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. Playlist – Peter Hook’s “Field recordings Q magazine 23-04-2013 „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”. Jeff Klingman 10 Bullet Points from the Thom Yorke Interview on WTF with Marc Maron Thelmagazine.com 22-07-2013 „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.”. Mitchell, Pete. „Spellbound: the story of John McGeoch” BBC2. 02 2008. About McGeoch’s contribution to the single „Spellbound”, Johnny Marr stated: „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”.