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  • 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 off
    Budgie’s clubland experience leads the way
    The Essence of Punk was to throw away the rule book
    It was Rough Down Under & Lisa played Solo!

    Championing The Underdog!
    From Street fights to The Stage – Loyalty was demanded
    Peter was The Rock on which The Dead could Dance safely
    More Baptisms of Fire and Keeping the Money Tight
    Born to Drum or Drumming to be Born?

    The Beat Must Go On!
    Creating the Dance - We are The Disco Beat
    Clay Pots with Skin Heads – Got a Young Peter Hooked
    Lisa’s Percussion made Peter Heavier on The Drums
    4AD 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 World
    Conversations Never Heard – find Their Voice in the Present
    The Fallacy of Memory – Reveals the Duality of Events
    We are all of us Characters in Everyone’s stories!
    Back On The Bus Y’All – We’re Gearing up for The Road!

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    Respect: Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002)
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  • Carpets and Bass Drums!   
    Strokes of Luck that Changed our Lives
    The Cure became Judges with a bunch of Fives
    We 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 way
    Fake it to Make it, then Lock it away
    The Highs and Lows that made it Work
    Difficult relationships created the Quirk! 

    The Bells are Ringing for me and My Pal!
    A Constant Support from the Chaos Outside
    The Rarity of Security was Peter’s Reality
    Thirty 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 ‘em
    They were TOO Good Looking for OUR own Good
    Cheek bones to Die for, and Handsome on the inside
    Dead Can Dance - Cooler than Frankenstein’s Bride!

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    Respect: Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986)
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  • 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’t
    It’s 3rd Time Lucky to Discover All the Good Stuff
    Everyone’s Your Friend on Tour – Even the Ones who Aren’t
    Lydia Lunch & Marcy B Drive Lol down Sunset for Vitamin C

    Looking 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!!
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    Respect: D. H. Peligro - (July 9, 1959 – October 28, 2022)
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  • 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 handshake
    All the drummers in Pasadena put together make an earthquake
    A Night in the Museum with an Egyptian sort of sound
    Genesis and Focus on the Oval cricket ground

    Bow Bells are Ringing!
    Cheech of Chong made Lol an Angelino
    In the Biggest library in the Town of Televisino
    An unlikely meeting of Minds at the LA Forum
    Don’t tell Duff McKagan or even Matt Sorum

    Books Books Books! 
    When your whole life drifts like a Spirit in the Sky
    There’s no time left as Tears go By
    The second one’s needed, so no need to sell ‘em
    It’s a personal thing - it’s the way I tell ‘em

    Memory 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 story
    It’s not what happens - it’s how you remember it.
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    Respect: Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker (18 December 1958 – 26 November 2023)
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  • Love it to Death! 
    Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, and Led Zeppelin too
    Adam Ant, B.A.D., Def Leppard and Yazoo?
    All vying for airtime in Great Falls Montana
    Would 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 stall
    It’s not a choice, it’s to brandish, the spiritual sword
    It’s the old familiar wave, ‘neath an old surfer’s board.

    How do You Stay Optimistic?
    Get yourself some Private Ai – become a Super-brain
    They’re all riding ticketless on a Berlin subway train
    The only way is Up – away from the Big Corps
    One potato, two potato, three potato, four

    Improvising with Fusion! 
    Recycling everything is the New Future Dream
    100-year lightbulbs become like Peaches and Cream
    All we Need is Love and Reggie in the Race 
    We’re plotting our escape, to the much bigger place

    We All Love Collaboration!
    Music is the Victim – where does that leave us?
    Solo improvisation – Get the Room to lead us
    Music is the Funhouse of Mirrors and Smoke
    You feel it coz’ it’s the real thing – not a bottle of Coke!

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    Respect: Glen Edward Buxton (November 10, 1947 – October 19, 1997)
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  • Springtime for Ex-Pats and Germany!   
    It’s a Top Techno scene, with a strict Social Etiquette
    The clubs are all clean, since they outlawed the cigarette
    You can do what you want, but you can’t do it here
    The clubs are all great, but it helps if they’re Queer!

