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< BACK TO Radar Reviews Siouxsie Sioux - Live in NYC
Siouxsie Sioux kicked off her debut solo U.S. tour this weekend with two sold out nights at Irving Plaza (you can just die if you think I'm ever going to call it the Fillmore) in Manhattan. Peppering the night with songs off her fantastic new album Mantaray, as well as a few classic Banshee battlecries like "Dear Prudence" and the still new-sounding 30-year-old warhorse "Hong Kong Garden," the eminence gris of art-punk was in fine vocal form. Over the course of the night, she tore up the stage up with the physicality of a woman half her age while wearing an Emma Peel-meets-Wonder Woman spacey silver catsuit.
Highlights included a punked-out version of "Cish Cash" (her recent collaboration with Basement Jaxx), the wistful new ballad "Heaven & Alchemy," and a raucous, Zeppelin-esque take on her recent single "Into a Swan" (complete with wild avian choreography). Simply, there isn't anyone on the current musical landscape like Siouxsie—an artist who combines the dark glamour of Jim Morrison and raw energy of Iggy Pop together with her own uncompromising feminine wiles. For better than a quarter-century she's kicked ass, and has never been anyone's bimbo, victim, or whore. Why she isn't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is beyond us, though she'd likely tell them to piss off if they called. Or should that be when they call? PREVIOUSLY 
A sober yoko was there and, cranky at not being able to have a pre-show beer, found herself transfixed and her mood completely transformed by the power of Siouxsie's performance. She and her band rocked Irving Plaza. Totally fun. Posted by: yoko on February 12, 2008 5:09 PM Y'all must have been there the night after I was (Friday, opening night). Siouxsie looked fab, but the sound was so very muddy that it was hard to hear anything but the upper and lower registers of her voice. Those were frequently off-key, as she likely couldn't hear things, either. The blame's certainly not on her; she was giving it her all. Seemed like the sound guy was asleep at the board. Posted by: kittenwithawhippet on February 19, 2008 3:08 PM Advertisement |
 
  
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