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 offBudgie’s clubland experience leads the wayThe Essence of Punk was to throw away the rule bookIt was Rough Down Under & Lisa played Solo!Championing The Underdog!From Street fights to The Stage – Loyalty was demandedPeter was The Rock on which The Dead could Dance safelyMore Baptisms of Fire and Keeping the Money TightBorn to Drum or Drumming to be Born?The Beat Must Go On!Creating the Dance - We are The Disco BeatClay Pots with Skin Heads – Got a Young Peter HookedLisa’s Percussion made Peter Heavier on The Drums4AD 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 WorldConversations Never Heard – find Their Voice in the PresentThe Fallacy of Memory – Reveals the Duality of EventsWe are all of us Characters in Everyone’s stories!Back On The Bus Y’All – We’re Gearing up for The Road!___Respect: Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious 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

Carpets and Bass Drums!   Strokes of Luck that Changed our LivesThe Cure became Judges with a bunch of FivesWe 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 wayFake it to Make it, then Lock it awayThe Highs and Lows that made it WorkDifficult relationships created the Quirk! The Bells are Ringing for me and My Pal!A Constant Support from the Chaos OutsideThe Rarity of Security was Peter’s RealityThirty 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 ‘emThey were TOO Good Looking for OUR own GoodCheek bones to Die for, and Handsome on the insideDead Can Dance - Cooler than Frankenstein’s Bride!___Respect: Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious 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

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’tIt’s 3rd Time Lucky to Discover All the Good StuffEveryone’s Your Friend on Tour – Even the Ones who Aren’tLydia Lunch & Marcy B Drive Lol down Sunset for Vitamin CLooking 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!!___Respect: D. H. Peligro - (July 9, 1959 – October 28, 2022)___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: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious 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

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 handshakeAll the drummers in Pasadena put together make an earthquakeA Night in the Museum with an Egyptian sort of soundGenesis and Focus on the Oval cricket groundBow Bells are Ringing!Cheech of Chong made Lol an AngelinoIn the Biggest library in the Town of TelevisinoAn unlikely meeting of Minds at the LA ForumDon’t tell Duff McKagan or even Matt SorumBooks Books Books! When your whole life drifts like a Spirit in the SkyThere’s no time left as Tears go ByThe second one’s needed, so no need to sell ‘emIt’s a personal thing - it’s the way I tell ‘emMemory 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 storyIt’s not what happens - it’s how you remember it.___Respect: Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker (18 December 1958 – 26 November 2023)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious 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

Love it to Death! Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, and Led Zeppelin tooAdam Ant, B.A.D., Def Leppard and Yazoo?All vying for airtime in Great Falls MontanaWould 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 stallIt’s not a choice, it’s to brandish, the spiritual swordIt’s the old familiar wave, ‘neath an old surfer’s board.How do You Stay Optimistic?Get yourself some Private Ai – become a Super-brainThey’re all riding ticketless on a Berlin subway trainThe only way is Up – away from the Big CorpsOne potato, two potato, three potato, fourImprovising with Fusion! Recycling everything is the New Future Dream100-year lightbulbs become like Peaches and CreamAll we Need is Love and Reggie in the Race We’re plotting our escape, to the much bigger placeWe All Love Collaboration!Music is the Victim – where does that leave us?Solo improvisation – Get the Room to lead usMusic is the Funhouse of Mirrors and SmokeYou feel it coz’ it’s the real thing – not a bottle of Coke!___Respect: Glen Edward Buxton (November 10, 1947 – October 19, 1997)___CONNECT WITH US: Curious Creatures:Website: https://curiouscreaturespodcast.comFacebook: @CuriousCreaturesOfficialTwitter: @curecreaturesInstagram: @CuriousCreaturesOfficial Lol Tolhurst: Website: https://loltolhurst.comFacebook: @officialloltolhurst Twitter: @LolTolhurst Instagram: @lol.tolhurst  Budgie: Facebook: @budgieofficial Twitter: @TuWhit2whooInstagram: @budgie646Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee:Facebook: @loltolhurstxbudgiexjacknifelee Twitter: @LolBudgieJCKNFInstagram: @lolxbudgiexjacknifeleeCurious 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