Siouxsie Sioux: Sans Banshees, Siouxsie Returns
Ken Scrudato, SOMA, October 2007
IT'S HARD TO recall a time when the scent of Armageddon has hung so heavy in the international air as it has during this, the nose-end of the 21st Century. During the century previous, a few sentient seers – Orwell, Gramsci, Ballard – had, in fact, offered fair warning. But none did so with anything quite like the luridly affective glamour of the puissant post-punk prophetess Siouxsie Sioux.
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