On May 17th Siouxsie was awarded an IVOR at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane to a standing ovation from a music industry crowd, the special inspiration award was presented to Siouxsie on stage by her close friend John Maybury and was preceeded by a 5 minute film about Siouxsie’s life and career from forming the Banshees with Steven Severin to recording as a solo artist and indeed recording a track for Mr Maybury’s film ‘The Edge Of Love’ in 2008.
The Ivors is an incredibly prestigious songwriting-based award ceremony that is now in its 57th year. Worth mentioning is that American songwriter Jimmy Webb was also honoured at the awards, he actually wrote MacArthur Park, a song covered by Donna Summer who’s tragically early death was sadly and spookily announced straight after the awards.
Siouxsie was interviewed for the amazing Punk Britannia series that runs on BBC 4 Television from June 1st (tomorrow). Check on line for details at the BBC website. As part of the celebrations Siouxsie also recorded a 1 hour radio show for BBC 6 Music that will be aired on 10th of June, Siouxsie hosts the show and will play some of her favourite tunes from her youth, expect to be dancing around the front room from Midday onwards (London time).
Source: Siouxsie H-Quioux
