Artist Spotlight, Siouxsie and The Banshees

[@cadanrichards2615]

Incredible Performance. Siouxsie is a great singer and her band at this time were at their Peak. Im gonna miss your reactions your the best reactor on KZbin.

[@caneyebus]

Dude, I absolutely love how you are all over the place with the different generas. You have my respect for listening to everything.

[@stbbeyond7087]

I appreciate that!

[@theyearoftherat]

Budgie's drumming was extremely influential... I think he was the main person behind that tribal post-punk sound. And John McGeoch is extremely underrated.

[@daverice2426]

Budgie's playing on The Slits "Cut" album is mind-blowingly great

[@voiceover2191]

I owned the cd Nocturne which features this live performance and was so thrilled when I found this on youtube and could actually see the band and yeah, never realized until I saw it, that Robert Smith, guitar and lead singer from the Cure, played on this tour, which only added to the uniqueness of this performance. I didn't know he was the guitar player for them for a while and hardly couldn't believe my eyes when I saw him but of course immediately recognized him. Actually my first live concert ever was with the Cure after they just realeased Seventeen Seconds and they played in a half empty gymnastics hall of a local secondary school and it was fantastic, will never forget it. And I agree with the commentor Wayne quoted that they had the best intro ever, taken from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (talking about an influential piece, probably the most influential piece of music of the 20th century. At its premiere in 1911 in Paris the music was deemed so shocking fist fights broke out among the audience and even the musicians were threatened)

[@grantpaterson1016]

It must be noted that the guitarist was Robert Smith (frontman for The Cure) who did a full set with the Cure as support act and then did the full set with Siouxsie.......for the entire tour.

[@johndorsey1423]

Cool, Thanks for pointing that out about Robert smith.

[@pookiemartinez1745]

Yep Robert brilliant like the Orange gig. his first band Easy Cure, then the Cure.

[@tjpea7916]

Yes he did, but not for this tour though that was the Join Hands tour in 1979. He stepped in on this tour after John mcgeoch left. The support act was Fad Gadget at Royal Albert Hall

[@grantpaterson1016]

@@tjpea7916 Sorry, you are corret...Smith was an official member at this point when the Albert gig happened... It was the Join Hands tour.. I must have mixed them up in my 'rosy tint of youth' glasses I've worn for a few decades hahahaha. He did do both sets for the 79 tour... Cheers for the correction.

[@tjpea7916]

@@grantpaterson1016 it was - shockingly- 40 yrs ago so no apologies needed. I saw them the first night Robert stepped in for John. He scribbled over Johns pic in the tour programme before signing it for me😆. Saw them later at the Nocturne Albert Hall gig but not sure if I went the 1st or 2nd night now.

[@grantpaterson1016]

By far one of my favourite bands of all time. Siousxie Sioux, Queen of the Goths :) She said in 1986, "I'm 5 foot 8 anyway, but with a heel I can get a six footer out of me. It's wonderful, brilliant. It's such an easy advantage"

[@goobah01]

Great upload. I was there and it was electric. First time I saw pictures of Siouxsie in ‘76 I was absolutely smitten by her image. Then came the music, could it possibly match? I listened to The Scream every day for six months so I guess it did. I was at almost every London show they did. The Creatures too, just Siouxsie and Budgie, brilliant. Saw her last live performance in 2013.

[@Tanya37red]

Wow that's amazing you got to see them then , I saw them twice during their Superstition tour in the US . San Diego and Salt lake city . I met Budgie briefly he was really kind !

[@paulashe61]

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[@paulashe61]

Sadly she’s an icon people go pay homage to her. Sadly 30 years of screaming has diminished her voice but every gig was an event

[@mishasbatreviews6521]

Simply the best, in my opinion. My fav of all time.

