The Seven Year Itch (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)

Seven Year Itch
Live album by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Released	June 2003
Recorded	July 2002
Genre	Post-punk
Label	Sanctuary
Producer	Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees live albums chronology
Nocturne (1983) Seven Year Itch (2003) Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions (2006)

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Years after the breakup of Siouxsie and the Banshees, the three core members (Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin and Budgie) plus final Banshees guitarist Knox Chandler reunited for an abbreviated tour of the USA and the UK in 2002. The Seven Year Itch is a live album composed of performances recorded at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on 9 and 10 July 2002. Released by Sanctuary Records in 2003 (in CD and DVD formats), both critics and fans praised the tour and album as Siouxsie and the Banshees concentrated not on radio hits but both popular and obscure B-sides and album tracks, many pulled from their early albums.

This release also featured a one-off rendition of The Beatles's "Blue Jay Way" played in the memory of George Harrison, who died in 2001.

The title referred to the fact that Siouxsie and the Banshees hadn't played together in seven years before embarking on this final tour of their career. It was also a nod to Billy Wilder's film The Seven Year Itch.

Seven Year Itch was the band's second live album, the first being 1983's Nocturne.

Track listing

1. "Pure"
2. "Jigsaw Feeling"
3. "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)"
4. "Red Light"
5. "Lullaby"
6. "Land's End"
7. "I Could Be Again"
8. "Icon"
9. "Night Shift"
10. "Voodoo Dolly"
11. "Trust in Me"
12. "Blue Jay Way"
13. "Monitor"
14. "Peek-a-Boo"

DVD

1. Pure
2. Jigsaw Feeling
3. Metal Postcard
4. Red Light
5. Happy House
6. Christine
7. Lullaby
8. Lands End
9. Cities in Dust
10. I Could Be Again
11. Icon
12. Night Shift
13. Voodoo Dolly
14. Spellbound
15. Blue Jay Way
16. Monitor
17. Peek-a-Boo

DVD Bonus

1. Backstage Budgie
2. Getting Ready to Scratch (Soundchecks and more)

References

External links

• The Seven Year Itch at Discogs (list of releases)