The Cure

Simon Gallup’s first marriage was to Carol Thompson, a former secretary who had also contributed backing vocals to the Mag/Spys recordings in 1979. They had two children together, Eden (born 18 March 1990) and Lily (born 7 September 1992), before they divorced. Simon married his second wife Sarah in December 1997, and they have at least one child together, named Evangeline ‘Evie’ Gallup. According to The Cure’s Chain of Flowers Newsletter, the title to The Mission’s 2001 single Evangeline was dedicated by Wayne Hussey to Evie Gallup, although the lyrics were “about someone else altogether”.[7] Gallup’s eldest son Eden, who also goes by the name Ed Vendetta, is the frontman and lead guitarist for rock band Violet Vendetta [8], formed in 2004. Citing The Cure and Guns N’ Roses as influences, since 2006 Violet Vendetta have released one EP and two full-length albums.[9]

References

[1]Barbarian, Sutherland, Smith, The Cure: Ten Imaginary Years, Zomba Books, 1987, p. 120. ISBN 0-946391-87-4

[2]Barbarian, Sutherland, Smith, The Cure: Ten Imaginary Years, Zomba Books, 1987. ISBN 0-946391-87-4

[3]"Fools Dance" (http://www.picturesofyou.us/tourprograms/tp-foolsdance.htm), 7 September 2007

[4]Bob hitched shock; August 1988 (http://www.picturesofyou.us/88/88-8-thisisyourwife-jean.htm)

[5](http://www.picturesofyou.us/92/92-sg-sick.htm) "Simon Gallups Off!"

[6](http://www.picturesofyou.us/04/04-10-bassplayer-simon-interview.htm), Simon Gallup: A Cure for the Common Bass

[7]Cure News Archive – October 2001 @ Chainofflowers.com (http://www.chainofflowers.com/oct01.html)

[8]http://www.myspace.com/violetvendettaband

[9]Violet Vendetta on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/VIOLET-VENDETTA/45631044529?sk=info)

External links

• Simon at Pictures of You (http://www.picturesofyou.us/members/simon.htm)

Roger O'Donnell (born 29 October 1955) is an English keyboardist best known for his work with The Cure. O'Donnell has also performed in the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson Twins and Berlin, as well as having an active solo career.

Background

O'Donnell was born in East London into a musical family, next to the piano in his parents' London home.[2] O'Donnell attended Art School but left to pursue a career as a professional musician, with his first paying gig coming in 1976, at Oxford Town Hall backing legendary British pop icon Arthur Brown.

In the early 1980s, while with The Thompson Twins, Berlin, and The Psychedelic Furs, O'Donnell was a big fan of synthesisers produced by Sequential Circuits, which produced such classics as the Prophet 5, Prophet T8, and Prophet VS. While on tour with The Psychedelic Furs, O'Donnell set the record for having the most Sequential models onstage at one time.

Tenure with The Cure

O'Donnell first joined The Cure in 1987, replacing Lol Tolhurst on keyboards, after being longtime friends with drummer Boris Williams. He played with The Cure during their Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me tour, though he did not contribute to the album. (He does however appear in the music videos for "Just Like Heaven" and "Hot Hot Hot!!!" and appeared in tour promo art.) With O'Donnell on keyboards, Porl Thompson was able to focus on guitar full time, instead of assisting Tolhurst on keyboards for many of the songs. Some of O'Donnell's performances from this tour can be heard on the deluxe edition of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.

For the next album Disintegration, O'Donnell became a fully integrated member of the band, and his songwriting contributions can be heard on the songs "Untitled" and "Fear of Ghosts," which is the B-Side to the hit single "Lovesong." He is also featured on the live album from this period, Entreat. Following The Cure's Prayer Tour in 1989, O'Donnell left the band temporarily in 1990 due to a difference of opinion with some of the other members.

During the Cure's period of greatest success, O'Donnell was the band's only member to play piano and keyboards as his primary instrument. Previous keyboardist Lol Tolhurst also played drums for a time and subsequent keyboardist Perry Bamonte later switched to guitar. O'Donnell rejoined The Cure in 1995 and appeared on the albums Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, and The Cure. He also appears on the live DVD Trilogy. During this period it is notable that O'Donnell introduced the band to digital recording.

When O'Donnell started working on his solo album The Truth In Me in early 2005, he stated that he had no plans to leave The Cure. However, later in that year Robert Smith decided to reconfigure The Cure as a trio, without O'Donnell or Perry Bamonte. O'Donnell would later confirm that the rumour of him being fired by E-mail was false, and if The Cure hadn't been reduced to a trio he would have left regardless to concentrate on solo material.

In May 2011, O'Donnell and Laurence Tolhurst reunited with The Cure to perform the band's first three albums - Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, and Faith - in their entirety at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.[3] The set also included a number of B-sides and singles played during the encore.

On September 11 O'Donnell announced on his Facebook page that he had rejoined The Cure.

