Nocturne | ||||
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Released | 25 November 1983 | |||
Recorded | 30 September and 1 October 1983 | |||
Venue | Royal Albert Hall, London | |||
Genre | Post-punk | |||
Length | 76:47 | |||
Label | Polydor | |||
Producer | Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mike Hedges | |||
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Siouxsie and the Banshees chronology | ||||
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Nocturne is a live double album and video by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 25 November 1983 by Polydor Records. Co-produced by Mike Hedges, Nocturne features performances recorded at two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on 30 September and 1 October 1983, featuring Robert Smith (of the Cure) on guitar.
Most of the material is from 1981's Juju and 1982's A Kiss in the Dreamhouse. It also features a few B-sides ("Pulled to Bits" and "Eve White/Eve Black") as well as a live version of the Beatles' "Dear Prudence", a song the Banshees had recorded in the studio earlier that year in Stockholm and issued as a single in September.
The music heard in the introduction before "Israel" is an excerpt from The Rite of Spring, composed in 1913 by Igor Stravinsky.[1]
In 2024, a double vinyl edition of the 1983 live album Nocturne, featuring new artwork and a poster, was remastered and cut at half speed at Abbey Road studios: it was released for Record Store Day on April 20, worldwide via several independent stores and websites.[2]
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