The 66-year-old Budgie (born Peter Clarke), one of SPIN’s greatest drummers in alternative music, left his London-based family life for weeks on end to join Tolhurst, 64, in L.A., where the ...

Budgie laughs, while Tolhurst adds drily, “Yeah… it kind of sounded like what you would expect a record by the Cure guy, the Banshees guy, and the Bauhaus guy, produced by the guy from Nine ...

Around the same time, Phillips, who’d quit Budgie in 1974, lost £40,000 (then about $68,000) when his next band, Tredegar, failed. “I was in a really dark place,” he told the BBC.. “I was ...

Arriving seven years and three studio albums into Budgie's career, May 1974's ‘In for the Kill' summed up the group's current state of mind. The album, though no match for the career-best ...