Curious Creatures

THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS – (How Not To Be Alone) The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam - Morrisey - Dot Hacker and Pluralone Does Josh Leave LA or Tour with Sparks? - Is This Town Not Big Enough? Josh as Young and Lucky, Shy but Open to Saying, Yes – I Can! The Perils of Looping, Feeding the Squirrels and Answering the Telephone. Is Josh Living Life in Reverse? Josh and Budgie just...

BEING RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!  – (What it was like, what happened and what it’s like now.) Budgie discovered the Chill Out Zone with Ben Juno Reactor. Lol discovered his Brave New World post Cure. How our Rolls have Changed.  We simply have to have all the GEAR!!  Football – Squash – Motorcycles or Bowling – We Have to have the Correct Shoes! Lol went Skiing, (Skiing not Surfing) Budgie played Golf....

Early Prophets of Dark Deviant Magic & Voodoo  (Siouxsie sings about sick serial killers and surveillance cameras.) Lol introduces: Nightshift as John McGeoch’s Finest hour. Its Shimmering Tension - a Simmering Sizzling Juggernaut.  If Budgie was forced to choose, Nightshift would be his finest hour too! Lol says, “Budgie reintroduced the ride cymbal back into the lexicon of drumming, without...

And how it was that…. Lol didn’t revere HIM until Low. How HE was L’Homme Existential with the Hennaed hair . Budgie remembers HIM making the duffel coat cool.  HIS music and lyrics. HIS harmonica on Low returns on Blackstar. ‘What In The World’… Briny Eggs Wrapped in Offal downed with Halves of Beer down the pub! (To be said very fast after drinking a yard of ale) ‘Sound’… the Glam drummer from t...

Lol's orange punk jacket and pants from the thrift store and pointy boots. The album that went with this outfit was the Clash’s first album. The picture on the back of the album is the Notting Hill Gate carnival. Lol is in it mentally and spiritually.  “We’re a garage band, we come from Garageland.” The Stranglers on the college juke box for Budgie. For Lol, it was white punks on dope on the colle...

In which they discuss:  The Album at The Centre of The Banshees’ Split!  Budgie leaves Liverpool for London - finds fluorescent socks and The Artful Dodger aka Steve Strange. / London’s empty Apartments are a Network of Knowledge for Survival in Post-war Britain / Money was Scarce, Ideas were Plentiful. Budgie’s management was Swingbest - The Sex Pistols management was Glitterbest / The London Sce...

1981 The Stones turn up to see The Stray Cats in London! Slim Jim meets Siouxsie and Budgie. Lol sees The Cats strut their stuff at the Marquee. They’re the greatest band in the world but, they have No name! This is how they started New Hair Cuts! Got all the Gear! Hello Blue Cats! Any new haircut was cool. Lot of cross-over in punk-era London. Stray Cats - the most British, US new wave band on MT...

A thread that pulls you through the years  @rockhall-13 million people in 27 years! Cleveland, Bowies' first us gig here, Jimi Hendrix, came back. Alan Freed coined the phrase rock and Roll. I.M. Pei designed the museum building after he had seen The Who and Stones. Created a very energetic and emotional structure. The home of America's great art. Lol agrees that the design is suitable. The most r...

In this Episode Lol and Budgie continue our talk with: Zola Jesus with whom, we discuss: Zola in LA - Seattle and Wisconsin / Sacred Bones and family. A Spiritual Strength to ground you / Zola’s black metal box in the woods. Lol imagines a desert commune / A post-punk Kibbutz / Budgie acknowledges strong women. Zola battles the male power dynamic and the Dark Witch Goddess archetype Women in music...

Music is an all encompassing but insular process. A different air. Space and place is important . The Creatures played blind mans buff with a map of the world. The amazing three day New Years eve! Budgie bought Heinz baked beans and some drum sticks to Hawaii. A sense of occasion. To go outside of the normal experience. You have to grow by being put in a different environment and then responding....

Strangers visiting were a different breed, an assault on our sensibilities. The people were real. It was candy, floss, toffee apples, and diesel. No internet, so no real connections/Lol had the library books and records, to develop a sense of discovery. Make a band and travel the world. Minor eccentrics would visit the workshop of humanity. A selection of institutional people that we interacted wi...

