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Anyone have the new Siouxsie and the Banshees At the BBC box set yet? Curious to hear any reviews.

I've got it on pre-order (probably like yourself). I can't wait to get hold of it as the Banshees form part of the backbone of my musical heritage. Roll on the 21st April then (official release date).

Not got the box set yet, I was about to buy the Finale DVD ...but then I heard it in HMV...



DO NOT buy the Finale DVD it is bloody awful. Siouxsie's voice is clearly at the end of its tour and really needs a rest and the songs are brutally and bloodily murdered by a pub rock band. AVOID.

Saw boxset in shop-window.

Bit late replying but as you know by now, i do. The three cds are good, but its the dvd that really makes this a must have for me.

Siouxsie.....box set track list.

Not in the stores here yet.
Hope the dvd will be available in NTSC.

I finally got the boxset!

Listened to cd 1 this morning and it is fantastic.

Some Banshees news...

Former Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist Steven Severin is working on a 20-disc “mega” box set that is intended to include all 11 of the band’s studio albums, plus singles, non-BBC live recordings and various TV appearances — including a DVD of a John McGeoch-era show broadcast on German TV in 1981 and possibly the group’s appearance at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show in 1991.

Severin recently posted a YouTube clip of “Regal Zone” from that 1981 Banshees performance on Facebook, writing, “‘Shees Mega Box back on the agenda. 20 discs! Including a DVD of this bastard show. Excited but a LOT of work to be done diving for unknown pearls.”

As for what else might appear on the box, Severin wrote:
“It’s intended as the ‘complete’ box. All the studio albums plus singles plus non BBC live recordings & TV clips. So, if you have this plus At the BBC plus Downside Up you will have EVERYTHING bar the promo videos which I presume will surface as a stand-alone set eventually.”

He later posted a link to Rhino Records’ recently released Smiths box set — featuring newly remastered editions of all of that band’s studio albums and compilations — noting, “Not saying we would go this route. It’s a bit excessive considering they only made 4 studio albums BUT… Universal want to tap into this particular niche so who knows?”

Severin’s reference to Universal being behind this box set is notable, since he took to Facebook last year to complain that the label had stopped the Banshees’ reissue program mid-stream, canceling plans to re-release expanded versions of the band’s’ final four albums (1987′s Through the Looking Glass, 1988′s Peepshow, 1991′s Superstition and 1995′s The Rapture).

The only other hints Severin dropped as to the box’s content were that including a complete recording of the KROQ show “is on the cards,” and that, “One thing for sure is NO REMIXES! Consigned to the dustbin of history where they belong :)”

And, finally, with fans clamoring for a Banshees reunion to promote the box, Severin gives an emphatic response: “There is more liklihood of Peter Hook touring a Banshees tribute band than there is of seeing the real thing tread the boards again. It’s over. Done. Dusted.”

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/11/03/siouxsie-banshees-box-set-20-disc-steven-severin/