Nightshift Sisters: Siouxsie, Banshees and more

RIP Kenny Morris. One of the ‘blackheads’ and drummer for the Banshees’ iconic two first albums.

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What’s this about?! It just popped up. I clicked on the link and nothing comes up and nothing on the official Facebook page …

Siouxsie Sioux at Music Machine, London, by Ray Stevenson, 1977.

Two smiling punks on a fairground ride.

Siouxsie and Kid Congo at Disneyland, Anaheim, California (ca. 1980)
Photo: Donna Santisi

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Spinning Siouxsie & The Banshees: Peepshow on vinyl.

Siouxsie & The Banshees: Peepshow. Another fantastic album from Siouxsie Sioux. It has to me a very 80s sound but transcends the time as well. #ArtIsResistance #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #nowplaying #nowspinning #music

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Released 47 years ago today
"Hong Kong Garden" by English goth punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Live, 1979)

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John McGeoch, guitarist for Siouxsie and the Banshees, PIL

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound

"Siouxsie and the Banshees would be the hands-down audition winner for "lounge band in hell.""

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US press review of Hyaena from 1984:

"The quality of the music usually has little to do with such breakthroughs, but for once it may coincide with one of the strongest collections of material ever released by Siouxsie and the Banshees."

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“Siouxsie tried out her newfound kung fu on me and barged me in the back. That was enough – I walked out and Kenny came with me”: A brawl ended John McKay’s tenure with Siouxsie and the Banshees, but ... A two-year stint left McKay with fans including the Edge, Robert Smith and Geordie Walker, plus a stack of demo tapes that he’s finally turned into an album

"A master innovator who gained merit from guitar greats including the Edge to Robert Smith, John McKay embarked on his post-punk career after a friend convinced him to ditch his paintbrush, leading him into a two-year tango with Siouxsie and the Banshees."

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Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees | Song Exploder | WNYC My guest today is Shirley Manson. Since 1994, she’s been the lead singer of the band Garbage, and she is a bona fide rock icon. The two of us worked together on a different podcast ca...

Shirley Manosn of Garbage talks about her love for Siouxsie and the Banshees.

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Released 44 years ago today
Juju, the fourth studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, featuring the single "Spellbound"

Siouxsie and The Banshees - Spellbound - Top of the pops

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How Siouxsie Sioux and Marc Almond met in a London sex shop Siouxsie Sioux and Marc Almond aren't necessarily an unlikely pair of friends, but the origin of their friendship is a rather amusing tale.

“Siouxsie and Budgie were staring down at me, I was holding a cock ring. I was like a rabbit caught in headlights. Siouxsie told me how much she loved our music in her husky, sexy voice, and I was enthralled.”

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Sounds like Budgie's memoir will be warts and all ... "One evening in 2002, Sioux found a Polaroid of Budgie, which he was intending to send to his new girlfriend in Los Angeles. She scrawled across it with a Sharpie: “Barry Manilow or wanker?”"

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Sheila Rock exhibition with Siouxsie photos. Wish I were nearer!

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Propaganda Magazine 008 (1986) - Siouxsie and the Banshees

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The four songs that influenced Siouxsie Sioux the most Siouxsie Sioux named the four songs that impacted her the most from the British music scene, with music from David Bowie, T Rex, Sparks, and Roxy Music.

"Sioux and the band were innovators in the sense that they felt entirely authentic, but they also built upon the worlds founded by others, using them as a leg up to reach new heights of musical brilliance."

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More on Budgie's upcoming autobiography THE ABSENCE

"Budgie's life is both fabulously glamorous and a tawdry cautionary tale. For the first time, the story of this most exalted and mysterious of bands has been told by one who survived inside the belly of the beast."

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Siouxsie Sioux talks about the records that changed her life (Melody Maker, 1992)

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing white woman holding her hand up to her heaf with palms facing firwards, smiling, with dark spikey hair, wearing a patterned top and trousers

Siouxsie Sioux, c.1980, singer, songwriter known her work with The Banshees and The Creatures.
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(Photo by A. Waterhouse-Hayeward)

Siouxsie And The Banshees
Sin In My Heart
Live 1981
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Music Reissues Weekly: John McKay - Sixes and Sevens Sixes and Sevens is a surprise. A big one. Since leaving Siouxsie and the Banshees in September 1979, John McKay has largely been a mystery. On record, the only suggestion this influential guitarist h...

“While chronologically the set’s closest tracks to the Banshees, they also sound like them. The fantastic “The Blessed West” is along the lines of “Playground Twist” and Join Hands’ “Regal Zone.” It hints at what might have come next for the Banshees.”

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More pages from my teenage Banshees' scrapbook with clippings from the 1984 Thorn EP release.

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