I remember vividly the first time I heard The Cure. When I was 15, I spent 3 weeks in the Gaeltacht learning Irish. I shared a room with three other boys. One evening a girl –looking like an irish version of Siouxsie Sioux– appeared at the window and asked if she could come in. The houses were strictly separated amongst girls and boys so she had to climb in through the window to not get caught by the bean an tí.
She pulled a cassette out of the breast pocket of her leather jacket and asked if she could play it on one of the lad's ghettoblasters.
The song was Close to me and it was such a revelation. I asked her to play it again when the song finished but we heard someone coming so she grabbed her cassette and was bundled back out the window. It all seemed so surreal that I couldn't remember the name of the band or the song and I didn't get to talk to girl the rest of the time I was there (she was much too cool).
It would take another year at least before I finally got a copied tape of "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" and really got into The Cure although I never had the hair style.
Anyway, here's me singing In Between Days from the great "Head on the Door" album (which also contains "Close to Me"). Apologies for speed variations. I'm still a bit deaf and couldn't hear the metronome. My sidekick still managed (as ever) to provide a great drum and bass track.
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