Shows
C86 Show - Indie PopSue Tilley - Leigh BowerySue Tilley in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leigh-Bowery-Life-Times-Icon/dp/034069310X
Bowery's closest friend, Sue Tilley recounts the life of Leigh Bowery, the costume designer and performer who posed for the painter Lucien Freud. The biography follows Bowery's life from his arrival in London in 1981 to his death from AIDS in 1994 and was written with the co-operation of his friends and family.
2025-02-221h 03C86 Show - Indie PopThomas Walsh - Pugwash & The Duckworth Lewis MethodThomas Walsh in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://pugwashtheband.bandcamp.com/
https://westhampsteadarts.com/events/
Pugwash are an Irish pop band fronted by Drimnagh-born musician Thomas Walsh. Pugwash has released six albums since its debut LP Almond Tea in 1999. Influences on the band's sound are regularly cited as including XTC, Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne, the Beach Boys, the Kinks, Honeybus and the Beatles, though Walsh dismisses the Beatles comparisons as "lazy"
2025-02-221h 51C86 Show - Indie PopJohn Aizlewood -Joy Division + New Order: DecadesJohn Aizlewood in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.johnaizlewood.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joy-Division-New-Order-Decades
The definitive illustrated story of Joy Division + New Order.
There’s no template for making it as a globally successful pop group. Some of the ingredients remain constant and beyond the music, there’s a mix’n’match selection of premature death, drugs, drink, destroyed friendships, lukewarm solo projects and bungled finances. The saga of Joy Division and New Order has all those clichés, yet both groups defined their times and overturned their musical l...
2025-02-201h 15C86 Show - Indie PopBoris Williams - The Cure & VamberatorBoris Williams in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://vamberator.bandcamp.com/
Boris Williams was present during the Cure's most successful period and is often cited by fans as the best drummer in the band's history.
Vamberator - From the dying embers of Shelleyan orphan (with the late Caroline Crawley), jem Tayle plucks out its heart, and along with Boris Williams of the Cure, they forge the beast that is Vamborator: a magical funky hybrid; a frisky colt on a journey to find a meaning in this age of loneliness.
This is Vamberator...
2025-02-191h 26C86 Show - Indie PopRichard Dudanski - The 101ers, The Raincoats, Public Image Ltd., Tymon Dogg & Basement 5Richard Dudanski in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Squat-City-Rocks-protopunk-beyond
This musical memoir traces the author’s life in the corrugated-iron clad ruins of West London’s Squat Land during the two years immediately prior to the Punk Explosion of ’76, playing with Strummer’s seminal garage band “The 101’ers” in the spit-and-sawdust music bars of the capital. The thrills and spills of a crazy, quirky, hand-to-mouth existence gives way to relative disenchantment with the oncoming of the Punk Uprising, which for the author represents, at least partly, a sell-out to the Machiavellian Managers, as m...
2025-02-161h 09C86 Show - Indie PopAndy Saunders - Velocity PR & Creation RecordsAndy Saunders in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.velocitypr.co.uk/
Andy Saunders joined Creation in 1992 as a press officer and remained with the label until the end. He now runs a company called Velocity PR.
Velocity Communications has been the leading provider of corporate communications to the music industry for over 20 years.
2025-02-151h 08C86 Show - Indie PopAlan Childs - John Waite, David Bowie, Julian Lennon, Nona Hendryx, Pete TownshendAlan Childs in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://soundcloud.com/alan-childs-4
Originally from New York City, now lives in Las Vegas - worked with Julian Lennon, toured with David Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour and is currently on tour with John Waite
2025-02-121h 13C86 Show - Indie PopJohn Etheridge - Soft Machine ,John Etheridge in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.john-etheridge.com/
https://softmachine.org/
John Etheridge is an English jazz fusion guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music. He is best known for his work with Soft Machine from 1975 to 1978, 1984 and 2004 to present.
In late 1972, Etheridge joined Curved Air violinist Darryl Way's band Wolf, which went on to record three albums in the progressive rock canon for the Deram label: Canis Lupus (1973), Saturation Point (1973), and Night Music (1974). It...
2025-02-112h 02C86 Show - Indie PopAlan Tyler - The RockingbirdsAlan Tyler in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.alantyler.com/
https://alantyler.bandcamp.com/merch/how-to-never-have-a-hit-the-confessions-of-an-unsuccessful-singer-songwriter
Alan Tyler is the singer of The Rockingbirds, the chaotic, swashbuckling country-rockers who galloped haphazardly into the 90s Camden indie scene, got signed, appeared on Top Of The Pops, went head to head with Nirvana at Reading ‘92, and produced, eventually, four albums of unsurpassed Americana.
From DIY/punk beginnings, in 1980 Tyler arrived at the experimentalists’ haven of the London Musicians Collective and was soon playing swingy pop at Bernie Rhodes' Club Left, sharing the agit...
2025-02-051h 43C86 Show - Indie PopCloudberry Records & Blog - Roque RuizRoque Ruiz in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/
http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/
"Indiepop label purveying the sound of jangly guitars based in Astoria, NY. Far away from the hipsters."