First album takes three years and the next a millionth of the time Did a new Specials album no Ska! Probably a new record coming, and Specials unplugged works great. All looking well! Lockdown produced covers of protest songs Terry has to have no distractions and go to Paris. First tour since lockdown was fantastic. Lol remembers his first Specials show in 1979 at Bilzen Festival absolutely specta...

The A to Z of NYC / Armour wearing on Avenue C Punk Rock style and Attitude / 70’s Commercial Radio v College Radio When REM were Cool / when the NME reached N. Carolina 1991 Anarchy from the USA - The Yanks invade the UK Superchunk played The Old Trout or was it, Windsor soup? Post Punk-All bets are off / The Slits disregard all regardless Our Emotional Reaction to Synthesizers / Peter Zinovieff’...

Dedicated to: Tony Allen (20 July 1940 – 30 April 2020) Fela Kuti / Afro Beat & Afro Funk In this episode Lol and Budgie talk to: Joan Wasser Joan as Violinist with a White Mohawk / Joan as The Driver in a V8 Ford Mustang Joan and Budgie as Cyclists in their Cities / Lol & Budgie responsible for the Melancholy Lol, Robert & Michael as Burglars in their school music room to make some no...

We are chuffed to see the Bunnyman! Will just got off tour; it was 11 out of 10- weird! People still like our band's music all these years later. Ancient history. It's just weird? Bugger all else to do so we plundered a lot of different music. Whats a wooly back? A sheep in wolf's clothing. Paul Rutherford in radical Pajamas. Band names had to be short to write on yer gasbag. Until Punk, music lif...

The Cure’s first album, Three Imaginary Boys, released in 1979, was made into a compilation called Boys Don’t Cry for the American market in 1980. Welcome to a slightly different format of Curious Creatures, in which Lol and Budgie discuss a specific topic in more detail. In this first episode, Lol talks about Boys Don’t Cry and Cure manager Chris Parry’s penchant for not wearing socks, a naked dr...

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Which silver screen superstar honed his comedic chops behind bars while doing time for slinging cocaine? Which movie mogul's home in the Hollywood hills played host to one of the most heinous and notorious crimes of the 1970s? And how did ONE movie franchise supposedly curse FOUR different actors, leading them each to an early grave?   Hear the unbelievable but true stories behind these questions...

Lol and Budgie discuss[es] birthdays they have spent in the studio (Lol for 17 Seconds) or on the road having the bus party (Budgie). Everything closed in London at Christmas. We only got home just in time. Every day is Saturday in a band, even if it's Monday. Unless it's Boxing Day. We would be working every weekend. Hey, we signed up for it. We were the monks of music, leading a disciplined life...

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In which lol and Budgie discover why Lol won't eat leftovers. They leave home and make Lobby Scouse and omelets. Alice Cooper and pressure cookers. Wasps and Bangers, baked potatoes, baked beans, and tea!  It's necessary to have your own caterers on tour. Meeting other bands at a service station means-punk rock food fight! The Italians and Dutch have gourmet truck stops. Lol enjoys the flower bowl...

Kate comes to LA. We learn the drummers are driving the ship. Holistically in control of everything! Like Lol, Kate got her DL in California. NYC is okay when you're young but it's hard. Kate started to work in TV. Never thought she would end up in LA. You have to be open and willing to take risks. LA is a small town masquerading as a big city where you can wear big boots and coats even when you d...

We realize we are all drummers! Budgie makes a voodoo dolly of Siouxsie. We find out Kate's teen fantasy comes true when she replaces Clem Burke in Blondie! Kate reveals at 15 she blagged her way into the Ritz to interview the Banshees. Budgie let Kate sit behind his kit! She lets him know he's her favorite drummer!! Cheeky! Budgie and Lol and female drummers we have known. Her alter ego "Kate Nai...

Lol and Budgie play the Utah rodeo - a dust bowl of outsiders. The "Lush Lounge" provided libations as did the aptly named "Eat Your Heart Out" mixing up buckets of cocktails on the road. Budgie passed the drinks across the kit in Colorado. Lol had 23 shows in Australia and life seemed just like the Blues Brothers.  Sorry about the show! The banshees play the Whisky a Go Go - why are people wearin...

IT makes no sense, Budgie and Lol find out, if you don't like music because it's like not breathing! When you discover the passion and know what you want to do with your life is mostly a teen thing. Hard to find stuff is what makes you want to do it more the more obscure the better But don't try too hard to be different. You only need three chords and the truth is true even in skateboarding. You n...