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Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie And The Banshees, is stretchered off the stage of the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK, Europe, after dislocating her knee during a rendering of Christine.Full article:
"I was in the front row that night," recalled Banshees buff Joseph O’Malley some years later, "and Steve (Severin) thought someone had thrown something at her,. She went down like a sack of spuds!"
Siouxsie’s agony began towards the end of the show, during their performance of Christine. In mid-goth swirl, Siouxsie jumped, twisted and, on the way down, caught her left leg in some of the snaking onstage cables. "I landed wrong, and pop went the knee," she revealed later. "I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get up or move. Then I looked down and saw my kneecap poking out the other side of my leg. By law, nobody could touch me in case anything went wrong before they took me to Charing Cross Hospital. So I’m lying there in the hospital with people who’d got stab wounds, groaning away. Finally, I got seen by somebody who had to cut off all my tights, then pop the knee back in place. They just slammed it back in."
Once her leg was set in a plaster cast, it was duly signed by all the other Banshees, after which, strictly against the advice of her doctor, she opted to carry on with the tour, performing sometimes from a chair, sometimes from a stool. She even sang Cities In Dust on Whistle Test while still wearing her cast.
"Complications set in, because I carried on with the tour," Siouxsie later revealed. "The leg was in plaster five weeks when it should only have been two. The plaster came off and it wouldn’t bend, it was real horror story stuff.”
(Source : researched and written by Johnny Black)
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Siouxsie’s agony began towards the end of the show, during their performance of Christine. In mid-goth swirl, Siouxsie jumped, twisted and, on the way down, caught her left leg in some of the snaking onstage cables. "I landed wrong, and pop went the knee," she revealed later. "I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get up or move. Then I looked down and saw my kneecap poking out the other side of my leg. By law, nobody could touch me in case anything went wrong before they took me to Charing Cross Hospital. So I’m lying there in the hospital with people who’d got stab wounds, groaning away. Finally, I got seen by somebody who had to cut off all my tights, then pop the knee back in place. They just slammed it back in."
Once her leg was set in a plaster cast, it was duly signed by all the other Banshees, after which, strictly against the advice of her doctor, she opted to carry on with the tour, performing sometimes from a chair, sometimes from a stool. She even sang Cities In Dust on Whistle Test while still wearing her cast.
"Complications set in, because I carried on with the tour," Siouxsie later revealed. "The leg was in plaster five weeks when it should only have been two. The plaster came off and it wouldn’t bend, it was real horror story stuff.”
(Source : researched and written by Johnny Black)