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Musicians:
Superstition:
- Stephen
Hague had expressed an interest in working with The Banshees, and
subsequently approached the Banshees to produce the album. Source:
Bside 02/95.
- The album
was originally going to be called 'The Thirteenth Hour'. (Severin)
Source: Deadline 08/91.
Kiss Them For Me:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
Jayne
Mansfield was the inspiration behind the song 'Kiss Them For
Me'. "This song was sparked off by Jayne Mansfield's
story. She typified the dream that Hollywood holds for young
women - a fairytale thing." (Siouxsie)
Source: Record Hunter 12/92.
- Performed on Top
Of The Pops 30/05/91
- The title itself taken from the
Jayne
Mansfield
film of the same name.
- It is in fact Jayne's voice that
can be heard on the 12" 'Snapper Mix' of Kiss Them For Me.
However these immortal lines are taken from the Jayne
Mansfield
film Will
Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
- The house belonging to Jayne
Mansfield, known as the Pink Palace is believed to be haunted.
After Jayne's death Mama Cass choked to death there. Ringo
Starr bought the house but pink kept seeping through the walls.
Lastly Englebert Humperdinck bought the house, but not before having
it exorcised. Sadly it has since been demolished. Source:
Melody Maker 11/05/91.
- Topped the 'Billboard Modern Rock Chart' for 5
weeks.
- The working title was 'Let's
Get Smashed', a
reference to the Jayne
Mansfield's fatal car accident.
(Siouxsie) Source: Melody Maker 17/10/92.
- The artwork for the record sleeve
was inspired by a picture of Jayne
Mansfield on the cover of Picturegoer.
Fear (Of The Unknown):
- The inspiration for the sleeve was
Hitchcock
Film Posters.
- In the extended version of the video Siouxsie is
seen kissing Severin's
then girlfriend 'Cricket'.
This was considered too racy for MTV and an edited version was
shown. The inspiration for the embrace between Siouxsie &
Cricket was the photograph Nusch
Eluard Et Sonia Mosse
by Man
Ray.
Cry:
- Live
debut 01/09/90 Festival
de L'Unita,
Milan. Source: The File,
Phase Five, Issue Four.
Drifter:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band Comment:
How the wolves and Native
Indians of America were both cast out by the arrival of the white
man. "Drifter has a special mood that we wanted to create
like the ambience of Ennio Morricone's 'The
Big Sleep'."
- Live
debut 01/09/90 Festival
de L'Unita,
Milan. Source: The File,
Phase Five, Issue Four
Shadowtime:
- A Side
of the 12" vinyl has 'Shadowland
My Favourite! "SAB The Shrivelled Organ"' scratched
into the run out groove
- Intended as a tribute to Roxy
Music's
'For
Your Pleasure'
album. (Severin) Source: Melody Maker
17/10/92.
Silly Thing:
- Covered by Deep Red - Reflections In The Looking
Glass.
Got To Get Up:
- Live
debut 01/09/90 Festival
de L'Unita,
Milan. Source: The File,
Phase Five, Issue Four
Softly:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
SEVERIN:
I had a dream that I met Elvis
and all he said to me was "Softly". I also had this
tape which I got in America. It was shrinkwrapped to a
paperback called 'Is Elvis
Alive?' and was supposed to be him ringing from a payphone
explaining how he'd survived and what he'd been doing. There
was nobody on the other end of the line. At the beginning and
end of 'Softly' you can just about make out a short wave radio with
bits of this tape in it. It's not important for people to know
that, but it gives that atmosphere of something a bit more
clairvoyant going on. The lyrics are nothing to do with Elvis.
Source: Deadline 08/91.
SIOUXSIE:
"Softly" was written in the rehearsal studio with
just Martin (McCarrick) and Steve (Severin) playing something and me
sort of part ad-libbing off of an idea that I had, and then us
working it out together after we'd taped it and decided it was
something worth doing.
Source: Island
ear 20/01/92.
- The shortwave radio interference at the beginning
and the end of the song is from a tape that allegedly contains a one
way conversation of Presley ringing from a payphone explaining how
he survived and what he has been doing. The tape came free
with a paperback called 'Is Elvis Alive?' (Severin) Source:
Deadline 08/91.
Sea Of Light:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
Deals
with the subject of 'near death' experiences. Source:
Downside Up liner notes.
Face To Face:
- Fans of photographer Man
Ray, his influence can be
seen in the video, in particular his photograph 'Glass
Tears' which inspired
Siouxsie's
face jewelry.
- Tim
Burton requested that Siouxsie & The
Banshees become involved in the film Batman
Returns.
- Tim
Burton
was originally penciled in to direct the video. Editing duties
with Batman
Returns
made this impossible. A number of
characters that Burton had created for 'Face To Face' video
eventually made their way into his film The
Nightmare Before Christmas.
- There were two promo videos made, the regular one available on the
Twice
Upon A Time video,
and the one promoting the film which is now available on the limited
edition double DVD disc of Batman
Returns.
- Problems arose with Warner
Bros who were responsible for the release of 'Face
To Face'
as a single, which no doubt effected its success
"Warner's are
such scum bags!, I would like to go on record as saying that. I hope
someone there dies really soon, or they fall down a big hole on the
golf course and never come back! That sounds bad, but I enjoy
bitching about a good baddie".
(Siouxsie) Source:
Melody Maker 17/10/92.
I Could Be Again:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
The
lyric 'Just us, the cameras and those wonderful people out there in
the dark' is a actually a line quoted by Gloria Swanson at the end
of the film Sunset
Boulevard.
Hothead:
- Inspiration/Influence/Band
Comment:
A news paper report on
Manchester's growing guns and drug problem. Source:
Downside Up liner notes.
- The working title for this song
was 'Khajuraho'. Source: Downside
Up liner notes.
Caroline Says:
With This Hand:
- Siouxsie & Budgie's wedding
took place on
25/05/91 at St John's Church, Notting Hill, London.
Siouxsie wore an Indian print gown in yellow, cerise and gold and
wore flowers in her hair.
Lollapalooza:
- Perry Farrell invited Siouxsie & The Banshees to
play the first ever Lollapalooza. The Banshees were the first
band Perry Farrell approached and the only English band
playing. (Severin) Source: Deadline
08/91.
Libel:
- In January
1991 Siouxsie successfully won a libel suit against the Daily
Mirror
which had alleged that she had received a 'nose
job'.
The Indigo Girls:
- On 06/12/92
Siouxsie made a guest appearance with the Indigo
Girls
singing 'Strange
Fruit'
and
'Something
Wicked
(This Way
Comes)'.
France:
- In April 1992
Siouxsie and Budgie moved to France. Source: Rock
World 01/10/92.
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