    Make way for the Dancing Disco Queens!
    Gay clubs for young punks, were the only safe places
    Watch out for the Queens with that look on their faces 
    Rubber and Fetish was the dress code for sure
    The Batcave was entered through a coffin shaped door

    Number One in Heaven!
    Getting stabbed after 8 o’clock Sharp
    Underneath the Arches, where the shadows are Dark
    The footsteps behind you, one for fear, one for dread
    You had to have Eyes in the back of your head

    Montana Red Dog! 
    Soaking up the details in the cafes and bars
    Reggie heard all the languages beneath the stars
    Like a Teenager dreaming of the right words to use
    Montana was waiting for the sounds of the muse

    On The Road Again!
    Meeting all the Oddballs on the Road to Nowhere 
    Real time Evaporation in the Hotel Bar chair
    World Domination was a long way from Home
    We’re Back On the bus with Wet Bottom syndrome.
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    Respect: Wayne Stanley Kramer (April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024) 
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  • 1st Gush. It’s all Greek in Brackets. Tokyo in stereo to the spirit of Ghosts. The sample debate and the bones of contention continue. No loops or samples except of ourselves. We get going as human beatboxes. 
    2nd Gosh. Are drums electric? Are drummers eclectic? Voices on the Air? We got Wooden Teeth! Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you The Sonic Poem. We were Born to Funk!
    3rd Push. Cold Sweat Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag and its only Rock & Roll but we like it. 
    Head on The Door’s Sang-witches make Boris and Lol seasick. Pure Gravitas to be Sure. 
    4th Bish. Steven King and The Langoliers help us grasp the Eternal Now. No Apologies for fading in and fading out. The Quantam Physics of it all. Bebe and Louis Barron on The Forbidden Planet.   
    5th Bash. Budgie gives Jimmy Page a day off. Luddites United aka The Cure FC. Budgie wears a Navy skipper’s hat with a hidden microphone. Long crescendo with a pause and a dying cello. 
    6th Bosh. She’s NOT my Dog. A Hungry Dog. The Analytical shall NOT trespass on the Creative.
    I think we Did – I think So - I think we Did – I think So - I think we Did – I think So!

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    Respect: Bebe Barron (June 16,1925 - April 20, 2008) and Louis Barron (April 23,1920 - Nov 1, 1989)
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  • ‘Butch - He got the Hooks!’
    Topper Headon – He got the Grooves 
    Inspiration and Collaboration Clash!
    Butch got that magic Snare Fill!
    But our Hats go Off to Topper Headon!

    'Butch as President of The Roxy Music fan club!’
    King of the Fills? – Roxy’s Paul Thompson
    Caution the New drummer - Don’t Forget Those Hooks!!
    Phil Manzanera - a Guitarist on Fire
    But Bryan Ferry - the King of Cool. 

    ‘Meanwhile… Up in The Canyon’
    Our Evening Star, became Another Green World 
    We talked about Food and our Favourite films with Jacknife
    But now we Gotta come out to Play
    When we get to reveal Our Undertaker Chic!

    ‘Early Garbage Live.’
    ATTENTION: Drum Geek Area Ahead!
    The Garbage stage is Dead Quiet!
    How do we do what we do without any stage sound?
    Boom Ga-ka Boom-Ga! Just Don’t Scare the Orchestra!

    ‘Smashing The Crash!’
    ATTENTION: Therapy Area Ahead!
    Playing Drums is Therapy?
    Does that sound really need to be there?
    Sharing those Crazy Studio Adventures!

    ‘It’s Happy Accident Time – Do not RFM’
    Lol, where did that Note come from?
    Where does the Bollywood Crunch come from?
    It’s a Dub-Reggae playlist backstage for Garbage 
    Our New Band Name? - The 3am Insomniacs!

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    Respect: Kurt Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994)
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  • Bill or George, Anything but Sue!
    Clyde Stubblefield always arrived early
    Clyde made a so-so kit sound Great!
    How do the Greats sound the Way they Do?
    It’s all about Recognising the Good Mistakes!

