Curious Creatures

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 offBudgie’s clubland experience leads the wayThe Essence of Punk was to throw away the rule bookIt was Rough Down Under & Lisa played Solo!Championing The Underdog!From Street fights to The Stage – Loyalty was demandedPeter was The Rock on which The Dead could Dance safelyMore Baptisms of Fire and Keeping the Money TightBorn to Drum or Drumming to be Born?The Beat Must Go On!Creating the Dance - We are The Disco BeatClay Pots with Skin Heads – Got a Young Peter HookedLisa’s Percussion made Peter Heavier on The Drums4AD had a Dead Drum Room – Wolfgang Press with Tom Jones.It’s Not Unusual to be Loved!Hairy Chested Medallion Man – Made us Determined to Change the WorldConversations Never Heard – find Their Voice in the PresentThe Fallacy of Memory – Reveals the Duality of EventsWe are all of us Characters in Everyone’s stories!Back On The Bus Y’All – We’re Gearing up for The Road!___Respect: Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carpets and Bass Drums!   Strokes of Luck that Changed our LivesThe Cure became Judges with a bunch of FivesWe 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 wayFake it to Make it, then Lock it awayThe Highs and Lows that made it WorkDifficult relationships created the Quirk! The Bells are Ringing for me and My Pal!A Constant Support from the Chaos OutsideThe Rarity of Security was Peter’s RealityThirty years of always being taken on a Ride Had Lol and Budgie seeking a safe place to hide Booking The Cooks! What the world don’t know, won’t hurt ‘emThey were TOO Good Looking for OUR own GoodCheek bones to Die for, and Handsome on the insideDead Can Dance - Cooler than Frankenstein’s Bride!___Respect: Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Faint Hearted!How Do We keep Healthy?The things you Find on Tour – and the Things you Don’tIt’s 3rd Time Lucky to Discover All the Good StuffEveryone’s Your Friend on Tour – Even the Ones who Aren’tLydia Lunch & Marcy B Drive Lol down Sunset for Vitamin CLooking for Answers! The bar behind the Stage - Was it at The Fenix?Fisherman’s Wharf or Pikes Place Market?Home of The Slugs and The Edgewater Inn?San Francisco 1995 and Courtney Blows up Lolapolooza!Information Overload - Upchuck!Wow did we play it So Fast? Why do we play it So Slow!Can we Find an Easier way to Do that?Orange sparkle Gretsch – Brass shells and 26” bass drums?We come full circle – we’re back to Drums – All Drummers are Friends!!___Respect: D. H. Peligro - (July 9, 1959 – October 28, 2022)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures: Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.com Facebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Twitter: @curecreatures Instagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst:  Website: https://loltolhurst.com Facebook: @officialloltolhurst  Twitter: @LolTolhurst  Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie:  Facebook: @budgieofficial  Twitter: @TuWhit2whoo Instagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 handshakeAll the drummers in Pasadena put together make an earthquakeA Night in the Museum with an Egyptian sort of soundGenesis and Focus on the Oval cricket groundBow Bells are Ringing!Cheech of Chong made Lol an AngelinoIn the Biggest library in the Town of TelevisinoAn unlikely meeting of Minds at the LA ForumDon’t tell Duff McKagan or even Matt SorumBooks Books Books! When your whole life drifts like a Spirit in the SkyThere’s no time left as Tears go ByThe second one’s needed, so no need to sell ‘emIt’s a personal thing - it’s the way I tell ‘emMemory is Not an Exact Science!Don’t you Love me Baby?But you condensed my life into half a chapter!It probably didn’t fit the greater arc of the storyIt’s not what happens - it’s how you remember it.___Respect: Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker (18 December 1958 – 26 November 2023)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love it to Death! Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, and Led Zeppelin tooAdam Ant, B.A.D., Def Leppard and Yazoo?All vying for airtime in Great Falls MontanaWould 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 stallIt’s not a choice, it’s to brandish, the spiritual swordIt’s the old familiar wave, ‘neath an old surfer’s board.How do You Stay Optimistic?Get yourself some Private Ai – become a Super-brainThey’re all riding ticketless on a Berlin subway trainThe only way is Up – away from the Big CorpsOne potato, two potato, three potato, fourImprovising with Fusion! Recycling everything is the New Future Dream100-year lightbulbs become like Peaches and CreamAll we Need is Love and Reggie in the Race We’re plotting our escape, to the much bigger placeWe All Love Collaboration!Music is the Victim – where does that leave us?Solo improvisation – Get the Room to lead usMusic is the Funhouse of Mirrors and SmokeYou feel it coz’ it’s the real thing – not a bottle of Coke!___Respect: Glen Edward Buxton (November 10, 1947 – October 19, 1997)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Springtime for Ex-Pats and Germany!   It’s a Top Techno scene, with a strict Social EtiquetteThe clubs are all clean, since they outlawed the cigaretteYou can do what you want, but you can’t do it hereThe 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 placesWatch out for the Queens with that look on their faces Rubber and Fetish was the dress code for sureThe Batcave was entered through a coffin shaped doorNumber One in Heaven!Getting stabbed after 8 o’clock SharpUnderneath the Arches, where the shadows are DarkThe footsteps behind you, one for fear, one for dreadYou had to have Eyes in the back of your headMontana Red Dog! Soaking up the details in the cafes and barsReggie heard all the languages beneath the starsLike a Teenager dreaming of the right words to useMontana was waiting for the sounds of the museOn The Road Again!Meeting all the Oddballs on the Road to Nowhere Real time Evaporation in the Hotel Bar chairWorld Domination was a long way from HomeWe’re Back On the bus with Wet Bottom syndrome.