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Musicians:
Juju:
- The cover features an African statue
the band had discovered
in Horniman
Museum in Forest Hill.
- The title is based on a
television programme about the growth of esoteric cults in the
Western world as an antidote to the bland, dreary nature of most
people's lives.
Spellbound:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
SIOUXSIE: "The magic that we want is not textbook magic.
We use words like voodoo and spellbound but they're not to be taken
literally. The best magic is when something good happens and you
don't plan it, it's not in your control. To an extent it's in
your control, but to be totally in control of everything then would
be boring, life would be boring. If nothing went 'something
magic's happened', but it's not like that, it's just a
feeling." Source: Elektron Interview 20/12/82
- Recorded
16/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Covered by Inkubus
Sukkubus -
Reflections In The Looking Glass.
- Sampled by Akala
on the song 'Where I'm From' from the album 'Freedom Lasso'
- Top
Of The Pops performance 04/06/81.
- Top
Of The Pops performance 18/06/81.
- The video for 'Spellbound'
was shot in Boreham Wood, London.
- The demon in the field in the
film Onibaba
is a direct influence on the demon in the woods in the Spellbound
video.
- Footage of the band at a a
funfair in Putney was filmed for the Spellbound video, but ended up
on the cutting room floor. Source: The
File, Phase One.
- Live
debut 16/02/81, Hammersmith Palais, London. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Into The Light:
- Recorded
20/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Recorded for a BBC Session
10/02/81 at Langham 1, aired 18/02/81.
- Live
debut 30/12/80, Hammersmith Palais, London. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Arabian Knights:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
SIOUXSIE: " 'Arabian Knights' was inspired by the fact that
I was listening to a lot of The
Doors at the time. I wanted those
kind of melodies running through it." Source: The
Authorised Biography 2002
SIOUXSIE: "It’s nothing to do with a ‘feminist’
thing, it’s like a humane thing. Like how the Muslim women cope, I
don’t know. The way women are treated in some religions, if it was
a race being treated like that and not a sex, there would be uproar
about it. I still haven’t overcome being a girl yet, as far as
other people see me, and that’s very important. I think it’s
happened a bit, but not enough." Source: NME
15/08/81
SIOUXSIE: "To think, some of our records might end up with
an 'X' certificate. Like all the fuss over our 'Arabian Knights'
single with the line about 'orifices'. It was only a new way of
describing something...something natural, physical. It wasn't smutty
or rude. Just imagery...but they don't like that." Source:
Smash Hits 06/86
SIOUXSIE: With 'Arabian Knights' it was quite a thrill to get
the word 'orifices' on the radio." Source:
Record Mirror 11/11/89
- Recorded
17/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Covered by Paul
Roland - Strychnine.
- Covered by Cadillac - Magnetic
City.
- Recorded for a BBC Session 06/81.
- Video
aired on Top
Of The Pops 20/08/81.
- There are
two versions of the promo video for 'Arabian
Knights',
the first showing Siouxsie flying through the air on a magic carpet.
This version was shown on Top
Of The Pops, but was later edited for
the Once
Upon A Time video collection. The original edit of
the video can now be found on The
Best Of (Sound & Vision)
CD
& DVD collection.
- Live
debut 16/02/81, Hammersmith Palais, London. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Halloween:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
SEVERIN: "My source for that
is something that happened to me when I was very young,
understanding reality for the first time, if that doesn’t sound
too... (pause) I suddenly realised when I was about six that I was a
separate person. Suddenly I knew I was around instead of just being
a part of things. And once that happens you realise that you’ve
lost something like an innocence." Source: Sounds
07/03/81
- Plays over the closing credits
of the film 'Monster House' but is not included on the soundtrack.
- Recorded
18/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Recorded for a BBC Session
10/02/81 at Langham 1, aired 18/02/81.
- Live
debut 30/12/80, Hammersmith Palais, London. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Monitor:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
Inspired by the advent of Close Circuit TV and the idea of real violence as entertainment. A story was related to Siouxsie of how, when CCTV was installed in a tower block, in an attempt to curtail vandalism and crime, it instead resulted in the tenants deriving more pleasure from watching the ‘real life’ crime on
CCTV, than watching fictionalised accounts on their own televisions.
- Recorded
20/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Covered by Ex
Voto - Reflections
In The Looking Glass.
