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Siouxsie Sioux

January 06, 2023

For the American singer, see Susie Suh.

Susan Janet Ballion (born 27 May 1957), known professionally as Siouxsie Sioux, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.[1] She was the lead singer of the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996). They released 11 studio albums, and had several UK Top 20 singles including "Hong Kong Garden", "Happy House" and "Peek-a-Boo", plus a US Billboard Top 25 hit, "Kiss Them for Me".

Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie Sioux performing in 1980
Background information
Birth nameSusan Janet Ballion
Born (1957-05-27) 27 May 1957 (age 65)
Southwark, London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • record producer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active1976–present
Labels
Formerly of
Websitesiouxsie.com

Siouxsie also formed a second group, the Creatures (1981–2005). With the Creatures she recorded four studio albums and the hit single "Right Now". After disbanding the Creatures in the mid-2000s, she has continued as a solo artist, only using the name Siouxsie, and released the album Mantaray to critical acclaim in 2007.

AllMusic named Siouxsie as "one of the most influential British singers of the rock era".[2] Her songs have been covered by Jeff Buckley,[3] Tricky[4] and LCD Soundsystem.[5] Her records have also been praised by artists such as PJ Harvey[6] and TV on the Radio.[7] In 2011, she was awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Q Awards[8] and in 2012, at the Ivor Novello Awards, she received the Inspiration Award.[9]

In December 2022, she announced her return to the stage with a concert at the Latitude Festival, in July 2023.[10]

Biography

Early life (1957–1976)

Siouxsie was born Susan Janet Ballion[11] on 27 May 1957 at Guy's Hospital in Southwark, England.[12] She is ten years younger than her two siblings. Her brother and sister were born while the family was in the Belgian Congo.[12] Her parents met in that colony and worked there for a few years. Her mother, Betty, was of Scottish and English descent and was a secretary who spoke both French and English.[13] Her father was a bacteriologist who milked venom from snakes, and came from Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium. In the mid-1950s, before Siouxsie's birth, the family moved to England.

The Ballions lived in a suburban district in Chislehurst, Kent. Siouxsie was an isolated child, being unable to invite friends to her house because of her alcoholic, unemployed father.[14] Despite his issues, Siouxsie regarded him as intelligent and well-read, and sympathised with his inability to fit in with a "rigid, middle-class society".[14] During moments of sobriety, her father shared with her his love for books. Siouxsie was aware that her family was different;[15] the Ballions were not involved in the local community and Siouxsie, aware that her family's house differed from the neighbours', would later state that "the suburbs inspired intense hatred."[15]

At the age of nine, she and a friend were sexually assaulted by a stranger. The assault was ignored by both her parents and the police,[16] and was not spoken of in the family. The incident and its later treatment would lead Siouxsie to distrust adults.[17] Years later, she stated:

"I grew up having no faith in adults as responsible people. And being the youngest in the family I was isolated – I had no one to confide in. So I invented my own world, my own reality. It was my own way of defending myself – protecting myself from the outside world. The only way I could deal with how to survive was to get some strong armour."[17]

Her father died of alcoholism-related illness when Siouxsie was 14 years old, resulting in a decline in her health. Siouxsie lost a great deal of weight and failed to attend school. After several misdiagnoses, she was operated on and survived a bout of ulcerative colitis.[18] During the weeks of recovery in mid-1972, she watched television in the hospital and saw David Bowie on Top of the Pops.[17]

At 17, she left school. During this period she began visiting the local gay discos frequented by her sister's friends.[19] She later introduced her own friends to that scene. In November 1975, the Sex Pistols performed at the local art college in Chislehurst. Siouxsie did not attend, but one of her friends told her how they sounded like the Stooges, and that singer Johnny Rotten had threatened students attending the gig. In February 1976, Siouxsie and her friend Steven Severin went to see the Sex Pistols play in London. After chatting with members of the band, Siouxsie and Severin decided to follow them regularly.[20] In the following months, journalist Caroline Coon coined the term "Bromley Contingent" to describe this group of eccentric teenagers devoted to the Sex Pistols.[21]

Siouxsie became well known in the London club scene for her glam, fetish- and bondage-inspired attire, which later became part of punk fashion.[17] She would also heavily influence the later development of gothic fashion with her signature cat-eye makeup, deep red lipstick, spiky dyed-black hair, and black clothing.[17] In early September 1976, the Bromley Contingent followed the Sex Pistols to France, where Siouxsie was beaten up for wearing a cupless bra and a black armband with a swastika on it. She claimed her intent was to shock the bourgeoisie, not to make a political statement.[22] She later wrote the song "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)" (in memory of the anti-Nazi artist John Heartfield).[23]

Following the DIY ethos and the idea that the people in the audience could be the people on stage, Siouxsie and Severin decided to form a band. When a support slot at the 100 Club Punk Festival (organised by Malcolm McLaren) opened up, they decided to make an attempt at performing, although at that time they did not know how to play any songs. On 20 September 1976, the band improvised 20 minutes of music while Siouxsie sang the "Lord's Prayer".[24]

For critic Jon Savage, Siouxsie was "unlike any female singer before or since, commanding yet aloof, entirely modern".[25] Viv Albertine from the Slits said:

"Siouxsie just appeared fully made, fully in control, utterly confident. It totally blew me away. There she was doing something that I dared to dream but she took it and did it and it wiped the rest of the festival for me, that was it. I can't even remember everything else about it except that one performance."[26]

One of Siouxsie's first public appearances was with the Sex Pistols on Bill Grundy's television show, on Thames Television in December 1976.[27] Standing next to the band, Siouxsie made fun of the presenter when he asked her how she was doing. She responded: "I've always wanted to meet you, Bill." Grundy, who claimed he was drunk, suggested a meeting after the show, which provoked guitarist Steve Jones to respond with a series of expletives, never heard before on early-evening television.[27] This episode created a media furore on the front covers of several tabloids, including the Daily Mirror, which published the headline "Siouxsie's a Punk Shocker". The event had a major impact on the Sex Pistols' subsequent career, and they became a household name overnight.[28]

Aware of the press surrounding both herself and the Sex Pistols, Siouxsie began to distance herself from the scene and stopped seeing Sex Pistols after the 15 December 1976 gig at Notre Dame Hall. From then, she focused her energy on her own band, Siouxsie and the Banshees.[29]

Siouxsie and the Banshees, and the Creatures (1977–2003)

Main article: Siouxsie and the Banshees
 
Siouxsie Sioux in 1980

In February 1977, Siouxsie began touring in England as Siouxsie and the Banshees.[30] One year later, their first single, "Hong Kong Garden", reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart;[31] With its oriental-inflected xylophone motif, Melody Maker deemed it "a glorious debut [...] All the elements come together with remarkable effect. The song is strident and powerful with tantalising oriental guitar riffs plus words and vocals that are the result of anger, disdain and isolation. No-one will be singled out because everyone is part and parcel of the whole. It might even be a hit".[32]

Their debut album, The Scream, was one of the first post-punk records released. It received 5-star reviews in Sounds[33] and Record Mirror.[34] The latter said that the record "points to the future, real music for the new age".[34] The music was different from the single; it was angular, dark and jagged. The Scream was later hailed by NME as one of the best debut albums of all time along with Patti Smith's Horses.[35] Join Hands followed in 1979 with war as the lyrical theme.[36]

The 1980 album Kaleidoscope marked a change in musical direction with the arrival of John McGeoch, considered "one of the most innovative and influential guitarists" by The Guardian,[37] and drummer Budgie, the latter of whom would continue to perform and record with Siouxsie until 2004. The hit single "Happy House" was qualified as "great Pop" with "liquid guitar"[38] and other songs like "Red Light" were layered with electronic sounds. Kaleidoscope widened Siouxsie's audience, reaching the top 5 in the UK charts. Juju followed in 1981, reaching number 7; the singles "Spellbound" and "Arabian Knights" were described as "pop marvels" by The Guardian.[39] During recording sessions for Juju, Siouxsie and Budgie formed a percussion-oriented duo called the Creatures, characterized by a stripped-down sound focused on vocals and drums; their first record, the EP Wild Things, was a commercial success.

