Budgie (musician)

Peter Clarke ( born August 21, 1957 Peter Edward Clarke in St Helens, England ), better known by his stage name Budgie, is a British drummer.

Earlier in his career he played (still under the pseudonym blister) with Paul Rutherford in the Liverpool punk band The Spitfire Boys, the 1977 British Refugee / Mein Kampf brought out a lot of attention in the punk scene single and broke up shortly thereafter. After that, he was a founding member of the band Big in Japan, in the Holly Johnson electric bass and Ian Broudie played electric guitar. After this band broke up after the release of the first single, he replaced in the band The Slits, the drummer who quit Palmolive and seemed to cut, the first album of the band, with. In 1979, he got out of The Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees replaced in the short term excreted Kenny Morris. Originally it was only temporary jump in, but then remained until the split of the band in 1996. Together with frontwoman Siouxsie he founded as a side project, the band The Creatures.

From May 1991 to 2007, Clarke was married to Siouxsie Sioux, and together they lived in France.

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