Q+A LOL TOLHURST
AS A BRAND NEW ALBUM AND SECOND BOOK HIT THE SHELVES, THE CURE’S FORMER DRUMMER TAKES TIME OUT OF HIS PACKED SCHEDULE TO TALK TO CLASSIC POP
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California Drumming: Lol Tolhurst and Budgie join forces with producer Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee for a concept album made with a wide cast of artists
The Cure’s founding member Lol Tolhurst has teamed up with Siouxsie & The Banshees drummer Budgie and celebrated producer Jacknife Lee for a new collaborative album entitled Los Angeles. The 13-track LP is a wild trip into the dark heart of contemporary La La Land with guest appearances from the likes of LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie, Civil Rights avant-gardist Lonnie Holley, Idles’ Mark Bowen and The Edge from U2.
Also, seven years since the publication of his memoir, Cured: The Tale Of Two Imaginary Boys, Tolhurst has found time to deliver a deep dive into the dark romanticism of Goth music with his second book, Goth: A History.
“Things are very busy,” he says, “but that’s the way the music business seems to work. You have years where nothing happens and then suddenly everything happens at once.”
How did the idea of working together with Budgie come about and what did Jacknife Lee bring to the studio?
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