an important European tour. Smith was asked to fill in and officially became a member of Siouxsie & the Banshees in November 1982. He had previously played live with the band in 1979 on their "Join Hands" tour when he replaced guitarist John McKay who walked out at the start of the tour. The Cure were the support band for the whole tour with Smith therefore playing two sets per night.

Two months later, in January 1983, Siouxsie and drummer Budgie left England to record an album on their own as The Creatures.

Meanwhile, Severin and Smith both started to work on a project called The Glove. The band's name refers to the enormous flying glove in The Beatles' 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine, and the album's title Blue Sunshine refers to the horror film Blue Sunshine, in which people who took the fictional "Blue Sunshine" variety of LSD became psychotic murderers ten years later.

Since Smith was contractually prohibited from singing with another band (one of the reasons he cited for the 2001 split from The Cure's longtime label), former dancer Jeanette Landray (then-girlfriend of Severin's bandmate Budgie) was recruited as the lead singer. Smith sings on two of the songs, "Mr. Alphabet Says" and "Perfect Murder."

In 2005, Severin proposed re-releasing Blue Sunshine. (Smith is gradually re-releasing The Cure's back catalogue, remastered with unreleased tracks, studio outtakes, live versions and B-sides of each album's era.) Smith agreed and the remaster was released as a two-CD set on August 8, 2006 alongside three Cure re-releases. On the second disc, a dozen unreleased demo versions sung by Robert Smith appeared for the first time.

Personnel

•Robert Smith - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Various

•Steven Severin - Bass, Keyboards, Various[1]

•Jeanette Landray - Vocals

Discography

Albums

• Blue Sunshine

Singles

•"Like an Animal"

•"Punish Me with Kisses"

References

[1] http://www.myspace.com/thegl0ve

Sources

The Glove. 2006 Rhino Records CD Re-Release booklet.

External links

• The Glove (http://www.myspace.com/thegl0ve) on Myspace

Levinhurst

Levinhurst

Origin Los Angeles, California

Genres Electronica, independent music

Years active 2002-present

Levinhurst is an independent music band formed by Lol Tolhurst, a founding member of The Cure, and his wife Cindy Levinson. Levinson provides vocals while Tolhurst writes the majority of the tracks, musically and lyrically, and programmes the drums and keyboards. So far, Levinhurst has released three studio albums - Perfect Life, House by the Sea, and Blue Star - and one EP called The Grey. The Grey includes a cover of The Cure song "All Cats Are Grey", a song for which Tolhurst claims to have written the lyrics.[1]

History

The band was formed in the early 2000s by Lol Tolhurst, a founding member of The Cure and his wife Cindy Levinson. Their debut album, Perfect Life, was released in March 2004. This was followed in February 2007 by an EP called The Grey. Their second album, House by the Sea, was released in April 2007.

The band's third album, Blue Star, will be released on February 2: it features Tolhurst and Levinson, plus other musicians including Michael Dempsey, original bassist with The Cure. A European tour will start March 2010. They are currently on a world tour promoting Blue Star in 2010.

Members and Discography

References

[1] 2007 Cure fanclub interview with Tolhurst (http://www.hispacure.com/b/prensa/archivo/reportajes/hispacure/ HispaCure_interview_to_Lol_Tolhurst_April2007.pdf) (viewed 11 June 2009)

External links

•Levinhurst (http://www.myspace.com/levinhurst) on Myspace

•Interview with Tolhurst at chaindlk.com (http://www.chaindlk.com/interviews/index. php?interview=Levinhurst)

•Interview with Tolhurst at Angelfire.com (http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/graveconcerns/ interview_levinhurst.html)

•Interview with Tolhurst at freewilliamsburg.com (http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/may_2004/levinhurst. html)

•Interview with Tolhurst at chaoscontrol.com (http://www.chaoscontrol.com/content_article. php?article=levinhurst)

•Where Do You Go From The Cure? (http://www.virginmegamagazine.com/default.asp?aid=BA3)

Lockjaw

Lockjaw were an English punk band from the 70s, whose members later performed in The Magazine Spies, The Cure, Fools Dance and related projects.

