![]() Sometimes feared, though more often regarded with envy and suspicion, the notorious fashionistas, who included William Broad (the soon to be Billy Idol), Susan Ballion and Steven Bailey among their number, were mythologised in the music press to such an extent that Melody Maker named them Group Of The Year in their Christmas round-up, without even releasing a note. ![]() Music and fashion-obsessed, the late teens revelled in the affected alienation and otherness they’d learned from arty outsider glam acts such as David Bowie and Roxy Music. Among the first to take up the cause of the burgeoning punk band were the so-called Bromley Contingent a loose ensemble of outrageously attired suburban misfits from the outer fringes of south-east London. ![]() Celebrating the Banshees’ first 45 and the life and times of Siouxsie Sioux, my erstwhile neighbour in rural France and, if the stars are in alignment, possibly a future Pet Shop Boys disco divaĪs the Sex Pistols’ raucous reputation spread throughout Britain during 1976, so did that of their most flamboyant followers. ![]()
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