Lol Tolhurst and Budgie will never forget how they first met. It was 1979 and the Cure were supporting Siouxsie and the Banshees when the latter’s guitarist and drummer sensationally quit. Tolhurst – who had cofounded the Cure in Crawley, Sussex, with school friends Robert Smith and Michael Dempsey – remembers that the band was just two gigs into its first big tour when “everything fell apart”.
That night, the two bands joined together for a makeshift performance in Aberdeen before Liverpudlian and former Slits drummer Budgie (born Peter Clarke) was hurriedly drafted into the Banshees lineup, immediately being asked to help choose from several hopeful young guitarists.
