Interviews are always awkward when they involve mainstream shows and non-mainstream subjects. They're both basically there to promote each other, but they do bring out funny things about someone's personality.
Donnie (the host) was a true champion of all music and was formidable with his passion and love of punk/new wave. Fun fact: he had the scoop on 'Pornography' by The Cure before anyone, and wrote it up in a major newspaper column, waaaaay before it was released. A new release with *that* title, early 80s. Beat that.
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - INTERVIEW AUSTRALIAN TV 1983 2300pm 12.9.23 the presenters eyes lit up when he found out goth rock has 90percent female following... off to start a goth rock troupe, no doubt?
god shes so awkward, i am so in love with her. shes just so genuine. as she gets older she gets more of that star charisma and persona and i love her then too but this- this is just brilliant
It wasn't that loud at all, this is polarised internet speak.... it's a 'bed' and absolutely no-one moaned about this at the time. This show was amazing and Donnie loved all music, completely inclusive.
I imagine there were a few factors at play here: the previous interview where they were 'dragged from the studio' meant that she already had a bad history with Donnie Sutherland, the fact that Siouxsie was tired, that they didn't have a great impression of Australia (Siouxsie mentioned Sydney being stuck 20 years in the past once), and also the loaded questions.
1st Sydney gig they played was 'ok' and this (jetlag?) and the interview mood here matched. 2nd gig the following night was insane: Fireworks and Hong Kong garden were off the scale.
@@dilfdigger784 Ah, it's a term used mostly in the USA. It means that a man who is seated is seated with his legs far apart, thus taking up a lot of space. There were ads in the NYC Subway telling men to knock it off.
I love their integrity in this interview, they aren't giving this guy anything they don't want to share.. He's diving way too deep into their psyche and they're like "We're too traumatized about our crappy past and frankly some things are better left unsaid, especially on camera.. so piss of will ya?"
Respect to this interviewer. I've seen so many of his interviews with awkward, scowling, jetlagged uk bands, he must've dreaded them, either that or he secretly enjoyed pissing them off when they were half asleep.
I'm British and I agree with the O.P. 'jet lagged'? well possibly, it won't have helped; but too many British artists were obnoxious arseholes when interviewed. Next to Kate Bush, Siouxsie was my favourite singer growing up, but she could be supercilious and needlessly combative, as could Severin. As I recall, Budgie had more class.
So funny. I saw them in Sydney with Robert Smith at that time..Nocturne..fantastic...i still have Steve and Roberts autographs..on a piece of my old teenage jeans.
Nobody ever says a negative word about Robert Smith. And rarely divulges anything about him. When he couldn't tour with the Hyena tour, Siouxies was miffed and said he bailed on them, but the guy was in a bad way at that time.
Once while hitch hiking(circa 88) I was given a lift by a fellow who worked in the studio whilst this interveiw took place ... He told me the Interveiwer Donny Sutherland( a bit of a muppet) was that pissed off at the conclusion of the interview; was quite rude to Ms Siouxie & Budge... The Programme was 'Sounds' predestian crap Saturday Morning commercail TV of the era...Sutherland was a recreational grey hound racer. Make of that what you will.
Yeh, creative women that don't just handle their acid and Mandy , but make a healthy and worthwhile career out of it (Like Hillage/System 7, Gong, Eat Static, etc etc... briiliant. Intentional and fun rock n roll on their own genuine and fearless party terms)
The guy doing the interview is Donnie Sutherland and he interviewed plenty of people over the years and it appears that Siouxsie didn't want to be interviewed by him but their were quite a few others too that didn't want to be interviewed either.
I hate to say it, but they seem a bit out of it. You can't see Steve Severin's eyes because of the sunglasses, but watch Siouxsie from 2:12 to 2:16 and you will see her "focus" her thoughts. It is reflected in her eyes. Her eyes were not all weirdo-like when she was on tour in Detroit in the early 90's. She signed my creatures album I got from them. Yah, it is like when you know you are a goth, and Siouxsie is just a few feet away from you moment. One of the few things that will forever be burned into my memory.
