Born as a mere project in 2000 & led by singer/songwriter Jamie Stewart Xiu Xiu makes music that inspires adoring passion (daily mailing of blood-covered pink knitted underwear) or hateful violence (a punch in the chest after a show in Houston). They're named after the film Xiu Xiu (The sent down girl USA 1998) a chilling drama set amidst the Chinese Cultural Revolution & they make painfully autobiographical melancholic & histrionic music. The band is influenced of course by Brit.