Morris O'Connor

About Morris O'Connor

Kenneth Ian Morris (1 February 1957 – 15 January 2026) was an English musician and painter. He was the first studio drummer of the band Siouxsie and the Banshees. Noted for playing mostly tom-toms and hardly using hi-hat, he is regarded as an influential drummer coming from the post-punk avant-garde. He joined the band in February 1977. His first studio recording was in November 1977 when the group taped their first John Peel session for BBC radio. A self-taught musician, he played on the Banshees' debut album, The Scream (1978), and Join Hands (1979). He left the band at the beginning of the Join Hands tour, in September 1979. He has been cited as an influence by drummers such as Stephen Morris of Joy Division and Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus. His machine-like drumming on "Metal Postcard" (1978) was sampled by Massive Attack in 1997.