Siouxsie Sioux

[jennifer~]

Muse-ical

As you can see from the numbered filenames... I have no less than one million and one of these...

 

[Spacemiu]

How id I not see this befor? I haveundieing love for siouxsie and the banshees , I'v been a fan ever sens i was little

 

[DosViolines]

source: nytimes.com

February 26, 2006
The Remix

Wake Up, Little Siouxsie

Alan Clarke

By TIM BLANK
What an ideal moment to reflect on the place of Siouxsie Sioux, the singer, style icon and all-around scourge, in the cultural firmament. "The Scream," her debut record with the Banshees, is getting a dust-off, while the American DVD of "Dreamshow," her 2004 concert at Royal Festival Hall in London, hits stores soon.


For punk's most glamorous pinup, the releases are like bookends to a 30-year career in which "defiance" has been the defining word. When Susan Dallion from Chislehurst, England, climbed onstage and howled her way through a 20-minute medley of "The Lord's Prayer" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" she became Siouxsie, public enemy No. 1. The daughter of an alcoholic dad who died when she was 14, she survived a near-fatal illness, only to hatch an exit strategy while lying in the hospital watching David Bowie on "Top of the Pops."


Her look was all 1950's fetish: big dresses with petticoats, drainpipes with stilettos. (Today, at age 48, in her Hedi Slimane suit, she is déjà vu all over again.) "I always loved fishnets," she recalls. Back then, she'd wear Vivienne Westwood's tasseled ones with her Louise Brooks do. One day she went for a free cut and color at Vidal Sassoon. "The ends went orangy, and I hated it, so I chopped it all off till I had this very cropped blonde hair," she says. Dark lips, black eyes, black shirt — very androgynous: it was the look that launched punk and, later, to her mortification, goth.


Since the early 90's, she has lived in France because life for her in London had grown intolerable: "I was aware of other people always being aware of me." But distance is an aphrodisiac. "Gorgeous" is what she thought of John Galliano's 1997 Siouxsie Sphinx show. "I'm vain enough to like a bit of flattery, though I generally don't know what to do with it."

 

[Jane Loves Marc]

Ah I love Siouxsie! Cities in Dust is the best!

 

[Spacemiu]

She looks great! Thanks Dos

 

[IcePrincess]

I am glad there is a Siouxsie thread here even though it seems kind of dead

Courtesy of http://www.vamp.org/

 

[IcePrincess]

 

[IcePrincess]

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[IcePrincess]

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[jennifer~]

The Banshees in Cologne, 1981, performing songs from Juju (an album I just love )

Arabian Knights - probably my favorite song the Banshees ever realeased as a single


Head Cut - probably my favorite song they didn't (as far as I'm aware)


Voodoo Dolly - amazing performance from Siouxsie here


Search for siouxsie banshees cologne on YouTube to find more rare treasures you'll wish you had on tape...

 

[droogist]

^ Siouxsie in all her serpentine glory. Thanks for posting those, jennifer~.

 

[lady stardust]

found some really great pics and i just have to post,
luv siouxsie and the banshees their music and style are magical!
source - unitedundone.com

 

[lady stardust]

mooore
same source

 

[lady stardust]

same source

 

[lady stardust]

same source..

 

[lady stardust]

smoking..B)
unitedundone.com

 

[lady stardust]

and my favourite pic!
same source

 

[lady stardust]

and my favourite pic!
same source

trying to upload again...

 

[lady stardust]

sorry can't post that superb pic..
well i try this one, it's not so bad either!
unitedundone.com

 

[jennifer~]

^ Oh thanks, lady stardust (and you're welcome, droogist) That cover of NME is great, and I think I'd only ever seen a much smaller version...