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Siouxsie and the Banshees
70s British punk survivors
By Chuck Lovejoy
Staff Writer
In the late 1970s. England’s punk
movement caused a musical revolution.
The movement called attention to many
artists who otherwise would have been
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Punk groups such as the Sex Pistols
and Siouxsie and the Banshees blasted a
hole in the music industry on both sides
of the Atlantic. The excessive attention
lavished on these underground groups,
with their anti-social songs and unusual
looks, eventually helped lead to the de
mise of disco. If bands such as these
hadn’t surfaced, the Bee Gees still might
be topping the charts today.
The only notable punk band left is
Siouxsie and the Banshees. After more
than a decade of albums, “Peepshow,’’
their latest Geffen Records release, again
proves them to be survivors, if not more.
On the surface, “Peepshow” appears
to signal Siouxsie and the Banshees’
move into mainstream music. One gets
the feeling the band has the turn signal
on, but hasn’t yet changed lanes.
This is especially true after hearing the
album’s first single, “Peek-a-Boo,” their
most Top-40 single to date.
A closer look at the album reveals this
to be mainly untrue.
A big clue that the band still has a cyn
ical outlook is the album’s cover. On it.
Siouxsie Sioux, vocalist for the band,
appears to glow as though she has been
irradiated by nuclear fallout.
Another indication is the band’s musi
cal subject matter. “Peepshow” contains
songs ranging from the melancholy to
the macabre. This proves the band hasn't
yet stepped over the pop-punk bor
derline.
The album also marks a level of song
writing the band never reached in their
previous works.
The tracks on “Peepshow” arc the
most coherent songs they have recorded,
although for the most part they still can
not be deciphered into one complete
story. The band deals mainly with larger
concepts, giving the listener genera) de
scriptions rather than detailed ones.
Despite their cryptic descriptions, the
songs capture and hold emotions bril
liantly. The hand creates a mood with a
song's lyrics and effectively conveys that
feeling with music.
“Carousel” is a perfect example of this
mood conveyance. The song describes
the horrors of a carnival through a child’s
eyes. Especially scary to th© song-child
are the house of mirrors and the merry-
go-round: “A hen that’s fierce/And
painted bluc/With red eyes/Wants to
swallow you.” Computer sampled ca
rousel music and infant cries in the
song’s background complete the effect.
Two other songs, “Scarecrow" and
“Ornaments of Gold.’’ tell stories of de
spair and misfortune. These tracks have
an “epic” feel reminiscent of Iron Maid
en's "Flight of Icarus." Driving guitar
rhythms and wailing vocals conjure up
images of flying over (he country side un
der a cloudy sky.
The most bizarre song on the album,
both in mood and name, is “Rawhead
and Bloodybones.” The track’s sparse
synthesizer accompaniment to Sioux’s
crackling voice sounds like the music
used along with nightmare scenes in low-
budget horror movies.
In addition to the mood-making songs,
the band also addresses Soviet oppres
sion in “Rhapsody," written by Banshee
bassist Steve Severin. the only remaining
original Banshee other than Sioux. T he
song’s lyrics express hope. Severin
writes, “And if we can never see the sun-
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Reception
Thursday
October 20, 1988
8 p.m.
MSC Gallery
Wiliam Herring is a former student and mem
ber of company E2. An American Impression
ist, he paints with no message in mind-, prac
ticing the use of open color and economy of
line.
Jan Herring is a nationally known artist and
author. She works in oils, water colors, and
enamels, using a variety of subjects.
Making living as ‘freak of natuif
doesn’t bother Lobster Manatal
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DALLAS (AP) — On the midway,
one door down from Pork Chops the fat
man, sits Grady Stiles the Lobster Man,
who calls himself “one of the last legiti
mate freaks of nature on the road” worth
paying a dollar to see.
And that is how Stiles makes a living,
sitting under a tent and allowing people
to look at him for a dollar in Dallas, a
little more in New England, where the
economy is better.
Stiles, 51, is working the State Fair of
Texas, sitting on a pillow under a tent
and explaining his body to an audience
of eight or 10 people.
“I am known as the Lobster Man be
cause my hands were born shaped as that
of a lobster, as you can see,’’ he says for
the umpteenth time at sundown on a slow
Monday.
He doesn’t get to keep all of that dollar
— many times less than half of it. The
rest goes to the fair or someone responsi
ble for contracting the midway opera
tors, Stiles said.
“I make a living,’’ he said. “But I’ve
never been able to make enough money
to quit. I’ve told myself I woul-j
eral times but never have.'
But Stiles said he's notaujl
He does not feel as ifM
taken advantage of becaus]
“freak of nature,” he'
i that hisM
missing any notion
cruel one, where show mi
take unjust profits from
they know the actors coi'
money any other way.
Stiles said if he wanted t
find another living,
“My great-grandfather, my great-aunt
and my dad were born like this before
me. Instead of feet, I was born with flip
pers like a lobster,” he said. “I am mar
ried and have four children. I have two
that are perfectly normal and two born
like I am. We are the only family on
medical record to be born like this inher
ently. Any questions? 1 will be glad to
answer.”
Record number of exhibit
turn out for Texas oilsho
ODESSA (AP) — An all-time high
number of 602 exhibitors at the Permian
Basin Oil Show is proof that the oil and
gas service industry is still alive and
kicking, said industry representatives on
the show’s opening day Wednesday.
sucker rods, all touted i
technology and service.
In addition to standardo®*'
No questions from this group, just
long stares. The sign out front guarantees
$10,000 if his hands really don’t look
like lobster claws, and no one is asking
for money.
The biannual show on the grounds of
the Ector County Coliseum is expected
to draw 200,000 visitors from across the
United States and several foreign coun
tries, according to the event's organiz
ers.
range of auxiliary service
Lafayette, La., company ! -
drug and psychological
and gas company employ T
ton’s famed Boots & Coo'j [
fighters and well blowout^
Both hands are deformed, each with a
very large thumb and finger that meet at
a point. Of the many doctors who have
studied him, none have been able to ex
plain the hands, Stiles said.
Billed as the world's largest inland oil
show, the event showcases manufactur
ing, supply and service companies from
about 50 Texas cities and a dozen other
states.
The service and su|,. ,
the domestic energy
weathered the oil price col
ficulty, and companies^
they feel lucky.
But he can pick up a plastic cup and a
cigarette during his display to the on
lookers. He can also give a firm hand
shake.
On display were items from transport
trucks to working pumpjacks to solar-
powered flow computers to drill bits to
Oil prices dropped to a*-I
barrel in late summer.
West Texas Intermedia 8
benchmark crude, have A ]
$15.