Budgie laughs, while Tolhurst adds drily, “Yeah… it kind of sounded like what you would expect a record by the Cure guy, the Banshees guy, and the Bauhaus guy, produced by the guy from Nine ...

The 66-year-old Budgie (born Peter Clarke), one of SPIN’s greatest drummers in alternative music, left his London-based family life for weeks on end to join Tolhurst, 64, in L.A., where the ...