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 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 Street fights to The Stage – Loyalty was demanded

Peter was The Rock on which The Dead could Dance safely

More Baptisms of Fire and Keeping the Money Tight

Born to Drum or Drumming to be Born?

The Beat Must Go On!

Creating the Dance - We are The Disco Beat

Clay Pots with Skin Heads – Got a Young Peter Hooked

Lisa’s Percussion made Peter Heavier on The Drums

4AD 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 World

Conversations Never Heard – find Their Voice in the Present

The Fallacy of Memory – Reveals the Duality of Events

We are all of us Characters in Everyone’s stories!

Back On The Bus Y’All – We’re Gearing up for The Road!

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Respect: Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002)

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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 Pal!

A Constant Support from the Chaos Outside

The Rarity of Security was Peter’s Reality

Thirty 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 ‘em

They were TOO Good Looking for OUR own Good

Cheek bones to Die for, and Handsome on the inside

Dead Can Dance - Cooler than Frankenstein’s Bride!

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Respect: Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986)

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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’t

It’s 3rd Time Lucky to Discover All the Good Stuff

Everyone’s Your Friend on Tour – Even the Ones who Aren’t

Lydia Lunch & Marcy B Drive Lol down Sunset for Vitamin C

Looking 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!!

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Respect: D. H. Peligro - (July 9, 1959 – October 28, 2022)

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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 Museum with an Egyptian sort of sound

Genesis and Focus on the Oval cricket ground

Bow Bells are Ringing!

Cheech of Chong made Lol an Angelino

In the Biggest library in the Town of Televisino

An unlikely meeting of Minds at the LA Forum

Don’t tell Duff McKagan or even Matt Sorum

Books Books Books! 

When your whole life drifts like a Spirit in the Sky

There’s no time left as Tears go By

The second one’s needed, so no need to sell ‘em

It’s a personal thing - it’s the way I tell ‘em

Memory 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 story

It’s not what happens - it’s how you remember it.

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Respect: Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker (18 December 1958 – 26 November 2023)

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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.

How do You Stay Optimistic?

Get yourself some Private Ai – become a Super-brain

They’re all riding ticketless on a Berlin subway train

The only way is Up – away from the Big Corps

One potato, two potato, three potato, four

Improvising with Fusion! 

Recycling everything is the New Future Dream

100-year lightbulbs become like Peaches and Cream

All we Need is Love and Reggie in the Race 

We’re plotting our escape, to the much bigger place

We All Love Collaboration!

Music is the Victim – where does that leave us?

Solo improvisation – Get the Room to lead us

Music is the Funhouse of Mirrors and Smoke

You feel it coz’ it’s the real thing – not a bottle of Coke!

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Respect: Glen Edward Buxton (November 10, 1947 – October 19, 1997)

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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 dress code for sure

The Batcave was entered through a coffin shaped door

Number One in Heaven!

Getting stabbed after 8 o’clock Sharp

Underneath the Arches, where the shadows are Dark

The footsteps behind you, one for fear, one for dread

You had to have Eyes in the back of your head

Montana Red Dog! 

Soaking up the details in the cafes and bars

Reggie heard all the languages beneath the stars

Like a Teenager dreaming of the right words to use

Montana was waiting for the sounds of the muse

On The Road Again!

Meeting all the Oddballs on the Road to Nowhere 

Real time Evaporation in the Hotel Bar chair

World Domination was a long way from Home

We’re Back On the bus with Wet Bottom syndrome.

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Respect: Wayne Stanley Kramer (April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024) 

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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!

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Respect: Bebe Barron (June 16,1925 - April 20, 2008) and Louis Barron (April 23,1920 - Nov 1, 1989)

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‘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, became Another Green World 

We talked about Food and our Favourite films with Jacknife

But now we Gotta come out to Play

When 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!

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Respect: Kurt Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994)

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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! 

Butch arranged Tea at the London Ritz

They talked about Food and Favourite films

Butch heard about Kurt, the World Revolved, and in Flew Shirley

28 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-wee

Lol 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 Slade

Ginger appears in Angel Wings - almost!

Dapper Charlie Watts in the Coolest Threads

We all loved Keith Moon – but there could only be One!

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Respect: Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017)

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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

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Respect: Damo (Kenji) Suzuki (ダモ鈴木), (16 January 1950 – 9 February 2024)

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