JUJU - TRIVIA

 
 
  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.