Still one of the most powerful performances ever on ogwt - or in music then really - absolutely superb - even the old grey fogey sound tech got the sound right for a change! (probably too scared not to..) It took my head off then and 42 years later still gives me a lump in the throat - I am so grateful to have been in the right time and place..ain't nothing like that ever going to happen again.
its so hard to say whats the best ogwt performance because there where many great ones. but this on is on my top 3 along with sisters of mercy and public image.
A(heavy metal loving)friend of mine was in the record shop in Aberdean when the banshees (making a pre-gig in store appearance) broke into a furious argument that split the group...leaving Siouxsie & Severin to complete the tour ..with considerable help from support band 'the Cure'...
What an utterly wonderful performance. Spellbinding (no pun intended) and perfect. Perhaps difficult to understand now, 46 years later; you really have to have been 'there'. A 46 year gap prior to then would put us back to 1932, seven years before the start of WWII.....Now if that doesn't give you a Jigsaw Feeling....
I remember watching this....it made such an impression on me in so many ways particularly as a young punk drummer...Kenny was my hero! & Siouxie was my first love...... wish I could go back to feel that buzz, that vibe.... that wonderful feeling of being at the point of the times really changing.....long live proper punk rock ❤ xxx
Jigsaw feeling is one of my favourite records ever - this version is amazing - hard to believe the band are in their early twenties when this was written - genius
I remember seeing the Banshees in (I think) 1984 at Glasgw Barrowlands. I was 14 and always remember when she came on stage, full Egyptian vibe with eye make-up, clothes and dancing. She walked right to the front of centre stage, throwing Egyptian sphinx poses then just stared ahead. Crowd were going mad, and I always remember just standing there looking up at her completely in awe.One of the most powerful entrances I ever saw a lead vocalist make. She is and was one of a kind.
8:23 Siouxsie notices Kenny pounding on the drums and you can see her acknowledging that that she is very pleased with him. He really was the best drummer of the lineups
(With PIL, The Fall, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, Wire, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Psychedelic Furs, The Sound, The Cure), Siouxsie & The Banshees were the real UK Post-Punk. Maybe the first ones to go from Punk-Rock to something else; Pure avant-garde musical of a restless and rebellious generation. Great and creative years. Nowadays It sounds as fresh and modern as in 1978
Not primitive. Jigsaw psychedelic rock and very very forward thinking. Listen to the words. These were teens when they performed this. Agree about majestic. All a sea symphony. British tunes love those chords.
@@diskyworld In my opinion this is a primitive performance. I have listened to the words. You have your opinion and I have mine. They are allowed to be different.
The birth of dark angular post-punk, this influenced Joy Division, Killing Joke, Bauhaus and countless other bands who all inmmediatly adjusted their style after hearing this
Is the most unique and iconic sound sure, but the McGeoch years will always be my favourite ones, Peepshow recorded with John Key is a marvel of textures and experimentation, Dazzle from the Robert Smith recorded Hyaena gotta be most beautiful post punk record. Basically I love every phase of the Banshees, John Carruthers was by far the weakest guitarrist but even with that Tinderbox and Through the Looking Glass are great records.
Yep. This and “Switch” are my favorite songs to play from The Scream for this reason. The guitar parts are very interesting (and get even more so when McGeoch eventually steps in).
Some artist just have that knack for filling in a void that's missing in society's unconscious collective...and like a call from the murky depths of chaos this band appears in full raw glory to the sheer delight of the starving masses !
simon furlong ...I can top that , I saw the same tour but at Cardiff Sophia Gardens , where the guitarist and drummer had jumped ship and Cardiff was the first gig they played with Robert Smith and the Cure drummer playing both sets ....they played their own support set then came on again as part of the Banshees
@@davidheafield1436 I'm Shure that happened at Hammersmith ,seem to recall something about the same drummer wow ,and they hadn't yet released Jump on somebody else's train .good times mate.
I can't hear Siouxsie and the Banshees without doing my world famous very bad John Peel impression... "Another live track from Siouxsie and the boys later. Siouxsie told me that she'd sold her car and now travels from gig to gig on her menstrual cycle. True story. Talking of which... here's something from the Desperate Bicycles." Yep. I know. Dreadful. Sorry. It's a late night kind of thing. It helps if you're listening under the bedclothes on a crummy transistor radio and have an exam in the morning that you've not revised for.
Hmmm . . . Never seen this one before. I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that the one person in history who can make a powder blue formal jacket is Siouxsie.
Morris and McKay were actually too fashionable and arty for Siouxsie and Severin .....that's why they were shunted out of the band. McKay was possibly the first 'modern' guitarist....punk was forgotten, turning into Post Punk and early pseudo Gothic sound Join Hands the following album was an altogether darker, less commercial, but more impressive sounding record....how much greater could the band have been had the two members previously mentioned stayed.... Well it's one of those great 'if onlys'...
If they’d stayed we wouldn’t have John McGeoch’s brilliant contributions on Juju and A kiss in the Dreamhouse or Robert Smith on Hyaena and Nocturne. Post Punk was an interesting time for sure but would PiL have continued to evolve and thrive if Keith Levene had stayed? Ditto Siouxsie and the Banshees.
It's hard to say what would have become of them had they stayed in the original line-up, at least for a while longer than the first two (superb) albums... According to the "Rock Family Trees" documentary, the split between the two halves of the early Banshees was nasty indeed, partially due to a misunderstanding of sorts, partially due to an open rift John and Kenny had with the manager (and the producer of the second album, both of whom interfered with the production of "Join Hands"), resulting in the two original members leaving unexpectedly at the worst possible moment of their career. In the RFT documentary, Sue and Steve portrayed John and Kenny in rather negative fashion... which seems to be somewhat inconsiderate. Well, the four of them certainly know best how far it went off between them, but from that documentary's story I might actually understand John and Kenny's reasons to leave. Siouxsie & the Banshees evolved into a damn super fine band regardless, with consistently great discography throughout their rich career - but being a very powerful, and rather stubborn leader of the band, it sure was tough to work with someone like Siouxsie. And this early phase of the band is stunning indeed - less polished but very intimidating and way more avant-garde. Later records, as I wrote shine with superbness of their own, keeping the independent ethos by reflecting further artistic and musical growth (and control), but there are traces of kitsch in their later work that this early stuff mercilessly ignored.