Members

•Gary Bower (Bo Zo) - vocals

•Stuart Hinton (Micky Morbid) - guitar

•Simon Gallup (Andy Septic) - bass

•Martin Ordish (Oddy Ordish) - drums

Discography

•Radio Call Sign / The Young Ones in November 1977

•Journalist Jive / A Doong A Doong A / I'm A Virgin in 1978

External links

• Lockjaw at Pictures of You [1]

References

[1] http://picturesofyou.us/Lockjaw/lockjaw.htm

The Magazine Spies

The Magazine Spies were an English post-punk band from the town of Horley. They were active during 1979 and 1980, and are notable for band members who went on to play in The Cure, Fools Dance and related projects. The Magazine Spies were also known as The Magspies and Mag/Spys; a wordplay on Magpies.

History

Origins

The initial lineup in 1979 comprised the original members of Horley punk rock band Lockjaw (1976–1978); Gary Bowe (vocals), Simon Gallup (bass guitar), Stuart Hinton (guitar), and Martin Ordish (drums). They were joined by Matthieu Hartley (keyboards).[1] The band's transition from Lockjaw to The Magspies coincided with their parting company with Raw Records,[2] and expanding from their punk origins to explore post-punk and new wave. As they had done as Lockjaw, The Magspies continued to play regularly around Horley and Crawley with The Cure, among

others.[3] Both Lockjaw and The Magspies were managed and promoted by bassist Simon’s elder brothers Dave Gallup and Ric Gallup.[2][4]

Cure, Cult Hero, recording

In October 1979 Simon Gallup and Matthieu Hartley left The Magspies to join the new lineup of The Cure.[5][6][7]

During the same month, however, The Magspies entered Morgan Studios in London as part of a recording session for Cult Hero.[7][8] Simon and Matthieu both performed as members of Cult Hero during these sessions. In between

recording Cult Hero, Robert Smith of The Cure and Ric Gallup produced tracks by The Obtainers and The Magspies for Ric Gallup’s new record label Dance Fools Dance.[7] Songs recorded by The Magspies included Lifeblood, Bombs, Dishonour and Gary’s Gone to War.[9] Simon performed bass on the Magspies recordings apart from Gary's Gone to War, which featured Rik Kite, but Matthieu’s keyboards did not appear.[8] Backing vocals were provided by Simon’s then-girlfriend Carol Thompson.[2]

The Magspies Mk II

The Magspies later replaced Gallup with bassist Rik Kite from Crawley.[10] Rather than finding a new keyboardist the band recruited second guitarist Stuart Curran. Curran’s previous band CRIME had been performing around Horley and Crawley with The Magspies during 1979.[11] In March 1980, the new lineup of Gary Bowe (vocals), Stuart Hinton (guitar), Stuart Curran (guitar, keyboards), Rik Kite (bass/backing vocals) and Martin Ordish (drums) opened for The Cure at The Marquee Club in London.[8] Later in the same year members of The Magspies also traveled with The Cure for tour dates in France.[2]

In July 1980 the Dance Fools Dance label released the Yeh Yeh Yeh split-release 7’’ single by The Obtainers and The Mag/Spys, from the earlier Morgan Studios recordings. The record contained The Obtainers’ songs Yeh Yeh Yeh and Pussy Wussy on one side, with Lifeblood and Bombs by the Mag/Spys on the other. Only 100 copies of the single

were pressed, hand-packaged in paper and sticker sleeves designed by Ric Gallup. Individual copies came with either red [12], yellow [13], green [14] or blue [15] stickers, and were sold by mail-order for 75 pence through The

Cure’s official newsletter Clinic.[8] Later internet sources have dated the release to 1979, possibly due to having been recorded in 1979 with the original lineup.[16] Lifeblood and Bombs by Mag/Spys later resurfaced on the 1998 UK punk compilation LP England Belongs to Me, Vol II by bootleg label 77 Records.

During the latter half of 1980, The Magspies disbanded. The following year, Stuart Curran and Matthieu Hartley formed The Cry. Simon Gallup also joined The Cry in 1982, and after several lineup and name changes between 1981 and 1983 the band became known as Fools Dance.