    3am Insomnia and the IQ Tour drop!
    Hey Butch, what’s on the Weather Channel tonight?
    How’s Your Bed of Nails this Evening?
    Shirley is a Natural Born Road Dog, 
    OMG, when the Catering is terrible - Luxury!

    Whilst Shirley was Doing the Dishes! 
    Butch arranged Tea at the London Ritz
    They talked about Food and Favourite films
    Butch heard about Kurt, the World Revolved, and in Flew Shirley
    28 Years of Garbage and they’re Still having Fun!

    The Music Cycle Changes – but the Madness continues! 
    Hi-Hate-Us? Never, never, ever Stop!
    Commitments Outside the Band? 
    Stick with The Winners - We are the Basket Cases!
    Where’s The Referee? Ringo knew how to Wait!

    Edgar Winter is Lol’s God of the Stage 
    Timing is Crucial if You don’t wanna Wee wee-wee
    Lol warns, Careful where they Place your Bucket 
    Ginger keeps Jack Bruce waiting – Call of Nature! 
    When You Gotta go – You Gotta Go!

    Look out it’s Ginger Baker – Hellraiser!
    Budgie at the Bar with ACDC’s Chris Slade
    Ginger appears in Angel Wings - almost!
    Dapper Charlie Watts in the Coolest Threads
    We all loved Keith Moon – but there could only be One!

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    Respect: Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017)
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  • Phase 1. In which The Cramps’ Brian Gregory, gets on the Banshees’ tour bus outside the I-Beam in San Francisco and asks, “Was anyone in Liverpool not cool?” 
    A Dark devilish spirit with feet like Merce Cunningham.

    Phase 2. In which Billy McKensie spares Lol from Death in Venice. Billy in The Cure’s penthouse for Faith singing songlines from another time, another place.  

    Phase 3. In which Ms Morrissey is Queen of backstage and you’ll just have to wait. 
    Well excuse us for Breathing, say us Dudes in unison! 

    Phase 4. In which Leonard asks a bittersweet question. Are songs always what they seem?
    PJ Harvey said, most people think all her songs are auto biographical. Though she hasn’t drowned any babies recently.

    Phase 5. In which Sandrine asks, what’s that sound? Is it a Bird in a tree? 
    We’ve got a Harmoniser and we’re going to use it! The Godlike beauty of a few notes.
    PS: Leather does not like Humidity!

    Phase 6. In which The Cure and The Banshees played soccer after Elephant Fayre – True or False? Tom and Anton took our smudges! Budgie had proud moments on the Slits Cut. Lol had proud moments on The Top, but his drumming on Pornography takes the biscuit. 
    Together we’re most proud of our parts in our 3rd Act – with Jacknife Lee, on Los Angeles. 

    Phase 7. In which Henna asks, “Best LA memories?” The daily climb up Topanga. Freeways, Disney, Beaches, Cars. Yes, but there’s always something new. No sleep, big snakes, and spectacular people.

    Phase 8. In which Cambria asks, ‘What’s the biggest change?’ It may be our notion of time. We never stopped. It was the only life we knew. Today life is in session, and it’s FULL ON!
    Maybe, it was the restaurant menu. Maybe it was Denny’s. Maybe it was the all-day Breakfast! Genesis to Revelations. Long drives and Heaven at 4am! The Cure shake their booty to The Village People – The Banshees play Paintball in Freemantle!

    Phase 9. In which we pay attention. To what we like. To our influences. To our origins not being geographical. To the Magnetism. To the Bits that shouldn’t fit, that just Do! To Being Sound Carriers.
    In Life’s Beautiful Tapestry

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    Respect: Damo (Kenji) Suzuki (ダモ鈴木), (16 January 1950 – 9 February 2024)
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  • ‘Fanfares and Tears’
    Pan as Magician of Inspiration
    Brings Joy and Melancholy by Transmogrification
    Pan gets Deeper then Deeper than Deep!
    ‘Digging in the Dirt - to find the Places we got Hurt’ 