Main article: The Creatures

In 1982, the Siouxsie and the Banshees' album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse was widely acclaimed by critics.[40] Richard Cook of NME depicted it as "a feat of imagination scarcely ever recorded".[41] The single "Slowdive" was "a violin-colored dance beat number".[42] They included strings for the first time on several songs. However, the recording sessions took their toll, and McGeoch was forced to quit the band.[43]

In 1983, Siouxsie went to Hawaii to record the Creatures' first album, Feast, which included the hit single "Miss the Girl". It was her first incursion into exotica, incorporating sounds of waves, local Hawaiian choirs and local percussions. Later that year, Siouxsie and Budgie released "Right Now", a song from Mel Tormé's repertoire that the Creatures re-orchestrated with brass arrangements;[44] "Right Now" soon became a top 20 hit single in the UK. Then, with the Banshees (including guitarist Robert Smith of the Cure), she covered the Beatles' "Dear Prudence", which reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.[45] Two albums followed with Smith: Nocturne, recorded live in London in 1983, and 1984's Hyæna. In 1985, the single "Cities in Dust" was recorded with sequencers; it climbed to number 21 in the UK charts. Entertainment Weekly noted that it was the first of a handful of Alternative rock radio hits in the U.S.[46] 1986's Tinderbox and the 1987 covers album Through the Looking Glass both reached the top 15 in the UK.[47]

In 1988, the single "Peek-a-Boo" marked a musical departure from her previous work,[48] anticipating hip hop-inspired rock with the use of samples. The song was praised by NME as "oriental marching band hip hop with farting horns and catchy accordion"[49] and hailed by Melody Maker as "a brightly unexpected mixture of black steel and pop disturbance".[50] The Peepshow album received a five star review in Q magazine.[51] The ballad "The Last Beat of My Heart" issued as a single, saw her exploring new ground with accordion and strings.[52]

Siouxsie and Budgie then went to Andalusia in Spain to record the second Creatures album, Boomerang. The songs took a different direction from previous Creatures works, with backing music ranging from flamenco to jazz and blues styles. It featured brass on most of the songs. The first single was "Standing There". NME hailed Boomerang as "a rich and unsettling landscape of exotica".[53] Anton Corbijn visited the group during the recording near Jerez de la Frontera, and Siouxsie convinced him to take photographs in color, unlike his prior work which was in black-and-white: the photos used for the promotion showed Siouxsie and Budgie in fields surrounded with sunflowers.[54] In 1990, she toured for the first time with the Creatures, in Europe and North America.[55]

On 1991's dance-oriented "Kiss Them for Me" single, Siouxsie and the Banshees used South Asian instrumentation, which had become popular in the UK club scene with the growth of bhangra.[56][57] Indian tabla player Talvin Singh (who was later Björk's percussionist on her 1993 Debut album) took part in the session and provided vocals for the bridge. With "Kiss Them for Me", the Banshees scored a hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 peaking at number 23.[58] After the release of Superstition which received enthusiastic reviews,[59] the group co-headlined the first Lollapalooza tour, further increasing their American following.

 
Siouxsie at the first Lollapalooza in Irvine, California, 1991

In 1992, film director Tim Burton requested that she write a song for Batman Returns, and the Banshees composed the single "Face to Face".[60]

In the mid-1990s, Siouxsie started to do one-off collaborations with other artists. Suede invited her to a benefit concert for the Red Hot Organization. With guitarist Bernard Butler, she performed a version of Lou Reed's "Caroline Says". Spin reviewed it as "haughty and stately".[61] Morrissey, ex-lead singer of the Smiths, recorded a duet with Siouxsie in 1994. They both sang on the single "Interlude", a track that was initially performed by Timi Yuro, a female torch singer of the 1960s. "Interlude" was released under the name of "Morrissey and Siouxsie".[62]

The last Banshees studio album, The Rapture, was released in 1995; it was written partly in the Toulouse area of France, where she had recently moved. After the accompanying tour, the Banshees announced their split during a press conference called "20 Minutes into 20 Years". The Creatures de facto became her only band.[63] At the same time, she released the song "The Lighthouse" on French producer Hector Zazou's album Chansons des mers froides (which translates to Songs from the Cold Seas), with jazz trumpetist Mark Isham. Siouxsie and Zazou adapted the poem "Flannan Isle" by English poet Wilfred Wilson Gibson.[64]

Her first live performance in three years was in February 1998 when former Velvet Underground member John Cale invited her to a festival called "With a Little Help From My Friends" at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. The concert was shown on Dutch national television and featured an unreleased Creatures composition, "Murdering Mouth", sung as a duet with Cale.[65] The collaboration between the two artists worked so well that they decided to tour the US from June until August, performing "Murdering Mouth", and Cale's "Gun" together as the encores of a Creatures and Cale double bill.[66]

The following year, Siouxsie and Budgie released Anima Animus, the first Creatures album since the split of the Banshees. It included the singles "2nd Floor" and "Prettiest Thing". The material diverged from their former work, with a more urban sound blending art rock and electronica. Anima Animus was described by The Times as "hypnotic and inventive".[67] Also in 1999, Siouxsie collaborated with Marc Almond on the track "Threat of Love".

In 2002, she was rated as one of the 10 best female rock artists by Q.[68] That same year, Universal released The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees as the first reissue of her back catalogue.

