Siouxsie Sioux Royal Festival Hall London 15th June 2013 (With Viv Albertine)

 

Here's an upload of a significant event in Siouxsie's long career and it seems apposite to post it today on the lady's 69th birthday. For some time now a cultural festival has been hosted the South Bank Centre in London. Each year a prominent figure from the arts world is invited to curate the festival comprising a programme of events and performers having a particular resonance with the host. In 2013 the task fell to Yoko Ono, who invited Siouxsie to play at the event.

On the night in June, the former Banshee shared the stage with another giant of the UK punk scene of '76/'77, Viv Albertine, formerly of The Slits. Siouxsie and Viv are among a handful of female musicians that turned a staid music business on its head in the mid to late seventies and in doing so changed the perception of women in popular music for ever.

FLAC (Siouxsie and Viv Albertine): https://we.tl/t-nN0ibFbpMFfPgADi

Artwork (Siouxsie): https://we.tl/t-tGV7HxHAR5SVM25S

Artwork (Viv Albertine): https://we.tl/t-qmpH1JSA3JSgS3ny

Thanks to the original poster (Phil). A link to his blog appears in the download info file, but it would appear to have been doemant for some years now.

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys - Viv Albertine

I never really knew a great deal about The Slits other than they were a band equivalent of a hand grenade that exploded in the first wave of punk and that they were a band that people were genuinely scared of!. I must be one of the few people with an interest in the '77 punk scene who does not own a copy of 'Cut'. But in terms of guitarist Viv Albertine's book that doesn't matter, What 'Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys' offers is a very open and candid view into the inner circle of the London punk scene. Key personalities within punk are seen from a perspective that is very different from their stage personas (especially Mick Jones and Sid Vicious). The ever present threat of violence faced by 'punks' on the streets is vividly described as are the internal pressures of being in a band such as The Slits.

The Slits for the first time played music in an all female band that did not attempt to copy how men played in a band and for that any woman playing in a band is indebted to this band.

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys