A slew of Siouxsie Sioux videos

May 27, 2020 7:35 PM

Happy birthday to Siouxsie Sioux, one of the Queens of British Pop* (docu offline currently, clip on Siouxsie), from her start as a member of the Bromley Contingent alongside the Sex Pistols, who she played alongside in 1976, as seen in the London Weekend Show, to a big send-off show in 2008 when her style and sound was much less of a riot, and more of the moody and ethereal end of goth/alt rock.

* The BBC documentary title doesn't reflect Siouxsie or her company. But it seems the British use of "pop" is broader, given who shows up on Top of the Pops, like Siouxsie and the Banshees, playing Dear Prudence in 1983, and again in 1988 with Peak-A-Boo.

But first, let's go back to the beginning, with some live video (or just audio, in some cases), for Siouxsie Sioux's years of music:
1977:
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Make Up To Break Up / Metal Postcard
- Carcass
- Peel Session, broadcast on 5 December 1977 (audio only)

1978:
- Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden - Revolver (ATV)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Old Grey Whistle Test - Metal Postcard/Jigsaw Feeling - 7/11/78
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peel Session, broadcast on the 23rd of February (audio only)

1979:
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - French Chorus - 05/01/79
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - concert in Switzerland
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peel Session, broadcast on the 16th of April (audio only)

1980:
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tenant
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - New York Dance Stand - 25/11/80
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Irving Plaza, New York 21st November 1980 (audio only, 1 hr 10 minutes)

1981:
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Spellbound (music video)
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Warwick University (30 minute set, "Rock goes to College")
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peel Session, broadcast on the 18th of February (audio only)
+ The Creatures - Mad Eyed Screamer

1982:
- Siouxsie & the Banshees 'Slowdive' with Robert Smith (Having fun with vague attempts at miming on the Generation 80 TV show in Belgium, 28/9/1982.)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Overground (UK TV Oxford Road Show)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Meervart - 20/02/82 (Truncated concert, includes short interview)

1983:
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Red Over White @ Rocksilde Festival (1983 07 01)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees with Robert Smith - "Nocturne" show, live at the Royal Albert Hall (previously, though the link is dead)
+ The Creatures - Miss The Girl (Top of the Pops)

1984:
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Tube 1984 (full 13 minute broadcast)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Teatro Tenda Lampugnano, Milan 29th March 1984 (audio only)

+ Siouxsie - documentaire sur la période 1976-1984 (English language clips with French subtitles, for a French TV station)

1985:
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Tube (another 13 minute broadcast recording)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees live at St. James Church (04-10-1985) (audio only playlist)

1986:
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Candyman (music video)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees, live on The Tube (4/4/86)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peel Session, broadcast 3 February 1986 (audio only)

1987:
- Siouxsie & The Banshees This Wheels On Fire (Top Of The Pops 22/1/1987)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - live at Felt Forum New York (15/08/87) (audience recording)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - live at Finsbury Park (25th July 1987) (audience recording, audio only)

1988:
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Killing Jar - Wired live TV broadcast, 19. AUG.88
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - live at Brixton (15/12/88) (audience recording)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – live at Hot Point Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 Sep 1988 (Peepshow album live)

1989:
- Siouxsie Sioux on leaving the Banshees and focusing on The Creatures - Rapido - BBC2 1989
- The Creatures - Standing There (Live on Big World, Channel 4 TV)

1990:
- The Creatures - "Standing There" and "You" (French TV, Channel 4, 5 Dec. 1989)
- The Creatures (Siouxsie & Budgie) - Fury Eyes - Club MTV
- The Creatures Live in Toronto March 20th 1990 (audience recording)

1991:
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me (Top Of The Pops, 30/05/91)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Last Beat Of My Heart (1991-08-28 King County Fairgrounds, Enumclaw, Washington, United States at Lollapalooza)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees Scream Superstition MTV Special 1991 (1 hour, recorded on the eve of the first Lollapalooza tour, in Phoenix, AZ)
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - live at the James L. Knight Center, Miami, Florida (11.24.91) (audience recording)

1992:
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cascade Live in USA 1992 (audio only)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees (Moore Theatre 27-01-1992) (playlist, audio only)

1993:
- Siouxsie and the Banshees Live 1993 Part 1 and Part 2 (Live und Interview Cult Ya Festival, Nordheim 1993. German TV)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Keynote (Waldbuhne Festival) - 15/08/93
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Clapham Grand, London 1993 (audience recording)

1994:
- Morrissey & Siouxsie - Interlude (studio recording, audio only; more information on this one-off single on Wikipedia)

1995:
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - O Baby (music video)
- Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mexico 1995 (full professionally produced show, with interview snippets)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - live in Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina (27/05/95)

1996:
- Suede with Siouxsie Sioux - Caroline Says II (Lou Reed cover) (at a fan club-only gig in London (12 July 1993), Brett takes a break while Siouxsie Sioux and Martin McCarrick of Siouxsie and the Banshees join the band for a cover)

1998:
- The Creatures (Siouxsie & Budgie) - With A Little Help From My Friends (25/02/98)
- BBC Jools Holland (Siouxsie Sioux/The Creatures) (May 1998)
- The Creatures (Siouxsie & Budgie) - Rockpalast

1999:
- Siouxsie / The Creatures with John Cale - Venus in Furs - Live USA 1999 (audience recording)
- The Creatures - live at Glastonbury
- The Creatures - live at Rockpalast (04/04/99)

