Two 18-year-olds from Salisbury were at the head of the queue. THE 600-STRONG line, which last Monday straggled across two blocks outside London's 100 Club in Oxford Street, waiting for the Punk Rock Festival to start, was indisputable evidence that a new decade in rock is about to begin. Siouxsie Sioux by Steven Severin, London 1976Įxcerpts from "Parade Of The Punks", by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 2 October 1976 Two days later, they performed at the festival with two borrowed musicians at their side. In the summer of 1976, when they heard that one of the bands scheduled to play the 100 Club Punk Festival was pulling out from the bill at the last minute, Siouxsie suggested she and Severin perform, even though there was no name for the act, nor any additional members. They were soon dubbed "the Bromley Contingent" in a reference to the South London area they hailed from. From February 1976, along with other friends including Billy Idol and Steve Strange, the pair began to follow the unsigned Sex Pistols, inspired by their uncompromising attitude. Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin first met at a Roxy Music show in September 1975. Siouxsie Sioux photographed by Michael Putland in 1980 These new photographs, alongside other iconic shots and accompanied with key features from Rock's Backpages, celebrate this unique band's music and fashion legacy. In our latest collaboration with Rock's Backpages, the definitive online archive of music journalism, Jill Furmanovsky delves back through her archives to share a selection of previously unseen images of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Siouxsie Sioux captured by Jill Furmanovsky in Sweden in 1982
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