For anyone who is in vicinity of the Rose Bowl in LA on May 20 (or wants to make the trip), this years' Cruel World festival will feature Siouxsie (minus the Banshees?), Iggy Pop, Love and Rockets, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Human League, ABC, Gang of Four, Gary Numan, the Motels, and a few youngsters so it isn't a total punk retirement home lineup: Boy Harsher, the Soft Moon and GVLLOW. What, do they all get like 10 minutes a piece? Actually, might be more than one stage. Don't know what's going on with Siouxsie lately. I can certainly vouch for Iggy, and Adam Ant live, I cannot vouch for Gang of Four cuz who knows who or what is calling itself Gang of Four nowadays, and I'm pretty sure that the thing calling itself The Motels is, and has been for some time, singer Martha Davis + a buncha guys. The others could go either way, but I'd wager Love & Rockets (with its' core trio intact) and the dependably theatrical Gary Numan shouldn't disappoint. https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65287#msg-65287 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:18:42 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65739#msg-65739 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65739#msg-65739 -------------------------------------------------------
> I hope too many of you did not come out here for
> the festival - adam Ant never showed, and they
> shut everything down before Iggy and Siouxsie
> could perform due to a “severe weather event“ that
> never happened.

I've heard it never rains in California…]]> Post-Punk Monk Trouser Press Tue, 23 May 2023 16:54:21 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65736#msg-65736 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65736#msg-65736 not their only North American concert appearance this year). I've seen Iggy, in a damn near unbeatable appearance with the reunited Stooges. And I saw Siouxsie & the Banshees on the 1991 Lollapalooza tour. If she sees fit to make the Cruel World set her only North American concert appearance this year, then I can see fit to saying, "Safe travels, Siouxsie."]]> Delvin Trouser Press Mon, 22 May 2023 16:08:03 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65735#msg-65735 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65735#msg-65735
“Siouxsie will perform an extended set on Sunday in what will be her only North American concert appearance this year, organizers said.”

So fans of the former Banshee still have the chance of seeing her this weekend for the do-over. Which doesn’t help the people who flew in from, not only across the country, but from other countries as well. Cruel world is right!]]> MrFab Trouser Press Mon, 22 May 2023 15:33:24 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65303#msg-65303 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65303#msg-65303
The big festivals nowadays generally have such a wide range of performers that people aren't usually forced to make impossible choices. If the Foo Fighters are on stage one at the same time Dua Lipa is on stage two and Sturgill Simpson is on stage three, most people can make their choice easily enough. But Siouxsie and Love & Rockets attract pretty much an identical audience, and neither have been in these parts since Hector was a pup. If they go on separate stages at overlapping times, that is a massive headache for festival goers.]]> breno Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:17:10 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65301#msg-65301 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65301#msg-65301
That's one thing I like about Mosswood Meltdown: it has only two stages, and when a band finishes on one stage, the next band is rarin' to go on the other.]]> Delvin Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:31:00 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65300#msg-65300 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65300#msg-65300 -------------------------------------------------------
> I don't
> know what Siousxie's tour plans are

From what I understand, this is her only show planned...for now.]]> MrFab Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:10:13 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65299#msg-65299 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65299#msg-65299
Or so I'm told. I wasn't there last year.]]> breno Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:05:23 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65296#msg-65296 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65296#msg-65296
My big problem with these festivals is that the smaller billed bands don't play a lot of songs. ABC probably will only get five or six songs.]]> Heff Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:28:58 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65293#msg-65293 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65293#msg-65293 MrFab Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:45:08 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65292#msg-65292 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65292#msg-65292
Having seen a number of these old-timers in recent years (Heaven 17 back in the fall as a recent example), I had wondered if ABC/Martin Fry were still making the rounds. Probably not worth a trip to LA just to see them, but I would like to check them off the list at some point before Martin kicks it.]]> rhettlawrence Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:47:04 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65289#msg-65289 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65289#msg-65289 in dub! Highly recommended.]]> Post-Punk Monk Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 13:17:32 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65288#msg-65288 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65288#msg-65288
Last I heard, Gang of Four is currently Jon King, Hugo Burnham, Sara Lee and David Pajo as a about as reasonable a ringer for Andy Gill as could be dug up. So it's a higher percentage of "real" members than what Gill had been touring with, but none of those members is Andy Gill, who is of course not now available for touring. So make of that what one will.]]> breno Trouser Press Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:36:43 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65287#msg-65287 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,65287,65287#msg-65287
Don't know what's going on with Siouxsie lately. I can certainly vouch for Iggy, and Adam Ant live, I cannot vouch for Gang of Four cuz who knows who or what is calling itself Gang of Four nowadays, and I'm pretty sure that the thing calling itself The Motels is, and has been for some time, singer Martha Davis + a buncha guys. The others could go either way, but I'd wager Love & Rockets (with its' core trio intact) and the dependably theatrical Gary Numan shouldn't disappoint.]]> MrFab Trouser Press Mon, 23 Jan 2023 23:10:27 +0000