Curious Creatures
Hosts Lol Tolhurst (The Cure) and Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees) explore post punk's enduring legacy and contemporary relevance. Lol and Budgie welcome luminaries from all walks of life for revealing, yet relaxed conversation. Audience questions are answered at the end of each episode.
Episodes
Intense but Brief!
Lisa Gerrard followed by Liz Fraser
Peter in Heaven with the Cocteau Twins
Artwork for Goth and 4AD - Football is The Key
Surely not - Australian rules football of course!
Wheeltappers and Shunters Clubs!
3 gigs a night and it all paid off
Budgie’s clubland experience leads the way
The Essence of Punk was to throw away the rule book
It was Rough Down Under & Lisa played Solo!
Championing The Underdog!
From...
Carpets and Bass Drums!
Strokes of Luck that Changed our Lives
The Cure became Judges with a bunch of Fives
We all took numbers, and we all took a Name
They were all unreadable when the next day Came
The Journey is The Thing!
Does anyone know the Way? There’s got to be a way
Fake it to Make it, then Lock it away
The Highs and Lows that made it Work
Difficult relationships created the Quirk!
The Bells are Ringing for me and My P...
Affairs of The Heart - an American Thing!
Shifting perspectives, but Who Are We?
When Confronted with the Evidence, What Is Reality?
Everyone was there Except, the one Telling the Story!
Every Picture tells a Story – but is it TRUE?
How Do We keep Sane?
Uphill both ways and lots of Old Man Sheet!
We’re Still on the Road – Who’s making The Coffee?
Grumpy Old Men? – No, we’re Coming Home!
Disinfectant in the Morning – Not for the Fain...
Los Angeles Goes Out - Not Up!
Reinvigoration and we’re running up that hill,
But are we in the wrong sort of bungalow – Bill?
It was pots and pans and party time when Nabil was only two!
Happy House on Top of the Pops showed Budgie’s Ratamacue!
Drum lessons on the roof – of the National Geographic!
Inside the Hallowed world of the drummer’s secret handshake
All the drummers in Pasadena put together make an earthquake
A Night in the...
Love it to Death!
Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, and Led Zeppelin too
Adam Ant, B.A.D., Def Leppard and Yazoo?
All vying for airtime in Great Falls Montana
Would Lol’s Studded catsuit have raised a Hosanna?
Hey, What do You Do?
What is it that makes Reggie choose to risk all?
When counting a song in, could make a heart stall
It’s not a choice, it’s to brandish, the spiritual sword
It’s the old familiar wave, ‘neath an old surfer’s board.
...
Springtime for Ex-Pats and Germany!
It’s a Top Techno scene, with a strict Social Etiquette
The clubs are all clean, since they outlawed the cigarette
You can do what you want, but you can’t do it here
The clubs are all great, but it helps if they’re Queer!
Make way for the Dancing Disco Queens!
Gay clubs for young punks, were the only safe places
Watch out for the Queens with that look on their faces
Rubber and Fetish was the dres...
1st Gush. It’s all Greek in Brackets. Tokyo in stereo to the spirit of Ghosts. The sample debate and the bones of contention continue. No loops or samples except of ourselves. We get going as human beatboxes.
2nd Gosh. Are drums electric? Are drummers eclectic? Voices on the Air? We got Wooden Teeth! Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you The Sonic Poem. We were Born to Funk!
3rd Push. Cold Sweat Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag and its only R...
‘Butch - He got the Hooks!’
Topper Headon – He got the Grooves
Inspiration and Collaboration Clash!
Butch got that magic Snare Fill!
But our Hats go Off to Topper Headon!
'Butch as President of The Roxy Music fan club!’
King of the Fills? – Roxy’s Paul Thompson
Caution the New drummer - Don’t Forget Those Hooks!!
Phil Manzanera - a Guitarist on Fire
But Bryan Ferry - the King of Cool.
‘Meanwhile… Up in The Canyon’
Our Evening Star, ...
Bill or George, Anything but Sue!
Clyde Stubblefield always arrived early
Clyde made a so-so kit sound Great!
How do the Greats sound the Way they Do?
It’s all about Recognising the Good Mistakes!
3am Insomnia and the IQ Tour drop!
Hey Butch, what’s on the Weather Channel tonight?
How’s Your Bed of Nails this Evening?
Shirley is a Natural Born Road Dog,
OMG, when the Catering is terrible - Luxury!
Whilst Shirley was Doing the Dishes...
Phase 1. In which The Cramps’ Brian Gregory, gets on the Banshees’ tour bus outside the I-Beam in San Francisco and asks, “Was anyone in Liverpool not cool?”
