Can AI make a Hit Record? Drummers talk about anything but Drumming Two of the Singers on Los Angeles are Drummers All we got to do is Act Naturally Things the Industry didn’t Understand Will new Technology Change Music Appreciation?  More Means More! We love and Embrace Computers We love and Embrace Individuality We love and Embrace Cohesive Collaboration  Now Cue the Music!   Good Food and A Donut!  Jacknife describes his Daily Process  Everybody’s a Drummer – The International...

Neil Diamond put Stones in Jacknife’s shoes  Musicians with No Stations - Anyone can do Anything Jacknife loves The Cure and The Banshees and Drums (We’re off to a Good Start!) Artists willing to Alienate - to do what they want! The Gender Change Box – Expanding the Arsenal! Documenting Discovery – Being a Band - Not a Brand  The Cure’s 1st album was their live setlist On 17 Seconds they swapped instruments - No set formula  Discussion is healthy but Discussion takes time!   Vocalists are...

Jacknife never remembers the big moments.  Q. Why are we so busy? A. We have an album coming out! Blatant Plug: Los Angeles: The Album: November 3rd! Jacknife enjoys teams but was never a joiner  Overcome by FOMO - The pandemic begat TIME! Two Drummers and a Producer - Two Turntables and a Microphone  Budgie met Jacknife in Berlin on Bono’s no expense spared book tour  Lol toured his book in South America to Arequipa in Peru. Q. Does Bono do impersonations? A. Yes, a very dark Rupert...

Let me in - I’m in the band!  It goes like this:  Lol - Newcastle Holiday Inn – Sauna – Towel – Door – Fire Escape – Reception – Room-Key!  Wayne - Bristol - Liverpool - Leeds – London – California – Brazil – Love - 20 Years!  Lol – California – Home - 30 Years Ago - Home is Where the Ticker Tocks . The Circus was Excitement when we Moved from where we Started  In a band it’s simpler to do what we do and Live anywhere   Alan Vega a lonely man and a stranger in a strange land  Budgie ran a...

Budgie plays his Big Bass Harp The Cult and Subbuteo keep everyone Sharp Introducing a Liverpool theme You’ll Never Walk Alone, now choose your team!   Lol delivered Newspapers for 25 Bob Delivering milk was Wayne’s other Job The Beeb Top 40 on Sundays recorded 5 Pounds a week a new album afforded  David K Jones had a Brian Connolly haircut Young Budgie’s Skinhead made the Headmaster Tut! Banshees and Cure played soccer together  The Cure played the crew but it made Heavy weather! Wayne...

Like Indian musicians, we tuned together  Stroboscopic Tuners, revealed that we never Played a gig in Concert pitch - whatever. New drumheads were stolen  Boiled bass strings saved money Pitch Pipes were our first harmonicas Riding White Swans  We were Kids of the Revolution  Thank the gods for glam and David Bowie   The Sweet at the I-Beam and their 3-part harmonies  Deep Purple and The Beach Boys combined That a good catchy song makes a band worth it’s char-monies. Took NOFX a decade to...

My 1st is in Punk but Never in Junk My 2nd is in Museum but never in Mausoleum  My 3rd is a Shop of Tartan punk Underwear  My 4TH is Shock of Electric Blue Head Hair   Who am I?   Lol has the stuff the Hall of Fame Loves  Stan Laurel jokes follow Budgie like Doves Lol sounds Australian? Mike’s a Bostonian!  We love San Francisco and the fog on The Bay We love the old iBeam and we love Lol’s son Gray The Cure and The Banshees played there in its Hey day Mike saw The Sweet there but we’d all...

