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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Siouxsie & the Banshees: concert review
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 16:52:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 20 16:52:53 1984
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> I also saw Siouxsie in Boston (and was lucky enough to have first row
> seats!).  I second the recommendation.  Loved her "Thai-ish" dancing style,
> although she looked more like a Nazi-punk's erotic dream in black sleaze in
> Boston, rather than exotic and red in N.J.

My loss.  Makes me wish I'd gone to Boston instead of Beacon Theater in NYC
(not NJ).

> Last year's show at a much smaller club was far superior in sound (the
> band sounded incredibly tight).   {NOT SURPRISING... -ED.}
> Rich - how's her FIRST album (before Kaleidoscope) - I always hesitate
> to buy it as a $15 import?

The Banshees had two albums before Kaleidoscope.  The first was *The Scream*,
which contains "Hong Kong Garden" and "Mirage" (both available on the
PVC collection "Once Upon a Time"), "Metal Postcard", "Switch", and the
aforementioned cover of "Helter Skelter" (exquisitely painful).  Their
second album, *Join Hands*, is even harder to find than the first.  I don't
own it, but my friend does.  He bought it after we had heard this exceedingly
long and bizarre song that sounded like the Lord's Prayer at a club in NYC
called Hurrah (now defunct).  It was playing in a record store (Metro Records)
and my friend asked "What is that?  It's horrible" and then bought it.  (He
does things like that--You think *I'm* musically off the wall?  This guy finds
dirge punk uplifting!)  Thus I received my first indirect exposure to the
Banshees.

Is anyone out there familiar with the EP by Siouxsie and Budgie (?) called
"Wild Things by the Creatures", or with the live album released after the
import single "Dear Prudence" came out?  Any comments would be appreciated.

Nice to see that Andrew Hudson (ccivax!abh) now uses selected lines from
"Christine" in his signature file, joining George Sherouse's "Devotoism"
from Magazine's "Song From Under the Floorboards".  Just be forewarned,
that adventurous and unusual signature lines often generate very weird
responses...
-- 
Now I've lost my train of thought. I'll have to catch the bus of thought.
			Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr