Siouxsie & the Banshees
Hometown:Bromley
Career:1976 - 2002
Members:Sid Vicious, Robert Smith, Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Martin McCarrick, John McGeoch, Peter Clarke, Jon Klein, Marco Pirroni, Kenny Morris, Knox Chandler, John Valentine Carruthers, Peter Fenton, John McKay Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin. Initially associated with the English punk rock scene, the band rapidly evolved to create "a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation". The Times cited Siouxsie and the Banshees as "one of the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era." The group also became... inspirational in the creation and development of the gothic rock genre, and their music also combined elements of pop and avant-garde. The Banshees disbanded in 1996, with Siouxsie and drummer Budgie continuing to record music as The Creatures, a second band they had formed in the early 1980s. In 2004, Siouxsie began a solo career. Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin met at a Roxy Music concert in September 1975, at a time when glam rock had faded and there was nothing new coming through with which they could identify. From February 1976, Sioux, Severin, and some friends began to follow an unsigned band, the Sex Pistols.
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