[@nigelmcloughlin9872]

Night Shift is probably one of my favourite songs of all time

[@SilurianSkies]

In Robert Smiths autobiography he talks about this period, supposedly he was high on mushrooms most of the year, playing in 3 different bands- The Cure, The Glove, The Banshees, producing, writing, recording and sleeping on different couches/backseat of taxis when he could.

[@Guy-lo3ld]

Thanks for reacting to the Nocturne album.👍🏽 The band are very tight in this performance, and they are excellent musicians with a very unique sound. Siouxsie's stage presence is also very strong and striking

[@Kyle_heringer]

THE BEST BAND OF THE UNIVERSE!

[@paulashe61]

Siouxsie was street cool.

[@jollyj3285]

One of my favorite bands!!!! Thx for doing this !!!!!

[@MikeTimbers]

I was there on the first of the two nights. Was epic.

[@shuaibvincent283]

That must have been amazing!

[@freethinker--]

Melt and Pulled to Bits are flawless good.

[@Guy-lo3ld]

Yes they're fantastic. I also love Cascade live

[@CBGB_1977]

She’s definitely my biggest female icon. Musically and stylistically.

[@johndorsey1423]

Thanks for this. She is tall. Around 5’9”. To me, in any type of rock genre on the spectrum, she’s high on my list for female artists of all time. Top 5 for sure.

[@johndorsey1423]

I must note, there are a top 25 favorite band for me that lists the likes of Black Sabbath, the doors, the stones, and Bowie.

[@sjfvet519us]

At this time Siouxsie and the drummer (Budgie) were married and had formed a side band called The Creatures. There is a video of one of their last concerts. Siouxsie also did a solo album called "Mantaray" and there is also a video of this concert.

[@paulashe61]

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[@Kyle_heringer]

The momentum on this concert, in my opinion, is VOODOO DOLLY when it seems you enter in a tornado 🌪️!

[@shuaibvincent283]

Agree! I used to watch, rewind, watch just for Voodoo Dolly.

[@briz1965]

Wonderful. There's a bit on the live album where Siouxsie say's, which time tunnel did you go through?.... listen closely someone shouts out ' killing an arab!'

[@paulashe61]

Fat Bob on geetar!

[@LuddyVonBeat]

Pink Floyd and now Siouxsie!? Subscribed. Suggestion: New Gold dream, from the Simple minds.

[@Kyle_heringer]

Have you watched the other concerts? SEVEN YEAR ITCH 2002 DREAMSHOW 2003 FINALE 2008

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

i have her albums and many others yup i was a goth

[@Guy-lo3ld]

Yeah I was also a goth for a big part of my teenage years during the late eighties. It's good to see that folks still love the original goth artists all these years later

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

@@Guy-lo3ld i spoken with the lead singer of sisters of mercy he has been replaced sadly but a very intelligent guy he said the 5 languages he had learnt he lost over time due to not using the languages he is on facebook.

[@Guy-lo3ld]

@@XENONEOMORPH1979 Thanks for the reply!

[@Grithron2]

Btw: The crescendo section of Voodoo Dolly, and the feedback/loops postscript, suggest that all guitarists called Robert end up speaking the same musical language (get the drift?)...also fulfilling the promise of Smith's atonal excursions on (the track) Pornography a year earlier

[@jasonegeland1446]

You should do some Fields Of The Nephilim.

[@Lupi33z]

The scary sounding Eve White/Eve Black is a tribute to The Three Faces of Eve movie. Looks like a good old movie.

[@Grithron2]

I wish "they" (Universal?) would hurry up and release a deluxe edition of the Nocturne album, because I used to have audience bootlegs of the two shows this was culled from - and, despite a few monitor-system-induced fuckups (mainly on "black dress night" - the first), they were well worth documenting in history-as-it-happened fashion. Most of the Hyena album was previewed and there were a few hardcore-fan-favorites like Tattoo, Placebo Effect and Head Cut in the repertoire also.

[@Lupi33z]

seems to be overlooked Robert Smith on guitar here

[@raineramelung7380]

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