Curious Creatures

Neil Diamond put Stones in Jacknife’s shoes  Musicians with No Stations - Anyone can do Anything Jacknife loves The Cure and The Banshees and Drums (We’re off to a Good Start!) Artists willing to Alienate - to do what they want! The Gender Change Box – Expanding the Arsenal! Documenting Discovery – Being a Band - Not a Brand  The Cure’s 1st album was their live setlist On 17 Seconds they swapped i...

Jacknife never remembers the big moments.  Q. Why are we so busy? A. We have an album coming out! Blatant Plug: Los Angeles: The Album: November 3rd! Jacknife enjoys teams but was never a joiner  Overcome by FOMO - The pandemic begat TIME! Two Drummers and a Producer - Two Turntables and a Microphone  Budgie met Jacknife in Berlin on Bono’s no expense spared book tour  Lol toured his book in South...

Let me in - I’m in the band!  It goes like this:  Lol - Newcastle Holiday Inn – Sauna – Towel – Door – Fire Escape – Reception – Room-Key!  Wayne - Bristol - Liverpool - Leeds – London – California – Brazil – Love - 20 Years!  Lol – California – Home - 30 Years Ago - Home is Where the Ticker Tocks . The Circus was Excitement when we Moved from where we Started  In a band it’s simpler to do what we...

Budgie plays his Big Bass Harp The Cult and Subbuteo keep everyone Sharp Introducing a Liverpool theme You’ll Never Walk Alone, now choose your team!   Lol delivered Newspapers for 25 Bob Delivering milk was Wayne’s other Job The Beeb Top 40 on Sundays recorded 5 Pounds a week a new album afforded  David K Jones had a Brian Connolly haircut Young Budgie’s Skinhead made the Headmaster Tut! Banshees...

Like Indian musicians, we tuned together  Stroboscopic Tuners, revealed that we never Played a gig in Concert pitch - whatever. New drumheads were stolen  Boiled bass strings saved money Pitch Pipes were our first harmonicas Riding White Swans  We were Kids of the Revolution  Thank the gods for glam and David Bowie   The Sweet at the I-Beam and their 3-part harmonies  Deep Purple and The Beach Boy...

My 1st is in Punk but Never in Junk My 2nd is in Museum but never in Mausoleum  My 3rd is a Shop of Tartan punk Underwear  My 4TH is Shock of Electric Blue Head Hair   Who am I?   Lol has the stuff the Hall of Fame Loves  Stan Laurel jokes follow Budgie like Doves Lol sounds Australian? Mike’s a Bostonian!  We love San Francisco and the fog on The Bay We love the old iBeam and we love Lol’s son Gr...

Sad story for our friend in Turkey but we remain positive for a good end. Lol and Budgie hopped with Joy to see the Kodo drummers in concert Budgie met Kodo Principal Leonard Eto via prog rock legend Hoppy Kamiyama Leo and Budgie drummed and Hoppy vibed with Chaos tapes and the Hai! album was born In 1977 The Clash drummer Nicky ‘Topper’ Headon was Budgie’s inspiration!  Lol’s mentor Andy McBride...

Heavy Rotation for The Siouxsie Bus Party Linton Kwesi-Johnson - Forces of Victory  Psychedelic Furs - India NIN - Pretty Hate Machine London’s Satellite Towns Swingin’ - Dodgy  Policing the Numbskulls Mr Murphy with his baseball bat “Oi, cut it out son or your brown bread.” “Sorry Guv I’ll be leaving then.” Robert’s Red Vinyl Box Simon and Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’ Club Tolhurst and Club Smith...

Machine Gunners’ Ear  No Elvis, Beatles, or The Rolling Stones in 1977  Bad brains, Minor Threat and Fugazi - at 14!  Washington DC’s 9:30 Club, The Black Cat and Washington Plaza  The Walkmen cometh in 2000 Eric’s Club matinee, it’s a drive-in Saturday, lots of creativity from NYC In A Forest or In Dust, the Walkmen place their trust, in the Siouxsie-Bob sound, merci!  Bob and Lol’s brothers play...

‘The people I remember…’ Mutual respect, the Bloc Party had Kele and collaborators, what’s good and what’s bad Together on tour, but then things change Russell ‘n Kele retain musical respect  Musical Respect is a necessary thing  Banshees Guitarists, All the Young Johns Spizz oil and the Banshees, It’s a Family Affair  Kele and James Murphy and their traveling bands  Having kids and Touring Keep u...

Concentric Circles of Life and the Nightmare of Brexit Kele from London via Edinburgh and Liverpool  Budgie in France, London and Berlin Lol in the USA for 25 years Old UK market towns when the pubs are closed  Would anyone want a return to 70’s England? Out of Brussels - Nefarious reasons? Strawberries full of chemicals?  Capitalism - Free labour? Big Agri eats labour  Children pick berries - Hum...

Invisible Darlings - Fast piano   Harpsichord music - Gregorian chant   Pioneer days - with the Avant Garde  We needed friends - Americans are friendly!  Sleep? luxury - no sleep ‘til Hammersmith!  Steak and Shake lady - Rambling about Lions  Daniel’s den - Puts him in a better mood  Lol and Budgie - protected from the banter   Years of drumming makes hearing sparse!  Four sevens Clash! - We’re al...

