July
1986 - Upper East Side - NYC,
NY (USA)
Lol Tolhurst,
Alison,
Simon Gallup,
Lesya,
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
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