@@markwebb9431 How was he a prick? Siouxsie showed up to an interview wacked out on heroin and blowing off all the questions, making no effort to engage at all.
A lot of the really good ''alternative'' rock n roll bands up till around '87 (MTV generation kicked in, and it REALLY did go up shit creek and lsoe any genuineness to real party/street dance culturter coz there WASNT ANY any more. And thats SHITE!) and where the electronic dance scene began to cut their teeth, MDMA, LSD, and cannibis were the common factor, and luckily, were all fairly generally healthy scenes, even if they passed through some shit in the learning process. Siouxsie in particular are very mandy/acid. The version of Jungle Book's ''Trust in Me''? OOOCHA! And creatures, amnd any official remixes. All very psychedelic/tribal rock n roll & genuinelly grounded dance beats. Very few ''real things'' now with bands. Mainly just ovedr-studied sound/look-a-likes, or patchwork-of-other-people type people. Nothing actually coming from them themselves. And that's why siouxsie kicks the shit out of Madonna and the rest. Bigger balls, and has MUCH more her own style and ideas. I should write reviews man... But nahhh fook it... just nice to prattle when am stoned!
tim burton does like modeling his characters after musicians, robert smith and edward scissorhands, adam ant and captain jack, dave vanain and sweeney todd, ect.
Yeah, I was gonna say, Tim Burton didn't direct those pirate movies did he?? Also, I doubt that's really Danny Elfman that commented, but if it is, that's awesome!
This was probably on a show called Sounds Unlimited (?) it was pretty middle of the road 'nice' television on a commercial channel in the 80s. Donny Sutherland probably asked the same questions of most bands, pretty hard work if the interviewees are from another planet though! Ahhh Siouxsie....
I'm from ex-Yugoslavia and I followed the band's work, I have no information that they even had a concert in Yugoslavia during that period, a lot of bands don't even know where that country is! It is not Eastern Europe but the Balkan
@@mikegraham4255 Beograd, I talked to my friends, they think it might be Ljubljana, but there is no information, everyone who was there also released a live tape - Nick Cave, Pere Ubu, Swans... but they didn't, which is quite strange
Standoff interviews are so refreshing. I can't watch new bands being interviewed. I'd watch LATHE OF HEAVEN and WARRINGTON-RUNCORN... but that's about it.
Wow never knew Her dad milks snakes in Congo - that explains where her aloof demeanor comes from, her absent father figure!! Brilliant Siouxsie Sioux 💪💪💪
Her father was a bacteriologist that moved from the Belgian Congo to the UK before Siouxsie was born. Her aloof demeanor may come from the fact that she was sexually assaulted at age 9 (an assault that was ignored by her parents and the police) and that her father died of alcoholism when she was 14.
Should you have broken up after John McGeoch left? Why do the press slobber all over you while hating on Bauhaus? Is your band a result of autism and the British welfare state? They'd wish they were back in Australia after I'm finished.
The interviewer was smart, accommodating and gracious, they were just tired, out of it, or god knows what. Just being typical, young, too cool for school goths (just like I was! 😅)
@@TedOtis ha ha ha, AYE MAN! Totally! Had a time warp and fit of giggles reading your words... Though, i think it's a bit of both. They weren't daft kids. Bromley... know wit a mean? lol BUT, aye... trying to affect the gravity of ''suss'' and ''cool'' without the experience to back it up yet. Anyway, back to work here. Thanks for that giggle there man! (A shame there isn't any decent psychedelic tribal/punky rock and roll around at the moment. Contrivedf shite everywhere. Qualified wankers)
@@WhaleTourist actually it was not that much censured, even if the punks were seen as trash like in all the countries. Look out for "Artisticka radna akcija", the firt punk album in there. And there was a lot of coldwawe, new wave, post-punk ... going on. Yugoslavia was more socialist than communist. At least, not like the others countries from eastern europe
