Still listening and watching again and again also in October 2023 ! What a great masterpiece. 💖 What a great present this great video exists in such good quality, thank you for this! 💞🎶🙏
The middle of the song where shes sings the part in the sky the demon backgrounds vocals sounded so cool. Wish it was recorded that way but its still my favorite out her excellent collection.
I wrote a paper in college about Siouxsie and the Banshees. The hypothesis is that she's a mystical being from another planet, and their music makes you transcend space and time because of this. I got an A.
Wow they were tight!! Siouxsie looks and sounds great, Steve is killing it on bass and Budgie on drums and of course Robert Smith on guitar = Thanks for posting now I have goosebumps
We were the only 2 punks in st johns wood, I was called posh punks mate..ha ha .Saw the banshees 10 times this vid just so cool. She'll Allways be the queen of punk.so cool!
Some of her best singing, and some of the best band synergy right here. Royal Albert Hall must have been one of the best shows they ever played, every track I find from that performance is amazing, and rivals it's studio version. I am a huge fan of Siouxsie and the Banshees, one of the most unique acts of all time, but there are some live performances on YT where you can tell the band cohesion is just not there, of course that makes sense cause they never kept one line up for too long. I'm not a big fan of the cure, but Robert Smith was always great in the Banshees, and you could tell this line up really all got along the way a band should. Respect to great artists.
What I remember is that Channel 4 asked bands (e.g. New Order) to make their own films. The Banshees did have stuff from concerts in it (probably Nocturne), but I remember them all sat round a table as Alice in Wonderland characters. Budgie wore a dress! Actually, I'm totally lazy as it tells me in a book by Mark Paytress I have on the Banshees! I was still at school when I saw it! Paytress says they were drinking mushy brew out of the tea-pot!
It was called 'Play at Home'. Channel 4 gave a band an hour, half an hour of live music (it WAS Nocturne) then half an hour of whatever the band wanted. Sioux says Big Country included footage of them loading their van (big imagination, not!).Oh, and it was wine, not mushy brew in the tea-pot! Robert Smith and Severin also wore dresses. A fan played Tweedledum!
Siouxsie seems a lot more tired and worn than I would have expected...and then I realised that even in 1983 she's been doing this hard-out for seven years now and also that this is right after half her band went out for a newspaper and never returned, which is why Cure members are filling in. She's probably feeling quite stressed and hurt.
Well…the half the band splitting thing happened in 1978. This was just after the band fired John McGeoch because his drinking was affecting their performances. Bob filled in admirably here though and it is easily one of the best middle period Banshees recordings.
But you’re right it was a high stress time for the band regardless of personnel. They’re still killing it because they were hardened professionals by this time
I couldn't agree more. Anyone who knows me, knows Robert Smith was my favorite guitarist of the Banshees, followed by McGeoch. Hyaena is my favorite album, it has a sound that's completely different from the others. Robert Smith is to be credited for that, sorry to say "The Cure" is good but not as good, I dunno what was with Smith and the Banshees that made it sound so amazing. I still don't understand the magic behind it, and Hyaena.
McKay's the worst... After all he inspired song Drop Dead when he adandoned the band with Kenny Morris.. McGeoch is obviously the best... he's so creative and exciting and awesome sounding... But he's also kind of a fuck up... After all he was pretty much fired by Siouxsie when he dropped a gig hard.. Robert Smith is a badass.. he can't sing like Siouxsie.. nor play like McGeoch.. but he's a total badass. JVC is next.. then Jon Klein for me
Interesting as I’m a crazy cure fan but Robert was not the banshees best guitarist... I do love Hyena though due to Roberts influences on the entirety of the album
Her voice was at its best here. It started losing its power just after "Peepshow". By Tinderbox though, her voice is the best instrument on the album - she'd really learnt to use it to stunning effect.
Theres a guy on You Tube whos posted a vid of himself playing 'Spellbound' with Jon Mc Geochs actual SG.Apparantly purchased from Mc Geochs daughter.Hes pretty good!
@ILikeCalliopes This really made me laugh, because I heard the vocal you were talking about, and imagined a bunch of people staring, completely vexed out of their minds wondering why someone would sing the album version like this. Totally hilarious!
@@dominica4799 Having power and range has nothing to do with the music being good. Take axle rose of Guns and Roses for example. He has a huge range, but I don't like their music. Same with Adele. She can sing, but the music is very boring.
