10-07-2025
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- Edinburgh Reporter
Get along to Stills Automat to meet Budgie – one day only!
This month there is a ONE DAY only opportunity on 10 July at 3pm to meet Budgie the former Siouxsie and The Banshees drummer during his whistle stop book tour.
Meet Peter Clarke (aka Budgie) at Stills Automat on Cockburn Street where he will be popping in to have his photo taken.
The Edinburgh Reporter readers may be able to persuade the rocker to have their photo taken with him in Scotland's only analogue photobooth.
Budgie was an era defining drummer in the punk scene of the late 1970s. As a disenchanted teenager at art college in Liverpool he went to London, first joining the all-female group The Slits, afterwards touring with former members of The Sex Pistols and finally finding a home with The Banshees.
He has written an autobiography and will appear at Toppings at 7pm that evening to talk about his glamorous life which he recounts in The Absence.
The beating heart of this at times painfully honest account of a life often sabotaged is, of course, his long-term position as Siouxsie and The Banshees' drummer and co-writer alongside his ex-wife Siouxsie Sioux.
Their creative partnership produced some of the most seductive and celebrated pop music of the decade. Eventually, their personal relationship started to fall apart, with inevitable consequences for both bands. The Absence is bravely unflinching in its dissection of how and why this happened, and powerfully moving in its account of the angels that emerged to heal both these wounds and those of a mother's lost love.
A man and musician whose creativity and singular style came to define the goth-pop 1980s, Budgie's life is both fabulously glamorous and a cautionary tale. For the first time the story of the era's most exalted and mysterious bands has been told by one who survived inside the belly of the beast.
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