In 2003, Siouxsie and Budgie released the last Creatures album, Hái!, which was in part recorded in Japan, collaborating with taiko player Leonard Eto (previously of the Kodo Drummers). Peter Wratts wrote in Time Out: "Her voice is the dominant instrument here, snaking and curling around the bouncing drumming backdrop, elegiac and inhuman as she chants, purrs and whispers her way around the album". He termed the record a "spine-tingling achievement".[69] Hái! was preceded by the single "Godzilla!". That year, Siouxsie was featured on the track "Cish Cash" by Basement Jaxx, from their album Kish Kash, which later won Best Electronic/Dance Album at the Grammy Awards.[70]

Solo (2004–present)

 
Siouxsie at the Saturday Night Fiber, Madrid 2008

2004 was a pivotal year for the singer. She toured for the first time as a solo act combining Banshees and Creatures songs. A live DVD called Dreamshow was recorded at the last London concert, in which she and her musicians were accompanied by a 16-piece orchestra, the Millennia Ensemble. Released in August 2005, this DVD reached the number 1 position in the UK music DVD charts.[71]

Her first solo album, Mantaray, was released in September 2007. Pitchfork wrote, "She really is pop", before finishing the review by declaring, "It's a success".[72] Mojo stated: "a thirst for sonic adventure radiates from each track".[73] Mantaray included three singles: "Into a Swan", "Here Comes That Day" and "About to Happen". In 2008, Siouxsie performed vocals for the track "Careless Love" on The Edge of Love soundtrack by composer Angelo Badalamenti, a frequent collaborator with director David Lynch. She performed another Badalamenti number, "Who Will Take My Dreams Away", at the annual edition of the World Soundtrack Awards.[74] After a year of touring, the singer played the last show of her tour in London in September 2008. A live DVD of this performance, Finale: The Last Mantaray & More Show, was released in 2009.[75]

In June 2013, after a hiatus of five years, Siouxsie played two nights at the Royal Festival Hall in London during Yoko Ono's Meltdown festival. She performed 1980's Kaleidoscope album live in its entirety, along with other works from her back catalogue, and her performance was praised by the press.[76] She also appeared at Ono's Double Fantasy concert, to sing the final song, "Walking on Thin Ice".[77]

In October 2014, she and fellow Banshee Steven Severin compiled a CD titled It's a Wonderfull Life for the November 2014 issue of Mojo magazine, in which she appeared on the cover.[78] The disc included 15 tracks that inspired the Banshees.[79]

"Love Crime", her first song in eight years,[80] was featured in the finale of the TV series Hannibal, broadcast in August 2015. Series creator Bryan Fuller, called it "epic".[81]

On 15 December 2022, it was announced that Siouxsie will perform at the Latitude Festival 2023 in Suffolk: she will be the headliner of the "BBC Sounds Stage" on Sunday 23 July 2023. It will be her first live performance in a decade.[10] Mantaray was remastered at Abbey Road Studios for its 15 year anniversary: it will be reissued with a different artwork on CD in May 2023 via the official website.[82]

Songwriting

Journalist Paul Morley noted that Siouxsie's songs topics dealt with "mental illness, medical terrors, surreal diseases, depraved urges, sinister intensity, unearthly energy, sexual abuse, childhood disturbances, sordid mysteries, unbearable nervous anxiety, fairytale fears, urban discontent and the bleak dignity of solitude". Many of her songs are about damage; her childhood marked her profoundly. She said, "Damaged lives, damaged souls, damaged relationships. Most of the damage I sing about first happened when I was younger and I am still feeding off it and working it out. Early experiences are what create a lifetime of damage. The songs you write can help you fix the damage. And just the environment you are in is so important and can waste potential and corrupt something. For me, there was neglect. An alcoholic father who is not there because the most important thing for him is just to get alcohol and your mother is trying to compensate for the non-existent second parent so she's never there because she's working all the time and when she is around she's stressed out. Being isolated and not having anyone to connect with, there was just no physical touching back then".[83]

Legacy

Her voice is, in its own right, the common thread through all of it. There is no one who sings like that. And I think there are a lot of people who were influenced by it, but even if you try and sing like her, you can't do that. You can't throw your voice like that. You can't throw harmony like that. That is a very distinct voice. Her technique is a thread between the really far-out stuff and opera and pop music. It's distinct. It's all her own.

— Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio[84]

Siouxsie has been praised by artists of many genres. She had a strong impact on two trip-hop acts. Tricky covered 1983's proto trip-hop "Tattoo",[85] to open his second album Nearly God,[86] and Massive Attack sampled "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)" on their song "Superpredators (Metal Postcard)" for the soundtrack to the film The Jackal.[87]

Other acts have covered Siouxsie's songs. Jeff Buckley performed "Killing Time" several times,[88] he first recorded it during a radio session for WFMU in 1992.[3] LCD Soundsystem recorded a cover of "Slowdive" for the B-side of "Disco Infiltrator", their version was also released on Introns.[89] Santigold based her track "My Superman", on the music of "Red Light".[90] In 2003, the Beta Band sampled "Painted Bird" and changed the title to "Liquid Bird" on their Heroes to Zeros album.[91] Red Hot Chili Peppers performed "Christine" at the V2001 festival and introduced it to their British audience as "your national anthem".[92] "Christine" was also revisited by Simple Minds.[93] Indie folk group DeVotchKa covered "The Last Beat of My Heart" at the suggestion of Arcade Fire singer Win Butler in 2007.[94] The Weeknd sampled "Happy House" on the title track of his first mixtape "House of Balloons" in 2011.[95]

Morrissey said that "Siouxsie and the Banshees were excellent. They were one of the great groups of the late 70s, early 80s".[96] In 1994, discussing modern bands, he also stated: "None of them are as good as Siouxsie and the Banshees at full pelt. That's not dusty nostalgia, that's fact".[97] Another member of the Smiths, Johnny Marr, said: "Really my generation was all about a guy called John McGeoch, from Siouxsie and the Banshees. He was a great player".[98] Marr hailed McGeoch for his work on Siouxsie's single "Spellbound". Marr qualified it as "clever" with "really good picky thing going on which is very un-rock'n'roll".[99] Radiohead also cited McGeoch-era Siouxsie records when mentioning the recording of "There There".[100] Their singer, Thom Yorke, said: "The band that really changed my life was R.E.M. and Siouxsie and the Banshees ...". "My favourite show I ever saw then was Siouxsie and she was absolutely amazing. ... She's totally in command of the whole audience".[101] Yorke added that she "made an especially big impression in concert, she was really sexy but absolutely terrifying."[102] Sonic Youth singer and guitarist Thurston Moore named "Hong Kong Garden" as one of his 25 all-time favourite songs.[103]

