Play at home special present - Siouxsie & the banshees (with Robert Smith) (with The Glove)
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- Play at home special present - Siouxsie & the banshees.
This is great. Really something awsome strange madness from the early 80's.
Robert Smith plays in it as well (as we all know, he was a banshees member for 2 periods in the old days).
Looks like Alice in wonderland has returned.
Play at home is part of a channel 4 series.
Aired: September 1984
Minutes : Play at home 33 minutes Nocturne 17 minutes
Total video time 50 minutes
Quality : 9
Play at Home -- Alice in Wonderland themed TV Special
Songs they played :
05:10 Weather cade (The Creatures)
12:20 A blues in drag (The Glove)
28:07 Circle (Siouxsie)
33:22 Eve White/Eve Black (From Nocturne)
34:35 Voodoo Dolly (From Nocturne)
45:00 Helter Skelter (From Nocturne)
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Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Play at Home" on Channel 4 (1984, video, entire show, 50 minutes)
If you like the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees, 1983/1984 was an absolute golden period.
Robert Smith was playing guitar with the Banshees (one of several stints), appearing on Nocturne (the Banshees live from the Royal Albert Hall -- a stunning gig released on double vinyl and VHS!) and on the studio LP Hyaena; Robert Smith and Steve Severin had formed the Glove with Jeanette Landray (then girlfriend of Severin's band mate Budgie) and Siouxsie and Budgie had formed the Creatures.
1984 was also a golden era for live music TV with the Tube, the Old Grey Whistle Test and, briefly "Play at Home" -- a series of documentaries about leading rock bands made by themselves... what could go wrong?
So the Banshees do their own unique (and surreal) version of Alice in Wonderland, with a full supporting cast, and intercut with music from the Banshees, the Glove and the Creatures. Siouxie's dis-embodied blood-red lips narrate the story, and chews all available furniture. Green screen tech must have been cheap -- the whole show is littered with really bad backgrounds (but I think they new that).
And, yep, that is Budgie in the top photo!
This was a great watch and it came up the other day on TH-cam -- the entire 50 minute show. It is also available on the DVD re-release of Nocturne.
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The Play At Home series offered four musical acts:
New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, Virginia Astley and of course Siouxsie and the Banshees, during the period that Robert Smith of The Cure was in the band-an hour of TV to do pretty much whatever they wanted. When they saw what the Banshees cooked up, I'm sure the execs were both thrilled and nervous (What happened to Channel 4 over the years???).
The Banshees' Play At Home episode was finally released as a DVD extra on the reissue of the 1983 Nocturne concert film in 2006. Note inclusion of music from side-projects The Creatures and The Glove. Longtime Banshees producer Mike Hedges makes an appearance as the Queen of Hearts and Annie Hogan, once Marc Almond's musical collaborator, can be seen as the Doormouse.
According to Slicing Up Eyeballs, Banshees bassist Steven Severin is preparing a 20 disc mega-box set including all eleven Siouxsie & the Banhsees albums and DVDs of vintage live performances. Twenty discs! Can't wait.
I don't know what I just watched, but I know I'm significantly more goth for having watched it.
Aside from making astoudingly great music, Siouxsie, Severin, Budgie and Robert have the most enticing speaking voices ever.
I like to think of this as all of their personalities mixed together and put on a screen
Also why is robert such a good alice
Surprisingly, Robert Smith comes across as a rather good actor.
Gregory Patrick Suprisingly? Hmm ... If you asked the man himself he’d probably say he can’t act at all as he’s frequently said about many Cure videos, Charlotte Sometimes being a good (or bad?) case in point. On the other hand he’s been making and performing incredible art for over 40 years now so maybe not so surprising after all?
Amazing quality for such an old production. It pays to use film.
@@angrypossumsx1259What?There was no acting to be done in that music video. The band is just watching a young lady enter an an old building only to scare herself shitless and run out. Actors, if they are any good,are just really convincing liars. Robert liked to lie quite a bit in his youth. If he had had the desire and dedication, he would have been quite decent. He's got a very expressive face and he's a perfectionist. I'm glad he didn't have the acting bug though and naturally gravitated toward music instead.
Robert did a great job in this. I too am glad he focused on music. He clearly could have gone in other directions and been successful. Picture a world without the Cure, and instead, Mr Smith is the CEO of a real estate empire or the founder of a burger chain... I'm grateful for the world we have.
@@ringolevio5921 fuckwit
"If you looked at them in a certain way, they'd jump. Like that...like that...like that..."
OMG HE IS SO CUTE!!!!
The bit with Robert is how a sensory overload feels
omg yeah the first time I saw it I was so confused lol
It truly is a shame in the cosmic sense of things the Robert and Siouxsie couldn't continue to work together. I love both their bands individually and appreciate their work together.
You know although I loved that union the show is all about siouxsie and Robert is all about the cure.. Robert isn't meant to play second chair to anyone.. Even to Siouxsie whom I worship! So it makes cosmic sense to me that it didn't last long
You know your'e right. They are better individually I just wish that they got along- a collaboration or two in the last twenty years
plus would have been a treat.
diavolo 78 you know no shit. Robert always loved to play with siouxie and had a side project with siouxie founder Severin. he was in deep drug abuse and just couldnt keep working so much.
