Siouxsie & The Banshees-The Tinderbox Interview with Siouxsie (1986)
Artist: Siouxsie & The Banshees
Title: The Tinderbox Interview with Siouxsie
Label: Warner Bros.89
Format: LP
Cat #: WBMS 138
Year of Release: 1986 Promo Radio Transcription Record
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1986 The Warner Bros. Music Show series
Listed Condition: VG+/VG peel off on upper right hand corner several <1" spots
Sell Date: 5/31/25
Sell Price: $11.06
Discogs Last Sold: 2/19/25 VG+/VG+ $17.00
Low: $11.06
Median: $20.89
Average: $24.27
High: $54.95 1/24/25 NM/NM
Current low price: $22.73 NM/no cover
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3
Have/Want: 181/136
Where Sold: St. Lincoln City, OR
Time it took to sell: 10 years
Where and When Bought: promo
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C
Sad To See It Go: No
The TINDERBOX Interview with Siouxsie was a radio only interview record I got a promo of. This was the only tour to date I've ever seen Siouxsie in the flesh, at the Orpheum in Boston. It was also the last Siouxsie & The Banshees album I truly liked although I had all the ones before it and a couple after that I've written about on this blog. The cover got some kind of water damage peel off, so a $24-$60 record went for a record low $11.06 after being for sale a decade. I probably started it around 20 bucks maybe 25 and let it fall over the years. Considering the lowest copy is now going for $23 in Germany WITHOUT A COVER AT ALL, and the vinyl was super clean, the buyer got a deal.
Similar to the Paul Simon transcription record I sold last year from the same time period, these are designed to be "in-house" productions with a bit of gab in between tracks from the new album. They use the earlier cover of "Dear Prudence" from Kaleidoscope for the DJ to talk over to make a "professional" production with the copy on the front of the cover. There were only 5 songs from Tinderbox on this before "Dear Prudence" outros the 26-minute show. The same show is repeated on both sides of the record.
You get some interesting albeit brief banter from Siouxsie. At the time, the Tinderbox tour was the first time Siouxsie was going to hit the American south and places like Salt Lake City. The distorted faces witnessed on a trip to Pompeii inspired "Cities In Dust." We find she is influenced by writers like T. S. Elliot and Ray Bradbury. "92 Degrees" lets us know it was inspired by a particularly hot touring stretch in Boston and Chicago. Siouxsie cited Bradbury to wonder aloud if that was the degree that made criminality spike. Coming from Britain, she wasn't accustomed to such heat at the time although climate change has probably changed things up a bit.
Lesson learned, Siouxsie doesn't like the heat.
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