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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees
Steven Severin, Siouxsie Sioux e Budgie
Paese d'origineBandiera del Regno Unito Regno Unito
GenerePost-punk
Rock gotico[1]
New wave
Rock alternativo[2]
Periodo di attività musicale1976 – 1996
2002
EtichettaPolydor Records, Geffen Records
Album pubblicati18
Studio11
Live2
Raccolte5
Opere audiovisive6
Sito ufficiale
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Siouxsie and the Banshees (pronuncia inglese ['suːzi æn ðə ˈbænʃiːz]) sono stati un gruppo musicale britannico formato dalla cantante Siouxsie Sioux e dal bassista Steven Severin a Londra, nel 1976, e sciolto nel 1996. Sono stati uno dei pionieri del post-punk.

Inizialmente associati alla scena punk rock inglese, la band si è evoluta velocemente per creare "una forma di post-punk dissonante completa di audaci sperimentazioni ritmiche e sonore".[3] Il Times ha citato i Siouxsie and the Banshees come "uno dei più audaci e intransigenti avventurieri musicali del periodo post-punk".

Siouxsie and the Banshees pubblicarono il loro primo singolo, Hong Kong Garden, nel 1978; in Gran Bretagna la canzone fu un successo, entrando nella top 10. Il primo album The Scream (1978) è riconosciuto da diversi critici come una pietra miliare della musica rock degli anni settanta.[4] Con l'arrivo del chitarrista John McGeoch nel 1980, la band registra canzoni più colorate e pop con i singoli Happy House e Christine: l'album Kaleidoscope riceve il fervore del pubblico e si colloca al quinto posto nel Regno Unito. Con la realizzazione di Juju nel 1981, il gruppo ha avuto anche un'importante influenza sull'emergente movimento gotico.[5] Tinderbox con il singolo Cities in Dust e Peepshow con il singolo Peek-a-Boo, hanno permesso al gruppo di diventare uno dei rappresentanti della scena emergente del rock alternativo alla fine degli anni ottanta. Il gruppo ha avuto molto successo negli Stati Uniti nel 1991 con il singolo Kiss Them for Me. Il gruppo si è sciolto nel 1996, ma Siouxsie e il batterista Budgie continuano a produrre come The Creatures, una seconda band che avevano formato nei primi anni ottanta. Dal 2004 Siouxsie ha intrapreso una carriera come solista.

Siouxsie and the Banshees sono stati citati come influenze da gruppi a loro quasi contemporanei, come Joy Division,[6] The Cure,[7] U2,[8] e The Smiths[9], fino a quelli dei decenni seguenti, come Radiohead,[10] PJ Harvey,[11] Sonic Youth,[12] e TV on the Radio.[13] Dalle loro canzoni hanno tratto delle cover Massive Attack,[14] Jeff Buckley,[15] Tricky,[16] e LCD Soundsystem.[17]

  1. ^ Hazel Cillshow, "How Marie Antoinette's Soundtrack Became a Classic".. Mtv.com. 10/10/2016. "Coppola paired the pretty, pale luxury of Versailles with the sound of new wave acts like [...] Siouxsie and the Banshees"
  2. ^ Peter Buckley, "The Rough Guide to Rock".. 2003. Penguin books. "Siouxsie and the Banshees began to build a wider audience and it was the vastly influential "Juju" (1981) that propelled them to the very front of the alternative-rock scene".
    Siouxsie Sioux Lifts Lid On Banshees “Power Struggle", su mojo4music.com, Mojo.com., 25 settembre 2014. URL consultato il 2 settembre 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 dicembre 2017).
    «one of alternative rock’s iconic groups»
  3. ^ Nigel Williamson, Siouxsie & the Banshees (subscription required), su The Times, 27 novembre 2004. URL consultato l'8 luglio 2012.
    «...with the Banshees she helped to invent a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation... The Banshees stand proudly alongside PIL, Gang of Four and the Fall as the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era.»
  4. ^ Writers All Time 100 Albums, in NME, 30 novembre 1985.
    100 Greatest Debut Albums, in Uncut, agosto 2006.
    Robert Dimery, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, Cassell Illustrated, 2005.
    Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream, in The Mojo Collection, Canongate Books, 2007, p. 413, ISBN 1-84767-643-X. URL consultato il 14 giugno 2013.
  5. ^ Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, Penguin, 2005, p. 427, ISBN 0-14-303672-6.
  6. ^ Playlist – Peter Hook’s “Field recordings, su Q magazine, 23 aprile 2013. URL consultato il 10 gennaio 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 18 gennaio 2018).
    «Siouxsie and the Banshees were one of our big influences [...] The Banshees first LP was one of my favourite ever records, the way the guitarist and the drummer played was a really unusual way of playing»


    Stephen Morris, Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: The Joy Division Years Volume I, Constable, 2019, ISBN 1-4721-2620-3.
    «It would be Siouxsie and the Banshees to whom I most felt some kind of affinity. [...] the bass-led rhythm, the way first drummer Kenny Morris played mostly toms. [...] The banshees had that [...] foreboding sound, sketching out the future from the dark of the past. [...] hearing the sessions they'd done on John Peel's show and reading gigs write-ups, [...] they sounded interesting.»
  7. ^ James Oldham, Siamese Twins - The Cure and the Banshees, Uncut, agosto 2004, p. 60.
    «Siouxsie and the Banshees... a massive influence on me [...] They were the group who led me towards doing Pornography. They drew something out of me.»