Sioux bullied him quite badly
@@thunder_heads source?
I'd describe this as:
A teenagers messy room in the 80's, except the room is a brain and the synapses are lemonade.
Wendy Martin Amen!!
yes
Robert is so disturbingly hot... I love him
Robert Smith is so cute!😍 I love his accent ❤️😄😘😍
Robert is such a trip. Literally, he's trippin' me out..sooo trippy..
The way Robert Smith speaks 😍💘
Ikr
robert smith's voice is so adorable and so is Budgie's and oh my god, don't start talking about adorable Siouxsie!!!
wow you bloody beautiful♥🕷♥
Aww, Robert looks so cute as Alice! xD I love his softspoken ways ❤
Te gustaría que te susurre el gordito ahora?😸
I know
I had never even heard of this before! Absolutely fabulous! Budgie reciting 'Yon Lion's Eaten Our Albert' is surreal as fuck.
I love how strange and fever dream-ish this feels.
These cats (and Souixsie) were EXTREMELY talented. That little interlude with Robert Smith on keyboards and whosit on cello was very nice.
Morris the cat the 'little interlude' is song 'a blues in drag' performed by The Glove. and the 'whosit' is the Siouxie and the Banshees founding member Steve Severin
A Blues in Drag makes me cry every time. It's so peaceful and touching
"Babey babey;
That's all they ever told me,
Don't be so slowly,
That's all he ever told me;
Babey babey,
Babey babey!!!" Oh Robert.. he's so handsome like... yeah,he's only a handsome guy! x3
I’m confused, amazed, and impressed all at the same time
This is simply....terific, loveable, adictable, everythingable....
Marcos Kashiwa You took the words out of my mouth...
Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Alice In Wonderland”-inspired “Play at Home” special that aired on the U.K.’s Channel 4 in 1983, during the period Robert Smith was in the band.
The 50-minute special, which has since been included on the “Nocturne” DVD, was created by the band itself, and it shows. There’s music by The Banshees, The Creatures and The Glove, and all sorts of odd vignettes, including, as you can see above, Siouxise and the whole band dressed up as Alice.
I used to have this on VHS back in the day. Robert was such a hottie. Sigh...
missescookie Yes, me too, but now i'm glad to have this "digitalized" for a couple of years.
I used to have this, wait I still do. Why don't you?
@@RunToEternity Sadly, sold most of my Cure collection about 20 yrs ago that included a ton of VHS!
Miss Cookie, where would you rank "The Robfather" as the hottest of the British male singers of the 1980's (Simon LeBon, Sting, Morrissey, Martin Gore, Bernard Summer, Billy Idol, George Michael)?
@@EricandDish robert ranks #1 for hotness for me. Without all the makeup, years ago he was very handsome.
Love this 1983 Tv show. It smells LSD but it's awesome!!! Robert and Siouxsie forever!!!
Didn't even know Robert Smith was in the banshees for 2 periods that's Kool
Thank you all, for your reactions..
Who would have thought......
I wish Robert Smith and Steven Severin would do another The Glove album!!
Ah, this is so beautiful, or maddening, Siouxsie and Robert always make me smile. But.. What is this? It's amazing. Creepy, trippy, British, beautiful. No clue. But I love it.
ok im in love with Siouxsie, she's perfect and so talented omg
Best entertainment I've ever had...
Remember watching this excitedly when I lived in a flat in Belfast with my hippy punk mates!
no joking, this is what my nightmares look like when i have fever.... i don't mean this in a bad way. it's oddly nice
I've been looking for the whole thing and so relieved to have found it. Heavens bless you !!
Edit: For some strange reason I seem to be extremely obsessed with this video. I consider it a good thing really. There's nothing in the world like it.
Their stories are very profound! Round and around! :P
They had access to the best cocaine in the early 8os. Coke and LSD profoundly color all of the most brilliant artistic media of the era. This is a PRIME example. Fabulous! Thank you so much!
I'm a huge fan and i'm like... '' WTF is this ? '' Cool !
Same here
I feel like I just tripped and fell headfirst down the rabbit hole!
First time seeing this and I thought I saw everything from Robert and siouxsie
No surprise Severin & Fat Bob were doing loads of acid around this time!
stevobath Nevertheless.... A masterpiece!! :))
Largactyl Kid ..and who gives a fuck about it?
And mooshrums
I love Siouxsie, and I didn’t know this existed until today. Fantastic post! I recognized a couple of the shots in the Siouxsie spoken section that were used in the Peek-a-boo video.
Wow wow wow just after watching this I was never the same again.
PS Robert's the cutest Alice ever, Budgie's a close second
What's the story behind this show, I wouldn't expect them to have a prime time TV special, and would love to know how such a pristine copy surfaced.
Their vignettes add such beautiful clarity to so many of their songs.
Thank you-Thank you!! Now my life is complete.....Lord keep you
One of the best things I have ever seen.