A Dark devilish spirit with feet like Merce Cunningham.
Phase 2. In which Billy McKensie spares Lol from Death in Venice. Billy in The Cure’s penthouse for Faith singing songlines from another time, another place.
Phase 3. In which Ms Morrissey is Queen of backstage an...
‘Fanfares and Tears’
Pan as Magician of Inspiration
Brings Joy and Melancholy by Transmogrification
Pan gets Deeper then Deeper than Deep!
‘Digging in the Dirt - to find the Places we got Hurt’
‘Prepare for the Big Reveal’
In front of the TV Going through Puberty
Fluorescent Erotica as Manhood dawns
Between the Adult and the Child
Lies the Hissing of Summer Lawns
‘Sanctuary of the WC?’
Up the Ladder to the Roof
Where Pan can hear Heav...
Brutality!
Everything fitting as we’re thrashing about
Looking for Clues as we Twist and Shout
California dreaming no Communication Breakdown
Lol knocks a beat out and we go Downtown!
Religion!
20 seconds Over Babaluma
It’s Metal Machine Madness
Who’s in the Big box?
Drums and Love are All around
And a Dancebeat!
Is Bigger better or is Better Bigger?
Jack the Knife is the One and Only
Clean or Dry we venture into Geeksville
Thought...
Dream (a Little Dream of Tea!)
Shopping Mall testimonials, but..
Lol just wants to buy a shirt!
Recognition comes when you least expect it
Budgie’ll name that song in Three!!!
Fame (What you Need You Have to Borrow!)
On the Way Up or On the Way Down?
How is that Old Band of Yours?
My Grandad Loves you guys
Fred Incognito in Las Vegas
Liverpool (She's so Swishy in her Satin and Tat!)
Fred hears the Gossip direct from the Birdie’s be...
The Boys to Entertain You!
TV Pirates at Midnight!
Fred was Envious of High-Class English chocolate
Time for the Test card and a little light Music
Rattle Your Jewellery at The London Palladium
The Only house on the block with Colour TV
First Drum Kits!
Where did we hide them?
Budgie’s patent Caterpillar dampening system
Lol’s kit Hidden in Robert’s house
Made with Rubber? from Lol’s Lab job.
First Influences!
Fred hears the Magica...
Bands, commitments, and brilliant haircuts
Thurston Moore and Romantic Fantasy
Driving and dreaming of being a band
Or a solo career on the Canyon Grand
The Cure climbed out over Niagara Falls.
The Banshees below in yellow Sou’westers
Happy memories for the Xmas cards
Covered in spray when both stopped to Play
‘One could have it all!’ says Budgie, solo in San Tropez
Alone but not lonely, beneath a Mediterranean moon
Reaching out for ...
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Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee
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Brutalism!
Expression, impressions and Thrashing About
Body and Rhythms - finding the Space
Favourite guitarists are all really Bad
Everything sounding off-kilter and never in Place
Joy as an Act of Resistance!
Impact and choosing the Moment
Being Quiet to being Profound
Convergence from Differing Influences
Drums are Preferred All round
Ultra Mono!
Marc can be Chaotic and Indefinite!
On Foundations of Solid Bass and Drum
But where ...
Uh Oh – Here We Go!
Writing a song usually takes So Long
Jacknife had a melody and the music was strong
Arrow had ideas for words on her Phone
She Dived in Fearless and Created The Zone
Ch-Ch Ch-Ch Ch-Ch Ch-Ch Cherry Bomb!
Arrow started out as A Drummer
And knew the Drummer’s Importance
Lol could have sung like Joe Strummer
But Arrow’s Passion was Performance
Arrow and The Ants!
Planning the Stage and the Things that need Care
Cal...
25 years after the event he would be free.
On his porch in Portland, Oregon
Destroying the wood.
Looking legit in the jail jumpsuit
Banging cans and smashing cars up
In the rage room
Remodeled his kitchen with a bowling ball
A disaster
Issac was as excited about singing on our record as were we having him on the record
Steve Severin's dance the Mussolini house party
Syncopate stuff
Budgie born to beat box
Our fav line is "it's eleve...
One of us changed - One stayed the same
Let’s start at the very beginning
The Spirit and Magic of it
A Simple process - A Breakdown of Sorts
Boom Boom Boom Boom
Time after time after time after time
Composite born of Scribbles and Noise
Three Ideas with Strange Titles
Begat Three lyrics and Melodies
Lol’s Impersonation of a Small dog
My nervous system collapsing like buildings
Bobby asked, ‘Have you got any Lyrics?’
We said, ‘Surprise...
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