
Absence
As a member of Big in Japan, The Slits and, most famously, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Creatures, ''Budgie'' was an era-defining drummer in the much-mythologised post punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
But before he was Budgie, Peter Clarke was a boy growing up in working class St Helens in the 1960s. The loss of his mum at a young age created the absence that haunts the pages of ...
As a member of Big in Japan, The Slits and, most famously, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Creatures, ''Budgie'' was an era-defining drummer in the much-mythologised post punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
But before he was Budgie, Peter Clarke was a boy growing up in working class St Helens in the 1960s. The loss of his mum at a young age created the absence that haunts the pages of ...