Siouxsie has influenced other bands ranging from contemporaries Joy Division,[104] U2,[105] and the Cure,[106] to later acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain,[107] Jane's Addiction[108] and TV on the Radio.[109] Joy Division co-founder Peter Hook said that The Scream inspired them for the "really unusual way of playing" of the guitarist and the drummer and cited the Banshees as "one of our big influences".[104] U2 frontman Bono named her as an influence in the band's 2006 autobiography U2 by U2. He was inspired by her way of singing.[105] "I still think that I sing like Siouxsie from The Banshees on the first two U2 albums".[110] With his band, he selected "Christine" for a compilation made for Mojo's readers.[111] U2 guitarist the Edge also was the presenter of an award given to Siouxsie at a Mojo ceremony in 2005.[112] The Cure's Robert Smith related what the Join Hands tour brought him musically: "When we supported The Banshees in 1979, we suddenly became aware of how limited our palette was. I felt constrained, so when the opportunity arose to play with them I jumped at it and juggled the two bands for a while. It taught me a lot – they had fantastic rhythm sections and this made me think, ‘Why can’t I have this?’."[113] For Smith's record The Head on the Door in 1985, he stated: "It reminds me of the Kaleidoscope album, the idea of having lots of different sounding things, different colours".[114] Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction once made a parallel between his band and the Banshees: "There are so many similar threads: melody, use of sound, attitude, sex appeal. I always saw Jane's Addiction as the masculine Siouxsie and the Banshees".[108] Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio hailed the poppiest Siouxsie songs, citing their arrangements: "I've always tried to make a song that begins like "Kiss Them for Me". I think songs like "I Was a Lover" or "Wash the Day Away" came from that element of surprise mode where all of a sudden this giant drum comes in and you're like, what the fuck?! That record was the first one where I was like, okay, even my friends're going to fall for this. I feel like that transition into that record was a relief for me. Really beautiful music was always considered too weird by the normal kids and that was the first example where I thought, we've got them, they're hooked! I watched people dance to that song, people who had never heard of any of the music that I listened to, they heard that music in a club and went crazy".[109] Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode said about her: "She always sounds exciting. She sings with a lot of sex–that's what I like".[115] Mark Lanegan stated that he would like to collaborate with her: "In my wildest dreams I would love to sing with Siouxsie".[116] She is also revered by Damon Albarn[117] and Dave Grohl.[118] Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta mentioned his liking for "the very textural side of Siouxsie".[119]

Siouxsie has inspired many female singers. When asked if there was any figure who connected with her when she was just a listener, PJ Harvey replied: "It's hard to beat Siouxsie Sioux, in terms of live performance. She is so exciting to watch, so full of energy and human raw quality".[120] Harvey also selected in her top 10 favourite albums of 1999, the Anima Animus album by Siouxsie's second band the Creatures.[6] Sinéad O'Connor[121] said that when she started, Siouxsie was one of her main influences.[122] Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl wrote in her autobiography that Siouxsie was one of her heroines.[123] Thorn paid homage to Siouxsie in the lyrics of her 2007 song "Hands Up to the Ceiling".[124] Elizabeth Fraser[125] of Cocteau Twins used to have a Siouxsie tattoo on her arm, and mentioned her liking for "Metal Postcard" to the members of Massive Attack in 1998.[126] Sharleen Spiteri of Texas grew up listening to tracks such as "Hong Kong Garden" and was hooked by the Asian vibe present in the song;[127] she stated that Texas' single "In Our Lifetime" was "our tribute to" "Hong Kong Garden".[128] Garbage singer Shirley Manson cited her as an influence: "I learned how to sing listening to The Scream and Kaleidoscope".[129] Manson also declared that Siouxsie embodied everything she wanted to be as a young woman.[130] Manson would later write the foreword to Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Authorised Biography.[131] Beth Ditto,[132] of Gossip cited her as one of their influences for their 2009 album Music for Men.[133] Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters named Siouxsie as a source of inspiration and the Banshees as her favourite band.[134] Siouxsie was also hailed by Romy Madley Croft of the XX,[135] Kim Deal of the Pixies and the Breeders,[136] and also by Josephine Wiggs of the Breeders,[137] and namechecked by Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife.[138] Kate Jackson of the Long Blondes said that Siouxsie was a part of her musical background,[139] thanks to her "sharp lyrics" on Creatures' tracks like "So Unreal".[140] Rachel Goswell mentioned her as a major influence: "From a singing point of view, I was inspired by Siouxsie Sioux, who I just adored. She's amazing. I've never seen anyone else quite like her";[141] her band Slowdive was named on a suggestion of Goswell, inspired by the Banshees' single of the same name.[142] Lush were initially named "the Baby Machines", which the band culled from the lyrics of "Arabian Knights".[143] Courtney Love of Hole wrote Siouxsie in her favourite records' list when she was a teenager in her diary.[144] While talking about the band Savages, Love also stated: "They are amazing. ... It's kind of very Siouxsie Sioux".[145] Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth said: "Initially I was really inspired by [...] Siouxsie, Patti Smith".[146] FKA twigs named her as a main influence: "Every bit of music that I made sounded like a pastiche of Siouxsie [...] but through that I discovered myself".[147] Róisín Murphy named Siouxsie when asked who were her biggest influences.[148]

Other female artists who have stated their admiration for Siouxsie's work include Charli XCX,[149] Hayley Williams of Paramore,[150] Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries,[151] Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields,[152] Ebony Bones,[153] Toni Halliday of Curve,[154] Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill,[155] Chan Marshall a.k.a. Cat Power,[156] Gillian Gilbert of New Order,[157] Alison Goldfrapp,[158] Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne,[159] Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine,[160] Chelsea Wolfe,[161] Brody Dalle of the Distillers,[162] Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls,[163] Joan As Police Woman,[164] Lou Doillon,[165] Emel Mathlouthi,[166] Girlpool,[167] Liz Phair,[168] Billie Ray Martin,[169] An Pierlé,[170] Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches,[171] Meshell Ndegeocello,[172] St. Vincent,[173] Anohni,[174] Jehnny Beth of Savages,[175] Wolf Alice,[176] and Jenny Lee Lindberg of Warpaint.[177] Santigold said: "I keep a Rolodex of the women that vocally inspire me. There aren't that many, but she's definitely one of them. I remember one of the first times I heard "Red Light" it was at a party, and I remember going up to the DJ and being like, "Who's this?". It was that good. I kind of stopped and was like ... wow. There's not a tremendous amount of women who are bold and forward thinking as artists. I feel like her music, at the time especially, was pretty unique in the way that it sort of matched her style. The freedom of experimenting with this dark place that doesn't have a place often in modern music".[90]

Personal life

Siouxsie married band mate Budgie in May 1991. The following year, they moved to the southwest of France.[178]

In an interview with The Sunday Times in August 2007, she announced that she and Budgie had divorced.[179] In an interview with The Independent, she said:

"I've never particularly said I'm hetero or I'm a lesbian. I know there are people who are definitely one way, but not really me. I suppose if I am attracted to men then they usually have more feminine qualities."[180]

Awards and nominations

Award Year Nominee(s) Category Result Ref.
Ivor Novello Awards 2012 Herself The Ivors Inspiration Award Won [181]
MTV Video Music Awards 1989 "Peek-a-Boo" Best Post-Modern Video Nominated [182]
NME Awards 1980 Herself Best Female Singer Won [183]
1981 Won
1982 Won

Discography

For her works with Siouxsie and the Banshees, see Siouxsie and the Banshees discography.

For her works with the Creatures, see the Creatures discography.

