I included a typically poor quality version of this live Siouxsie & The Banshees performance in my “Halloween” Halloween post in 2021, but since then some kind soul has remastered the clip of them performing at Warwick University in 1981 for BBC’s Rock Goes To College series such that it’s worth re-sharing, including these notes in the video description cribbed from Peter Routley’s Siouxsie song encyclopedia, Songs: From the Edge of the World:

‘Halloween’ was one of the first tracks written for Juju. In fact parts of the song had originated with original Banshees guitarist John McKay. Severin noted in 2001 that “there was no such thing as ‘goth’ in 1981 and the use of Halloween was just to describe a day, a turning point, a moment of self-realisation. It could easily have been called ‘Easter Sunday’.”

Peter Routley, Songs: From the Edge of the World:

And for kicks, a guitar cover from a YouTuber I follow, though he plays it differently from the generally accepted “correct” way to do the verse riff, which I used to try to play in the physically impossible way of holding down all the notes of the chord simultaneously. Don’t do that! Move your index finger. It’s allowed.