    ‘Prepare for the Big Reveal’
    In front of the TV Going through Puberty
    Fluorescent Erotica as Manhood dawns
    Between the Adult and the Child
    Lies the Hissing of Summer Lawns

    ‘Sanctuary of the WC?’
    Up the Ladder to the Roof
    Where Pan can hear Heaven much better
    Spontaneous Social Interactions
    The Things that Dreams are made of
    Like Pooing on Summer Lawns

    ‘Iggy Pop - Pulling Punches - Changing Heads’
    Blurring Modern and Old - Carrying the Torch
    Lightnin’ Hopkins played the Blues out on the old Church Porch
    Worship at the Shrine of Saint John Coltrane
    Iggy saves Pan from Eviction and pain 

    ‘Where’s Iggy Pop – He’s Behind You!’
    ‘The Idiot’ squeals like a Liverpool Bus
    Everything Must Change when we get too Close
    It’s a Hustler’s mentality – A Taiko player’s Wet dream 
    The Zen of Hitting and Swing – Pan lost his heart to a piano playing sunbeam!

    ‘Improvisation – Riffin’ on the Rhyme’
    Don’t put Sugar on Shit – Pass the Pastis mon Petit
    The Hobbits’ Vibe of Dining out – We love The French, the way they Pout
    The American Entitlement – Wearing Shorts to Dinner
    It’s Lol and Pan’s Enlightenment – Everyone’s a Winner!

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    Respect: Samuel ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982)
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  • Brutality!  
    Everything fitting as we’re thrashing about
    Looking for Clues as we Twist and Shout
    California dreaming no Communication Breakdown 
    Lol knocks a beat out and we go Downtown! 

    Religion!
    20 seconds Over Babaluma
    It’s Metal Machine Madness 
    Who’s in the Big box?
    Drums and Love are All around

    And a Dancebeat!
    Is Bigger better or is Better Bigger? 
    Jack the Knife is the One and Only
    Clean or Dry we venture into Geeksville
    Thought train set in Motion - Don’t miss the Ferry!

    A Chicory Tipper! 
    Is this the Last Train to Clarksville?
    Or Wooley Edge after a late-night show
    Respect and Trust is the New Order of the day
    Conception is instrumental to our Train of Thought

    Or a Day Tripper!
    A Big empty space that’s Big in the middle
    Music is Everything in the Hole in the Donut 
    It’s as much about what isn’t as it is about what is
    Ai glides our Love Train to the beautiful station

    Winifred Atwell and The Poor People of Paris!
    Shadows of Angels to drift off to sleep with
    Where was the vocal, in Mr Bloe and Mouldy Old Dough?
    Moog meets Wasp as The Edge channels that Chord!
    Come on Paul give us a Break – It’s all icing on the cake 
    with a Wild Cherry on the top!

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    Respect: Shane MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023)
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  • Dream (a Little Dream of Tea!)   
    Shopping Mall testimonials, but..
    Lol just wants to buy a shirt!
    Recognition comes when you least expect it
    Budgie’ll name that song in Three!!!

    Fame (What you Need You Have to Borrow!)
    On the Way Up or On the Way Down?
    How is that Old Band of Yours?
    My Grandad Loves you guys
    Fred Incognito in Las Vegas

    Liverpool (She's so Swishy in her Satin and Tat!)
    Fred hears the Gossip direct from the Birdie’s beak
    The Bird had heard Not much had Changed
    Form a Band and Prepare for the Bitching
    OMG OMD we knew they were good – so it was War!

    Our Friends Electric? (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) 
    The Human League of Gentlemen
    All the Young Dudes – the Crooners from Sheffield
    The Cure members number a Baker’s Dozen
    The Age of Aquarius spawned all the Cure drummers

    Where did it All Begin? (Again and again and again and again..)
    Transported back in Time with Fred as a Rabbit
    What’s in Fred’s Closet? - Comedic Drummer or Musical Comedian?
    We have the most gear, we sit at the back, but we have no mic!
    We is Getting Geeky, we reveal all the drummer’s Nightmares
    And All the Fun! Cue the Click…… and Ignore it!

