1984: Siouxsie And The Banshees "The Thorn EP"

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• "The Thorn EP" from 1984 - a splendid 4-tracker consisting of old Banshee favourites re-recorded with a full orchestra and dripping with enough drama, tension and pathos to lift the roof clean off the Royal Albert Hall......

• This was an interesting and unique project for The Banshees: go into a studio and fully re-make 4 songs that they'd already put out on record in their early punk days - but this time with a full orchestra. The new versions change the character of the songs radically; from minimal spiky punk into powerful, majestic goth. Drummer Budgie (who hadn't been on 3 of the original versions), puts his distinctively brilliant stamp on these new versions.
  

Track-List:

1. Overground
2. Voices
3. Placebo Effect
4. Red Over White

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1978: Siouxsie And The Banshees "Hong Kong Garden"

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• The 18th of August, 1978, Siouxsie and The Banshees relased their debut 45'.

• I had bought "Hong Kong Garden" on its release, an oriental post-punk assault of the dance floor. One of the pogo-ing staples of the time. My girlfriend way back then thought she was Siouxsie Sioux (unfortunately not as attractive, and I was no Budgie).
  

• Still holds a hypnotic sway over me. A brillant debut from a band, who was never less than interesting and often a whole lot more than that! Though they were lumped in with the punk movement they were from the beginning so much more than that. As this single amply proves.

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