References

[1] Lineup sources:

Smith, Robert - A Present State in Clinic Issue No. 3, March 1980, p.9 Gallup, Ric - A Tale of Incest in Clinic Issue No. 4, September 1980, pp.11-12

Simon Gallup & Matthieu Hartley as cited in Ten Imaginary Years (passim), by L. Barbarian, Steve Sutherland and Robert Smith (1987) Zomba Books ISBN 0-946391-87-4

Ordish, Martin - Martin "Oddy" Ordish Updates Us, 6 January 2006, and Oddie Ordish Reminisces, 8 January 2006, cited by Detour Records (http://www.detour-records.co.uk)

[2]Ordish, 2006

[3]Barbarian, Sutherland & Smith, 1987

[4]Gallup, Ric 1980

[5]Clinic No. 3, 1980, p.3

[6]Sutcliffe, Phil - Boys Keep Swinging in Sounds (UK), 15 December 1979, p.22

[7]Barbarian, Sutherland, Smith, 1987

[8]Gallup, Ric, 1980

[9]Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley and Ric Gallup as cited in Clinic No. 4 (passim), 1980

[10]Yeh Yeh Yeh record-sleeve notes, 1980

[11]Curran, Stuart in Fools Dance - Biography (promotional tour program), 1985, p. 10

[12]http://www.thecurerecords.com/record.aspx?id=3307

[13]http://www.picturesofyou.us/Obtainers-MagSpys/Obtainers-7-Yellow-1.jpg

[14]http://www.on-fiction.com/images_cure/TIB/obtainers_sl2.JPG

[15]http://www.on-fiction.com/images_cure/TIB/obtainers_sl_bl.jpg

[16]Mag/Spys @ Detour Records (http://www.detour-records.co.uk/MAGSPYS.htm), Cult Hero @ On-Fiction.com (http://www.

on-fiction.com/TheCure/cult_hero.htm), Obtainers/Magspys @ Picturesofyou.com (http://www.picturesofyou.us/Obtainers-MagSpys/ Obtainers-Magspys.htm)

External links

• Mag/Spys @ www.detour-records.co.uk (http://www.detour-records.co.uk/MAGSPYS.htm)

Presence

"Act of Faith" redirects here. If you were looking for the Katey Segal song, see here.

Presence

Gary Biddles, Rob Steen, Chris Youdell, Roberto Soave, Alan Burgess, Lol Tolhurst

Presence was a short-lived British New Wave band started by Gary Biddles, Lol Tolhurst, and Michael Dempsey. Dempsey and Tolhurst were founding members of The Cure, and Biddles was a former Cure roadie who previously played in Fools Dance with Simon Gallup. In their brief existence, Presence released only one album, called Inside through Smash Records, a subsidiary of Island Records.

History

In 1990, Dempsey, Tolhurst and Biddles were recording demos together with a view to forming a new band following Tolhurst's departure from The Cure.[2] With the addition of keyboardist Chris Youdell (of Then Jerico) and drummer Alan Burgess the band emerged in 1991 as Presence with the singles, "In Wonder" and "All I See". Dempsey received co-writing credit for "Amazed"; the b-side of "All I See",[3] but took a background role as a session bassist, and did not appear in the band's photos or press releases. Porl Thompson also made guest appearances on guitar for some of these recordings, but by 1992 both Dempsey and Thompson were officially replaced by bassist Roberto Soave (formerly of The Associates and Shelleyan Orphan) and guitarist Rob Steen respectively. However, Dempsey received co-writing credits for two tracks on Inside.[4] Although Inside was well received by critics, the album was a commercial failure, and led to the dissolution of the band.

When Presence were formed, there was another band with the same name. Because of Tolhurst's fame, the other band had to change their name to Puressence. Another outfit named Presence placed two singles ("Sense of Danger" and "Future Love") in the UK Singles Chart in 1998 and 1999.[5]

Since the breakup of Presence, Roberto Soave and Rob Steen have played in another band called Babacar along with Boris Williams of The Cure and Caroline Crawley of Shelleyan Orphan.[6] Soave has also played a brief stint with The Cure. When Simon Gallup fell ill during the European leg of the Wish tour, Soave filled in for him on bass.[7]

Tolhurst confirmed in an interview several years later that Presence had recorded a second album, which was produced by former Smiths producer John Porter.[8] He said it is unlikely this second album will ever be released, and that he felt the band "was really too much too soon I felt for me".[9] But he also said in another interview that he does not discount his experience with Presence either,[10] and according to another interviewer, this band does spark interest among some Cure fans.[11] Tolhurst is focusing on his current project Levinhurst, a portmanteau of Tolhurst and his wife's (vocalist Cindy Levinson) surnames.

In 2007, Biddles started a MySpace page for Presence.

Presence first album "Inside" was re-released in December 2011.

