The Glamour

The Glamour, the final album by The Comsat Angels, was released in 1995 on RPM Records and on Caroline Records in the US. In 2007, Renascent Records reissued the album as a double CD with seven additional tracks.

This was The Comsat Angels' last studio album and the only one with a lineup of five band members. Bass player Kevin Bacon had left the band after the release of My Minds Eye and was replaced by Terry Todd. A second guitarist, Simon Anderson, was also added.

Comsats frontman Stephen Fellows regretted how rushed they were in producing this album, saying, "We were prevented by deadlines from finishing all the music we were recording." He also said, in a 1997 interview, "Although I am very pleased with The Glamour as the last album it was kind of [Mik Glashier] piloted that one, he wanted to make a rock album." In his view, the 2007 reissue, with its added tracks, improved the album. Fellows said, "This is much closer to how it should have been."

Track listing (1995)

All tracks written by Fellows/Glaisher/Peake/Todd/Anderson.

The Glamour (short story)

"The Glamour" is a short story by horror writer Thomas Ligotti, written in 1991 and first published in his short story collection Grimscribe: His Lives and Works.

Synopsis

The story focuses on an unnamed narrator who has a habit of wandering around places where he has never been. On one of his wanderings, he comes across a strange movie theater advertising a single feature known as "The Glamour". His curiosity piqued, he enters the theater, which he learns is under new management, and also learns from the man at the ticket window that admission is free. Upon entering the theater, he immediately realizes that something is very wrong. The entire place radiates with a sinister glow of purples and pinks, eerily reminding the narrator of human organs. In the theater itself where The Glamour is to be shown, the place is covered with cobwebs reminiscent of human hair, including the projection screen. The place is nearly empty except for a few other patrons who make odd and cryptic remarks when asked about the supposed feature. When it finally begins, instead of a movie be a shown, the screen displays silent scenes depicting some nightmarish other world, and the projection screen appears as disembodied eyes which are guiding the viewers, including the narrator, on a tour of this strange world.