"Red Light" is a song by rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It is the ninth track from their 1980 album Kaleidoscope. It was co-produced with Nigel Gray.
Writing, recording and video The song was demoed by Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin at Warner Chappell studios. Severin wrote the lyric. He said: it was "originally a piece of automatic writing called "Exposure" (I was using "cutups" to invent words like "shutterslut")."
It was then recorded as a trio, with Severin on synthesisers, Siouxsie on vocals and Budgie on drums. The song featured the beat of "the Roland compu rhythm and a camera shutter motor rewind".. Official Budgie. 1 August 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020. Budgie related: "I wanted the drums to fade in over the electronica beat and evoke a smoky club atmosphere".. Official Budgie. 1 August 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
Although it was not released as the third single of Kaleidoscope, a promo video for the song was shot by Clive Richardson on the same day as the video for the single "Christine".
Legacy Santigold recorded an interpolation of the song on her track "My Superman" on her debut album Santogold. She stated: "I remember one of the first times I heard "Red Light" it was at a party, and I remember going up to the DJ and being like, "Who's this?". It was that good. I kind of stopped and was like ... wow"."Icon: Siouxsie", The Fader Magazine, The Icon Issue 67, April/May 2010. Page 73
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