2025-02-0254 minC86 Show - Indie PopAaron Tanner - CardiacsAaron Tanner in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://officialmerchandise.store/collections/melodic-virtue
https://www.melodicvirtue.com/collections/books/products/cardiacs
Compiled and designed by Aaron Tanner, Cardiacs: A Big Book and a Band and Whole World Window spans the group’s formative years as Cardiac Arrest to their last single, Ditzy Scene (2007). This new release features rare and unseen photos, artwork, and other ephemera that will captivate long-time fans and newcomers alike. With an introduction by Shane Embury of Napalm Death, this book is both a tribute and a comprehensive chronicle of the ba...
2025-01-3047 minC86 Show - Indie PopClive Langer - The Clang Group, Deaf SchoolClive Langer in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://newclang.bandcamp.com/album/new-clang
Best known as one of the UK’s most successful record producers with a string of high-profile credits in his portfolio, CLIVE LANGER returns in the new year with a second album from his band project, THE CLANG GROUP.A belated follow-up to 2016’s Practice, the Group’s maiden outing for Domino Records, New Clang was recorded with Deaf School co-conspirators John Wood (aka Max Ripple) and Gregg Braden, along with former Klaxons bassist Jamie Reynolds. Written and recorded in the aftermath of Cli...
2025-01-291h 31C86 Show - Indie PopPhil Eaglesham - Stretchheads, Desalvo, Donkey, PH Family, Sarandon, Security etcPhil Eaglesham in conversation with David Eastaugh
The band was formed in 1987 by Richie Dempsey, Phil Eaglesham, Mofungo Diggs, Steven MacDougall, and Andy MacDonald (aka "Dr. Technology".
The band wore asbestos firewear, gas masks, dubious ethnic shirts and balaclavas on stage, and blossomed despite depressing support slots with indie establishment acts such as Happy Mondays, The Wonderstuff and The Shamen. Their debut album, Five Fingers, Four Thingers, a Thumb, a Facelift and a New Identity followed in 1989.
2025-01-261h 57C86 Show - Indie PopJem Tayle - Shelleyan Orphan & VamberatorJem Tayle in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://vamberator.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-loneliness
https://www.facebook.com/Vamberator
From the dying embers of Shelleyan orphan (with the late Caroline Crawley), jem Tayle plucks out its heart, and along with Boris Williams of the Cure, they forge the beast that is Vamborator: a magical funky hybrid; a frisky colt on a journey to find a meaning in this age of loneliness.
This is Vamberator growing in the shade where the most interesting plants grow: a rebellious beast!
2025-01-251h 44C86 Show - Indie PopJohn MendelssohnJohn Mendelssohn in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.nortonrecords.com/a4-peculiar-to-mr-bowie-by-john-mendelssohn/
https://johnmendelssohn.wixsite.com/jnm-creative
PECULIAR TO MR BOWIE : A Day With David Bowie. 1971 by John Mendelssohn New photobook! Limited 48 page souvenir photobook by rock n' rollin' author/artist/photographer/journalist/bon vivant John Mendelssohn, who was tapped to meet up with an unknown longhair from London named David Bowie on his first trip to the US on a press junket for the just-released Mercury album The Man Who Sold The World.
John met up with DB in San F...
2025-01-221h 22C86 Show - Indie PopSheila Seal - The Man from DelmonteSheila Seal in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/groups/44800212324
https://www.truckstophoneymoon.com/
Band members included Mike West, Sheila Seal (bass), Martin Vincent (guitar and harmonica), and Howard Goody (drums).
The band played many gigs at the Boardwalk club, in Manchester, where they recorded their Big Noise live album in 1989.
They took their name from a series of 1980s television advertisements for Del Monte fruit juices, featuring the "man from Del Monte". In these, the man would visit villages to sample their fruit juices, to see...
2025-01-191h 20C86 Show - Indie PopAnja Huwe - Xmal DeutschlandAnja Huwe in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://anjahuwe.com/
Musician, artist and former television editor and producer born in Hamburg, Germany, She was the singer and only stable member in the various incarnations of German Post-Punk band X Mal Deutschland. After the band finally split up in 1990, she worked as producer and editor for German "VIVA TV". More recently she has taken up visual arts and exhibits in New York and London.
After Xmal Deutschland’s success with four albums on cult labels such as 4AD, Huwe abandoned music to pursue her vis...
2025-01-151h 04C86 Show - Indie PopWilliam D. Drake - Cardiacs, The Sea Nymphs, Lake of Puppies, North Sea Radio OrchestraWilliam D Drake in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://williamddrake.wordpress.com/
https://williamddrake.bandcamp.com/
https://lakeofpuppies.bandcamp.com/album/lake-of-puppies
Musician, keyboardist, pianist, composer and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a former member of the cult English rock band Cardiacs, whom he played with for nine years between 1983 and 1992.
He has also been a member of the Sea Nymphs, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Nervous, Wood, Lake of Puppies and The Grown-Ups, as well as pursuing a career as a solo artist.