Members

•Gary Biddles — vocals

•Michael Dempsey — bass guitar

•Lol Tolhurst — guitars

•Chris Youdell — keyboards

•Alan Burgess — drums

•Roberto Soave — bass guitar

•Rob Steen — guitar

Discography

Albums

• 1993: Inside

Singles

•1991

•"In Wonder" with backing vocals by Bari Goddard (of Then Jerico).

•"All I See"

•1992

•"Act of Faith"

•1993

•"Never" / "Act of Faith"

B-sides/unreleased songs

•"Distortion" (b-side of "All I See")

•"Amazed" (b-side of "All I See")

•"All I See" [Butler-Walsh Mix] (b-side of "All I See")

•"Earthquake" (b-side of "Act of Faith")

•"Soft" (b-side of both "Act of Faith" and "In Wonder")

•"Tomorrow" (b-side of "Act of Faith")

•"Closer" (unreleased)

•"Everything's Changing" (unreleased)

References

[1]http://www.presenceuk.net/

[2]"Interview with Robert Smith" 5 August 2007 (http://www.thecure.com/archive/curenewspages/cn9link.html)

[3]"All I See" 29 August 2007 (http://www.discogs.com/release/581761)

[4]"Review of Inside" 5 August 2007 (http://www.allmusic.com/album/r169382)

[5]Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 434. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

[6]"Babacar" 1 August 2007 (http://www.absoluteagogo.com/babacar.html)

[7]"Cure Archive" 1 August 2007 (http://www.foreverdrowning.net/setlist.php?date=882)

[8]Levinhurst.com (http://www.levinhurst.com/cgi/Blah/Blah.pl?b=cc,m=1122314484)

[9]"Interview with Lol" 1 August 2007 (http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/graveconcerns/interview_levinhurst.html)

[10]"Levinhurst" 1 August 2007 (http://www.chaindlk.com/interviews/index.php?interview=Levinhurst)

[11]"Interview to Lol Tolhurst" 1 August 2007 (http://www.hispacure.com/b/prensa/archivo/reportajes/hispacure/

HispaCure_interview_to_Lol_Tolhurst_April2007.pdf)

External links

•Presence (http://www.myspace.com/presenceuk) on Myspace

•Article and pictures (http://www.picturesofyou.us/91/91-presence-misc.htm)

•Band pictures (http://www.picturesofyou.us/other/presence.htm)

•Different Cures (http://www.picturesofyou.us/91/m-91-5-Ciao2001-italy.htm)

•Where Do You Go from The Cure? (http://www.virginmegamagazine.com/default.asp?aid=BA3)

•Interview with Gary Biddles (http://blogcritics.org/music/article/interview-with-gary-biddles-cure-roadie1/)

Shelleyan Orphan

Shelleyan Orphan is a British alternative music group, that peaked during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Career

In 1980, Caroline Crawley and Jemaur Tayle met in Bournemouth, England, where they discovered a mutual appreciation of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.[1] Two years later, after taking the name Shelleyan Orphan from the Shelley poem "Spirit Of Solitude", the pair moved to London to seek out orchestral elements to add to their voices.[1]

In June 1984, the band got their first break and landed a session with David Jensen for BBC Radio 1. The band signed with Rough Trade Records in 1986 and released the singles, "Cavalry of Cloud" and "Anatomy of Love".[1]

In 1987, the band released their first of three albums: Helleborine.[1] Named after the Helleborine orchid said to have the power to cure madness, the album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with producer Haydn Bendall. Helleborine included an assortment of guest musicians including Stuart Elliott (the drummer for Kate Bush), and Kate's brother Paddy Bush.

In 1989, they released Century Flower.[1] So called after a flower that blooms only once in its lifetime, this album was intended to mark "an event which affects enormous change, maybe once in a century: on a world scale, the atomic bomb: on a personal level, the death of someone close to you". Produced by David M. Allen, the band's sound caught the ear of The Cure's Robert Smith, who invited the band to accompany them on their Prayer Tour. While on that tour, Caroline Crawley began a relationship with Cure drummer Boris Williams.

In 1991, the band would receive another break when Crawley was approached by 4AD Records founder Ivo Watts-Russell who asked her to appear on four tracks of This Mortal Coil's Blood. Crawley was permitted to do her own interpretations of the tracks, and would appear in the video for the Syd Barrett cover, "Late Night." With Jem Tayle, Shelleyan Orphan recorded and released tracks for several compilation albums during this period.