July 1986 - Upper East Side - NYC, NY (USA)

The Cure: Lol Tolhurst, Alison, Simon Gallup, Lesya K, Robert Smith
 (photographer, Howard Thompson)

"Anyway, in 1985, Fiction Records' boss and producer/manager of The Cure, Chris Parry, called to suggest I got to know Robert Smith a little better. After a string of commercially unsuccessful albums on Passport, A&M and Sire, The Cure had been picked up by Bob Krasnow not long after he took the reigns at Elektra Records. Bob’s son Mitchell had made the initial introduction but there wasn't much of a personal connection there and Chris thought Robert might relate with me. He told me Robert "has this weekend free and is looking for something to do. This might be a good opportunity to foster some record company/artist relations…and, by the way, Robert likes the kind of films that are banned in England"…could I sort something out?
I called Sullivan and he told me he was going away for the weekend but would leave it the capable hands of his g/f Alison and Dive-denizen Lesya K, luscious guitarist from NY psychedelic garage rockers, The Tryfles. I chose ‘The Gore Gore Girls’ and 'Ilsa, She Wolf Of The SS' as our entertainment and Rick arranged for us to take over an Upper East-side bar the following Saturday afternoon. The day arrives, the girls show up and get the the screen and projector ready. Robert, Lol Tolhurst (keys) and Simon Gallup (bass) stroll in and introductions are made. Beers were handed out and soon enough buckets of fake, crimson-saturated blood flowed on the screen. The guys kept themselves to themselves for most of the afternoon but they made all the appropriate exclamations as a stripper got her face deep-fried in a chip-pan and another’s bare butt got beaten to a bloody pulp with a meat tenderizer." read about Howard & the cure here -