Solo album

Year Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[184]		 FRA
[185]
2007 Mantaray 39 132

Solo singles

Year Single Peak positions Album
UK
[186]
2007 "Into a Swan" 59 Mantaray
"Here Comes That Day" 93
2008 "About to Happen" 154
2015 "Love Crime" — single only

Collaborative singles

Year Single Artist Peak positions Album
UK
[187]
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    She is credited for both playing "instruments" and as co-producer on Boomerang (Polydor 841 463-1)
    She is credited for both playing bass / drone / zither and as a co-producer on Anima Animus (Sioux 4CD)
    She is credited as executive producer in the dvd Finale: The Last Mantaray & More Show (Fremantle Media 02058788HP)
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Bibliography

  • Paytress, Mark. Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Authorised Biography. Sanctuary, 2003. ISBN 978-1-86074-375-7
  • Johns, Brian. Entranced : the Siouxsie and the Banshees story. Omnibus Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-7119-1773-6

Further reading

  • Bennett, Samantha (October 2018). Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (33 1/3). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1501321863.
  • Ethaire, Étienne (2008). Diva Siouxsie. Le Camion Blanc (French publisher). ISBN 9782910196592.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Siouxsie Sioux.
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  • SiouxsieHQ - official website
  • Siouxsie Sioux at IMDb

