«Siouxsie and the Banshees were one of our big influences [...] The Banshees first LP was one of my favourite ever records, the way the guitarist and the drummer played was a really unusual way of playing»
Stephen Morris, Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: The Joy Division Years Volume I, Constable, 2019, ISBN1-4721-2620-3.
«It would be Siouxsie and the Banshees to whom I most felt some kind of affinity. [...] the bass-led rhythm, the way first drummer Kenny Morris played mostly toms. [...] The banshees had that [...] foreboding sound, sketching out the future from the dark of the past. [...] hearing the sessions they'd done on John Peel's show and reading gigs write-ups, [...] they sounded interesting.»
Peter Buckley, "The Rough Guide to Rock".. 2003. Penguin books. "Siouxsie and the Banshees began to build a wider audience and it was the vastly influential "Juju" (1981) that propelled them to the very front of the alternative-rock scene". Siouxsie Sioux Lifts Lid On Banshees “Power Struggle", su mojo4music.com, Mojo.com., 25 settembre 2014. URL consultato il 2 settembre 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 dicembre 2017).
James Oldham, Siamese Twins - The Cure and the Banshees, Uncut, agosto 2004, p. 60.
«Siouxsie and the Banshees... a massive influence on me [...] They were the group who led me towards doing Pornography. They drew something out of me.»
James Oldham, Bad Medicine, Uncut, febbraio 2000.
«I think the final straw came when I played Michael the demos for the next album and he hated them. He wanted us to be XTC part 2 and – if anything – I wanted us to be the Banshees part 2.»
Rob Fitzpatrick, Robert Smith interview, su craigjparker.blogspot.com, The Word, agosto 2012. URL consultato il 15 agosto 2016.
«I played with the Banshees through our first tour [1979], and it allowed me to think beyond what we were doing. I wanted to have a band that does what Steve Severin and Budgie do, where they just get a bassline and the drum part and Siouxsie wails.»
Mark Paytress. "Siouxsie and the Banshees the Authorized Biography". Sanctuary publishing. 2003. Robert Smith: "Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire were the two bands I really admired. They meant something. On stage that first night with the Banshees, I was blown away by how powerful I felt playing that kind of music. It was so different to what we were doing with the Cure. Before that, I'd wanted us to be like the Buzzcocks or Elvis Costello, the punk Beatles. Being a Banshee really changed my attitude to what I was doing.
Alexis Petridis. "The Guardian, 1000 albums to hear before you die".. Guardian.co.uk. 21-11-2007. "Perennial masters of brooding suspense, the Banshees honed their trademark aloof art-rock to its hardest and darkest pitch on Juju. With their musical alchemy at its peak and Siouxsie at her most imperious, pop marvels such as Spellbound and Arabian Knights were poised, peerless exercises in magic realism that you could dance to."
«Q: Was there any figure who connected with you when you were just a listener? A: It's hard to beat Siouxsie Sioux, in terms of live performance. She is so exciting to watch, so full of energy and human raw quality.»
"7th January 2000 PJ selects her Top 10 Albums of 1999". URL consultato il 28 ottobre 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 30 giugno 2001).. Pj Harvey.net. Fecha: 7th January 2000 - PJ selects her Top 10 Albums of 1999. LP of The Creatures(aka Siouxsie). Pj Harvey seleccionó el álbum "Anima Animus" del The Creatures = el segundo grupo de Siouxsie]
«...with the Banshees she helped to invent a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation... The Banshees stand proudly alongside PIL, Gang of Four and the Fall as the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era.»
u2wanderer.org
U2 Jukebox, su u2wanderer.org. URL consultato il 1º novembre 2010.
Hazel Cillshow, "How Marie Antoinette's Soundtrack Became a Classic". URL consultato il 25 luglio 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 18 luglio 2017).. Mtv.com. 10/10/2016. "Coppola paired the pretty, pale luxury of Versailles with the sound of new wave acts like [...] Siouxsie and the Banshees"
Peter Buckley, "The Rough Guide to Rock".. 2003. Penguin books. "Siouxsie and the Banshees began to build a wider audience and it was the vastly influential "Juju" (1981) that propelled them to the very front of the alternative-rock scene". Siouxsie Sioux Lifts Lid On Banshees “Power Struggle", su mojo4music.com, Mojo.com., 25 settembre 2014. URL consultato il 2 settembre 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 dicembre 2017).
«"It's so clever. He's got this really good picky thing going on which is very un-rock'n'roll and this actual tune he's playing is really quite mysterious"»
«Colin Greenwood remembers: "The first single we're releasing is actually the longest song on the record. ("There There"). It was all recorded live in Oxford. We all got excited at the end because Nigel was trying to get Jonny to play like John McGeoch in Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the old farts in the band were in seventh heaven.»
«The band that really changed my life was R.E.M. and Siouxsie and the Banshees...". "My favourite show I ever saw then was Siouxsie and she was absolutely amazing. ... She's totally in command of the whole audience.»
«Q: Was there any figure who connected with you when you were just a listener? A: It's hard to beat Siouxsie Sioux, in terms of live performance. She is so exciting to watch, so full of energy and human raw quality.»
"7th January 2000 PJ selects her Top 10 Albums of 1999". URL consultato il 28 ottobre 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 30 giugno 2001).. Pj Harvey.net. Fecha: 7th January 2000 - PJ selects her Top 10 Albums of 1999. LP of The Creatures(aka Siouxsie). Pj Harvey seleccionó el álbum "Anima Animus" del The Creatures = el segundo grupo de Siouxsie]
«"It's so clever. He's got this really good picky thing going on which is very un-rock'n'roll and this actual tune he's playing is really quite mysterious"»