In which lol and Budgie discover why Lol won’t eat leftovers.They leave home and make Lobby Scouse and omelets. Alice Cooper and pressure cookers. Wasps and Bangers, baked potatoes, baked beans, and tea!It’s necessary to have your own...
Kate comes to LA. We learn the drummers are driving the ship. Holistically in control of everything! Like Lol, Kate got her DL in California. NYC is okay when you’re young but it’s hard. Kate started to work in TV. Never thought she...
We realize we are all drummers! Budgie makes a voodoo dolly of Siouxsie. We find out Kate’s teen fantasy comes true when she replaces Clem Burke in Blondie! Kate reveals at 15 she blagged her way into the Ritz to interview the Banshees. Budgie...
Lol and Budgie play the Utah rodeo – a dust bowl of outsiders. The “Lush Lounge” provided libations as did the aptly named “Eat Your Heart Out” mixing up buckets of cocktails on the road. Budgie passed the drinks across...
It makes no sense, Budgie and Lol find out, if you don’t like music because it’s like not breathing! When you discover the passion and know what you want to do with your life is mostly a teen thing. Hard to find stuff is what makes you...
In which Budgie and Lol discover they were a little scared of normal. We knew what we didn’t want to sound like, but loved the Ramones/the Clash/Bowie/Buzzcocks and T-Rex. Music was the future there were no niceties for us. A cup of tea and potato...
In which Budgie and Lol reveal It all started at the fairgrounds of England. Like a Stephen King novel? The teddy boys, rockers and… girls! Pink Floyd played our bowling alley! Post war England was grim and our true education was punk. Out of the...
In which Budgie goes to the Florida keys with the Banshees and Sioux only has a flashlight for her light show! Sometimes the best shows are when nobody is there. Lol was scared in Denver on Halloween by Fred Munster! A misty lake in Finland...
Budgie and Lol hear about Tim’s first memory of Little Jimmy Osmond at six years old and then Buzzcocks in 1978 at ten years old. He got let in the back door of clubs went on stage in the late 80’s doing his thing and nobody has told him...
Lol, and Budgie are indoctrinated into the Catholic church. Roped into a cult at birth. Weddings ( and funerals) were an early source of income for Lol. The Latin mass was mysterious to us ! At the advent of the folk mass, our faith lapsed but the...