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siouxsie, sioux, american, singer, susie, susan, janet, ballion, born, 1957, known, professionally, english, singer, songwriter, musician, record, producer, lead, singer, rock, band, siouxsie, banshees, 1976, 1996, they, released, studio, albums, several, sing. For the American singer see Susie Suh Susan Janet Ballion born 27 May 1957 known professionally as Siouxsie Sioux is an English singer songwriter musician and record producer 1 She was the lead singer of the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees 1976 1996 They released 11 studio albums and had several UK Top 20 singles including Hong Kong Garden Happy House and Peek a Boo plus a US Billboard Top 25 hit Kiss Them for Me Siouxsie SiouxSiouxsie Sioux performing in 1980Background informationBirth nameSusan Janet BallionBorn 1957 05 27 27 May 1957 age 65 Southwark London EnglandGenresPost punknew wavegothic rockalternative rockexoticaOccupation s Singersongwritermusicianrecord producerInstrument s VocalsguitarYears active1976 presentLabelsPolydorGeffenSioux RecordsW14UniversalDeccaFormerly ofSiouxsie and the BansheesThe CreaturesWebsitesiouxsie wbr com Siouxsie also formed a second group the Creatures 1981 2005 With the Creatures she recorded four studio albums and the hit single Right Now After disbanding the Creatures in the mid 2000s she has continued as a solo artist only using the name Siouxsie and released the album Mantaray to critical acclaim in 2007 AllMusic named Siouxsie as one of the most influential British singers of the rock era 2 Her songs have been covered by Jeff Buckley 3 Tricky 4 and LCD Soundsystem 5 Her records have also been praised by artists such as PJ Harvey 6 and TV on the Radio 7 In 2011 she was awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Q Awards 8 and in 2012 at the Ivor Novello Awards she received the Inspiration Award 9 In December 2022 she announced her return to the stage with a concert at the Latitude Festival in July 2023 10 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life 1957 1976 1 2 Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Creatures 1977 2003 1 3 Solo 2004 present 2 Songwriting 3 Legacy 4 Personal life 5 Awards and nominations 6 Discography 6 1 Solo album 6 2 Solo singles 6 3 Collaborative singles 6 4 DVD 6 5 Collaborations with other artists 6 5 1 In studio 6 5 2 Live 7 References 7 1 Bibliography 8 Further reading 9 External linksBiography EditEarly life 1957 1976 Edit Siouxsie was born Susan Janet Ballion 11 on 27 May 1957 at Guy s Hospital in Southwark England 12 She is ten years younger than her two siblings Her brother and sister were born while the family was in the Belgian Congo 12 Her parents met in that colony and worked there for a few years Her mother Betty was of Scottish and English descent and was a secretary who spoke both French and English 13 Her father was a bacteriologist who milked venom from snakes and came from Wallonia the French speaking part of Belgium In the mid 1950s before Siouxsie s birth the family moved to England The Ballions lived in a suburban district in Chislehurst Kent Siouxsie was an isolated child being unable to invite friends to her house because of her alcoholic unemployed father 14 Despite his issues Siouxsie regarded him as intelligent and well read and sympathised with his inability to fit in with a rigid middle class society 14 During moments of sobriety her father shared with her his love for books Siouxsie was aware that her family was different 15 the Ballions were not involved in the local community and Siouxsie aware that her family s house differed from the neighbours would later state that the suburbs inspired intense hatred 15 At the age of nine she and a friend were sexually assaulted by a stranger The assault was ignored by both her parents and the police 16 and was not spoken of in the family The incident and its later treatment would lead Siouxsie to distrust adults 17 Years later she stated I grew up having no faith in adults as responsible people And being the youngest in the family I was isolated I had no one to confide in So I invented my own world my own reality It was my own way of defending myself protecting myself from the outside world The only way I could deal with how to survive was to get some strong armour 17 Her father died of alcoholism related illness when Siouxsie was 14 years old resulting in a decline in her health Siouxsie lost a great deal of weight and failed to attend school After several misdiagnoses she was operated on and survived a bout of ulcerative colitis 18 During the weeks of recovery in mid 1972 she watched television in the hospital and saw David Bowie on Top of the Pops 17 At 17 she left school During this period she began visiting the local gay discos frequented by her sister s friends 19 She later introduced her own friends to that scene In November 1975 the Sex Pistols performed at the local art college in Chislehurst Siouxsie did not attend but one of her friends told her how they sounded like the Stooges and that singer Johnny Rotten had threatened students attending the gig In February 1976 Siouxsie and her friend Steven Severin went to see the Sex Pistols play in London After chatting with members of the band Siouxsie and Severin decided to follow them regularly 20 In the following months journalist Caroline Coon coined the term Bromley Contingent to describe this group of eccentric teenagers devoted to the Sex Pistols 21 Siouxsie became well known in the London club scene for her glam fetish and bondage inspired attire which later became part of punk fashion 17 She would also heavily influence the later development of gothic fashion with her signature cat eye makeup deep red lipstick spiky dyed black hair and black clothing 17 In early September 1976 the Bromley Contingent followed the Sex Pistols to France where Siouxsie was beaten up for wearing a cupless bra and a black armband with a swastika on it She claimed her intent was to shock the bourgeoisie not to make a political statement 22 She later wrote the song Metal Postcard Mittageisen in memory of the anti Nazi artist John Heartfield 23 Following the DIY ethos and the idea that the people in the audience could be the people on stage Siouxsie and Severin decided to form a band When a support slot at the 100 Club Punk Festival organised by Malcolm McLaren opened up they decided to make an attempt at performing although at that time they did not know how to play any songs On 20 September 1976 the band improvised 20 minutes of music while Siouxsie sang the Lord s Prayer 24 For critic Jon Savage Siouxsie was unlike any female singer before or since commanding yet aloof entirely modern 25 Viv Albertine from the Slits said Siouxsie just appeared fully made fully in control utterly confident It totally blew me away There she was doing something that I dared to dream but she took it and did it and it wiped the rest of the festival for me that was it I can t even remember everything else about it except that one performance 26 One of Siouxsie s first public appearances was with the Sex Pistols on Bill Grundy s television show on Thames Television in December 1976 27 Standing next to the band Siouxsie made fun of the presenter when he asked her how she was doing She responded I ve always wanted to meet you Bill Grundy who claimed he was drunk suggested a meeting after the show which provoked guitarist Steve Jones to respond with a series of expletives never heard before on early evening television 27 This episode created a media furore on the front covers of several tabloids including the Daily Mirror which published the headline Siouxsie s a Punk Shocker The event had a major impact on the Sex Pistols subsequent career and they became a household name overnight 28 Aware of the press surrounding both herself and the Sex Pistols Siouxsie began to distance herself from the scene and stopped seeing Sex Pistols after the 15 December 1976 gig at Notre Dame Hall From then she focused her energy on her own band Siouxsie and the Banshees 29 Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Creatures 1977 2003 Edit Main article Siouxsie and the Banshees Siouxsie Sioux in 1980 In February 1977 Siouxsie began touring in England as Siouxsie and the Banshees 30 One year later their first single Hong Kong Garden reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart 31 With its oriental inflected xylophone motif Melody Maker deemed it a glorious debut All the elements come together with remarkable effect The song is strident and powerful with tantalising oriental guitar riffs plus words and vocals that are the result of anger disdain and isolation No one will be singled out because everyone is part and parcel of the whole It might even be a hit 32 Their debut album The Scream was one of the first post punk records released It received 5 star reviews in Sounds 33 and Record Mirror 34 The latter said that the record points to the future real music for the new age 34 The music was different from the single it was angular dark and jagged The Scream was later hailed by NME as one of the best debut albums of all time along with Patti Smith s Horses 35 Join Hands followed in 1979 with war as the lyrical theme 36 The 1980 album Kaleidoscope marked a change in musical direction with the arrival of John McGeoch considered one of the most innovative and influential guitarists by The Guardian 37 and drummer Budgie the latter of whom would continue to perform and record with Siouxsie until 2004 The hit single Happy House was qualified as great Pop with liquid guitar 38 and other songs like Red Light were layered with electronic sounds Kaleidoscope widened Siouxsie s audience reaching the top 5 in the UK charts Juju followed in 1981 reaching number 7 the singles Spellbound and Arabian Knights were described as pop marvels by The Guardian 39 During recording sessions for Juju Siouxsie and Budgie formed a percussion oriented duo called the Creatures characterized by a stripped down sound focused on vocals and drums their first record the EP Wild Things was a commercial success Main article The Creatures In 1982 the Siouxsie and the Banshees album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse was widely acclaimed by critics 40 Richard Cook of NME depicted it as a feat of imagination scarcely ever recorded 41 The single Slowdive was a violin colored dance beat number 42 They included strings for the first time on several songs However the recording sessions took their toll and McGeoch was forced to quit the band 43 In 1983 Siouxsie went to Hawaii to record the Creatures first album Feast which included the hit single Miss the Girl It was her first incursion into exotica incorporating sounds of waves local Hawaiian choirs and local percussions Later that year Siouxsie and Budgie released Right Now a song from Mel Torme