Smith and Severin had first discussed collaborating on an external side-project in 1981, although their respective commitments to the Cure and the Banshees had previously left no time for the project. From May 1983, however, with The Cure on hold and Siouxsie and Budgie working together as the Creatures, recording of the Glove's album "Blue Sunshine" began in earnest. Budgie's then girlfriend Jeanette Landray, formerly a dancer with Zoo, was recruited to perform vocals, while Andy Anderson from Brilliant was brought in to play drums. The Glove took its name from the "murder mitten" from the Beatles' animated feature "Yellow Submarine", while the album title came from a B-movie by the same name about a potent strain of LSD that caused people to lose their hair and turn into homicidal maniacs many years after their first trip. Severin said of the project: Smith described the creation of the album by saying: As well as "Barbarella", "Yellow Submarine" and the eponymous "Blue Sunshine", films cited as having fuelled the project included "The Brood", "Evil Dead", "The Helicopter Spies" and "Inferno". Retrospectively, the "Melody Maker"'s Steve Sutherland described the Glove as "a manic psychedelic pastiche".