Pulling Back the Curtain: Spicy… Lollapalooza and President Obama, all Presidents want to be chefs, All chefs want to be rock stars, do all Presidents want to be rock stars? Why is going to shows no Fun anymore? We stand at the turning point, no longer second guessing. Lol reveals the live ‘Holy Hour’ bell is the sound from the record Sweet…. The Art of Cooking as a Creative force, Do chefs perform their big culinary hits like, ‘Sea-Urchin Ice Cream?’ How do we balance the set list? We are just ...
Oct 13, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Landscape redefined by skateboarder Mason, Silva planned routines to Budgies drums It’s the space outside of the sound we’re chasin’ Cinematic for the Banshees and their chums Images influenced the sounds created Alfred Hitchock - Suburban Relapse The shower scene in Psycho, a shrine, gold-plated Herrmann’s score hitting every synapse. (Pause – aka: dead airtime – but not this time!) Charlie Mingus stressed the import of the notes un-played, PJ Harvey finds inspiration in a place un-stayed. Just...
Oct 06, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 15
He’s a reasonable Philatelist, Not an Apathetic Nihilist He’s a Dead Cross massive influence for The Locust, He’s a Wild scene Iguana, No Tequila in Tijuana! He just picked up the monitor and tore off his thumb 4 pm is an angry time for NIN to be on stage The Opposite of Love Is Apathy, Not Nihilism or Rage When Lol saw the same back in 76 and 77 He went down to his local pub to meet people already in Heaven. Love on one hand and Hate on the other, Apathy doesn’t fit Punk to Drunk, Humanity can’...
Sep 29, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Q:1 Anima Animus – says, “HAI!” and She asks, Was anything Left un-released? Was anything Right un-released? Q:2 Existential Edgar asks, Will IT ever See the light of day - Probably not - No titles available. Q:3 Thomas Jackson asks, (2 Presidents worth of questions!) Is all Quiet on The Eastern Seaboard? Has he really listened to every episode of Curious Creatures? Q:4 How many Sips of tea in our Curious Creatures Mugs? Q:5 Which songs turn up as B sides? Q:6 “Can you please speak my language?”...
Sep 22, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 13
All the Burning Questions…. Backwards chords and Arnold Layne? The Cure loved Captain Beefheart? Hippy music for The Dandys? But Not the Grateful Dead? From AC/DC to New Wave? All the Questions that Burned…. A Strange Trip? Wire and Elastica? Suede and Wire? Who’s Who? Are Wire the New Cure? Reinventing The Wheel? And Burning the Questions…. Unafraid to be Wrong? Genius or Gormless? Totally Wrong or Totally Right? And some Answers! Springsteen plays everything 30 times then it’s ready! Lol takes...
Sep 15, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 12
The Dandy Warhols Pt. 1: Strip Club Janitor Featuring: Courtney Taylor-Taylor as Himself And Peter Holmström as Himself You’ll Never Believe it! David Bowie meets Andy Warhol - it’s a Horror story! Lol sees Stardust - it’s a Close Encounter! Budgie, Robert and Bowie get personal on the phone! Bob meets Dandy with a plan to takeover the World! The Cure staring at the Pacific Ocean. Robert and Severin’s blue cassette box Mystery. It’s Out of This World! Budgie and the Glass Spiders from Mars! The ...
Sep 08, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 11
We Start a band and Lose Ourselves - Relationships, Boundaries and Rights - Give us a Different Manner - Pictures of us as Babies - Physical Reaction to Mental Pains - The Roles we take that Change Us. The Internet let Budgie recall His 120 mins of Silence The better He Looked - The worse He felt Inside - South America 1995 - Budgie At the top of his Endgame . Freaky! We see ourselves yet not recognize ourselves - See the Reality yet doubt its Truth! We were different people. Recognition of the ...