___Respect: Wayne Stanley Kramer (April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024) ___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures: Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.com Facebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Twitter: @curecreatures Instagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst:  Website: https://loltolhurst.com Facebook: @officialloltolhurst  Twitter: @LolTolhurst  Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie:  Facebook: @budgieofficial  Twitter: @TuWhit2whoo Instagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Rock & Roll but we like it. Head on The Door’s Sang-witches make Boris and Lol seasick. Pure Gravitas to be Sure. 4th Bish. Steven King and The Langoliers help us grasp the Eternal Now. No Apologies for fading in and fading out. The Quantam Physics of it all. Bebe and Louis Barron on The Forbidden Planet.   5th Bash. Budgie gives Jimmy Page a day off. Luddites United aka The Cure FC. Budgie wears a Navy skipper’s hat with a hidden microphone. Long crescendo with a pause and a dying cello. 6th Bosh. She’s NOT my Dog. A Hungry Dog. The Analytical shall NOT trespass on the Creative.I think we Did – I think So - I think we Did – I think So - I think we Did – I think So!___Respect: Bebe Barron (June 16,1925 - April 20, 2008) and Louis Barron (April 23,1920 - Nov 1, 1989)___ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘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 ThompsonCaution the New drummer - Don’t Forget Those Hooks!!Phil Manzanera - a Guitarist on FireBut Bryan Ferry - the King of Cool. ‘Meanwhile… Up in The Canyon’Our Evening Star, became Another Green World We talked about Food and our Favourite films with JacknifeBut now we Gotta come out to PlayWhen we get to reveal Our Undertaker Chic!‘Early Garbage Live.’ATTENTION: Drum Geek Area Ahead!The Garbage stage is Dead Quiet!How do we do what we do without any stage sound?Boom Ga-ka Boom-Ga! Just Don’t Scare the Orchestra!‘Smashing The Crash!’ATTENTION: Therapy Area Ahead!Playing Drums is Therapy?Does that sound really need to be there?Sharing those Crazy Studio Adventures!‘It’s Happy Accident Time – Do not RFM’Lol, where did that Note come from?Where does the Bollywood Crunch come from?It’s a Dub-Reggae playlist backstage for Garbage Our New Band Name? - The 3am Insomniacs!___Respect: Kurt Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill or George, Anything but Sue!Clyde Stubblefield always arrived earlyClyde 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! Butch arranged Tea at the London RitzThey talked about Food and Favourite filmsButch heard about Kurt, the World Revolved, and in Flew Shirley28 Years of Garbage and they’re Still having Fun!The Music Cycle Changes – but the Madness continues! Hi-Hate-Us? Never, never, ever Stop!Commitments Outside the Band? Stick with The Winners - We are the Basket Cases!Where’s The Referee? Ringo knew how to Wait!Edgar Winter is Lol’s God of the Stage Timing is Crucial if You don’t wanna Wee wee-weeLol warns, Careful where they Place your Bucket Ginger keeps Jack Bruce waiting – Call of Nature! When You Gotta go – You Gotta Go!Look out it’s Ginger Baker – Hellraiser!Budgie at the Bar with ACDC’s Chris SladeGinger appears in Angel Wings - almost!Dapper Charlie Watts in the Coolest ThreadsWe all loved Keith Moon – but there could only be One!___Respect: Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 and you’ll just have to wait. Well excuse us for Breathing, say us Dudes in unison! Phase 4. In which Leonard asks a bittersweet question. Are songs always what they seem?PJ Harvey said, most people think all her songs are auto biographical. Though she hasn’t drowned any babies recently.Phase 5. In which Sandrine asks, what’s that sound? Is it a Bird in a tree? We’ve got a Harmoniser and we’re going to use it! The Godlike beauty of a few notes.PS: Leather does not like Humidity!Phase 6. In which The Cure and The Banshees played soccer after Elephant Fayre – True or False? Tom and Anton took our smudges! Budgie had proud moments on the Slits Cut. Lol had proud moments on The Top, but his drumming on Pornography takes the biscuit. Together we’re most proud of our parts in our 3rd Act – with Jacknife Lee, on Los Angeles. Phase 7. In which Henna asks, “Best LA memories?” The daily climb up Topanga. Freeways, Disney, Beaches, Cars. Yes, but there’s always something new. No sleep, big snakes, and spectacular people.Phase 8. In which Cambria asks, ‘What’s the biggest change?’ It may be our notion of time. We never stopped. It was the only life we knew. Today life is in session, and it’s FULL ON!Maybe, it was the restaurant menu. Maybe it was Denny’s. Maybe it was the all-day Breakfast! Genesis to Revelations. Long drives and Heaven at 4am! The Cure shake their booty to The Village People – The Banshees play Paintball in Freemantle!Phase 9. In which we pay attention. To what we like. To our influences. To our origins not being geographical. To the Magnetism. To the Bits that shouldn’t fit, that just Do! To Being Sound Carriers.In Life’s Beautiful Tapestry___Respect: Damo (Kenji) Suzuki (ダモ鈴木), (16 January 1950 – 9 February 2024)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious Creatures is a partner of the Double Elvis podcast network. For more of the best music storytelling follow @DoubleElvis on Instagram or search Double Elvis in your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices