Siouxsie - The Creatures with John Cale - Venus in Furs - Live USA 1999
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I was at this show in Sac and i vaguely remember Siouxsie getting pist off at the security for not allowing some guy to takre pictures.
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This audience video was recorded in Sacramento in June 1998 and not in 1999. During that summer, John Cale and Siouxsie (with The Creatures) made a collaborative tour. Cale sang 4 songs and got out of the stage. Siouxsie then sang 4 tracks, etc.... For the encores, they both sang in duet on "Pablo Picasso", "Gun", "Murdering Mouth" ( a rare unreleased Siouxsie song) and they often concluded with this rendition of "Venus In Furs".
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it's obvious Sioux and Cale handle this rather unsettling situation like the highly intelligent and sensitive persons they are - of course it's too much for that "girl-child" to on stage, especially for that song - of all VU songs! But both make it sound absolutely perfect and not offensive at all , even when Sue yells "...now bleeeeeeed foooor meeee!". This a lesson in impromptu f***-ups for generous artists on stage. Priceless!
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I saw them on this tour in L.A. It was so cool!
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Cale, Siouxie Sioux + Creatures: what a Bounch - and that in 99!
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God bless you Siouxsie!
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So the future's mapped out for the child?
Who's to say they haven't turn against everything their parents stood for in the last 11 years?
They seem perfectly content to be on stage with Soiuxsie there, and now they're old enough to realise who John Cale is..............
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kind of akward singing this song to a child.... When your parents dress you up like that and take you to a Siouxsie concert and put you onstage during Venus in Furs they pretty much have your future planned out for you.
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@karenchristine9 - This seems a bit too much for a kid- the hair and the lyrics of this song. I'm guessing her parents lean more towards the drugs side of the VU and concert-going as opposed to the pure enjoyment of music.
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always the best ! who? SIoux!
If Cale does VIF it is not a cover. To a large ammount he created and arranged the VU sound, so a big part of this song is his!
Just listen to the early recordings on the Peel Slowly & See box set, and how Reed had intentionally written some songs as folk/blues sort of arrangements. Cale totally changed their musical character with his radical musical ideas.
ForARide 2 years ago 14
Sousie has a perfect voice for this unique song!
Giaco68 2 years ago 5