Sep 01, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Working Men’s Clubs and US Airforce Bases Drum Fills that We Never Forget. Kevin’s Punk Bands Paid their Dues in Pubs. Sunday Lunchtime - Bauhaus Play to Happy Families. The Cure had Competition in Neil Gaiman’s punk band Iggy Pop & Peter Murphy get Playful in NYC! Budgie Hit the Anvil - Kevin Smells the Poppers - Lol Keeps his Head Down Lol lost his Eyebrows in a Studio Fireball. Steven Morris - a lovely Humble Chap. Budgie talked while Steven planned the lights for the Blue Dot Jodrell Ban...
Aug 25, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Budgie got his 1st rudiment from the film Zulu with Micheal Caine Flamming the spears on a shield Lol's rudiments came from the library Not exactly Buddy Riche's but the flavor of Lol's Triplets and Charlie Watts' hi-hat The harder you hit the drums the better the tone Budgie said . Lol just learnt the two hi-hat trick Budgie mimics the butterfly on a snare 4/4 or 3/4 and Lol's fine Reggae helped Budgie get his style Buddy had the wrong haircut trying to out drum Animal! We learnt what we had to...
Aug 18, 2022•25 min•Season 3Ep. 8
What Letters have we got today? asks Lol with Soto Voice One from his brother with praise for Cured and parental tales of choice Budgie became a member of many clubs, to get letters in the post, TV21 was always best with Gerry Anderson as host Eugene Huffman loves the Podcast – he was always a Banshees Boy. But the Creatures’ Anima Animus has become his overwhelming Joy. The Banshees had a nucleus of Budgie, Sev and Sioux. The Creatures merged electric with brass and woodwind too Leonard Eto and...
Aug 11, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 7
The Menu: Hors d’Ouvre: Maestro Chef - John McGeoch Great Guitarist’s Sleight of Hand Baffles Copyists! Soup and Champers - The Ultimate Hangover Cure (see also Haggis etc) Roadside Snack - Currywurst and Scotch Eggs! Lol in Graceland - Everything is Elvis Crazy ‘cept the Kitchen aka The Church Entrée: Graceland is Small - The Plane Lisa Marie is Small - Was Elvis Myopic? One Pre-Show Drink - Could a Great Gig Make! Robert Smith - Does His Onstage Drinks Routine Reveal an OCD? Dessert: Lol Wonde...
Aug 04, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Miles wanted to be a trucker, zooming around the world. Budgie and Lol always Up front with the bus driver. Miles was a drummer! All drummers are friends and everyone that works on Curious Creatures is a drummer Mark Gemini Thwaite aka MGT jams with Tricky and The Creatures and also played with Lol and The Curse for charity Miles three favorite drummers Lol, Budgie and Pete de Freitas ! Miles stopped playing drums like Budgie and Lol - too exhausting ! Steve and his blog likes the violin Miles s...
Jul 28, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 5
1st - a story about a teacher. 2nd - a magic ephemeral feeling. 3rd - Music be the thread that weaves through time. 4th - There Was No Question - But We Found One 5th - Lol, Robert and Micky D., loved their English teacher. 6th - Budgie performed Kes for the English class 7th - Favourite Pub? The George for Lol - The War Room in ‘Ye Cracke’ for Budgie. 8th - Japanese Whispers - The Upstairs Room is Lol’s favourite, those beautiful London dawn mists. 9th - The gatefold poster of Lol and Robert - ...
Jul 21, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Dedicated to: Pete Shelley (17 April 1955 – 6 December 2018) Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?) The Curated '90s gave way to a Rebirth of Internet Rock ‘n Roll - Myspace and Tumblr. Is Indie Sleaze a way of being performance-based with serious Gusto!? T.V.O.D. Live Energy. DIY bands. Punk Revisited. When an Online blog with Trashy Aesthetics were Off the wall. M.I.A. Olivia's mum and Budgie come from Liverpool! Olivia Comes of Age in Toronto 2000 when Pot Heads Rule! Olivia’s P...
