Siouxsie and the Banshees

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…20/09/76 - Malcolm McLaren arranges a two day ‘Punk Festival’ at London’s 100 Club. Sex Pistols fans and members of the ‘Bromley Contingent’, Suzy and Steven, along with fellow cohorts Marco Pirroni and Sid Vicious, have hastily formed a band to fill a vacant slot on the bill.
The intention is ‘to play one number until they throw us off the stage’. Post show the band immediately split up only to be reborn six months later as ‘Siouxsie & The Banshees’. Two years later, and with new members John McKay and Kenny Morris on board, the Banshees sign to Polydor and score a UK No. 7 hit with debut single ‘Hong Kong Garden’. Which to this day is still considered one of the Banshees best songs…

Their first album, 1978’s The Scream, was described by Nick Kent in the NME in the following terms : “The band sounds like some unique hybrid of the Velvet Underground mated with much of the ingenuity of Tago Mago-era Can, if any parallel can be drawn.” At the end of the article, he added this remark: “Certainly, the traditional three-piece sound has never been used in a more unorthodox fashion with such stunning results.”

Their second album 1979’s Join Hands is where the term “Gothic” was used to describe the bleak, funereal sounds of alienation,isolation in songs such as “Placebo Effect” and “Premature Burial”, and the schizophrenic “Mother”, and its here along with bands such as Joy Division etc that the term “Gothic” began to be used in the press to describe a burgeoning scene.

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Add this track to your playlist Hong Kong Garden full track	2:55	58,664	Buy mp3
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