Curious Creatures

Exploding Suburban Myths

Feminism, Formica and Friends 

Watch the curtains twitch for a brand-new switch

Another music from a different day-glo kitchen

Myriad, misogynistic, moustachioed men

GermFree Adolescents! 

Poly’s lyrics reach out across time 

Don’t touch me please I can’t take the wants and needs!

Poly sings Love songs and laments for the voiceless ones

New Yorks a-Go-go!

A formative experience for Poly and the boys

Two gigs a night made a mind changing noise

X-Ray Spex were the first punks to play the USA

CBGBs crowd a million times ruder than Erics in their day

Exhaustion and Tears in The Whiskey a-Go-go!

It wasn’t that Poly had to catch up with the World

‘Twas the World had to catch up with Poly.

Big Paul’s drumming was Big and complete

Poly often sang acapella to the beat

High Energy Rock & Roll!

Poly also sang each instrument’s part

And produced the Music and created the Art

50’s Do-Wop n’ Blues had an influential hand

In Poly’s creative use of the band

Poly’s Passions!

Punk’s DIY Ethic was a necessary tool

Finance was fickle and Poly was no fool

Necessity was always the Mother of Invention

Poly’s Grandmother Understood!

She was never going to be a doctor - but if she’d wanted to she could

She was Always going to be a creator - and so often misunderstood

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Respect: Poly Styrene (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said: 3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011) 

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The Day The World Turned Day-Glo 

Celeste made a Film about her Mum Poly Styrene

Six years in the Making ‘Twas A Labour of Love

Clearing Permissions like Pulling Hen’s Teeth

We Share the Frustration, the Push and the Shove

GermFree Adolescents! 

Poly Adored Señor Salvador Dali

His Port Lligat studio a Pilgrimage Place

Young Lol’s French Girlfriend paraded her cat 

A cat on a lead with a smile on it’s face

I Am a Cliché!

Valuable Time Made a Difference 

Personal Real and True 

Honest and Believable Felt Real to Lol

Honesty Helped Celeste find Her Way 

Age!

Poly, Lol and Budgie – 1950’s Varieties

Hold valuable insight of Era and Times 

Of Austere 70’s and all Notorieties

Goths on The Tube and Tory Crimes 

Identity!

Courting Controversy and Cancel Culture

An Early Adopter of Media and Tech 

Poly’s X-Ray Spex gave the Pop world a Rupture

X-Ray Spex caused a Pain in the Neck

I Am a Poseur!

The DIY Spirit of Punk for Celeste 

Independent Rebellious Thinking 

To a Conformist Era nothing more than a Pest

Punk Self Expression was Sinking 

Oh Bondage Up Yours!

British Journalism made Personal Attacks

Made Her Life a Difficult Role

It wasn’t Cool to be Polite to the Hacks 

Poly was a Sensitive Soul 

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Respect: Poly Styrene (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said: 3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011) 

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Who’s That Girl?

Concentric Circles and Avoiding Repetition

When The World Shutdown 

The Questioning Began

Bethany had a Life Changing Awakening

On-Screen-Only Relationships!

Ice-Cold Bitch and Her July Jacket

Bethany has some Secret Tea to Spill!

Be Whatever You Want to Be!

What’s Through Your Keyhole?

Balancing Real Relationships! 

Space, Space, Space, and More Space!

Professional Relationships – The Little Things become Mountains

How Often do You Change your Socks?

We Are Family – a Mental Family!

Re-Inventing the Wheel!

Exciting to Rethink the Live Experience

Arpeggios and Jingle Jangle

The Big Scream is The Point 

Bethany Thinks on her Toes!

What’s On Your Mind?

Talking to The Fearful Voice

Letting Go of The Extremes

Nothing to be Done and Everything will be Done

It’s All so Simple – Just Let Go!

And The Sound of Wedding Bells!!

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Respect: Donald Buchla (April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016)

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How Much do you Do in Your car?

Bethany lives in Her car - Bethany Loves LA!

