Simon Gallup - Family Life

Family Life

Simon’s older brother David Gallup was the manager for Lockjaw, while Ric Gallup was responsible for the promotional artwork of Lockjaw, The Mag/Spys, and (following Porl Thompson’s departure from the original Easy Cure line-up) early art and design for The Cure, including the ‘drop C’ logo used on the band’s early posters and record covers. Ric also founded the Dance Fools Dance label, which released The Mag/Spys’ only split-single release in 1980 (from the earlier Cult Hero sessions), and produced the animated short film Carnage Visors, which featured a soundtrack by The Cure and was screened in place of an opening band during The Cure’s Picture Tour in 1981. Ric also designed promotional materials for Fools Dance, and was responsible for the band’s lighting on tour. Since the mid-1980s he has also been the regular lighting designer/director for And Also The Trees.

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 (born 20th November 1998). 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”. Gallup’s eldest son Eden, who also goes by the name Ed Vendetta, is the frontman and lead guitarist for rock band Violet Vendetta, 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.