2002:
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - live at Summer Sonic Festival, Tokyo, Japan (18.08.02)
- Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Seven Year Itch - live Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England (tracklist)

2004:
- Siouxsie's Dreamshow (Wikipedia): Say Yes, Around the World, Seven Tears, Godzilla!, Standing There, Miss the Girl, Dear Prudence, Christine, Killing Time, Shooting the Sun, Kiss Them for Me, The Rapture, Weathercade, Prettiest Thing, Take Mine, Pinned Down, Another Planet, 2nd Floor, Happy House, Not Forgotten, Face to Face, Cities in Dust, Spellbound, Peek-a-Boo (almost complete setlist, from a few different sources)
+ Basement Jaxx - Cish Cash [Kish Kash] feat. Siouxsie Sioux (Official Video)

2007:
- Siouxsie Sioux - Spellbound, Here Comes That Day, and Into A Swan (live on Jools Holland)
- Siouxsie Live The Astoria 2 (19/10/07) (audience recording)

2008:
- Siouxsie Live in Rome - Teatro Romano Di Ostia Antica (12/07/2008) (audience recording)

2013:
- Siouxsie - MELTDOWN, Royal Festival Hall (audience recording)

posted by filthy light thief (19 comments total)

Holy crap FLT! This is awesome!
Also, it's totally ok, to spend some of this energy on sleep.
posted by evilDoug at 8:31 PM on May 27, 2020

WOW

what a post! Siousxie has been an inspirational fave since I was, what, twelve, I guess. Great, unique material. Thanks.
posted by mwhybark at 10:16 PM on May 27, 2020

Adjacent to this love for Siouxsie Sioux, it is appropriate to note here that John Eaves named an Enterprise-E shuttlecraft after her.
posted by bryon at 10:38 PM on May 27, 2020 [3 favorites]

OK. I give up. flt has won my heart.
posted by skyscraper at 11:25 PM on May 27, 2020

Fortunate to have witnessed her open for David Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour. Love this band.
posted by Chuffy at 11:50 PM on May 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

I think Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of Supernatural Thing
is the bee's knees. Goes right to the ol' music bone.

and by the way...what a great post!
posted by quazichimp at 12:50 AM on May 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

Nothing gets me more nostalgic for my youth than that early 90's Brit-pop rhythm sound on Kiss Them For Me.
posted by PenDevil at 2:22 AM on May 28, 2020 [4 favorites]

Top of the Pops has always been about who is top of the pop charts, and it's really just the mainstream popular music chart. It's not a genre-limited show.
posted by awfurby at 5:06 AM on May 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

Flagged as fantastic!
posted by The Ardship of Cambry at 5:25 AM on May 28, 2020

I really loved her music when I was a teen, and it still makes me smile when a song of hers comes on. Great post!
posted by Dip Flash at 5:45 AM on May 28, 2020

Love Crime, her song written for the final episode of Hannibal. Scene with song here (CW for gore, murder, suicide, basically CW for Hannibal. First link is safe.)
posted by Pallas Athena at 5:59 AM on May 28, 2020

A slew of Siouxsie Sioux videos

A slioux, I would have thought...
posted by senor biggles at 9:29 AM on May 28, 2020 [5 favorites]

Thank you for this.
posted by banshee at 9:29 AM on May 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

In a memory mostly untethered in time–but certainly discontemporaneous to the song's late 80's release–I distinctly remember sitting in the parking lot of a ski resort in Park City, Utah listening to Peek-a-Boo for the first time. I don't ski, have hardly any interest in it, and have only been to Park City a few times in my life. And yet, that music memory has clung to my grey matter like fresh hoar frost, indelible and sharp despite the intervening decades.

Hearing even a short phrase of the song brings to mind a strangely out-of-body, aerial view of a gray slush parking lot, snow-draped slopes sparkling in the midday sun, and the sharp corner of a log-cabin-style ski lodge. I suspect the memory has been paved over many times and blended with memories of similar places seen in movies and on television, but it still feels authentic and personal.

In short, thank you for this wonderful post.
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 11:16 AM on May 28, 2020 [2 favorites]

Much of this stuff holds up well.

Their ‘Song From The Edge of the World’ never fails to produce goosebumps.

When I did a presentation of Roman architecture for school I used ‘City Lies In Dust’ and it killed.
posted by uraniumwilly at 12:25 PM on May 28, 2020 [1 favorite]

Back when I was waiting tables in drag in the 90s The Creatures came in one night and we ended up hanging out and going clubbing later...disco 2000 at limelight iirc. That was a blast.
Still amazing to me she put out that first album when she was 20.
posted by sexyrobot at 2:14 PM on May 28, 2020 [4 favorites]

Once long ago my friend and I stumbled into our local all-night diner and Siouxsie and Budgie were sitting at the counter having coffee (the Creatures had just played in town) and we struck up a conversation and they invited us to sit with them and ended up buying our breakfast and it was an absolute delight. I think The Creatures were fond of diners.
posted by deadbilly at 6:05 PM on May 28, 2020 [4 favorites]

Her vocals on the cover of Dear Prudence always evoke in me the feeling that I’m young and falling falling for someone special. As a bonus, the linked video makes me want to live in a Sandman comic.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 6:53 PM on May 28, 2020 [3 favorites]

If I had enough talent, ambition, and confidence to play an instrument and be in a band, I would totally do a cover of "Monitor".
posted by the painkiller at 12:56 PM on May 31, 2020