Artist.......: Siouxsie Sioux
Album........: Finale - The Last Mantaray & More Show
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVD (Ac3 2.0)
Rip.date.....: May-20-2009
Str.date.....: May-00-2009
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.siouxsiemantaray.com
track title time
01. Live 102:12
02. Interview 28:38
Runtime 130:50 min
Size 144,10 MB
Release Notes:
One of the most influential British females of the rock
era was born Susan Janet Dallion in London, England, on
May 27, 1957. The music of this pioneering punk princess
married gothic tones to world rhythms within a chilly new
romantic framework. At age 19, Siouxsie Sioux appeared at
the 100 Club Punk Festival, singing the Bay City Rollers'
"Young Love" and an elongated version of "The Lord's
Prayer" (with bassist Steve Severin, future Ant guitarist
Marco Pirroni, and Sid Vicious on drums). The immediately
assembled band hurriedly named themselves for the gig ù
Sioux christened such because she hated cowboys, with the
band honoring Vincent Price in Cry of the Banshee. Sioux
and Severin also ran with the notorious Bromley
Contingent, a nasty clique among the first to follow the
Sex Pistols. She verbally sparred with Bill Grundy before
the Sex Pistols swore at him on the Today show. Following
the broadcast, Sioux put together her own working band,
with Severin, Pete Fenton on guitar, and Ken Morris
playing drums. Sioux at first dabbled in Nazi imagery,
highlighted by black makeup and peek-a-boo breasts. In
1977, John McKay replaced Fenton and Siouxsie and the
Banshees recorded a John Peel session and supported Johnny
Thunders on tour.
Signed to Polydor a year later, the group's first single,
"Hong Kong Garden," reached the U.K. Top Ten. The
following debut record, Scream, produced by future
perfectionist Steve Lillywhite, was recorded in seven
days, but set the standard against which all subsequent
Banshee releases would be measured. In 1981, Juju hit the
U.K. Top Ten, and Budgie (Peter Clarke) from Big in Japan
and the Slits now played the skins permanently. Sioux and
Budgie formed a percussion-crazed off-shoot called the
Creatures. A cover of the Troggs' garage staple drives the
Wild Things EP by the Creatures. The full-length Feat
attempts Hawaiian and marimba. Back with the Banshees,
Sioux and company covered "Dear Prudence" and snagged
another U.K. smash, featured on 1984's Hyaena. The album's
lyrics remained sour with cuts like "Bring Me the Head of
a Preacher Man" and "Pointing Bone," but her singing
reached surprisingly sublime plateaus (as on the haunting
"Dazzle").
The music now courted a sophisticated gloss corresponding
with Sioux's detached image of splendor. Her frigid
sexuality and Brechtian aloofness created a vampiric
dominatrix who struck a cord with the hip and the
alienated. As the icy video age dragged on, soon anyone
with a TV screen knew of Sioux. Moonlighting Cure
mastermind Robert Smith, ex-Magazine member John McGeoch,
and John Carruthers, formerly of Clock DVA, all played
guitar through the band's extended commercial and artistic
renaissance. At the dawn of the '90s, Sioux married
Budgie, and the Banshees performed in the inaugural
Lollapalooza tour. Siouxie and the Banshees still embraced
many Eastern nuances, but configured all eccentricity into
a complex commercial capacity. The Banshees even supplied
sonics for Batman Returns.
Sioux now evolved into an unreachable Hollywood starlet.
The long-delayed Rapture appeared to sellout accusations
in 1996. With the Sex Pistols reuniting for purely
monetary reasons, Siouxie and the Banshees folded in an
effort to disappear with dignity. The Creatures became the
primary focus of Sioux and Budgie. In addition to 1989's
Boomerang, since the Banshees' demise, the Creatures
released another EP, Eraser Cuts, the full-length Anima
Animus, and a remix collection, Hybrids. Us Retrace,
dropped in 2000, collects unrecorded Creatures' scraps. It
wasn't until years later, however, that the iconic
frontwoman finally released her solo full-length debut,
Mantaray, which dropped in 2007.