Iggy Pop

INTERPOL Frontman PAUL BANKS Covers IGGY POP & THE STOOGES Classic ‘GIMME DANGER’

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15 May 2025

Interpol voice/face PAUL BANKS scored the soundtrack
for Sister Midnight, a dark comedy from the British/Indian
director Karan Kandhar.

The movie takes its title from an Iggy Pop song, that opened
his 1977 solo debut longplayer. Kandhar says that Pop “was like
a breadcrumb trail I followed through the unconscious as I wrote
the film.”

Along with the instrumental compositions, Banks
also covered a couple of Pop/Stooges‘s early songs.

One of them is GIMME DANGER, a classic track
from The Stooges’ 3rd LP Raw Power (1973).

Banks: “‘Gimme Danger’ is one of my favorite Stooges songs, and ‘Sister Midnight’ I was less familiar with, but it is the titular track of a film that is feral with Stoogian grit and joy, so I was equally excited to immerse myself in it and find an interpretation that felt authentic to my voice.”

PAUL BANKS

THE STOOGES

THE DIRTY NIL – Raw And Rough Canadian Rockers Wanna Be Your Dog

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16 April 2025

Band: THE DIRTY NIL
Who: Canadian rock force, busy
since 2006, but only 4 LPs so far.

The band is ready to embark on a long tour across the USA. All dates here .

To warm up the fans, they launched a video with their smoking-hot cover of
The Stooges punk classic I WANNA BE YOUR DOG, as performed on Oct 5,
2023 at their show at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall where the group invited
George Pettit of Alexisonfire and Dead Tired on stage to go ballistic along.

AWESOME!

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IGG POP Loves DEATH METAL Band ULCERATE

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The imperishable punk Godfather IGGY POP (now aged 77 – well, a life of
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll didn’t hurt the former Stooge) was a guest on the
BBC Radio 6 Music show last week, he played amongst other stuff a track
from death-metal band ULCERATE from New Zealand.

TO SEE DEATH ONCE
Aaaaarrrrggghhhhhh!

TOYAH & ROBERT Search And Destroy THE STOOGES In Their Kitchen

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British pop legend TOYAH WILLCOX and her beloved partner and King Crimson
guitar wizard ROBERT FRIPP are still in the kitchen at parties, for almost 4 years
now. Their weekly Sunday Lunch Cover Sessions started back in April to kill time
in that awful Covid-19 lockdown year.

What they have done since is make us laugh to tears with their both hilarious and
utterly cool performances. They already covered tons of classic songs by classic artists/bands and there is no way of stopping them. Yes, it only takes two to tango.

Yesterday they slashed and trashed The Stooges classic Search And Destroy.

Watch Fripp‘s eyes rollin’ again from left to right and back
when seeing his colorful punk wife going berserk.

Original

Still rockin’ in the free world.

Toyah: Instagram

IGGY POP And SIOUXSIE Do ‘THE PASSENGER’ Together For Ice Cream Commercial

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The punk Godfather IGGY POP scored a timeless classic with
THE PASSENGER from his superb 1977 LP Lust For Life .

Over the years it was covered multiple times. One of the best is
by Siouxsie And The Banshees who covered it for their greatest
hits album Through The Looking Glass in 1987.

Now Pop and Siouxsie recorded a new version of the song together for an ice cream commercial. They slowed it down and gave it an extra glammy and glittery treatment.
It’ll make them a lot of money, but it’s a pretty lukewarm version. The original and
the Banshees 1987 take are untouchable. I rather wake up with those versions
on my headphones than this MAGNUM one.

ICE CREAM VERSION

IGGY POP (1977)

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (1987)