Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British rock band that formed in 1976. Led by the singer Siouxsie Sioux and the bassist Steven Severin, the band's only constant members, the Banshees formed at the advent of the British punk scene and soon became one of the major bands in the post-punk era. Their music influenced a wide range of very diverse bands over the years amongst them The Cure , Massive Attack, Garbage and more recently LCD Soundsystem. The group released a total of eleven studio albums from 1978 to 1995.

Siouxsie and the Banshees was an influential British punk rock and post-punk band partly responsible for forming the aesthetics of the original punk and goth scenes. As one of the most successful groups involved with the late-70s/early-80s punk , post-punk, and goth scenes, Siouxsie and the Banshees has sold nearly 50 milion records worldwide. The band was originally formed to fill an empty space on a bill at the first UK-based ‘international punk rock festival.’ This show was organised by M