Monday 20th September 1976 saw one of the most unexpected moments
in music history when what was to become one of the most iconic,
important and mimicked bands of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s took to
the stage at The 100 Club in Oxford Street, London. A last-minute
addition to the '100 Club Punk Special' that included The Clash,
Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks and The Damned, an unknown Siouxsie and The
Banshees, comprising Sid Vicious, Steve Severin, Marco Pirroni and
Siouxsie Sioux, unleashed twenty minutes of 'performance art'
improvisation, featuring fragments of 'Deutschland, Deutschland,
Uber Alles', 'Twist And Shout' and 'Satisfaction'. 'The Lord's
Prayer', which was to become a staple of Siouxsie and The Banshees'
early live repertoire, was a white-noise assault on the senses and
a barometer of the alienation many teenagers felt from the bloated
nature of mid-1970s 'arena rock'. Several line-up changes later, in
1978, Siouxise and The Banshees were propelled into the pop
stratosphere. Signed to a major record label, the band released
'Hong Kong Garden' and wrote one of the most influential post-punk
albums of all time, The Scream, a savage critique of
curtain-twitching suburbia, the cheap titillation of the tabloids,
and the dangers of believing and following any one doctrine. 1979's
Join Hands, influenced by the political landscape in Britain and
further afield, and the catastrophic loss of life in World War One,
was a milestone of the band's increasing maturity, from the
adrenaline-fuelled stomp of 'Icon' to the phased guitar, saxophone
and bells of 'Playground Twist'. After a tour fraught with
fractiousness, a new line up with Slits' drummer Budgie and
Magazine guitarist John McGeogh, together with Siouxsie Sioux and
Steve Severin, released the band's most experimental album,
Kaleidoscope, which was a heady mix of psychedelia and sonorous
adventures including the singles 'Happy House' and 'Christine'.
Siouxsie and The Banshees The Early Years explores the adventures,
trials and tribulations of a band defying categorisation. Their
uncompromising brilliance is exemplified by three unique albums,
which are chronicled in the pages of this authoritative survey.
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