In 1988, when Billboard launched its Modern Rock Tracks chart, the journal’s first itemizing of other rock, Siouxsie And The Banshees’ “Peek-A-Boo” was sitting at #1. Siouxsie Sioux and her band dominated that chart in its first few years, and so they have been additionally just about co-headliners with Jane’s Addiction on the primary Lollapalooza tour. By that point, Siouxsie Sioux was a beloved veteran — somebody who’d been a pressure within the preliminary explosions of punk, post-punk, goth, and new wave. She’s obtained bangers for days, however no person’s gotten to listen to her sing them, since she hasn’t performed a stay present in a decade. Next summer season, that’ll change.
Siouxsie And The Banshees broke up in 2003, and Siouxsie Sioux went solo, although she’s largely been semi-retired. Siouxsie hasn’t launched any music since 2015, when her track “Love Crime” appeared within the collection finale of Hannibal. And that was her first track in eight years. By that very same token, Siouxsie hasn’t performed a stay present since she did a few units at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival in 2013. Those units have been particular events, too; they have been her first reveals in six years.
Today, the organizers of the UK’s Latitude Festival introduced that Siouxsie Sioux will headline their BBC Sounds Stage on the final night time of their 2023 competition. The competition goes down 7/20-23 at Henham Park in Suffolk. Latitude has already introduced that the once-again-active Pulp can even headline the competition, as nicely Paolo Nutini and George Ezra. Other acts on the invoice embody the Kooks, Metronomy, the Lightning Seeds, Black Midi, Young Fathers, and the Beths, with extra acts to be introduced. God solely is aware of if we’ll get one other likelihood to listen to Siouxsie Sioux sing stay.