    All Will be Revealed (the Meaning of H.O.G. and Possibly Life!)
    Cut to Fred’s Competition Time: 
    Drum Intros… Can You Beat our Times?
    Where have all Lol’s Cymbals Gone?
    Fred laments his old Synth drums
    Keep it Strictly Limited! – See Y’all on the Road!

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    Respect: George ‘Kool & The Gang’ Brown (15 January 1949 - 16 November 2023)
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  • The Boys to Entertain You!
    TV Pirates at Midnight!   
    Fred was Envious of High-Class English chocolate
    Time for the Test card and a little light Music
    Rattle Your Jewellery at The London Palladium 
    The Only house on the block with Colour TV

    First Drum Kits!
    Where did we hide them?
    Budgie’s patent Caterpillar dampening system
    Lol’s kit Hidden in Robert’s house
    Made with Rubber? from Lol’s Lab job.

    First Influences!
    Fred hears the Magical Mystery Tour in Rio!
    Budgie hears the Magical Mystery Tour in Stereo
    Lol has Overload hearing ‘Axis: Bold as Love’
    From The Bay City Rollers to The Ramones

    Get Down and Boogie! 
    Whose kit did we Wanna Steal?
    The Damned’s, The Buzzcocks’, or Blondie’s?
    Aw C’mon, Punk had only One bass drum!
    Lol’s Mum Knits his first punk sweater 

    Where did it All Begin?
    Fred worshipped at the Altar of the Beat
    Lol picked up a Snare for song
    Fred pictures Lol as a little boy
    We all were envious of The Drummer

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    Respect: Charlie Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) 
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  • Bands, commitments, and brilliant haircuts 
    Thurston Moore and Romantic Fantasy
    Driving and dreaming of being a band 
    Or a solo career on the Canyon Grand
      
    The Cure climbed out over Niagara Falls.
    The Banshees below in yellow Sou’westers 
    Happy memories for the Xmas cards 
    Covered in spray when both stopped to Play
     
    ‘One could have it all!’ says Budgie, solo in San Tropez
    Alone but not lonely, beneath a Mediterranean moon 
    Reaching out for a connection and kindred spirits 
    With an ET stare into the cosmos of music 
     
    Mary trained as a Classical harpist 
    Learning to improvise in Thurston Moore's band 
    Dismissing the voice that says, ‘No that’s wrong!’
    Being Vulnerable – is that what they demand?
     
    Everything recreated as recorded 
    Mary's Goodbye to Hotel Arkarda
    If Nothing will ever be the same again 
    How do you know when to end each piece?
     
    Lol synthesised on Arrivederci. 
    Improvisations on New Year's Eve
    Mary is a sensitive sentimental person 
    Full of appreciation of people in their power 

    We thank you Mary for bringing your magic to our album.

    And then Viola barks – woof! 
     
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    Respect: Marie Antoinette (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793)
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  • CONNECT WITH US:
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  • Brutalism! 
    Expression, impressions and Thrashing About
    Body and Rhythms - finding the Space
    Favourite guitarists are all really Bad
    Everything sounding off-kilter and never in Place 

    Joy as an Act of Resistance! 
    Impact and choosing the Moment
    Being Quiet to being Profound
    Convergence from Differing Influences
    Drums are Preferred All round

    Ultra Mono!
    Marc can be Chaotic and Indefinite! 
    On Foundations of Solid Bass and Drum
    But where is the ONE! When you Need it? 
    Turning Left when it’s Comfortably Numb

    Crawler! 
    They’re running Around and Grabbing things!
    Loved living in London but Belfast has Changed
    The Shine of Electronica, Goths, and Hipsters
    The Converging Circle of Anonymity

    Tangk!
    We’re a Gang and we’re Horrible to each Other
    We’re Ruthless and unpleasant but we don’t let it linger
    We pushed ourselves to the limits of Divergence and Endurance
    Respect and Acknowledgement – to be Polar Opposites

    2nd Only to Ozzy Osborne!
    Luxury when touring - on a Stage too Small for Comfort
    The Friction and the Tension for Creative Sparks
    Kneepads and Creaking Joints - Marc would love to Miss the Band
    To be Busy doing Nothing - But He Never does have the Time!

