The story of how guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris left the Banshees is the stuff of goth legend. At odds with producer Mike Stavrou and manager Nils Stevenson, marginalised during sessions for second LP Join Hands, matters came to a head during a record shop signing in Aberdeen before the first tour date. Incensed that the shop was selling promotional copies, McKay and Morris started handing them out for free, prompting an incensed Sioux to allegedly throw a punch at McKay. Without a word, the pair upped and left, never to return, with Robert Smith of support band The Cure filling in for the rest of the tour. If that was the final straw for McKay (who resurfaced this year with his first solo LP Sixes And Sevens), Siouxsie refused to let it lie, letting her frustrations out during an onstage rant that night (“You can kill them in my name!”) and, later, on the B-side of their sarcastic yet hooky hit ‘Happy House’. Above a doomy beat and a repetitive groove redolent of Join Hands (it’s apparently based on an old McKay lick), it captures the Banshees at their most aggressive and scathing. “You stinking little creep,” Siouxsie rages, “you should be pushed down into the ground amongst the worms and other spineless things…” If the point wasn’t already well-made, she summarised “Fuck off!” before turning dismay into a strange party in its second half, revelling in a sequence of jolly “Lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo”s. Her defiance is even carved into its run-out groove: “Bye bye blackheads!”