That little Gregory got himself a deal!
Amazing "The Glove"
Love the song at 12:20.....
Aliyumyum Yeah, me too... But the other songs too... ;)
Im not high enough for this o.o
For acid heads, by acid heads. (FAHBAH®™)
15:48 bro that mask terrifying
This is the best video ever
In other words, you like it too!!! Great to hear..
Literally what the FUCK did i just watch!? I only came here for Robert lol
Wow, havent seen this since my early teens...I only saw a bit of it on late night tv...I was very young and memory vague...thanks for uploading!
Takes me back, think it was on BBC2 when it first broadcast
I remember waiting up as a young kid to see this, it was on way past my bed time!
Siouxsie and Bobby look like babies! Budgie hadn't seemed to aged muCh...
They're so cute
I’m watching an acid trip and I’m not even on acid lol
This is practically a Creatures video! It's the same kind of playing and experimenting that Siouxsie and Budgie did with creatures, but with visuals! So excited to have found this. Never knew it existed!
That intro is amazing...
He's saying Bobby, Bobby... I think.
love siouxsie...thank you...
40:00 and beyond...awesome guitar noise in the buildup
Duuuuuuude. Tons of British post punk rock stars on serious amounts of acid.
I love this
thank you for posting this, never seen this before, is very cool.
YES.
Woah this is amazing. How have I never seen this before today? THANK YOU FOR POSTING! ;)
remember it so well
thank you so much for putting this up, this really is a unique treasure.
David monastary9 Yeah, I'll watch this a couple of times per week. Always running on the background when I'm busy with my websites.
Fabulous!!! :D What an unexpected & wonderfully strange treat to stumble across, Thank you so much for uploading it. :)
Have hunted for the full show for decades. At the time this was made, the Banshees were in their Psychedelic peak, with The Creatures song Weathercade in here, plus music by The Glove; the respective side projects of Sioux/Budgie and Severin/Smith.
Wonderland!
Take your drop and enjoy :).
Thanks for that nice sharing.
"Nocturne" - Siouxsie and The Banshees Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1983)
@ Filipe Matias - Yes, what about it?
@@Cureboy : The last 20 minutes or so in this video are taken from it which is one of the BEST live albums ever from Siouxsie and The Banshees or any other bands!
Wonderland of castles made of sand that keep spinning around in sea and catch their dreams eventually
amazing
Love it so much... but it's all cold and weird!
chimnibff Love it too. Cold and weird? Nooo, it's fantastic!!
Love !
I have been looking for the full program for ages. Thanks!!!
12:30 onwards already kind of hints at `desintegration`
wowzee,first Time i see this!Thanks for Sharing!
babey babey
Yes, I like it too..
thank you for posting this, I have always wanted to see that special present. I love Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sporting the blond wigs at the dinner table is from the circle video
PERFECT!!!!!!!
what a gem, thanks for sharing! ;)
I remember having this on VHS *_A LONG TIME AGO._* S&TB were a phenomenal band. For me, they easily rivaled The Cure. So many laying heaps of praise on Smith but, nary a positive word about The Banshees, when in fact, they're sister bands along with The Glove. All 3 compliment each other equally. Shame that most aren't even that familiar with S&TB's material as a whole but, quickly dismiss it in order to put all their focus/praise on Smith and The Cure...
(Still nice to see Tolhurst and Thompson behind the masks in the Smith "skit" and _'A Blues In Drag'_ is still one of the best and most elegantly beautiful instrumentals of all time)
+River Of Blacklights,
Well said. I agree. Even though my number 1 band is still The Cure, close 2nd is S&TB.
Great, glad you like it.
this is fucking strange… I love it!
ivigiz Yes it is... The80's, the best time of my life.. (Sigh)
Nothing is soo clean,nothing is so perfect.bobby,, this is strange but is a dream? ?Alice is hot😍 Robert
How jolly down the whizz spun whole of holes and hole all black and white
Well, at thee very bottom ov thee well, I do mean , wot for a wonderful Treat ( as well as exquisite Treat ) !
I've always loved this. BTW, are you into Psychic TV by chance? Cn;t help but notice yr spelling.I am an ex-dream fn and aquaintence of Edley and Gen- known him since first meeting in 1988 n SF at the IBeam. He has always been a doll to me! And Edley, well, he is a damn genius! Incredible artist. N-EWay, cheers and LovEternaL, Stacy/EX Stacy/ECStacy/BentWar93/elLiSDiva/LSDJ/Hexagonyx93
that music at the background reminds me of pere ubu, weird sick stuff
Thanks for uploading this.
i love this so much
Brilliant.
thanks cure boy , I was, and still am a huge cure and banshees fan, what I wouldn't have given to watch this back in the day. My word, Siouxsie was soooo hot!!! P.S, if there is any track you don't have by the cure, hit me up. I may have it!!
fridgemagnet Nope, nothing missing by the cure. It's all here. But thanks for your offer. My cure tracker is dying, maybe you can visit foreverdrowning . nl once before I close it next year :(
Enjoy!!