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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! ___ Respect: Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017) ___ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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.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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

‘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 Heaven much better Spontaneous Social Interactions The Things that Dreams are made of Like Pooing on Summer Lawns ‘Iggy Pop - Pulling Punches - Changing Heads’ Blurring Modern and Old - Carrying the Torch Lightnin’ Hopkins played the Blues out on the old Church Porch Worship at the Shrine of Saint John Coltrane Iggy saves Pan from Eviction and pain  ‘Where’s Iggy Pop – He’s Behind You!’ ‘The Idiot’ squeals like a Liverpool Bus Everything Must Change when we get too Close It’s a Hustler’s mentality – A Taiko player’s Wet dream  The Zen of Hitting and Swing – Pan lost his heart to a piano playing sunbeam! ‘Improvisation – Riffin’ on the Rhyme’ Don’t put Sugar on Shit – Pass the Pastis mon Petit The Hobbits’ Vibe of Dining out – We love The French, the way they Pout The American Entitlement – Wearing Shorts to Dinner It’s Lol and Pan’s Enlightenment – Everyone’s a Winner! ___ Respect: Samuel ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) ___ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 train set in Motion - Don’t miss the Ferry! A Chicory Tipper!  Is this the Last Train to Clarksville? Or Wooley Edge after a late-night show Respect and Trust is the New Order of the day Conception is instrumental to our Train of Thought Or a Day Tripper! A Big empty space that’s Big in the middle Music is Everything in the Hole in the Donut  It’s as much about what isn’t as it is about what is Ai glides our Love Train to the beautiful station Winifred Atwell and The Poor People of Paris! Shadows of Angels to drift off to sleep with Where was the vocal, in Mr Bloe and Mouldy Old Dough? Moog meets Wasp as The Edge channels that Chord! Come on Paul give us a Break – It’s all icing on the cake  with a Wild Cherry on the top! ___ Respect: Shane MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023) ___ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 beak The Bird had heard Not much had Changed Form a Band and Prepare for the Bitching OMG OMD we knew they were good – so it was War! Our Friends Electric? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)  The Human League of Gentlemen All the Young Dudes – the Crooners from Sheffield The Cure members number a Baker’s Dozen The Age of Aquarius spawned all the Cure drummers Where did it All Begin? (Again and again and again and again..) Transported back in Time with Fred as a Rabbit What’s in Fred’s Closet? - Comedic Drummer or Musical Comedian? We have the most gear, we sit at the back, but we have no mic! We is Getting Geeky, we reveal all the drummer’s Nightmares And All the Fun! Cue the Click…… and Ignore it! All Will be Revealed (the Meaning of H.O.G. and Possibly Life!) Cut to Fred’s Competition Time:  Drum Intros… Can You Beat our Times? Where have all Lol’s Cymbals Gone? Fred laments his old Synth drums Keep it Strictly Limited! – See Y’all on the Road! _____ Respect: George ‘Kool & The Gang’ Brown (15 January 1949 - 16 November 2023) _____ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 Magical Mystery Tour in Rio! Budgie hears the Magical Mystery Tour in Stereo Lol has Overload hearing ‘Axis: Bold as Love’ From The Bay City Rollers to The Ramones Get Down and Boogie!  Whose kit did we Wanna Steal? The Damned’s, The Buzzcocks’, or Blondie’s? Aw C’mon, Punk had only One bass drum! Lol’s Mum Knits his first punk sweater  Where did it All Begin? Fred worshipped at the Altar of the Beat Lol picked up a Snare for song Fred pictures Lol as a little boy We all were envious of The Drummer ____ Respect: Charlie Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021)  ____ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 a connection and kindred spirits  With an ET stare into the cosmos of music    Mary trained as a Classical harpist  Learning to improvise in Thurston Moore's band  Dismissing the voice that says, ‘No that’s wrong!’ Being Vulnerable – is that what they demand?   Everything recreated as recorded  Mary's Goodbye to Hotel Arkarda If Nothing will ever be the same again  How do you know when to end each piece?   Lol synthesised on Arrivederci.  Improvisations on New Year's Eve Mary is a sensitive sentimental person  Full of appreciation of people in their power  We thank you Mary for bringing your magic to our album. And then Viola barks – woof!    ___ Respect: Marie Antoinette (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) ____ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 is the ONE! When you Need it?  Turning Left when it’s Comfortably Numb Crawler!  They’re running Around and Grabbing things! Loved living in London but Belfast has Changed The Shine of Electronica, Goths, and Hipsters The Converging Circle of Anonymity Tangk! We’re a Gang and we’re Horrible to each Other We’re Ruthless and unpleasant but we don’t let it linger We pushed ourselves to the limits of Divergence and Endurance Respect and Acknowledgement – to be Polar Opposites 2nd Only to Ozzy Osborne! Luxury when touring - on a Stage too Small for Comfort The Friction and the Tension for Creative Sparks Kneepads and Creaking Joints - Marc would love to Miss the Band To be Busy doing Nothing - But He Never does have the Time! ___ Respect: Gabriel ‘Mabi’ Thobejane (1947 – June 3, 2021)  ___ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 California was lost in a Shoe-gaze Stare Starcrawler first played in a Pizza bar cellar  From local group heroes to Rough Trade Stellar! The Lost Art of The Video!  Though MTV’s Been Gone and Done  Arrow arrived fully dressed to Stun  Arrow maintains the Video’s Importance She Combined Two dresses to wear as Ordnance! Hey Down! - Ho Down! Modern Music is Voice and Beat Drums and Voice are so Complete Songs that Sound Happy with a Dark Undertow Drawing People in Then Letting them GO! Touring or Recording! Arrow still gets Nervous, but The Stage is her Domain  Live in The Studio just isn’t the Same The Whispering Vocal the Eardrums it Tickles Reality TV when done Eating Pickles?  ____ Respect: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016)  ___ 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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 eleven not noon, checkout is soon" No check in until 4pm? Issac's tour manager can get him in straight away    Or as a tour manager you get the Presidential Suite  Show in London or California; the Integratron or the London Dungeon  Sound bath in the desert  Brain takes its marching orders from Gamma and delta and frequencies.  The gamma needs to be louder to cure your Brain  it's cleaning your brain up!    Vinyl flow and Jacknife and Isaac get on well We had. Slogan “ Nothing to be done “ “everything will be done “ Exciting to have two drummers drumming    Shel Silverstien  Books and poems on boogers and he wrote boy named sue  Weird dude Budgie had the mad comics    Lol discovered America from Mad and DC comics  We went out and ate a Twinkies  Robert still has one 40 years later  Mostly a mineral?   We are planning on carrying on working together with Issac - Budgie in the orgasmatron or maybe next door in the Integratron  _____  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: @budgie646 Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee  Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNF Instagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifelee Curious 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

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 us!’ Dipping in During Lock-Down Using Lyrics as Drummers Directions    Love was diseased right from the start   Hit me like Adventures too Close to Home Bobby speaking for every man and every woman Internal Collapse and Total Disintegration  Changing, Running Away, Lusting for Life. ___ Respect: Andrew James Weatherall (6 April 1963 – 17 February 2020) ___ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices