My first encounter with The Cure didn’t go so well. It was 1990, they’d just released the remixed version of “Close to Me”, and the video for the song was played over the closing credits of Top of the Pops that week. And it FREAKED ME OUT. The wobbly camera work, the whole band trapped in a wardrobe that’s just fallen off a cliff into the sea, the over-friendly trumpet-playing octopus with the human face… GAAAAAH! Horror! Anyone with nerves steelier than my 8-year-old self can check out the video here, if they dare.
I’m not sure what changed my mind about them, but somewhere along the way The Cure ended up being one of my favourite bands. I’ve whiled away many long bus journeys listening to “Disintegration”, and danced like a loon to “The Lovecats” more times than I’d care to think about. And who could forget Robert Smith stepping in to save the small town of South Park from total destruction by a rampaging Barbra Streisand? I figured it was high time I paid tribute to one of the most recognisable faces in rock, Beastie-style.
After I’d finished his trademark dark eyes and red lips, I added a mop of curly hair and a tailor-made black shirt, and then…
… a hand-stitched guitar, based on one Robert Smith actually plays!
Has anyone any ideas for other musicians who deserve to be immortalised in wool and felt? Let me know in the comments!
Awesome! How about Jimi Hendrix? 😉
Good call! Dressing Jimi Hendrix Beastie would be the most fun EVER!
Can’t wait for it 😉
I LOVE this! I always try to find different ways to immortalize Joey Ramone – he’s so tragic, ugly, yet stylish…
Yes, I remember Joey Ramone featuring in one of your posts a couple of months back! I’d definitely consider a Joey Ramone Beastie, although capturing his wry half-smile on a cuddly monster face might prove difficult!
I love, love, love him! And I love his moppy hair. Awesome job…now how about a pattern for fellow Cure fans 🙂
Good call! I’ll have to get around to publishing a Beastie pattern one of these days… I’m interested to see what new and wonderful monsters people would come up with!
Wow your Beastie rocks, how about a punk icon 🙂
Funny you should say that… I just finished making a new Punk Beastie! Photos to follow…
Oooooh spooky as they say great minds think alike 🙂
Yes indeedy! And punks are also great fun to do, because I get to give them PIERCINGS!
Fantastic! How about Mike Rutherford from Genesis (and later, Mike and the Mechanics) playing his double-neck Shergold in the early 1980s?
Double-neck guitar, eh? Sounds like a worthy challenge… onto the list it goes! Thank you kindly!