Nocturne (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)

Nocturne
Live album by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Released	25 November 1983
Recorded	30 September and 1 October 1983
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London
Genre	Post-punk
Length	76:47
Label	Polydor
Producer	Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mike Hedges
Siouxsie and the Banshees live chronology
Nocturne (1983) Seven Year Itch (2003)
Siouxsie and the Banshees chronology
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982) Nocturne (1983) Hyæna (1984)

Nocturne is a live double album and video by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 25 November 1983 by Polydor Records. Co-produced by Mike Hedges, Nocturne features performances recorded at two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on 30 September and 1 October 1983, featuring Robert Smith (of the Cure) on guitar.

Most of the material is from 1981's Juju and 1982's A Kiss in the Dreamhouse. It also features a few B-sides ("Pulled to Bits" and "Eve White/Eve Black") as well as a live version of the Beatles' "Dear Prudence", a song the Banshees had recorded in the studio earlier that year in Stockholm and issued as a single in September.

The music heard in the introduction before "Israel" is an excerpt from The Rite of Spring, composed in 1913 by Igor Stravinsky.^[1]

In 2024, a double vinyl edition of the 1983 live album Nocturne, featuring new artwork and a poster, was remastered and cut at half speed at Abbey Road studios: it was released for Record Store Day on April 20, worldwide via several independent stores and websites.^[2]