Jul 14, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 3
What Shall We Do with A Drunken Sailor? – (Make them Clean the Carpets!) It was 20 years ago today! Seven Year Itch at Coachella 2002. Q.) Where did we leave our Hearts & Where do the Flowers Grow so Very High? A.) San Francisco – Fave Venues - The Warfield and The I-Beam Lol and Budgie wannabe Steve McQueen in What Film? The American Dream is our future and Billy idol uses Lol’s Optometrist The state of California is Budgie’s favourite venue!?! but who said, ‘California is not a Place, it’s...
Jul 07, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 2
THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS – (How Not To Be Alone) The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam - Morrisey - Dot Hacker and Pluralone Does Josh Leave LA or Tour with Sparks? - Is This Town Not Big Enough? Josh as Young and Lucky, Shy but Open to Saying, Yes – I Can! The Perils of Looping, Feeding the Squirrels and Answering the Telephone. Is Josh Living Life in Reverse? Josh and Budgie just wanted to say Hi to their Heroes / Josh Stays True to His Inner Child Lol had a Hand in Josh’s Hall...
Jun 30, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 1
BEING RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW! – (What it was like, what happened and what it’s like now.) Budgie discovered the Chill Out Zone with Ben Juno Reactor. Lol discovered his Brave New World post Cure. How our Rolls have Changed. We simply have to have all the GEAR!! Football – Squash – Motorcycles or Bowling – We Have to have the Correct Shoes! Lol went Skiing, (Skiing not Surfing) Budgie played Golf. Drumming is like riding a bicycle once you learn you never forget. Life Changed and Drums came to The ...
Jun 23, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Early Prophets of Dark Deviant Magic & Voodoo (Siouxsie sings about sick serial killers and surveillance cameras.) Lol introduces: Nightshift as John McGeoch’s Finest hour. Its Shimmering Tension - a Simmering Sizzling Juggernaut. If Budgie was forced to choose, Nightshift would be his finest hour too! Lol says, “Budgie reintroduced the ride cymbal back into the lexicon of drumming, without that ride cymbal it would be nothing! A sinister sexy cauldron swirling around.” Budgie blushes and sh...
Jun 09, 2022•41 min
And how it was that…. Lol didn’t revere HIM until Low. How HE was L’Homme Existential with the Hennaed hair . Budgie remembers HIM making the duffel coat cool. HIS music and lyrics. HIS harmonica on Low returns on Blackstar. ‘What In The World’… Briny Eggs Wrapped in Offal downed with Halves of Beer down the pub! (To be said very fast after drinking a yard of ale) ‘Sound’… the Glam drummer from the Spiders and Woody Woodmansey’s U-Boat Panic in Detroit and Rebel Rebel, Sowing the Seeds of Punk. ...
Jun 02, 2022•25 min
Lol's orange punk jacket and pants from the thrift store and pointy boots. The album that went with this outfit was the Clash’s first album. The picture on the back of the album is the Notting Hill Gate carnival. Lol is in it mentally and spiritually. “We’re a garage band, we come from Garageland.” The Stranglers on the college juke box for Budgie. For Lol, it was white punks on dope on the college juke box. Janie Jones was the track for Budgie on The Clash album. The lyrics were it for Budgie. ...
May 26, 2022•25 min
In which they discuss: The Album at The Centre of The Banshees’ Split! Budgie leaves Liverpool for London - finds fluorescent socks and The Artful Dodger aka Steve Strange. / London’s empty Apartments are a Network of Knowledge for Survival in Post-war Britain / Money was Scarce, Ideas were Plentiful. Budgie’s management was Swingbest - The Sex Pistols management was Glitterbest / The London Scene was Exclusive - Budgie lands in its Centre as Drummer with The Slits Opening for The Clash on their...
May 17, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 10
1981 The Stones turn up to see The Stray Cats in London! Slim Jim meets Siouxsie and Budgie. Lol sees The Cats strut their stuff at the Marquee. They’re the greatest band in the world but, they have No name! This is how they started New Hair Cuts! Got all the Gear! Hello Blue Cats! Any new haircut was cool. Lot of cross-over in punk-era London. Stray Cats - the most British, US new wave band on MTV. They thought Terry Thomas and Ringo Starr would greet them at the airport in London. Floors we ha...
