Tag: Steven Severin

Siouxsie and the Banshees announce special marble-vinyl release for Record Store Day

Siouxsie and the Banshees announce special marble-vinyl release for Record Store Day

Siouxsie and the Banshees’ fifth studio album, 1982’s A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, will receive a new vinyl pressing for Record Store Day in the U.K.

Andy Anderson, former drummer for The Cure and The Glove, 1951-2019

Andy Anderson, former drummer for The Cure and The Glove, 1951-2019

Drummer Andy Anderson, who played in The Glove with Robert Smith and the Banshees’ Steven Severin then joined The Cure and played on that band’s 1984 album The Top, died Tuesday, just nine days after informing fans that he had a terminal Stage-4 cancer diagnosis.

Andy Anderson, former drummer for The Cure, reveals he has terminal cancer

Andy Anderson, former drummer for The Cure, reveals he has terminal cancer

Drummer Andy Anderson, who joined The Cure after Lol Tolhurst moved to keyboards and played on the band’s 1984 album The Top, revealed on Facebook this week that he has Stage 4 cancer, a terminal diagnosis that there is “no way of returning back from.” Read his full statement here.

Banshees’ Steven Severin releases new ambient album, gives away 23-minute track

Banshees’ Steven Severin releases new ambient album, gives away 23-minute track

A boon for fans of Steven Severin: The former Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist has just released a new dark ambient album titled The Vril Harmonies and is now offering the 23-minute “23 Wounds of Julius Caesar” as a free download for 23 hours on the Ides of March. Three more albums are on the way, too.

Siouxsie and the Banshees to reissue ‘Join Hands’ on vinyl with original artwork, tracklist

Siouxsie and the Banshees to reissue ‘Join Hands’ on vinyl with original artwork, tracklist

Siouxsie and the Banshees will reissue their second album — Join Hands, originally released in 1979 — on 180-gram vinyl for Record Store Day in the U.K., a limited-edition pressing featuring the original rejected sleeve and with the song “Infantry” restored to its “rightful place as the album closer,” according to the band.

Contest: Win a pair of The Glove T-shirts featuring Robert Smith, Steven Severin

Contest: Win a pair of The Glove T-shirts featuring Robert Smith, Steven Severin

It’s no doubt one of the more standout one-offs of modern rock: The Glove’s Blue Sunshine, the 1983 album by The Cure’s Robert Smith and Seven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees. To celebrate that LP, we’ve got a pair of T-shirts to give away to four lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.

Siouxsie and the Banshees to release new ‘Spellbound’ 18-track best-of in January

Siouxsie and the Banshees to release new ‘Spellbound’ 18-track best-of in January

Siouxsie and the Banshees will follow this fall’s final batch of remasters with a new introductory best-of set called Spellbound: The Collection next month, which comes as the Banshess’ take advantage of a renewed relationship with Universal Music.

Siouxsie and the Banshees re-pressing ‘Peepshow’ reissue over ‘minor mastering error’

Siouxsie and the Banshees re-pressing ‘Peepshow’ reissue over ‘minor mastering error’

The just-released reissue of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ 1988 album Peepshow is being repressed following the discovery of a “minor mastering error” at the end of “Rawhead and Bloody Bones,” the band’s bassist, Steven Severin, announced today via the Banshees’ Facebook page.

Siouxsie and the Banshees’ final 4 expanded reissues confirmed for Oct. 13 release

Siouxsie and the Banshees’ final 4 expanded reissues confirmed for Oct. 13 release

As we first reported last month, the final four titles in Siouxsie and the Banshees’ catalog (1987′s Through the Looking Glass 1988′s Peepshow, 1991′s Superstition and 1995′s The Rapture) finally will receive expanded-and-remastered CD reissues — and today the band itself announced a new, confirmed release date of Oct. 13.

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ hour-long ‘Scream Superstition’ special

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ hour-long ‘Scream Superstition’ special

We paused the weekly “120 Minutes” Rewind feature a few months back because we’d exhausted most of the best clips available on YouTube, but, as time as passed, new finds have surfaced, including an hour-long Siouxsie and the Banshees special called “Scream Superstition.”

Steven Severin hints Siouxsie and the Banshees’ final 4 reissues coming Sept. 15

Steven Severin hints Siouxsie and the Banshees’ final 4 reissues coming Sept. 15

Bassist Steven Severin hinted this weekend that the final four titles in Siouxsie and the Banshees’ catalog finally will receive expanded reissues Sept. 15, more than four years after Universal Music pulled the plug on the band’s reissue campaign midstream.

Siouxsie and the Banshees to reissue ‘Hong Kong Garden’ on double 7-inch vinyl

Siouxsie and the Banshees to reissue ‘Hong Kong Garden’ on double 7-inch vinyl

Siouxsie and the Banshees will commemorate “Hong Kong Garden” next month with a double 7-inch reissue of the single that will include the original A- and B-sides and the version from Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” film and the recording of “Voices” from 1984’s The Thorn EP.

Banshees’ Steven Severin scoring new animated haunted house doc ‘Borley Rectory’

Banshees’ Steven Severin scoring new animated haunted house doc ‘Borley Rectory’

Steven Severin these days devotes himself to making new music for old movies, composing and performing scores for decades-old silent films. Now, though, he’s providing the score to “Borley Rectory,” an animated documentary about the “most famous haunted house in England.”