‘Tinderbox’: How Siouxsie & The Banshees’ Career Reignited In The Mid-1980s

‘Tinderbox’: How Siouxsie & The Banshees’ Career Reignited In The Mid-1980s

In 1986, the UK’s punk movement celebrated its tenth anniversary. Inevitably, some marked the occasion, not least Manchester’s Factory Records who staged a series of media-friendly events and concerts dubbed “Festival Of The Tenth Summer.” Others had less interest in looking back. In fact, one of the original movement’s biggest acts, Siouxsie & The Banshees had no truck whatsoever with such tawdry retrospectives. The band was releasing its seven…