Their show a sustained fantasy on the dark glamour of pre-Nazi mitteleuropa, here are Brit-punk legends Siouxsie and the Banshees at their zenith over two nights at the Albert Hall in 1983. Barefoot, and vocally more foghorn than siren, Siouxsie struts like a particularly ill-tempered dominatrix costumed by Klimt or Bakst. When the song calls for it she writhes in Freudian recall of nursery nightmares to guitar-rock of chilling drama that owes more to Alban Berg than Chuck Berry.

Not a wink nor a smile breaks the spell - which peaks, naturally, with the hit Spellbound - and no band can have been more calculated to thrill the average English and Drama A-level student. High-concept schlock, of course, but the inner goth remains mightily impressed. The band's lighter side is exhumed in a bonus hour-long Channel 4 self-made special, a curio of pretension and art-school japery in which the band (which includes Robert Smith, taking time off from the Cure) and side-project members revisit English psychedelia in a re-enactment of the Mad Hatter's tea party. Much better is the promo video for the Banshees' hit version of the Beatles' Dear Prudence, in which they cleverly foreground the sinister shadow-play of the song's original sunlit reverie.