Sad story for our friend in Turkey but we remain positive for a good end. Lol and Budgie hopped with Joy to see the Kodo drummers in concert Budgie met Kodo Principal Leonard Eto via prog rock legend Hoppy Kamiyama Leo and Budgie drummed and Hoppy vibed with Chaos tapes and the Hai! album was born In 1977 The Clash drummer Nicky ‘Topper’ Headon was Budgie’s inspiration!  Lol’s mentor Andy McBride taught him the beats of The Clash Kraftwerk introduced us to new sounds and the beating heart...

Heavy Rotation for The Siouxsie Bus Party Linton Kwesi-Johnson - Forces of Victory  Psychedelic Furs - India NIN - Pretty Hate Machine London’s Satellite Towns Swingin’ - Dodgy  Policing the Numbskulls Mr Murphy with his baseball bat “Oi, cut it out son or your brown bread.” “Sorry Guv I’ll be leaving then.” Robert’s Red Vinyl Box Simon and Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’ Club Tolhurst and Club Smith  Evelyn ‘Champagne’ king  S***s and Giggles with Iron Maiden’s  ‘Bring your Daughter to the...

Machine Gunners’ Ear  No Elvis, Beatles, or The Rolling Stones in 1977  Bad brains, Minor Threat and Fugazi - at 14!  Washington DC’s 9:30 Club, The Black Cat and Washington Plaza  The Walkmen cometh in 2000 Eric’s Club matinee, it’s a drive-in Saturday, lots of creativity from NYC In A Forest or In Dust, the Walkmen place their trust, in the Siouxsie-Bob sound, merci!  Bob and Lol’s brothers played music to be loud, discovering the rebel inside From Liverpool to Boston, no charm in the...

‘The people I remember…’Mutual respect, the Bloc Party hadKele and collaborators, what’s good and what’s badTogether on tour, but then things changeRussell ‘n Kele retain musical respect Musical Respect is a necessary thing Banshees Guitarists, All the Young JohnsSpizz oil and the Banshees, It’s a Family Affair Kele and James Murphy and their traveling bands Having kids and Touring Keep us Peter Pan style. Chilli Pepper pals, Prodigal Sons ‘In the desert you can remember your name’‘Life’s...

Concentric Circles of Life and the Nightmare of BrexitKele from London via Edinburgh and Liverpool Budgie in France, London and BerlinLol in the USA for 25 yearsOld UK market towns when the pubs are closed Would anyone want a return to 70’s England? Out of Brussels - Nefarious reasons?Strawberries full of chemicals? Capitalism - Free labour?Big Agri eats labour  Children pick berries - Human nature stagnates Automation stealing jobs - packing our bagsArmed response in Beverly Hills Belfast’s...

In this Episode Lol and Budgie get back to their roots with part 2 of their conversation with Avey Tare where Nothing Lasts Forever - We Can’t Really Hold On To Anything.

In this Episode Lol and Budgie get back to their roots with Animal Collective’s Avey Tare!

In this Episode Lol and Budgie get down to brass tacks with Shirley Manson: Lol & Budgie love Shirley - True!

In this Episode Lol and Budgie revel in Manifesting - Liberation for Your Soul! with Meg Myers!

In this Episode Lol and Budgie get cozy with Meg Myers, to whom Budgie is Tickled Pink to introduce you - we are entranced, spellbound.

In this Episode Lol and Budgie continue their conversation with Ilan Rubin all about Non-Dancing-Dancing – It’s the Music not the Place!

In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Nine Inch Nails/Angels & Airwaves drummer Ilan Rubin about Terror in The IEMS - NIN and Beyond!

In this Episode part 3 of Lol and Budgie's conversation with the divine Miki Berenyi.

In this Episode Lol and Budgie continue their conversation with the divine Miki Berenyi

In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to the adorable Miki Berenyi

In this Episode Lol and Budgie continue their talk with super producer Nick Launay about “Tricks of the Trade & 3 Corners of the Planet”

In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk with super-producer Nick Launay about – “Lucky Break & Making Fackin’ Music Maan!”

In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk with Julianne Regan, All About – “Dharma Transmission – Nothing Curated”