en op 1 juni (a.s. maandag dus) komt uit in GB een 3 CD en 1 DVD (4 disc) package met alle BBC sessions en een DVD met alle optredens van Siouxsie & The Banshees!! 84 tracks in totaal, met alle live optredens tussen 1977 en 2001 ...
engels talig artikel:
"SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES at the BBC" is a stunning 84-track, all digitally-remastered, 4 disc hard-back book set of exclusive BBC sessions, live concert tracks and TV performances recorded between 1977 – 2001 split across 3CDs and a DVD and is expected to hit shops in the UK on Monday 1st June. All tracks hand picked by the band and featuring Siouxsie's introduction to the liner notes. Discs 1 and 2 feature key session tracks from 1977 – 1987 and a concert recording from the Apollo Theatre in Oxford in 1985. Includes the complete John Peel sessions and features 21 unreleased versions. Disc 3 contains highlights from their BBC concert recordings at the Apollo Theatre in Oxford and the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1988, where the band performed a storming set 3 nights in a row to a sold out crowd. Highlights include a breathtaking Last Beat of My Heart, Christine, and a rip roaring crowd pleasing end of show version of Hong Kong Garden. Disc 4 is the real gem; a 29 track DVD of the band's BBC TV performances. Features the complete Old Grey Whistle Test broadcasts from 1978, 1982 and 1985, the Something Else performances from 1979 and 1980, the Rock Goes to College broadcast from 1981 and the band's complete Top of the Pops performances. This is a fantastic visual documentary of the band, starting with the OGWT performance of tracks from their debut album in 1978; Metal Postcard and Jigsaw Feeling, through the dark years of Juju, performed for the Rock Goes to College show and culminating with the beautifully pure pop bliss of Kiss Them For Me from Superstition. The set also includes a fantastic 30 page booklet with extensive sleeve notes by Paul Morley, which features interviews with all the band members and a unique and insightful introduction written by Siouxsie.
Muziek Info Mei 2009 @ AAPA