Siouxsie & The Creatures & The Banshees de gira!!

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Han anunciado en la web que haran una gira tocando material tanto de los Banshees como de Creatures, tanto exitos como rarezas!!  

Ya han colgado la fechas de USA y en poco tiempo las de Europa....a ver si hay suerte  


   

An Evening with...Siouxsie
03.03.04

Coming to a US City near you in May & June, and you’re all invited..

We’re presenting these shows as “an evening with Siouxsie” as they’ll be neither solely Creatures nor Banshees but an all encompassing two hour show which will comprise classics & rarities picked from the whole of the Siouxsie & the Banshees & the Creatures catalogues.

We’re also thrilled to announce that ex-Kodo drummer Leonard Eto will be joining us as our special guest for the debut performance of songs from Hái!

The venues are mostly of an intimate size, (more sensorial), there’ll be no support so get there early as this will be one of those rare chances to see & hear la Sioux - up close!

see you soon,
xxBudgiexx

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q topic mas abultado

no me pille aun el Hai!, no tuvo mala critica...
aww, a Siouxsie no le mola España.

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Que no le mola? pero si Siouxsie chapurrea el español, y en una cara b canta un poco y todo...ah y con Creatures vinieron a grabar a una granja de Andalucia creo.


Y el Hai no me gusta, se han pasado con la percusion

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hace un par d dias murio John Mcgeoch.

John habia sido guitarrista en Siouxsie and the Banshees en los discos "Kaleidoscope", "Juju" y "A Kiss in the Dream House".

Tambien formo parte de varios grupos en los 80. Estuvo como guitarrista en el fabuloso disco homonimo de Visage, como musico de estudio en el 85 con el "Should The World Fail To Fall" de Peter Murphy... tb estuvo metido en P.IL, Ultravox, los Generation X de Billy Idol... Genio y figura;  lagrimas para el Banshee.

 http://www.stevenseverin.com/johnmcgeoch.htm

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Vaya...no tenia ni idea, participo en 3 de los mejores discos....de que murio x cierto?
Es curioso que Steve diga que fue su Banshee favorito....
Tampoco tenia ni idea que fue musico de estudio de Peter Murphy

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pues dicen q d muerte natural, supongo q saldra en el rdl del mes q viene...

en thecreatures.com tb hay una despedida para el:

Some words for John..
11.03.04

Prior to leaving for London last Thursday, Siouxsie & I had been talking about inviting John McGeoch to guest with us on stage. We hadn’t spoken in ages but we had a mutual acquaintance whom I was going to get in touch with. I’d even had a daydream about us playing a version of ‘The Light Pours Out Of Me’ or ‘Shot By Both Sides’, actually just thinking of those guitar riffs brings a lump to my throat. It wasn’t until we arrived back home last night that we knew for sure that it would indeed remain a dream. John was gone.
Without any disrespect to all the other guitarists we have worked with, none had the relaxed mastery and such a depth of expression as John McGeoch. No amount of scrutiny of filmed ’Live’ performance tapes could reveal the subtle economy of technique that made an apparently complex phrase look so deceptively simple. Exasperated guitarists would often comment, “But his hands don’t even move!”
His signature style was what made the intros to songs like ‘Spellbound’ and ‘Happy House’ so unique, the guitar break in ‘Israel’ swing & the feedback in ‘Night Shift’ scream.
I remember in pre-show soundchecks John would move around the stage locating the ‘harmonic sweet spots’ which he would employ like a magician, literally conjuring sounds out of thin air. I also remember him entertaining the road crew we shared with Motorhead with a manic rendition of ‘The Ace of Spades’ or a note & tone perfect version of Hendrix’s ‘Little Wing’.
On a recent trawl of the web looking for clues, I came across an interview with the ‘Chilli Pepper’s’ John Frusciante, who cited John as one of the guitarists he’d studied religiously, I think ‘The Edge’ & many other guitarists were listening too.
John was also an entertainer and a charming gentleman, his smile was sincere and his voice which I can still hear, had a gentle Scottish lilt which would make the adjective ‘apparent’, sound like the noun for a mother or father.
Sometimes the mild mannered Scot from Greenock could get a bit Glaswegian. When playing as ‘Janet & the Icebergs’ in 1980, John was about to show some baiting idiot in the crowd a bit of Scottish etiquette but not before first retiring stage left to change out of his soft shoes. Much to our relief the coward made a hasty exit while John put his boots on. Of course we teased him endlessly for being on stage in his ‘Slippers’ in the first place!
It was nice to see John in a recent documentary, remember his time with the band so fondly but also heartbreaking to hear him recount the events leading up to his departure so acutely. We can all be grateful that he agreed to add his part to the band’s recent biography with the intelligence and dignity that were always his most outstanding characteristics.
I’m honoured to have shared some special moments with John McGeoch and I will always love & remember him as a warm & caring friend.
Budgie, March 10th., 2004

..to paraphrase Siouxsie from 2003’s biography;

“My abiding memories of John are good ones. He was always fair and would discuss things with me. He was easily, without a shadow of a doubt, the most creative guitarist we ever had.”

Our thoughts & sympathy to his family.

John McGeoch
Born 28.5.55. Greenock, Scotland - Rest In Peace 5.3.04

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la gira americana ha sido relegada a Septimebre. Las fechas estan en http://www.thecreatures.com y prometen q los shows duraran 2 horas.

Les acompañara el bateria Leonard Eto.

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De acuerdo a una publicacion en el website de Steven Severin (www.stevenseverin.com), miembro fundador de Siouxsie and the Banshees, el antiguo guitarrista de Banshees y PiL, John McGeoch, fallecio durmiendo el pasado Jueves, 5 de Marzo. Nacido en 1955 en Greenock (Escocia), McGeoch fue guitarrista de Magazine antes de unirse a Siouxsie and the Banshees. El colaboro tambien en sesiones de trabajo de bandas como Generation X, Ken Lockie, Richard Jobson y Visage. Luego de algunos problemas el dejo The Banshees en Noviembre de 1982 para formar The Armoury Show (1984-86), con ex-miembros de The Skids, antes de empezar a tocar con PiL. McGeoch estuvo en esta banda desde 1986 hasta los ultimos shows de PiL en 1992, colaborando en los discos "Happy?", "9" y "That What is Not". Luego de PiL, McGeoch continuo haciendo musica. En 1994 se le vio trabajando junto al vocalista Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17) y el guitarrista Keith Lowndes (ABC). Hubieron planes de forma una nueva banda llamada Pacific, junto a John Keeble (Spandau Ballet) y Clive Farrington (When in Rome), pero nada pudo concretarse. John McGeoch murio a la edad de 49 años.

He encontrado esto hace un rato, parece q murio durmiendo...

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Creo que la gira la aplazan xq operaron a Siouxsie y despues se le infecto o algo asi....el caso es que siguen sin anunciar las fechas europeas

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En la rockdelux de este mes le dedican una columna a la memoria d John McGeoch, llamandolo "la guitarra del post-punk" (q bonito) y con datos curiosos como q John, una vez retirado del mundo d la musica en el 95 trabajaba como enfermero.