s repertoire that the Creatures re orchestrated with brass arrangements 44 Right Now soon became a top 20 hit single in the UK Then with the Banshees including guitarist Robert Smith of the Cure she covered the Beatles Dear Prudence which reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart 45 Two albums followed with Smith Nocturne recorded live in London in 1983 and 1984 s Hyaena In 1985 the single Cities in Dust was recorded with sequencers it climbed to number 21 in the UK charts Entertainment Weekly noted that it was the first of a handful of Alternative rock radio hits in the U S 46 1986 s Tinderbox and the 1987 covers album Through the Looking Glass both reached the top 15 in the UK 47 In 1988 the single Peek a Boo marked a musical departure from her previous work 48 anticipating hip hop inspired rock with the use of samples The song was praised by NME as oriental marching band hip hop with farting horns and catchy accordion 49 and hailed by Melody Maker as a brightly unexpected mixture of black steel and pop disturbance 50 The Peepshow album received a five star review in Q magazine 51 The ballad The Last Beat of My Heart issued as a single saw her exploring new ground with accordion and strings 52 Siouxsie and Budgie then went to Andalusia in Spain to record the second Creatures album Boomerang The songs took a different direction from previous Creatures works with backing music ranging from flamenco to jazz and blues styles It featured brass on most of the songs The first single was Standing There NME hailed Boomerang as a rich and unsettling landscape of exotica 53 Anton Corbijn visited the group during the recording near Jerez de la Frontera and Siouxsie convinced him to take photographs in color unlike his prior work which was in black and white the photos used for the promotion showed Siouxsie and Budgie in fields surrounded with sunflowers 54 In 1990 she toured for the first time with the Creatures in Europe and North America 55 On 1991 s dance oriented Kiss Them for Me single Siouxsie and the Banshees used South Asian instrumentation which had become popular in the UK club scene with the growth of bhangra 56 57 Indian tabla player Talvin Singh who was later Bjork s percussionist on her 1993 Debut album took part in the session and provided vocals for the bridge With Kiss Them for Me the Banshees scored a hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 peaking at number 23 58 After the release of Superstition which received enthusiastic reviews 59 the group co headlined the first Lollapalooza tour further increasing their American following Siouxsie at the first Lollapalooza in Irvine California 1991 In 1992 film director Tim Burton requested that she write a song for Batman Returns and the Banshees composed the single Face to Face 60 In the mid 1990s Siouxsie started to do one off collaborations with other artists Suede invited her to a benefit concert for the Red Hot Organization With guitarist Bernard Butler she performed a version of Lou Reed s Caroline Says Spin reviewed it as haughty and stately 61 Morrissey ex lead singer of the Smiths recorded a duet with Siouxsie in 1994 They both sang on the single Interlude a track that was initially performed by Timi Yuro a female torch singer of the 1960s Interlude was released under the name of Morrissey and Siouxsie 62 The last Banshees studio album The Rapture was released in 1995 it was written partly in the Toulouse area of France where she had recently moved After the accompanying tour the Banshees announced their split during a press conference called 20 Minutes into 20 Years The Creatures de facto became her only band 63 At the same time she released the song The Lighthouse on French producer Hector Zazou s album Chansons des mers froides which translates to Songs from the Cold Seas with jazz trumpetist Mark Isham Siouxsie and Zazou adapted the poem Flannan Isle by English poet Wilfred Wilson Gibson 64 Her first live performance in three years was in February 1998 when former Velvet Underground member John Cale invited her to a festival called With a Little Help From My Friends at the Paradiso in Amsterdam The concert was shown on Dutch national television and featured an unreleased Creatures composition Murdering Mouth sung as a duet with Cale 65 The collaboration between the two artists worked so well that they decided to tour the US from June until August performing Murdering Mouth and Cale s Gun together as the encores of a Creatures and Cale double bill 66 The following year Siouxsie and Budgie released Anima Animus the first Creatures album since the split of the Banshees It included the singles 2nd Floor and Prettiest Thing The material diverged from their former work with a more urban sound blending art rock and electronica Anima Animus was described by The Times as hypnotic and inventive 67 Also in 1999 Siouxsie collaborated with Marc Almond on the track Threat of Love In 2002 she was rated as one of the 10 best female rock artists by Q 68 That same year Universal released The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees as the first reissue of her back catalogue In 2003 Siouxsie and Budgie released the last Creatures album Hai which was in part recorded in Japan collaborating with taiko player Leonard Eto previously of the Kodo Drummers Peter Wratts wrote in Time Out Her voice is the dominant instrument here snaking and curling around the bouncing drumming backdrop elegiac and inhuman as she chants purrs and whispers her way around the album He termed the record a spine tingling achievement 69 Hai was preceded by the single Godzilla That year Siouxsie was featured on the track Cish Cash by Basement Jaxx from their album Kish Kash which later won Best Electronic Dance Album at the Grammy Awards 70 Solo 2004 present Edit Siouxsie at the Saturday Night Fiber Madrid 2008 2004 was a pivotal year for the singer She toured for the first time as a solo act combining Banshees and Creatures songs A live DVD called Dreamshow was recorded at the last London concert in which she and her musicians were accompanied by a 16 piece orchestra the Millennia Ensemble Released in August 2005 this DVD reached the number 1 position in the UK music DVD charts 71 Her first solo album Mantaray was released in September 2007 Pitchfork wrote She really is pop before finishing the review by declaring It s a success 72 Mojo stated a thirst for sonic adventure radiates from each track 73 Mantaray included three singles Into a Swan Here Comes That Day and About to Happen In 2008 Siouxsie performed vocals for the track Careless Love on The Edge of Love soundtrack by composer Angelo Badalamenti a frequent collaborator with director David Lynch She performed another Badalamenti number Who Will Take My Dreams Away at the annual edition of the World Soundtrack Awards 74 After a year of touring the singer played the last show of her tour in London in September 2008 A live DVD of this performance Finale The Last Mantaray amp More Show was released in 2009 75 In June 2013 after a hiatus of five years Siouxsie played two nights at the Royal Festival Hall in London during Yoko Ono s Meltdown festival She performed 1980 s Kaleidoscope album live in its entirety along with other works from her back catalogue and her performance was praised by the press 76 She also appeared at Ono s Double Fantasy concert to sing the final song Walking on Thin Ice 77 In October 2014 she and fellow Banshee Steven Severin compiled a CD titled It s a Wonderfull Life for the November 2014 issue of Mojo magazine in which she appeared on the cover 78 The disc included 15 tracks that inspired the Banshees 79 Love Crime her first song in eight years 80 was featured in the finale of the TV series Hannibal broadcast in August 2015 Series creator Bryan Fuller called it epic 81 On 15 December 2022 it was announced that Siouxsie will perform at the Latitude Festival 2023 in Suffolk she will be the headliner of the BBC Sounds Stage on Sunday 23 July 2023 It will be her first live performance in a decade 10 Mantaray was remastered at Abbey Road Studios for its 15 year anniversary it will be reissued with a different artwork on CD in May 2023 via the official website 82 Songwriting EditJournalist Paul Morley noted that Siouxsie s songs topics dealt with mental illness medical terrors surreal diseases depraved urges sinister intensity unearthly energy sexual abuse childhood disturbances sordid mysteries unbearable nervous anxiety fairytale fears urban discontent and the bleak dignity of solitude Many of her songs are about damage her childhood marked her profoundly She said Damaged lives damaged souls damaged relationships Most of the damage I sing about first happened when I was younger and I am still feeding off it and working it out Early experiences are what create a lifetime of damage The songs you write can help you fix the damage And just the environment you are in is so important and can waste potential and corrupt something For me there was neglect An alcoholic father who is not there because the most important thing for him is just to get alcohol and your mother is trying to compensate for the non existent second parent so she s never there because she s working all the time and when she is around she s stressed out Being isolated and not having anyone to connect with there was just no physical touching back then 83 Legacy EditHer voice is in its own right the common thread through all of it There is no one who sings like that And I think there are a lot of people who were influenced by it but even if you try and sing like her you can t do that You can t throw your voice like that You can t throw harmony like that That is a very distinct voice Her technique is a thread between the really far out stuff and opera and pop music It s distinct It s all her own Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio 84 Siouxsie has been praised by artists of many genres She had a strong impact on two trip hop acts Tricky covered 1983 s proto trip hop Tattoo 85 to open his second album Nearly God 86 and Massive Attack sampled Metal Postcard Mittageisen on their song Superpredators Metal Postcard for the soundtrack to the film The Jackal 87 Other acts have covered Siouxsie s songs Jeff Buckley performed Killing Time several times 88 he first recorded it during a radio session for WFMU in 1992 3 LCD Soundsystem recorded a cover of Slowdive for the B side of Disco Infiltrator their version was also released on Introns 89 Santigold based her track My Superman on the music of Red Light 90 In 2003 the Beta Band sampled Painted Bird and changed the title to Liquid Bird on their Heroes to Zeros album 91 Red Hot Chili Peppers performed Christine at the V2001 festival and introduced it to their British audience as your national anthem 92 Christine was also revisited by Simple Minds 93 Indie folk group DeVotchKa covered The