[kj] Spellbound

Alexander Smith vassifer at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 17 10:19:59 EDT 2004


I caught the same tour here in NYC at the BB King Blues Bar (not the 
right venue for Siouxsie, obviously). She looked great and was in fine 
voice -- but there was so much Creatures stuff and so little Banshees 
that I could barely be bothered to pay attention.

Alex in NYC



On Sunday, October 17, 2004, at 07:49 AM, peter.west410 wrote:

> I went to see Siouxsie last night at the Royal Festival Hall,A venue 
> that
> usually plays host to Swan lake and things.
>      There were about twenty other musicians on stage,Budgie on drums,A
> Japanese guy with a huge drum,A guitarist with loads of buttons on the
> floor,Two backing singers,Three trumpeters,Three trumpeters with a 
> U-Bend
> what goes up and down,Five violinists and three big violins, the ones 
> with a
> spike in the bottom which sit on the ground and are about four foot 
> high,and
> a harp.
>       Siouxsie was dressed in a silk kimono styled dress which was very
> revealing,(I don't know about her apples ,But she's got a fine pair.)
>      As soon as she stared playing alot of the audience left their 
> seats and
> went to the front of the stage,The security guy did try to get them to 
> go
> back to their seats ,But gave up,Encouraging more people to join them.
>        Siouxsie played for about three hours,By the time she got round 
> to
> playing Peek-a -boo the fans at the front were going crazy.
>        And when they played Happy House I was half expecting Graeme 
> Roland
> to heckle a few verses of "The house that pain built".
>       The sound was nt as classical as id thought it ll be,pretty much 
> kept
> to the original sound of the songs,Most of the audience were die-hard
> fans,Leather ,PVC,lace, Fish-nets and thigh-high leather 
> boots.........The
> old usher bloke seemed to really enjoy the evening aswell.
>
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