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...20/09/76 - Malcolm McLaren arranges a two day
'Punk Festival' at London's 100 Club. Sex Pistols fans
and members of the 'Bromley Contingent', Suzy and Steven, along with
fellow cohorts Marco Pirroni and Sid Vicious, have
hastily formed a band to fill
a vacant slot on the bill. The intention is 'to play one number until they throw us off
the stage'. Post show the band immediately split up only to be reborn
six months later as 'Siouxsie & The Banshees'. Two years later, and
with new members John McKay and Kenny Morris on board, the Banshees sign
to Polydor and score a No. 7 hit with debut single 'Hong Kong Garden'.
Surviving the mid-tour desertion of McKay and Morris in 1979, Siouxsie
and Severin soldier on with new drummer Budgie and a succession of
different guitarists to be one of the most consistently successful bands
to emerge from the punk explosion...
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