The band sold out venues in London in early 1978, but still had problems getting the right recording contract that could give them "complete artistic control". When they appeared on the cover of Sounds magazine, Vivien Goldman wrote: "they sound like a 21st century industrial plant". The band described their music as "cold, machine-like and passionate at the same time". That month they also recorded their first John Peel session for BBC radio in which they premiered a new song "Metal Postcard", introducing a " motorik austerity" in the drums patterns, with "the space in the sound" and "the serrated guitars".
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Their first live appearance on television took place in November on Manchester's Granada, on Tony Wilson's TV show So It Goes. After playing several gigs in early 1977, they realised that Fenton did not fit in because he was "a real rock guitarist". Over the next few months, Siouxsie and Severin recruited drummer Kenny Morris and guitarist Peter Fenton. The band intended to split up after the gig, but they were asked to play again.
With two borrowed musicians at their side, Marco Pirroni on guitar and John Simon Ritchie (already commonly known as Sid Vicious) on drums, their set consisted of a 20-minute improvisation based on " The Lord's Prayer". Two days later, the pair appeared at the festival held in London on 20 September 1976.
When they learned that one of the bands scheduled to play the 100 Club Punk Festival, organised by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, was pulling out from the bill at the last minute, Siouxsie suggested that she and Severin play, even though they had no band name or additional members. They were all inspired by the Sex Pistols and their uncompromising attitude. "There was no such thing, it was just a bunch of people drawn together by the way they felt and they looked". Journalist Caroline Coon dubbed them the " Bromley Contingent", as most of them came from the Bromley area in south east London, a label Severin came to despise. From February 1976, Siouxsie, Severin and some friends began to follow an unsigned band, the Sex Pistols. Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin met at a Roxy Music concert in September 1975, at a time when glam rock had faded and there was nothing new coming through with which they could identify.
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Initially associated with the punk scene, the band rapidly evolved to create "a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation". The Times called the group “one of the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era". Q magazine included John McKay's guitar playing on " Hong Kong Garden" in their list of "100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever", while Mojo rated guitarist John McGeoch in their list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" for his work on " Spellbound". They have been widely influential, both over their contemporaries and with later acts. Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.
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