Budgie (drummer)
Budgie , actually Peter Edward Clarke (born August 21, 1957 in St Helens , England ) is a British drummer .
Life
At the beginning of his career he played (still under the pseudonym Blister ) together with Paul Rutherford in the Liverpool punk rock band Spitfire Boys , which in 1977 released a single with British Refugee / Mein Kampf that was widely recognized in the punk scene and broke up shortly afterwards. He was then a founding member of the band Big in Japan , in which Holly Johnson played the electric bass and Ian Broudie played the electric guitar . After this band broke up after the release of the first single, he replaced the drummer Palmolive, who had dropped out of the band The Slits, and worked on Cut , the band's first album. In 1979 he joined The Slits and replaced with Siouxsie and the Banshees the short term excreted Kenny Morris . Originally he was only supposed to step in temporarily, but then stayed until the band split up in 1996. Together with front woman Siouxsie , he founded the formation The Creatures as a side project .
Clarke was married to Siouxsie Sioux from May 1991 to 2007 , they lived together in France , today he lives in Berlin.
Publications
- 1979: The Slits - Cut
- 1980: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
- 1981: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
- 1981: The Creatures - Wild things
- 1982: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss in the Dreamhouse
- 1983: The Creatures - Feast
- 1983: The Creatures - Miss the girl
- 1984: The Creatures - Right now
- 1984: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hyaena
- 1986: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox
- 1987: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the looking glass
- 1988: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow
- 1989: The Creatures - Boomerang
- 1990: The Creatures - Fury eyes
- 1991: The Creatures - Standing there
- 1991: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Superstition
- 1992: Thomas Dolby - Astronauts & heretics
- 1992: Indigo Girls - Rites of passage
- 1995: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rapture
- 1998: The Creatures - Exterminating angel
- 1999: The Creatures - Anima animus
- 1999: The Creatures - Say
- 2001: The Creatures - Sequins in the sun
- 2003: The Creatures - Hai!
- 2003: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Seven year itch
- 2004: Siouxsie and the Banshees - Downside up
- 2004: Juno Reactor - Labyrinth
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/spitfireboys.htm
- ↑ http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/spitfireboysdisc.htm
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SURNAME | Budgie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clarke, Peter Edward (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British drummer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St Helens , England |