Solo work

O’Donnell’s current solo career commenced when he was asked to submit a song for a documentary being made about Bob Moog, “Moog”. This was in early 2004 whilst he was still a member of The Cure. Later that year whilst helping to promote the film with its producer Ryan Page at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, conversation led to the suggestion that O’Donnell should write an entire album of music composed and recorded in the same way as the song “Another Year Away”. The song was composed entirely and performed solely on a Minimoog Voyager.

Later that year and into early 2005 when work with The Cure had ended O’Donnell completed the project which was to become “The Truth In Me” the album released in 2006.

In the Summer of 2005 O’Donnell and his longtime partner and collabrator Erin Lang formed their own label with the idea of supporting and encouraging otherwise unsignable artists, mainly in the electronic genre, and releasing their own music. The first release was in September 2005, a sampler “Nothing Concrete” featuring songs from 10 unsigned artists. The label is called 99 Times Out of 10 or 99X/10.

In discussions to find a distributor in the U.S. Roger was offered a record deal with independent label group Worlds Fair on their new Warner Brothers distributed label Great Society.

O’Donnell released two albums with Great Society, “The Truth In Me” in 2006 and “Songs Form The Silver Box” in 2009. Both featuring Erin Lang on vocals with a special guest appearance from Australian singer Lenka on the latter. An EP of remixes was also released from “The Truth In Me” featuring versions by Dntel, Fourtet and Console all very highly regarded artists in the electronic field.

Roger’s association with World's Fair and Great Society came to an end in 2009 when the label folded. All of his and Erin Lang’s future releases will be handled by 99X/10.

Future projects nearing completion as of Spring 2010 are a collection of songs for piano, cello and voice entitled Two/Three - Before. The trio features O'Donnell on piano, Erin Lang, vocals and longtime friend Paul van Dongen on Cello. A preview concert performance in Toronto in February 2010 with the Corktown Chamber Orchestra led to another project which O’Donnell has composed for the orchestra, Quieter Trees.

Quieter Trees is a group of six songs inspired by a painting by British artist David Hockney “Bigger Trees Near Warter”. It was peformed in London Morley College by the Centre for Young Musicians on July 2nd 2011 and it will be performed in November in Toronto this time with O'Donnell playing piano.[4]

Also in a nod to his tenure with The Cure O’Donnell has formed a group with Bassist and vocalist Norelle French from the Toronto group Machetes. The project entitled Unterbrucke is a dark and intense collection of songs which will be released on an album entitled Detach in October 2010.

Solo

•Grey Clouds, Red Sky (previously unreleased instrumental solo album recorded in 1994. A remastered, limited edition saw release in early 2005; each copy was autographed by O'Donnell)

•Nothing Concrete - 99X/10 Label Sampler (2006)

•The Truth In Me (2006, solo album)

•Half Truths (2006 iTunes only download of six remixes from The Truth In Me)

•The Truth In Me

•Moog Soundtrack (O'Donnell contributed a song to the film score for 2004's Moog, created exclusively with the Minimoog Voyager).

•Songs from the Silver Box (2009)

•"Charlie Crow - Trains on Bridges" (2009)

•"Piano Formations" (2010)

•"Quieter Trees" (July 2011)

Credits

O'Donnell is credited as the keyboardist on the following recordings:

•Polystar

•Parade

•Maus

•Tuuli

•Frausdots

•Goddamn Electric Bill "Swallowed by the Machines"

Music video

•O'Donnell appeared in only one official Thompson Twins music video, but it was made quite some time after he had left the group in the summer of 1986. The Thompson Twins became a duo (following the departure of Joe Leeway) had recorded a song for the film Nothing in Common starring Tom Hanks and featuring the last ever performance by Jackie Gleason. The video for the song of the same name as the movie was shot on location in Chicago, with Hanks making a cameo appearance playing drums. O'Donnell appeared playing the keyboards.

References

[1]http://www.rogerodonnell.com

[2]""Info" at" (http://www.rogerodonnell.com/info.html). Rogerodonnell.com. . Retrieved 2011-09-13.

[3]"The Cure playing first 3 albums in Sydney with ex-members Lol Tolhurst, Roger O’Donnell" (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/ 05/05/cure-lol-tolhurst-three-imaginary-boys-seventeen-seconds-faith/). Slicingupeyeballs.com. 2011-05-05. . Retrieved 2011-09-13.

[4]"Roger O'Donnell News" (http://www.rogerodonnell.com/news.html). Rogerodonnell.com. . Retrieved 2011-09-13.

External links

•Official website (http://www.rogerodonnell.com)

•Roger O'Donnell (http://www.myspace.com/rogerodonnell) on Myspace

Jason Cooper

Jason Toop Cooper (born 31 January 1967) is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure.

Life and work

Born in London, England, Jason studied drums at London's Drumtech (where he is now a patron and visiting artist). He first came to public attention as drummer for the band My Life Story. Jason joined The Cure in 1995 following the 1993 departure of their previous drummer Boris Williams. So far, he has performed on the studio albums Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, The Cure and 4:13 Dream. He also appeared in two concert films, Trilogy and Festival 2005.

Jason also composes music for film, most notably co-creating the score for the horror/thriller From Within, for which he and co-composer Oliver Kraus won the award for Best Original Score at the 2008 Solstice Film Festival.

