Tag: Tinderbox

Vintage Video: Leg in a cast, Siouxsie takes a seat to lead the Banshees through 1985 set

Vintage Video: Leg in a cast, Siouxsie takes a seat to lead the Banshees through 1985 set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we flash back to the fall of 1985, during the weeks that Siouxsie and the Banshees continued to tour the U.K. despite the band’s frontwoman having dislocated her knee during a performance and wound up in a full leg cast. Watch it here.

Milestones: Siouxsie and the Banshees' 'Tinderbox' released 25 years ago today

Milestones: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ‘Tinderbox’ released 25 years ago today

Twenty-five years ago today, Siouxsie and the Banshees released their seventh studio album, ‘Tinderbox,’ which spawned the band’s first 12-inch single in the U.S. — and its first significant club hit — with the classic ‘Cities in Dust.’

Steven Severin: Siouxsie and the Banshees' reissue program dumped by Univeral Music

Steven Severin: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ reissue program dumped by Univeral Music

Universal Music Group is scrapping its Siouxsie and the Banshees reissue program midstream, meaning the band’s’ final four albums — 1987’s Through the Looking Glass 1988’s Peepshow, 1991’s Superstition and 1995’s The Rapture — will not receive expanded re-releases as originally planned, ex-bassist Steven Severin reports.

Siouxsie and the Banshees reissuing 4 more albums, releasing 'At the BBC' box set

Siouxsie and the Banshees reissuing 4 more albums, releasing ‘At the BBC’ box set

For fans of Siouxsie and the Banshees, April and May will bring a bevy of archival releases — specifically the next four albums in the […]