Circuit Bending- Can you Feel it? Krautrock’s influence – Faust, Neu! and Amon Düül II  Budgie mimics the white noise intro of Hawkwind’s ‘Silver Machine’ Lol moves from drums to keys and an early Apple Mac  The Cure still Luddites for Pornography Live   OMD and Echo and The Bunnymen Budgie gave The Bunnymen a cymbal Lol and Budgie and the Punk revolution Loose electronics, unique sounds, and impr...

Wild is the Wind & Vulnerability Budgie is Shirley’s all-time favourite Drummer of her all-time favourite Band! Budgie Blushes in glorious Surround-Sound When Garbage played their first London show in 1995 Budgie was moshing in the pit with Banshees’ Billy Chainsaw Shirley felt as overwhelmed as Budgie did by Bowie  Golden Years 30 Big ones and Shirley couldn’t have dreamed it 25 Big ones for...

Manifesting - Liberation for Your Soul! Changing is Challenging - Crazy and Uncomfortable  Letting go of everything - Accelerate the Spiritual  Meg finds less companionship – and a big shift in people’s attitudes Finding a better way – with People that heal Budgie experiences healing - Negating Negativity  As we get better, better things happen  Lol is Awake - Right Now! Meg stops to smell the flo...

I am Not the Body. Meg found ‘Running up That Hill’ after 2nd album tour burn-out  had an Overwhelming realization - that the Universe had her back  36 years surviving dissociation from her body  the change is that the challenge is now happening for her, not to her No more people pleasing – an Evolution into a Safer space an epiphany of self-realization.  One Universe of Expression .   Shutting ou...

Lol’s Spare HoF Statuette   The NIN drum throne came free again Beck’s groovy tune was keeping us sane!  The Youngest to be in the Hall of Fame Says, ‘Two or Two Hundred the Energy’s the same’ Bob needed convincing and nothing less  Lol asked Trent and Trent said Yes! TOTP not OGWT If we didn’t do Top of The Pops someone awful would.  Did Talvin see Budgie play an Electronic Marimba? Ilan is a Mus...

When not on tour Ilan is at his mixing desk No exercise for young Lol - now he loves the gym  The Cure main man does not - (Unless he pumps at night) Lol was a man of extremes - Smoking was his hardest stop  Budgie sent a taxi for his ciggies - and sometimes ate a Porky-Pie  (Or was that his drum co.?) No gaffe tape on Budgie’s drums Instantaneous? Budgie and Lol hear their twisted addled brains ...

The first time may be exciting, but it sucks the life out of everything. It's the druggist’s dilemma - missing stuff when young  Lush stopped and Everything changed It's good the world changed too.  Early 90’s Game Changers  Life without a safety net, no gold watch Lol found his Inner Chuck Berry in South America  Miki Liked that and Budgie’s drumming The Cure and The Banshees emerged from an Inno...

Miki as Unsettled global traveller Miki as Chameleon in retreat  Miki and band as family What the industry wants, the public gets. Miki angered by press with no vision for female fronted bands For the lack of imagination to talk to a band with interesting corners  Britop was a return to the bad of the 70’s with image and marketing dictating    TOTP and the flashing neon Siouxsie sign  Lol went off...

Miki and Budgie met a long time ago – was it after a Curve show? Miki with Red hair, Budgie with blonde they were a good Match ! Struck up many enlightening conversations!! The lost evenings with Donald - hairdresser to the stars. Budgie drank in Heaven (Underneath the Arches)  Picked up a date but didn’t realise it,  Not green, but pleasant, especially after a few Manhattans! We were all young th...

It was The Birthday Party’s 1st London gig  When Budgie gate-crashed their dressing room  The party was a witty one from midnight ‘til Dawn Melting in the daylight at 7am, all bright and scrubbed. Editing for K-Tel specials, Nick fearlessly edits the multi-track vertically AND horizontally! Lol bought ‘The Lamb’, with a scratch that jumped in time - A miracle! Budgie feels the spirit of ‘76 with T...

Lol in Tasmania small and cool.  Damien Hirst diamonds and Berlin fish Fool  Kevorkian death blanket is the best in show Medical flip-flops in the house of Ringo.  Virgin Townhouse & Hedges’ Battery.   Nick and Phil Collins in drum-fill Flattery  Terry Chambers and XTC – in Another Green World lives a young Budgie  Nick began life in Southern Spain – moved to London for the Pistols reign Good...

When Life was bad - only music will save  Lol & Robert see the Stranglers together  Worship at the thrones of Tama and Zildjian Lols first kit - took years to buy!  Budgie’s first kit has a facelift for Cut  Meet the creme de la creme of Liverpool misfits Hansa signed The Cure for the way they looked   Julianne is transformed when playing live  Budgie loves talking to the audience - offstage L...

Julianne and Budgie in Making Music Mag. No Makeup - No Instruments - No Agenda  Disco 45 Mag was Lol’s fave Cure cover  Song-Words Mag was Budgie’s 10p bible   Glossy Crawley Colour - Grim Black & White up North  Streets of gold or fairy slides in Glass walls?  18 with Permed hair - Elvis Presley or Tony Curtis?  Lol was in Thin Lizzy with his Blue Velvet Jacket and Jeans? Yeah!! Julianne ado...