- Live
debut 20/02/81, Guildhall, Portsmouth. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Night Shift:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
SIOUXSIE: " 'Night Shift' was about the Yorkshire Ripper, not Bela
Lugosi, or whatever. Goth was pantomime." Source: Time
out 26/09/98
- Recorded
18/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Covered by Switchblade Symphony -
Reflections
In The Looking Glass.
- Covered by Stone - Reflections
In The Looking Glass.
- Live
debut 16/02/81, Hammersmith Palais, London. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Sin In My Heart:
- Recorded
26/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- The version that appears on the
album is a drastically edited one from the original.
Originally it was going to last for ten minutes. Source: The
File, Phase One.
Head Cut:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
SIOUXSIE: " 'Onibaba', this black-and-white Japanese film by Kaneto
Shindo. I saw it on BBC 2 when I was about nine. There was this great repeated scene: every night, this girl would run through fields of long, swooshing cane in the rain to her lover, but this demon would appear and it would scare her away. This kept happening until one night she ran past it. When she finally went home to her family and opened the door, the demon was crouching in the corner. It turned out the demon was her mother, who'd worn a Samurai mask to scare her away from this boy, but the mask had got stuck to her face. It made such a strong impression."
Source: Word 10/04
- Recorded
26/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Covered by Corpus Delecti - Reflections
In The Looking Glass.
- Recorded for a BBC Session 06/81.
Voodoo Dolly:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
SIOUXSIE: "I suppose
everyone has their own personal voodoo dolly which is capable of
destroying them. A bad habit, or something they like but shouldn't.
A vice, most vices; one that's hard to control, hard to kick. The
same for men with certain girlfriends, they're like voodoo dollies,
always winding them up and they destroy them." Source:
Sounds 20/06/81
SIOUXSIE: "The fear is just seeing and being aware that
things that might be pleasing to you… can be your downfall. People
included. All the good things, all the happiness can be very
negative in that they numb you. That’s where the danger is, when
you’re numbed to other people’s pain and other people’s
pleasure. That applies to anyone but more so given the unreality of
being a pop star.” Source: NME 24/12/83
SEVERIN: "It's like anything, it takes a bit of
concentration and concern to find those things within the lyric,
which you can't really demand of a listener and shouldn't really
expect... because it's such a supposedly trivial medium. So it's
almost inevitable that you get tagged with doom 'n' gloom etcetera,
simply because most people haven't got the inclination to open up
and discuss some of the subjects. But I don't see why we should not
try and do that. It's ridiculous to do anything else." Source:
NME 24/12/83
- Recorded
30/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Recorded for a BBC Session
10/02/81 at Langham 1, aired 18/02/81.
- Live
debut 09/09/80, Brady Club, Liverpool under the pseudonym Janet
& The Icebergs. Steve's amp caught fire and an impromptu
version of Voodoo Dolly was played until it was replaced.
Officially Voodoo Dolly's live debut wasn't until 13/09/80. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Follow The Sun:
- Recorded
30/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Slap Dash Snap:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
Musically
by Velvet
Underground's song 'Murder Mystery' and lyrically by a
film called Towers
Open Fire. Source:
Downside Up liner notes.
- The bare bones of the backing
track for Slap Dash Snap were recorded during the 'Kaleidoscope'
sessions. The track was rejuvenated and added to at a later
date for inclusion as the bonus track on the Spellbound 12"
single. Source: The
File, Phase One.
- Never
performed live.
Supernatural Thing:
- Recorded
02/06/81, Morgan Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Original by Ben E King - The Ultimate Collection.
- Recorded for a BBC Session 06/81.
Congo Conga:
- Recorded
16-30/03/81, Surrey Sound Studios. Source: The File,
Phase One.
- Live
debut 30/12/80, Hammersmith Palais, London. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Once Upon A Time:
- In the
Banshees absence Polydor
Records very nearly released the 'Once Upon A Time'
collection under the title 'In The Beginning' with a caricature of
Siouxsie as a baby in a crib on the cover.
Derby Gig:
- At a concert in early 1981 the
band noticed a large contingent of National Front skinheads in the
audience (probably attracted by Siouxsie's early use of the
Swastika). The band left the stage, returned wearing Star Of
David tee shirts and immediately launched into the song 'Drop
Dead/Celebration'. Source: The File,
Phase One.
Altered Images:
- In March 1981 Steven
Severin produced Altered
Images first single 'Dead Pop Stars',
unfortunately the single failed to make much of an impact on the
chart, probably due to the recent death of pop star John Lennon.
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