“Before I started doing our ‘Curious Creatures’ podcast with Budgie, I was thinking about doing this other podcast,” says the Cure co-founder/drummer ...

Birds are some of the best dancers. Birds were all Broadway dancers in a past life, I swear: they have moves for days. Even the smallest of birds have some of the best senses of rhythm in the whole ...

Ray Phillips, drummer with pioneering heavy metal band Budgie, recalled how Metallica’s cover of their song “Breadfan” saved him from financial disaster. The Welsh band released the original track on ...

Arriving seven years and three studio albums into Budgie's career, May 1974's ‘In for the Kill' summed up the group's current state of mind. The album, though no match for the career-best offering ...

Welsh trio Budgie may not have been as successful as Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, but they influenced everyone from Metallica and Iron Maiden to Soundgarden and Steve Albini. In 2004, helium-voiced ...

Burke Shelley, singer and bassist of the hard rocking Welsh group Budgie, has died at the age of 71. "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my father, John Burke Shelley. He passed ...

We’ve all been there: you meet an old friend for lunch, you reminisce, you get on famously, and before you part, you make commitments to stay in touch. And you go home, and years pass before you see ...

We’re sad to report that former Budgie guitarist John Thomas has passed away at age 63. As one of the earliest bands which inspired heavy metal, Welsh band Budgie is one of the genre’s most ...

A foul mouthed budgie has proved to be quite the online hit after a video of on one his expletive-filled rants was posted to Facebook. The cheeky bird perches on his owner's shoulder and has quite the ...