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Tue 23 Sep 2025
John McKay's Reactor
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Trouble At Mill Events

Ex-Banshee, John McKay’s New Band.

The Scream, the debut album from Siouxsie & the Banshees, was released late enough in the punk era to bear some claim as the first post-punk album, with only minor traces of 'punk' and enough hints of what had come even earlier to feel utterly new.

Siouxsie was clearly the focus of the band, but the sonic dynamo was John McKay, composer of most of the album's music and hit singles, such as Hong Kong Garden, while simultaneously creating a wholly new guitar sound that was harsh and brittle, yet melodically intoxicating, best articulated by a confounded Steve Albini many years later, ". . . only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise  to stick together as songs".

Many of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades credited John as a major influence, including Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2's The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr,and even the two guitarists who followed him into The Banshees – The Cure's Robert Smith and Magazine's John McGeoch.

The bands new album Sixes And Sevens is a historic lost album bearing fair claim as the lost treasure of the post-punk era, the album collects eleven compelling studio tracks. A prelude to the great surprise of John's return to live performance.

The Old Woollen

83-85 Town Street
Farsley
Leeds
LS28 5UJ
United Kingdom

53.814148, -1.672452

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    Tue 23 Sep 2025
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    Tue 23 Sep 2025
    7:00pm

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    £
    22.50
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    The Old Woollen welcomes all disabled and Deaf customers to the venue.

    There is step free access directly into the venue. Immediately outside the entrance is a car park, which includes accessible parking bays.

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