A circa - '94 Souxsie dancing around in a union jack bikini? Damn, I'd of actually paid to see that!

I think Siouxsie, during her punk days, used to go into pubs with Steve Severin on a chain/lead like a dog. She'd be dressed as a peep hole bra Nazi in leather... She'd ask the barman for a bowl of water for her 'dog.'

Quite daring for the 70s... or now actually...

What i mean by all this is that Siouxsie has a pretty good grasp of the theatrical herself and it would have been interesting to see how much further she and Moz could have taken the collaboration...

But... Moz may be a genius but he is not much of a team player...

...to please both parties,I would have suggested Jewish bulldogs dancing languorously with fluffy pink nazi bunnies....(It's a love song, after all)

Or maybe a nationalist singer and a sad shiksa dancing languorously together ...And then I would have shown them being both tenderly thrown in the Thames...

No stunts, obviously. Geniuses don't need any.

That's nearly as bad as being called Mozzy!

Before Blur became Gods of the Britpap scene with the much lauded "Parklife" album they released the vastly superior "Modern Life Is Rubbish", a record that stands alongside the Kinks "Village Green Preservation Society" as one of the great "English" pop records...like the Kinks record Blurs album charted a particular part of English history, what Albarn called the "coca-colanisation" of Britain.

Morrissey, has of course made reference to the same thing with his remarks about the decline of Britain coinciding with the arrival of McDonalds and his attempts to reclaim the Union Jack from the right.

What is interesting is that at around the time of the "Modern Life Is Rubbish" release graffiti appeared around London..."British Image 1#" and "Modern Life is Rubbish", then Blur released press photographs of themselves dressed as hard-mods...skinheads with mop-tops if you will...Albarn leading a Great Dane around in his 12-holer DM's.

Not a word from the self same music press who were pillorying Morrissey for his "racism"...it is the same with this business with Ms. Banshee...the bulldog is a symbol of a Britain from another era...it epitomises a certain spirit...well, it did until they, like the Union Jack, became synonomous with ill educated, white van driving morons who listened to Skrewdriver (let's not go back over all that again)!

It seems that Morrissey's attempts at asserting his national pride (incidentally that song by DMR is just divine,no?)are always emt with deep suspicion by all and sundry...yet others whouse the same imagery and iconography are allowed tos ail on by without a word...Noel Gallagher, Geri Halliwell, Blur, Suede etc etc etc.

What was the point of this post? Answers on a postcard to Blue Peter.

Maybe Moz and Murray took off to the next room to have a quickie and then Murray returned to say that Moz had an "impotent engagement".

Kinky!

I always thought it was all rather frosty. The song itself is a moribund dirge even though Moz proved himself to be a keen crooner. Siouxsie, on the other hand, creaks and crows like the old goth crone she always was and always will be, despite the Givenchy clothes.

Who the fuck is Mozzy? (You have to remember Robert Smith was in her band)enough said.

I can understand why Siouxie wasn't keen on Moz's lyrics for 'Interlude'. It's a beautiful song with a lovely melody, but his lyrics seem like they were written rather hurriedly; they don't resonate with hidden meaniong, as they usually do.

whence the theme song, 'Interlude' sung by Mozzer and S.

This is from the Internet Movie Database:

"The story of a young woman, Helen Banning (June Allyson), who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance. While working for America House, she meets a famous symphony conductor, Tonio Fischer (Rossano Brazzi), and begins a relationship with him. She soon finds out there is much more to this man than his music, including a wife Reni Fisher(Marianne Koch), but there's definitely more to the story, which she soon discovers. While dealing with the experiences life has thrown in her way, she is also being courted by Morley Dwyer a doctor from back home (Keith Andes), who is currently practicing medicine in a Munich hospital. Who will she choose?

Throughout the 50's, Universal-International was home to most of director Douglas Sirk's striking views of life, love and heartache among the American classes. His work with Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Barbara Stanwyck and others in superior films like Written on The Wind, The Tarnished Angels and There's Always Tomorrow is not matched here.

June Allyson on occasion was able to break free from her standard persona with the fortuitous help of the right co-star, director, script turn or moment in time. Here the noble suffering and Rossano Brazzi do not provide the right formula. The stars try (probably too hard) and the trappings are predictably pretty, but the whole affair is rather unfortunately empty."

- Finn

Just to note that it's been out in the UK for a few months and is an entertaining read for anyone interested in punk/early-mid 80s "alternative pop" as it was called then. Just about anyone who was anyone turns up at some point. And she doesn't slag him off too much, though she was obviously pissed off with the way it all soured. "He obviously doesn't like confrontation and I like talking directly. Later, I got a message: Morrissey won't work with Siouxsie. She's too aggressive." When he suggested the bulldog in the video, she countered that they should use a chihahua. Morrissey didn't find that amusing.

i really do... it sounds like a beth middler and david bowie collaboration.

it comes from a radio itw made in roma in nov'94 to promote the release of the banshees'lp 'the rapture'.

journalist: what's the record I've got in my hands?
siouxsie: could it be... fatty?
severin (banshees'bassist): you're the one for me, fatty.
sx: she's the one with who he wanted to make the song but he didn't find her.

J: what's the basic reason you recorded with morrissey?
sx: I did it 'cse I wanted to know what it was like to record with someone else. morrisey contacted me a few years ago in a view to make a duet. I said no 'cse I was too buzy at that time. & then, the good time arrived about a year ago.

j: what was it like to record with morrisey?
sx: the musical side was fine but we'd had a few disagreements later. he's not the most straightforward person to work with. so, it won't happen again with morrissey.

j: siouxsie, let me ask you. are you a difficult person to work with?
sx: I think you should ask morrissey that question.
severin: hey, I can't say anything while she's in the room.
( sounds of slaps in the background & giggles).
she's a bowl of roses..

Fascinating. When will you die?