Lol loves LA too – LA has always looked after him

Budgie thinks LA must love him too

LA Keeps Calling him Back!

Rent-A-Wreck!

Budgie rents his first car in LA!

Pick ‘n Mix of Environments

Lol wants a Bolt Hole in the Desert 

Music was In the Stars for Bethany as a Young Punk!

Bob The Dude Around Town! 

Catching up with The Thing!

Gathering The Best Coast Buzz

Digging Down beneath the Dark Underbelly of LA

Among The Ghosts of Creative Legacies

Becoming The Band until we Disappear!

Bethany and All the External Noise

Reclaiming Bethany – Bringing back, ‘Shame on You!’

Scary to Put Yourself Out There!

99% is positive - 1% negative is a killer!

The Vulnerable Desires! 

Bethany lets her old Character Go

Bethany Creates a Cocoon to Create

Anticipation and Expectation? 

Bethany is Doing it For Herself!

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Respect: Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)

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Can AI make a Hit Record?

Drummers talk about anything but Drumming

Two of the Singers on Los Angeles are Drummers

All we got to do is Act Naturally

Things the Industry didn’t Understand

Will new Technology Change Music Appreciation? 

More Means More!

We love and Embrace Computers

We love and Embrace Individuality

We love and Embrace Cohesive Collaboration 

Now Cue the Music!

Good Food and A Donut! 

Jacknife describes his Daily Process 

Everybody’s a Drummer – The International Conversation

What’s Going On with Shoes and Feet?!

Is my One the same as Your One?

Robert Dresses Below the Waist

Do we ever look at the Back of our Head?

Who do you trust to Dress You?

Jacknife Never looks at Himself

We must Think in 3D!

We Got to Move! 

Isaac Brock sings at 7mph

Jacknife Runs along in Time 

Lol spins for more than 30 minutes

Budgie cycles the whole of Berlin (almost!)

All because we Listen to Los Angeles!!

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Respect: William MacArthur ‘Billy’ Mackenzie (27 March 1957 – 22 January 1997) 

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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 instruments - No set formula 

Discussion is healthy but Discussion takes time!

Vocalists are Tricky! 

Musicians as Tightrope walkers – Without Safety nets 

Risks can be Creative but not for Careers!

Good bands fight to Discover – Take something small and Enlarge!

Robert Smith focussed everyone by saying, ‘this will be the Last Time.’

Fragility / Self-hatred / Being weird 

Pornography almost killed The Cure but reanimated them.

Club Smith or Club Tolhurst, had Simon Gallup singing Kate Bush

Doing It Like the First Time! 

Our New album - Fresh and Exciting!

Guest vocalists working Outside comfort Zones

Bobby Gillespie and James Murphy at Home - Arrow in Topanga 

New bands are mostly missing the drummer’s personality

(We’re off to a Good End!)

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Respect: Jane Birkin (December 1946 – July 2023)

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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 America to Arequipa in Peru.

Q. Does Bono do impersonations? A. Yes, a very dark Rupert Murdoch

Robert impersonated Lol and Lol did a great Robert 

Everyone close to Robert, became Robert!

Q. Affectation or affection for Siouxsie in the Banshees? A.????

Young Bob reinvented Regal zone on ‘So It Goes’

Bon mots take hold on the road 

An unusual dynamic - being together all the time 

Understanding people and personalities 

Us against the world – All for One and One for All!

Parts of the world Lol liked and the Jilted teenage girlfriend

As you get older, you better understand your ego 

Getting over the caricatures - writing the story 

making peace with life - preventing strange characters taking over 

Q. The Real Stroke of Genius? – A. Begin Today with a Clean Slate! 

The Job of the Musician is to Discover – Anon.

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Respect: Sinéad O’Connor (December 1966 – July 2023)

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Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee

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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 do and Live anywhere

Alan Vega a lonely man and a stranger in a strange land 

Budgie ran a Berlin Red Light and received a Berlin mouthful

Lol feels more American than Americans 

Lean American knowledge – makes Lol a man without a history or memory 

Quiet riot and Slade’s Unique spelling 

Lol saw Ringo Starr play in LA. 

