027(EP34) Cities In Dust: Siouxsie & the Banshees, International Centre, Toronto, Canada, July 10/84

After years of devoted fandom, I finally get to see the one and only Siouxsie Sioux and her plucky Banshees in a cavernous-but wonderfully air conditioned-venue on Toronto’s outskirts.
I’d been following Ms. Sioux since the early days of punk rock reporting in the UK press, and fell in love with their debut 45, “Hong Kong Garden” in 1978. It was a UK smash hit and remains one of my favourite singles of the ‘70s.
I was a Banshees nut from then on, and when I finally got to see them live in 1984, I was pretty damned stoked.
HOWEVER ………. this gig is Another in an ongoing sub-thread in the mylifeinconcert.com series that could be called Concert Disasters, with said Disaster happening before, during, or after the show-OR during all 3, for those extra-lucky occasions.
Frequently they involve some of the cheap and old cars I was driving in the 80s malfunctioning in some way. And this is the first of those Car Nightmare EPs.
Phil Robinson will also be back again to detail his memories of the show. We each went down with other people with meant Phil was spared the “journey” that the other 3 of us went through.
There will also be a new blog entry for this show.
So what the hell happened with this one? Tune in to find out and hear all about leg casts, “rumours of a gig,” smoking fuses, the little Honda that couldn’t … and cities in dust.
Tune in (or read the blog entry for) Epsiode 34, Concert no. 026. Cities In Dust: Siouxsie & the Banshees with Images in Vogue, the International Centre, Toronto, Ontario, July 10, 1984.
NEXT ON STAGE: I’ll be selecting and looking back on my favourite London, Ontario shows that I’ve seen through the years, as well as those I’ve missed that I would most like to have seen.
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Following that will be an episode looking at two concerts by The Smiths. Stay tuned for EP 36 I Know It’s Over: The Smiths with Billy Bragg, Kingswood Music Theatre, Canada’s Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario, June 9, 1985; and with Phranc, Centennial Hall, London, Ontario, July 30, 1986.
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Question, do you know anything about Radiohead's at Call The Office in 1995? I saw your post on Facebook, and thought you might know about it a bit about it.

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They played there in the summer of 1995 but I was not at the gig. I wasn't keen on Radiohead's debut album and had not yet heard their brand new album, The Bends, so I did not go. I heard and fell in love with The Bends in early 1996 and kicked myself for not having gone to the CTO gig. I did see them at Centennial Hall in 1997, though.

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​@@mylifeinconcert Awesome! They had the poster up and original setlist on the wall for a bit, actually. They took it down about a decade ago, sometime before the indefinite closing (from what I could figure out)... I also heard that they visited CTO the night before playing at Centennial Hall!

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@@syrup- I've heard that as well.