Siouxsie Sioux to headline Latitude Competition’s BBC Sounds Stage for first efficiency in 10 years
Siouxsie Sioux is booked to headline Latitude Competition‘s BBC Sounds Stage subsequent 12 months, marking her first efficiency in a decade.
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The punk and post-punk icon – greatest often known as the singer in Siouxsie & The Banshees earlier than occurring to play in The Creatures and later as a soloist – will be part of predominant stage headliners Pulp, Paolo Nutini and George Ezra on the Suffolk competition from July 20-23, 2023.
Sioux final performed stay in 2013 for Yoko Ono’s Meltdown competition, which was held at London’s Royal Competition Corridor. On the time she carried out an unprecedented two sold-out reveals and shocked followers with an unannounced, full rendition of Siouxsie & The Banshees’ 1980 album ‘Kaleidoscope’ alongside hit songs together with ‘Face to Face’ and ‘Right here Comes That Day’.
Latitude Competition Director Melvin Benn stated of Sioux: “What a privilege it’s to welcome the enduring Siouxsie to the Latitude Competition. Siouxsie has been an everlasting trailblazer and her impression throughout musical tradition is colossal. Uncompromisingly defiant, Siouxsie’s highly effective physique of labor is incomparable. There has by no means been a stay performer like her and there in all probability by no means can be!”
With The Banshees, Sioux had a number of UK Prime 10 singles together with ‘Hong Kong Backyard’, ‘Glad Home’ and ‘Peek-a-Boo’. The band launched 11 albums between 1976 and 1996.
Sioux then fashioned The Creatures with The Banshees drummer Budgie, releasing 4 albums between 1981 and 2005. The singer then shared her debut solo album, ‘Mantaray‘, in 2007.
Different acts becoming a member of Sioux, Pulp, Nutini and Ezra at Latitude 2023 embrace The Kooks, Metronomy, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott, The Large Moon, Black Midi, Lightning Seeds, The Proclaimers, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Younger Fathers.
Pulp have additionally introduced a bunch of UK and Eire tour dates for 2023 – see right here.