Last Beat of My Heart at the suggestion of Arcade Fire singer Win Butler in 2007 94 The Weeknd sampled Happy House on the title track of his first mixtape House of Balloons in 2011 95 Morrissey said that Siouxsie and the Banshees were excellent They were one of the great groups of the late 70s early 80s 96 In 1994 discussing modern bands he also stated None of them are as good as Siouxsie and the Banshees at full pelt That s not dusty nostalgia that s fact 97 Another member of the Smiths Johnny Marr said Really my generation was all about a guy called John McGeoch from Siouxsie and the Banshees He was a great player 98 Marr hailed McGeoch for his work on Siouxsie s single Spellbound Marr qualified it as clever with really good picky thing going on which is very un rock n roll 99 Radiohead also cited McGeoch era Siouxsie records when mentioning the recording of There There 100 Their singer Thom Yorke said The band that really changed my life was R E M and Siouxsie and the Banshees My favourite show I ever saw then was Siouxsie and she was absolutely amazing She s totally in command of the whole audience 101 Yorke added that she made an especially big impression in concert she was really sexy but absolutely terrifying 102 Sonic Youth singer and guitarist Thurston Moore named Hong Kong Garden as one of his 25 all time favourite songs 103 Siouxsie has influenced other bands ranging from contemporaries Joy Division 104 U2 105 and the Cure 106 to later acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain 107 Jane s Addiction 108 and TV on the Radio 109 Joy Division co founder Peter Hook said that The Scream inspired them for the really unusual way of playing of the guitarist and the drummer and cited the Banshees as one of our big influences 104 U2 frontman Bono named her as an influence in the band s 2006 autobiography U2 by U2 He was inspired by her way of singing 105 I still think that I sing like Siouxsie from The Banshees on the first two U2 albums 110 With his band he selected Christine for a compilation made for Mojo s readers 111 U2 guitarist the Edge also was the presenter of an award given to Siouxsie at a Mojo ceremony in 2005 112 The Cure s Robert Smith related what the Join Hands tour brought him musically When we supported The Banshees in 1979 we suddenly became aware of how limited our palette was I felt constrained so when the opportunity arose to play with them I jumped at it and juggled the two bands for a while It taught me a lot they had fantastic rhythm sections and this made me think Why can t I have this 113 For Smith s record The Head on the Door in 1985 he stated It reminds me of the Kaleidoscope album the idea of having lots of different sounding things different colours 114 Dave Navarro of Jane s Addiction once made a parallel between his band and the Banshees There are so many similar threads melody use of sound attitude sex appeal I always saw Jane s Addiction as the masculine Siouxsie and the Banshees 108 Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio hailed the poppiest Siouxsie songs citing their arrangements I ve always tried to make a song that begins like Kiss Them for Me I think songs like I Was a Lover or Wash the Day Away came from that element of surprise mode where all of a sudden this giant drum comes in and you re like what the fuck That record was the first one where I was like okay even my friends re going to fall for this I feel like that transition into that record was a relief for me Really beautiful music was always considered too weird by the normal kids and that was the first example where I thought we ve got them they re hooked I watched people dance to that song people who had never heard of any of the music that I listened to they heard that music in a club and went crazy 109 Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode said about her She always sounds exciting She sings with a lot of sex that s what I like 115 Mark Lanegan stated that he would like to collaborate with her In my wildest dreams I would love to sing with Siouxsie 116 She is also revered by Damon Albarn 117 and Dave Grohl 118 Omar Rodriguez Lopez of the Mars Volta mentioned his liking for the very textural side of Siouxsie 119 Siouxsie has inspired many female singers When asked if there was any figure who connected with her when she was just a listener PJ Harvey replied It s hard to beat Siouxsie Sioux in terms of live performance She is so exciting to watch so full of energy and human raw quality 120 Harvey also selected in her top 10 favourite albums of 1999 the Anima Animus album by Siouxsie s second band the Creatures 6 Sinead O Connor 121 said that when she started Siouxsie was one of her main influences 122 Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl wrote in her autobiography that Siouxsie was one of her heroines 123 Thorn paid homage to Siouxsie in the lyrics of her 2007 song Hands Up to the Ceiling 124 Elizabeth Fraser 125 of Cocteau Twins used to have a Siouxsie tattoo on her arm and mentioned her liking for Metal Postcard to the members of Massive Attack in 1998 126 Sharleen Spiteri of Texas grew up listening to tracks such as Hong Kong Garden and was hooked by the Asian vibe present in the song 127 she stated that Texas single In Our Lifetime was our tribute to Hong Kong Garden 128 Garbage singer Shirley Manson cited her as an influence I learned how to sing listening to The Scream and Kaleidoscope 129 Manson also declared that Siouxsie embodied everything she wanted to be as a young woman 130 Manson would later write the foreword to Siouxsie amp The Banshees The Authorised Biography 131 Beth Ditto 132 of Gossip cited her as one of their influences for their 2009 album Music for Men 133 Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters named Siouxsie as a source of inspiration and the Banshees as her favourite band 134 Siouxsie was also hailed by Romy Madley Croft of the XX 135 Kim Deal of the Pixies and the Breeders 136 and also by Josephine Wiggs of the Breeders 137 and namechecked by Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife 138 Kate Jackson of the Long Blondes said that Siouxsie was a part of her musical background 139 thanks to her sharp lyrics on Creatures tracks like So Unreal 140 Rachel Goswell mentioned her as a major influence From a singing point of view I was inspired by Siouxsie Sioux who I just adored She s amazing I ve never seen anyone else quite like her 141 her band Slowdive was named on a suggestion of Goswell inspired by the Banshees single of the same name 142 Lush were initially named the Baby Machines which the band culled from the lyrics of Arabian Knights 143 Courtney Love of Hole wrote Siouxsie in her favourite records list when she was a teenager in her diary 144 While talking about the band Savages Love also stated They are amazing It s kind of very Siouxsie Sioux 145 Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth said Initially I was really inspired by Siouxsie Patti Smith 146 FKA twigs named her as a main influence Every bit of music that I made sounded like a pastiche of Siouxsie but through that I discovered myself 147 Roisin Murphy named Siouxsie when asked who were her biggest influences 148 Other female artists who have stated their admiration for Siouxsie s work include Charli XCX 149 Hayley Williams of Paramore 150 Dolores O Riordan of the Cranberries 151 Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields 152 Ebony Bones 153 Toni Halliday of Curve 154 Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill 155 Chan Marshall a k a Cat Power 156 Gillian Gilbert of New Order 157 Alison Goldfrapp 158 Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne 159 Florence Welch of Florence the Machine 160 Chelsea Wolfe 161 Brody Dalle of the Distillers 162 Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls 163 Joan As Police Woman 164 Lou Doillon 165 Emel Mathlouthi 166 Girlpool 167 Liz Phair 168 Billie Ray Martin 169 An Pierle 170 Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches 171 Meshell Ndegeocello 172 St Vincent 173 Anohni 174 Jehnny Beth of Savages 175 Wolf Alice 176 and Jenny Lee Lindberg of Warpaint 177 Santigold said I keep a Rolodex of the women that vocally inspire me There aren t that many but she s definitely one of them I remember one of the first times I heard Red Light it was at a party and I remember going up to the DJ and being like Who s this It was that good I kind of stopped and was like wow There s not a tremendous amount of women who are bold and forward thinking as artists I feel like her music at the time especially was pretty unique in the way that it sort of matched her style The freedom of experimenting with this dark place that doesn t have a place often in modern music 90 Personal life EditSiouxsie married band mate Budgie in May 1991 The following year they moved to the southwest of France 178 In an interview with The Sunday Times in August 2007 she announced that she and Budgie had divorced 179 In an interview with The Independent she said I ve never particularly said I m hetero or I m a lesbian I know there are people who are definitely one way but not really me I suppose if I am attracted to men then they usually have more feminine qualities 180 Awards and nominations EditAward Year Nominee s Category Result Ref Ivor Novello Awards 2012 Herself The Ivors Inspiration Award Won 181 MTV Video Music Awards 1989 Peek a Boo Best Post Modern Video Nominated 182 NME Awards 1980 Herself Best Female Singer Won 183 1981 Won1982 WonDiscography EditFor her works with Siouxsie and the Banshees see Siouxsie and the Banshees discography For her works with the Creatures see the Creatures discography Solo album Edit Year Album details Peak chart positionsUK 184 FRA 185 2007 Mantaray Release date 10 September 2007 Label Universal Records 39 132Solo singles Edit Year Single Peak positions AlbumUK 186 2007 Into a Swan 59 Mantaray Here Comes That Day 932008 About to Happen 1542015 Love Crime single onlyCollaborative singles Edit Year Single Artist Peak positions AlbumUK 187 1994 Interlude Morrissey amp Siouxsie 25 Non album songDVD Edit 2005 Dreamshow No 1 UK 2009 Finale The Last Mantaray amp More Show No 4 UKCollaborations with other artists Edit In studio Edit Morrissey Interlude single recorded in duet 1994 Hector Zazou The Lighthouse song recorded as guest on the Chansons des mers froides Songs from the Cold Seas album 1995 Marc Almond Threat of Love song recorded in duet for the Open All Night album 1999 Basement Jaxx Cish Cash song recorded as guest on the Kish Kash album 2003 Angelo Badalamenti Careless Love song recorded as guest for The Edge of Love film soundtrack 2008 Live Edit Suede Caroline Says written by Lou Reed performed on 30 July 1993 at a Red Hot amp AIDS Benefit concert 188 John Cale Murdering Mouth a Siouxsie 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