Edgar Winter looks how Lol’s God looks! 

Budgie and the Glitter Band Beats 

First Money from music - Go buy a Studio 

T.Rex - Electric Warrior was THE album for Lol, Wayne and Budgie 

A copy of Electric Warrior said, ‘We’re definitely friends!’

Lol had a delusion of Mikey Finn Stardom 

I’m a Howling Wolf said Marc Bolan 

lots of love says, Wayne x

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Respect: Mickey Finn (3 June 1947 – 11 January 2003) 

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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 and Cure played soccer together 

The Cure played the crew but it made Heavy weather!

Wayne played for Charity and Drew with the Frankies 

Nasher the Smasher drew Coronation Street hankies!

Wayne and Budgie played in a band 

It lasted two days and then they were canned

Wayne with Pete Burns in Dead or Alive

Built like a builder - Pete tolerated no Jive

‘Gimme Dat Harp Boy’

Budgie blows the Whistle Test intro

Wayne and Lol speechless, ‘He plays like a Pro!’

Lol first met Wayne in the 80’s euphoria 

saw the Mission play a blinder at London’s Astoria 

And on into the sunrise of a new friendship’s Gloria!

Whispering Bob Harris and Annie Nightingale hosting 

Morning already? Imaginary boys toasting 

Sugarcubes’ Einar and Bob had a Ruckus?

The Zillow in Germany was it playful then serious?

Wayne once lived in the Columbia Hotel

Budgie stayed at One Queensway for a similar spell

Wayne’s Solo book tour - music and reading 

Lol toured Chuck Berry style with local Cure-heads leading

Chile, and Peru where the Cure’s pick-up glistens 

Pornography is one of Wayne’s favourite listens

Albie Singer was Wayne’s hotel pseudonym 

Budgie was Chad Valley and Lol, Mr Lazlo 

When Wayne asked reception, Hey what room am I in?

The room for Mr Pussy must be Wayne’s alter-Ego

Turned out Mr Pussy was the room Johnny Lydon was in!

‘Delusions of Grandeur’

Lol spends 4 months at the Beverly Hills 4 Seasons 

Wayne drives around strange places on tour in New Zealand 

Onwards to Moscow or was it Rio or Bangkok? 

Lol used a matchbox to find his hotel 

Budgie did too but which matchbox is it?

It’s Spinal Tap again! 

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Respect: Captain Beefheart - (Don Van Vliet: January 15, 1941 - December 17, 2010)

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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 Boys combined

That a good catchy song makes a band worth it’s char-monies.

Took NOFX a decade to find 

Buddy Holly died the day that Lol was born 

Lol became Big Bopper a natural showstopper

Busby Berkeley twirled, and Budgie sought ‘em!

Beatles for Sale and Budgie bought ‘em!

The Captain was Awesome in the Village of The Damned

Lol and Mikey D said, ‘Should we call on Rat’s Mum?’ 

NOFX had 10 years of peace until Covid 

Mike had No music as a kid 

No smoking behind the bike sheds

No Drugs, no Pot, no Meth heads 

Outsiders for life – it’s a Gas!

Mike? Still a punk at his High-School reunion? 

Retirement? - No way! 

Mike is living the dream again!

Lol’s American Passport - Berlin black shirt and round glasses - Beatles in Hamburg 

10,000 hours - 16 chords - Ringo’s Drumstick - Mike Loves 8 times 

Oasis plagiarism - Sleaford Modism - Burgundy Velvet Underwear!!!!! 

Lol went to Nashville - gave Johnny Cash a No-no 

Fishbowl studio tour guides, Flea and Fred a Go-go 

What a Lovely Fellow Mike is!

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Respect: Buddy Holly (September 7th, 1936 – February 3rd, 1959)

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