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    Respect: Gabriel ‘Mabi’ Thobejane (1947 – June 3, 2021) 
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  • Uh Oh – Here We Go!  
    Writing a song usually takes So Long
    Jacknife had a melody and the music was strong
    Arrow had ideas for words on her Phone
    She Dived in Fearless and Created The Zone

    Ch-Ch Ch-Ch Ch-Ch Ch-Ch Cherry Bomb!
    Arrow started out as A Drummer 
    And knew the Drummer’s Importance 
    Lol could have sung like Joe Strummer
    But Arrow’s Passion was Performance 

    Arrow and The Ants!
    Planning the Stage and the Things that need Care
    California was lost in a Shoe-gaze Stare
    Starcrawler first played in a Pizza bar cellar 
    From local group heroes to Rough Trade Stellar!

    The Lost Art of The Video! 
    Though MTV’s Been Gone and Done 
    Arrow arrived fully dressed to Stun 
    Arrow maintains the Video’s Importance
    She Combined Two dresses to wear as Ordnance!

    Hey Down! - Ho Down!
    Modern Music is Voice and Beat
    Drums and Voice are so Complete
    Songs that Sound Happy with a Dark Undertow
    Drawing People in Then Letting them GO!

    Touring or Recording!
    Arrow still gets Nervous, but The Stage is her Domain 
    Live in The Studio just isn’t the Same
    The Whispering Vocal the Eardrums it Tickles
    Reality TV when done Eating Pickles? 

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    Respect: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) 
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  • 25 years after the event he would be free.
    On his porch in Portland, Oregon
    Destroying the wood.
    Looking legit in the jail jumpsuit 
    Banging cans and smashing cars up 
    In the rage room 
     
    Remodeled his kitchen with a bowling ball 
    A disaster 
     
    Issac was as excited about singing on our record as were we having him on the record 
    Steve Severin's dance the Mussolini house party 
    Syncopate stuff 
    Budgie born to beat box 
    Our fav line is "it's eleven not noon, checkout is soon"
    No check in until 4pm? Issac's tour manager can get him in straight away 
     
    Or as a tour manager you get the Presidential Suite 
    Show in London or California; the Integratron or the London Dungeon 
    Sound bath in the desert 
    Brain takes its marching orders from Gamma and delta and frequencies. 
    The gamma needs to be louder to cure your Brain 
    it's cleaning your brain up! 
     
    Vinyl flow and Jacknife and Isaac get on well
    We had. Slogan “ Nothing to be done “ “everything will be done “
    Exciting to have two drummers drumming 
     
    Shel Silverstien 
    Books and poems on boogers and he wrote boy named sue 
    Weird dude
    Budgie had the mad comics 
     
    Lol discovered America from Mad and DC comics 
    We went out and ate a Twinkies 
    Robert still has one 40 years later 
    Mostly a mineral?
     
    We are planning on carrying on working together with Issac - Budgie in the orgasmatron or maybe next door in the Integratron 
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  • One of us changed - One stayed the same
    Let’s start at the very beginning
    The Spirit and Magic of it
    A Simple process - A Breakdown of Sorts
    Boom Boom Boom Boom

    Time after time after time after time 
    Composite born of Scribbles and Noise
    Three Ideas with Strange Titles
    Begat Three lyrics and Melodies
    Lol’s Impersonation of a Small dog

    My nervous system collapsing like buildings
    Bobby asked, ‘Have you got any Lyrics?’
    We said, ‘Surprise us!’
    Dipping in During Lock-Down
    Using Lyrics as Drummers Directions 
     
    Love was diseased right from the start  
    Hit me like Adventures too Close to Home
    Bobby speaking for every man and every woman
    Internal Collapse and Total Disintegration 
    Changing, Running Away, Lusting for Life.

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    Respect: Andrew James Weatherall (6 April 1963 – 17 February 2020)
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