    James Oldham, Bad Medicine, Uncut, febbraio 2000.
    «I think the final straw came when I played Michael the demos for the next album and he hated them. He wanted us to be XTC part 2 and – if anything – I wanted us to be the Banshees part 2.»


    Rob Fitzpatrick, Robert Smith interview, su craigjparker.blogspot.com, The Word, agosto 2012. URL consultato il 15 agosto 2016.
    «I played with the Banshees through our first tour [1979], and it allowed me to think beyond what we were doing. I wanted to have a band that does what Steve Severin and Budgie do, where they just get a bassline and the drum part and Siouxsie wails.»


    Mark Paytress. "Siouxsie and the Banshees the Authorized Biography". Sanctuary publishing. 2003. Robert Smith: "Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire were the two bands I really admired. They meant something. On stage that first night with the Banshees, I was blown away by how powerful I felt playing that kind of music. It was so different to what we were doing with the Cure. Before that, I'd wanted us to be like the Buzzcocks or Elvis Costello, the punk Beatles. Being a Banshee really changed my attitude to what I was doing.
  8. ^ U2 Jukebox, su u2wanderer.org. URL consultato il 1º novembre 2010.
  9. ^ An interview with Johnny Marr, su seattlepi.com, 17 dicembre 2014. URL consultato il 1º dicembre 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 26 dicembre 2014).
    Filmato audio Pete Mitchell, Spellbound: the story of John McGeoch. BBC2, su YouTube, febbraio 2008. URL consultato il 1º novembre 2010.
    «"It's so clever. He's got this really good picky thing going on which is very un-rock'n'roll and this actual tune he's playing is really quite mysterious"»
  10. ^ Radiohead Official Biography – Capitol Canada, su MuchMcapitolmusic.ca. URL consultato il 10 febbraio 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 29 giugno 2006).
    «Colin Greenwood remembers: "The first single we're releasing is actually the longest song on the record. ("There There"). It was all recorded live in Oxford. We all got excited at the end because Nigel was trying to get Jonny to play like John McGeoch in Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the old farts in the band were in seventh heaven.»

    Klingman Jeff, 10 Bullet Points from the Thom Yorke Interview on WTF with Marc Maron, su thelmagazine.com, 22 luglio 2013. URL consultato il 2 settembre 2013 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 ottobre 2013).
    «The band that really changed my life was R.E.M. and Siouxsie and the Banshees...". "My favourite show I ever saw then was Siouxsie and she was absolutely amazing. ... She's totally in command of the whole audience.»
  11. ^ Steve Appleford, Checking In With . . . PJ Harvey In a New York State of Mind, su articles.latimes.com, Los Angeles Times, 29 ottobre 2000. URL consultato il 10 maggio 2016.
    «Q: Was there any figure who connected with you when you were just a listener? A: It's hard to beat Siouxsie Sioux, in terms of live performance. She is so exciting to watch, so full of energy and human raw quality.»

    "7th January 2000 PJ selects her Top 10 Albums of 1999". URL consultato il 28 ottobre 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 30 giugno 2001).. Pj Harvey.net. Fecha: 7th January 2000 - PJ selects her Top 10 Albums of 1999. LP of The Creatures(aka Siouxsie). Pj Harvey seleccionó el álbum "Anima Animus" del The Creatures = el segundo grupo de Siouxsie]
  12. ^ Kaye, Ben. "Here are Thurston Moore's favorite songs of all time".. ConsequenceofSound.com. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
    Daisy Woodward, Kim Gordon on Kurt Cobain and Female Icons, in Another Magazine, 13 aprile 2015. URL consultato il 15 agosto 2018 (archiviato il 26 agosto 2018).
  13. ^ Siouxsie Sioux, The Fader Magazine, The Icon Issue 67, Avril/Mai 2010. Page 71: Dave Sitek (David Andrew Sitek) TV on the Radio. "I've Always tried to make a song that begins like "Kiss Them For Me". I think songs like "I Was a Lover" or "Wash The Day away" came from that element of surprise mode where all of a sudden this giant drum comes in and you're like, what the fuck?! That record was the first one where I was like, okay, even my friends who don't know who The Cure or Sonic Youth are, they're going to fall for this. I feel like that transition into that record was a relief for me. Really beautiful music was always considered too weird by the normal kids and that was the first example where I thought, we've got them, they're hooked! I watched people dance to that song, people who had never heard of any of the music that I listened to, they heard that music in a club and went crazy.
  14. ^ Massive Attack site. Versione di "Metal Postcard" (Siouxsie & the Banshees cover) per la pellicola the jackal "The Jackal" (archiviato dall'url originale il 13 luglio 2011).
  15. ^ Jeff buckley site. Elenco delle canzoni interpretati da Jeff Buckley. Inclusi "Killing Time" dei Siouxsie e del suo secondo gruppo, The Creatures. URL consultato il 28 ottobre 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 12 ottobre 2007).. 12 ottobre 2007
    Jeff Buckley The Records Collection, su jeffbuckleycollection.com, 2016. URL consultato il 21 luglio 2016 (archiviato dall'url originale il 19 luglio 2016).
    «[enter 'Siouxsie' in the research]»
  16. ^ Tricky, CD "Nearly God" versione "Tattoo" di Siouxsie & the Banshees.
  17. ^ cd di LCD inclusi una cover di "Slowdive" di Siouxsie and the Banshees (archiviato dall'url originale il 28 settembre 2007).

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