May 10, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 9
A thread that pulls you through the years @rockhall-13 million people in 27 years! Cleveland, Bowies' first us gig here, Jimi Hendrix, came back. Alan Freed coined the phrase rock and Roll. I.M. Pei designed the museum building after he had seen The Who and Stones. Created a very energetic and emotional structure. The home of America's great art. Lol agrees that the design is suitable. The most relevant museum to people's lives The museum of the people. Lol sees his Let's Go To Bed outfit! In a ...
May 03, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this Episode Lol and Budgie continue our talk with: Zola Jesus with whom, we discuss: Zola in LA - Seattle and Wisconsin / Sacred Bones and family. A Spiritual Strength to ground you / Zola’s black metal box in the woods. Lol imagines a desert commune / A post-punk Kibbutz / Budgie acknowledges strong women. Zola battles the male power dynamic and the Dark Witch Goddess archetype Women in music - is it getting better? / Zola and the balance of masculine-feminine traits. Progress in the Presen...
Apr 26, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Music is an all encompassing but insular process. A different air. Space and place is important . The Creatures played blind mans buff with a map of the world. The amazing three day New Years eve! Budgie bought Heinz baked beans and some drum sticks to Hawaii. A sense of occasion. To go outside of the normal experience. You have to grow by being put in a different environment and then responding. You need to unravel. Life is about risking things. Lol found Love in Los Angeles. Punk gave us a kic...
Apr 19, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Strangers visiting were a different breed, an assault on our sensibilities. The people were real. It was candy, floss, toffee apples, and diesel. No internet, so no real connections/Lol had the library books and records, to develop a sense of discovery. Make a band and travel the world. Minor eccentrics would visit the workshop of humanity. A selection of institutional people that we interacted with. Mass murders at the fair? Extraordinary experiences then to the local pub. Lol had his ear pierc...
Apr 14, 2022•36 min
First album takes three years and the next a millionth of the time Did a new Specials album no Ska! Probably a new record coming, and Specials unplugged works great. All looking well! Lockdown produced covers of protest songs Terry has to have no distractions and go to Paris. First tour since lockdown was fantastic. Lol remembers his first Specials show in 1979 at Bilzen Festival absolutely spectacular! It was the best show they ever did. Life changing! Utterly mental. Lol learns backgammon. No ...
Apr 12, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The A to Z of NYC / Armour wearing on Avenue C Punk Rock style and Attitude / 70’s Commercial Radio v College Radio When REM were Cool / when the NME reached N. Carolina 1991 Anarchy from the USA - The Yanks invade the UK Superchunk played The Old Trout or was it, Windsor soup? Post Punk-All bets are off / The Slits disregard all regardless Our Emotional Reaction to Synthesizers / Peter Zinovieff’s ‘A Lollipop for Papa’ is Budgie’s first synth experiment / Love & Hate, The Osmond's‘Crazy Hor...
Apr 05, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Dedicated to: Tony Allen (20 July 1940 – 30 April 2020) Fela Kuti / Afro Beat & Afro Funk In this episode Lol and Budgie talk to: Joan Wasser Joan as Violinist with a White Mohawk / Joan as The Driver in a V8 Ford Mustang Joan and Budgie as Cyclists in their Cities / Lol & Budgie responsible for the Melancholy Lol, Robert & Michael as Burglars in their school music room to make some noise! The Cure had a Box of Words almost Lost in A Fire. (In Cairo?) Joan with John Cale / Nico / Lau...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 3
We are chuffed to see the Bunnyman! Will just got off tour; it was 11 out of 10- weird! People still like our band's music all these years later. Ancient history. It's just weird? Bugger all else to do so we plundered a lot of different music. Whats a wooly back? A sheep in wolf's clothing. Paul Rutherford in radical Pajamas. Band names had to be short to write on yer gasbag. Until Punk, music life was unobtainable, Punk said you don't need any of that. Will's book is a social history. It's Bril...
Mar 22, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 2
