Lol Tolhurst in Whitby

Lol Tolhurst is an English musician, songwriter and author who co-founded The Cure in Crawley in 1978. He played drums on the albums Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography, then moved to keyboards for records including The Head on the Door and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. His later work includes the bands Presence and Levinhurst, as well as the album Los Angeles with Budgie and Jacknife Lee. The Cure’s Picture Tour in 1981 featured Lol Tolhurst on drums, while The Kissing Tour in 1987 presented him as the group’s keyboardist. In 2011 he returned for the Reflections concerts, which revisited the band’s first three albums at the Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall and Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.