BUDGIE interview 2025 (The 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 this book. #TPII57 White Rabbit: https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/the-absence Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/budgie646/