"England's Dreaming", a history of punk rock, has some info on th e
Banshees. It's now out in paperback and reputedly quite good, but I
haven't got the time for it now... (it's *huge*.) Worth scanning
in the bookstore for bands you know, even if you don't feel like
shelling out the $17, though... :-)
No promises for accuracy, but I do seem to recall from my bookstore
glances about Siouxsie, along with other band-people, getting into
wild orgies, she'd wear clothing covering all but the most
frequently covered areas (a negative-bikini of sorts, I'd guess).
The quote was lovely. "Everyone was fucking one another... the
stains on the carpet, *really*." (don't remember who said it.)
I found this on soc.bi, list-members may find it amusing:
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Newsgroups: soc.bi
>From: kay@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker)
Subject: Re: Rasberry waif-muffin's sordid tale <sneef>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 18:36:20 GMT
In article <C2zFxB.JFv@acsu.buffalo.edu> camurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Cynthia) writes:
>waif@netcom.com (Violet Bramble) writes:
>>Which reminds me- does anyone here know Siouxsie Sioux personally? Just curious
>no, but i've been in semi-close proximity (oh, alright, 5th row
>ctr) for nice long periods of time. *sigh*....makes me wish
>i'd pursued that tech-theater degree and could be her personal
>volunteer roadie, eh?
I can go one better than that.
The BBC Community Programme Unit did a thing back in the early 80s
called "Something Else" - basically, they'd pick a place in the UK,
find 5 or 6 interesting young people, and facilitate their making
a TV programme.
My friend Dollar and I got to do a 5 minute slot on the Coventry
programme on being young and gay. Was excellent fun!
The SS relevance was, it being a "yoof" prog, we had the obligatory
two music slots. We had to pick a nationally-known band and a local
one. After dreaming about inviting the Floyd or Led Zep... we
settled for Siouxie and the Banshees :) The local band was "God's
Toys", of whom you've never heard, and rightly so.
Siouxsie had a bit of a cold when we recorded, so her voice was
even huskier (yummmm!) than usual. Best of all was the after-
recording party.
YEH! I ROLLED SPLIFFS FOR THE BANSHEES!
AND I GOT A HUG FROM SIOUXSIE!
AND I GOT A LONG DEEP KISS FROM HER CUTE BLOND DRUMMER!!!
Oh, those were the days...
Kay
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