The Absence : Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer - Budgie Fiction regional development and defence spending

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The Absence : Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer - Budgie Fiction regional development and defence spendingIntimate. Wounded. Sensational. I didn't just read The Absence. I devoured it' RUPERT THOMSONAs 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