🎧 Punk Meets the Dancefloor: How "Spellbound" Took Siouxsie An The Banshees into Clubland

The Twelve Inch 171 : Spellbound (Siouxsie & The Banshees)

In the late '90s, I was working at Universal Music Belgium. One of the perks was getting concert tickets, but since I handled catalogue and compilations ("the dead artists" as we joked), I rarely worked on shows. That meant I had time to go see whoever I wanted.

I’d always been a fan of Siouxsie and the Banshees. From the first time I heard "Hong Kong Garden," I was hooked. By the end of the '90s, the Banshees were more or less done, with their last album, The Rapture, released in 1995. But Siouxsie and Budgie had a side project, The Creatures. They’d just released Anima Animus and were touring.