Siouxsie

[allynh@calder.berkeley.edu (Allyn Hardyck)]

Siouxsie and the Banshees / Love and Rockets @
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, June 1

We were the only people in the audience without mousse, dye or black clothes.
Jeezus.  First Stooges album on PA, again the "were these people even alive
then?" phenom.  Love and Rockets very disappointing, I'm sorry to say to
those of you who I know like them.  No Bauhaus or Tones on Tail songs, and
their new stuff just doesn't cut it.  Oh yeah, Daniel Ash looks real cool
in purple velvet robe with fur collar, and he got off some pretty neat
distortion effects, but in all not what their history shows they could be.

Siouxsie's the total center of attention, Severin and Carruthers off the
spotlight in their paisley tunics.  Started off with "Cities in Dust",
she wearing a red top with hearts on it, lot of stringy things adorning
imperiously.  Black leather hip boots.  Most of the stuff was from "Kiss 
in the Dreamhouse", "Hyaena" and I guess "Tinderbox" (I haven't got it yet).
"Christine", "Happy House", "Melt!", "Bring Me The Head of the Preacher Man,"
"Night Shift".  "Israel" and "Spellbound" as encores.  No "Hello San Francisco"
or the like, the occasional fluttering "AWK AWK AWK!" from Siouxsie was all.
Great dance moves.  Neat ultraviolet lighting fx and back lighting over by
Budgie.  One of our number luded out and had to be taken off the floor for
a rest.

"The head doctor is a Very Distinguished Arabian Jack-Off Specialist Who
Has Been in the Sun Too Long.  No Humor."