Budgie of Siouxsie And The Banshees started out in nightclub cabaret acts, aged 13
Small boy begins breeding budgerigars in Liverpool, makes enough to buy a drum kit and becomes the power behind Big In Japan, the Slits, the Creatures and Siouxsie and the Banshees. And one half of punk rock’s most famous couples. The immensely engaging Budgie has finally written his memoir, ‘The Absence’, and talks to us from Berlin about … … are bands only as good as their drummers? … Siouxsie, the Ice Queen goth-in-waiting who was actually “a cackling crazy tomboy from Chiselhurst”. … playing Shadows instruments in a nightclub cabaret, aged 13. … the gnawing pain of not being asked to play…
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