On 15 May 2004, Jason married his long-time girlfriend Allison.[1]

Discography with The Cure

•Wild Mood Swings (1996)

•Galore (1997)

•Bloodflowers (2000)

•Greatest Hits (2001)

•Trilogy (2003), DVD

•The Cure (2004)

•Festival 2005 (2005), DVD

•4:13 Dream (2008)

•Bestival Live 2011 (2011)

References

[1] "Jason Cooper" (http://www.picturesofyou.us/members/jason.htm). Picturesofyou.us. . Retrieved 2011-10-10.

External links

•Jason Cooper (http://www.myspace.com/jasoncooper) on Myspace

•Forum dedicated to Jason (http://jasoncooper.heavenforum.com/)

•Picture of Jason and Boris (http://www.picturesofyou.us/photos/01-02/p-01-jason-boris.htm)

•Jason at Pictures of You (http://www.picturesofyou.us/members/jason.htm)

Andy Anderson

Andy Anderson (birth name Clifford Leon Anderson) is a drummer, notably for the band The Cure. He was born in West Ham, East London, England on 30 January 1951.

Life and work

Anderson worked on Hawkwind's Nik Turner's Sphynx album in 1978. He played with Steve Hillage on two albums, Live Herald and Open, and had a brief stint in Hawkwind in 1983, but did not record with them. His tenure in that group was cut short when he played with The Glove on their first and only album Blue Sunshine.

He later joined The Cure as their drummer in 1983, after drummer Lol Tolhurst switched to keyboard duties. Anderson recorded on the albums Japanese Whispers, The Top, and Concert in addition to the singles Love Cats and The Caterpillar. Anderson was, and still is, the only member of The Cure of African descent.

He left the band in 1984 and was replaced by Boris Williams. He has since worked as a session musician, produced music for TV commercials and record companies as well as various charities.

Throughout the years, Andy Anderson has collaborated with a number of artists, including Iggy Pop, Jimmy Somerville, M, Jimmy Pursey's Sham 69, Harry Williamson and Friends, The Glove, Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock, Brilliant, The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the Steve Hillage Band, Circus Hazzard, Steve New, Edwyn Collins, The Burning Sensations, Jason Donovan, David Philips Inc, Nik Turner's Sphynx & Inner City Unit, Mick Hawksworth and Friends, Zeke Manyika's Dr. Love, The Edgar Broughton Band, Lol Tolhurst's Levinhurst, Peter Gabriel, Midge Ure, Isaac Hayes, The Last Poets and Mike Oldfield.

In 2010, Andy Anderson posted newly recorded solo tracks on MySpace under the title Prime Data.[2][3]. Since then he has been working with a new generation of DJs and producers, such as Liam Scoobyboi Read, Ill-Phil Miller (Ill-Haze) and Matt Inkei Hines.

Discography

The Cure

•Japanese Whispers (1983)

•The Top (1984)

•Concert (1984)

•The Cure Live In Japan (1984) VHS

•Standing on a Beach (1986)

•Greatest Hits (2001)

The Glove

• Blue Sunshine (1983)

References

[1]http://www.myspace.com/aamuzik59

[2]"Voir le sujet - Interview Andy Anderson" (http://www.apinkdream.org/viewtopic.php?t=15338). www.apinkdream.org. . Retrieved 2011-10-01.

[3]Un (2011-08-21). "Prime Data | Gratis muziek, tourneedata, foto's, video's" (http://www.myspace.com/aamuzik59). Myspace.com. . Retrieved 2011-10-01.

Perry Bamonte

Associated acts The Cure, Polaroid Kiss

Website http://www.thecure.com/ http://www.perrybamonte.de/(dead link)

Perry Archangelo Bamonte (born 3 September 1960) is an Anglo-Italian musician best known for his work with The Cure.[1]

Life and work

Born in London, England, Bamonte first joined The Cure in 1990, replacing Roger O'Donnell on keyboards. He later took up the role of playing dual lead guitar alongside singer Robert Smith following the departure of Porl Thompson in 1993. Bamonte helped to produce the albums Wish, Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, and The Cure. He has been credited for writing the music for the songs "Trust" from Wish, "This Is a Lie" from Wild Mood Swings, and "Anniversary" from The Cure. He also appeared on the live albums Paris and Show as well as Trilogy. His younger brother, Daryl Bamonte, has also worked with The Cure as their tour manager and also for Depeche Mode in the same manner. (Bamonte also has a sister named Carla.)

In 2005, he and Daryl were abruptly fired from The Cure along with Roger O'Donnell, and quickly replaced by Porl

Thompson. In his first public interview since then, Bamonte said that he does not know the reason for his departure and he prefers not to dwell on it. He also signaled that he is ready to move on.[2]

Discography with The Cure

•Wish (1992)

•Paris (1993)

•Show (1993)

•Wild Mood Swings (1996)

•Galore (1997)

•Bloodflowers (2000)

•Greatest Hits (2001)

•Trilogy (2003), DVD

•The Cure (2004)