2025-01-111h 39C86 Show - Indie PopPatrick Fitzgerald - Kitchens of DistinctionPatrick Fitzgerald in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://patrickfitzgerald.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Zr_w9cxtQ
Patrick Fitzgerald, singer and bass player in Kitchens of Distinction. After Kitchens he was: Fruit, one half of three fabulous duos - Lost Girls | The April Seven | Oskar's Drum - and solo he is Stephen Hero. He has been releasing records under all these guises and more since 1987.
Kitchens of Distinction (sometimes shortened colloquially to KoD) formed in Tooting, South London in 1986. The trio consist of lead singer and bassist...
2025-01-111h 36C86 Show - Indie PopNick ToczekNick Toczek in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.nicktoczek.com/
British writer and performer working variously as poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist and radio broadcaster. He was raised in Bradford and then took a degree in Industrial Metallurgy at Birmingham University (1968–71) where he began reading and publishing his poetry. Staying on in Moseley, Birmingham, until 1977, he founded his poetry magazine The Little Word Machine, had several books and pamphlets published by small presses, co-founded Moseley Community Arts Festival, and toured with his music and poetry troupe, The Stereo Graffiti Show.
Moving back to...
2025-01-081h 49C86 Show - Indie PopMorley Bartnof or CosMorley Be - Cosmo Topper, The Randy Californians, Burning Sensations, Andy And The RattlesnakesMorley Bartnof in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://andyandtherattlesnakes.com/about
https://www.facebook.com/cosmo.topper
American keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and composer, born 1959, in Los Angeles, California.
Originally Bartnof spelled with one "f" and later changed to Bartnoff. May appear on releases as Morley Bartof or CosMorley Be. Stepping Away from his previous project Cosmo Topper, Morley's new project is the aptly named "Randy Californians."
2025-01-031h 26C86 Show - Indie PopRichard Bellia - PhotographerRichard Bellia in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://richardbellia.com/
Photographer Richard Bellia was there when it mattered carrying his trusted camera to capture moments in music’s vast cannon of historical importance, some which now forms his own tapestry of work in Un œil sur la musique 1980-2016 i.e. An eye on music 1980-2016.
The intro to the book says ‘’a thousand photos: breathe the same air as the musicians, feel the bass, the riffs and the silences, sixtieth of a second per sixtieth of a second.’’ With this in mind its hard not...
2024-12-301h 14C86 Show - Indie PopGraham Bonnet - Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, Impellitteri, Blackthorne, AnthemGraham Bonnet in conversation with David Eastaugh
English rock singer. He has recorded and performed as a solo artist and as a member of several rocks bands including Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, and Impellitteri. He is known for his powerful singing voice but is capable of also singing soft melodies.
In 1979, Bonnet was approached to join Sweet to replace Brian Connolly. However, he was chosen by Ritchie Blackmore to replace Ronnie James Dio as the vocalist of hard rock band Rainbow. This was something of a musical departure for Bonnet, who had previously identified h...
2024-12-231h 38C86 Show - Indie PopSuns of Arqa - Angel EyeAngel Eye in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.sunsofarqa.co.uk/
Suns of Arqa are a world music collective founded in 1979 by Michael Wadada. Since the group's formation, over 200 people from around the world have played and recorded with them, and in many cases these were like-minded musicians Wadada met as he travelled the world.
Pioneers of World Beat, Ambient, Downtempo and Electro-Dub, Suns of Arqa draw inspiration from around the world, interpreting indigenous, tribal and classical folk traditions. They have created an impressive legacy and earned worldwide recognition.
2024-12-221h 18C86 Show - Indie PopAlan Buckley - The Anyways & Blue KiteAlan Buckley in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyCcKAa35PE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayh-vWqDzBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ioIhmzGEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVfK1tbeGwk&list=PLcDwkXhr5uEwekhN-p-OKHqcY_cLxvWjR
Mid 80s proto-janglers Here Comes Everybody inspired Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis) to buy his first guitar, then, mission accomplished, broke up in 1986. Singer/ guitarist Richard and drummer Pete were introduced to bassist Alan by some HCE fans at St Paul's Arts Centre later that year, and The...
2024-12-211h 20C86 Show - Indie PopTot TaylorTot Taylor in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.tottaylor.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thgIeoqRyok
https://www.riflemaker.org/
London-based songwriter, composer, record producer, author and art curator. He was a songwriter, singer, performer and band member throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties as well as composer of film soundtracks and theatre scores including stage-productions for the UK's National Theatre. In 2003 he founded the Riflemaker Gallery in London with the curator Virginia Damtsa, which featured feminist, audio and performative art for galleries and museums.
2024-12-181h 44C86 Show - Indie PopChris Wilson - The Flamin' Groovies, Barracudas, Fortunate Sons, Loose Gravel,Chris Wilson in conversation with David Eastaugh
guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, most known for his role as the lead singer of the San Francisco band the Flamin' Groovies, having replaced original singer Roy Loney in 1971. With Wilson on lead vocals, the band released their influential 1976 album Shake Some Action.
His song "Shake Some Action", co-written with Cyril Jordan, appeared in the 1995 movie Clueless.
He was also a long-term member of The Barracudas and in 1993 he released the mini-album Pop backed by The Sneetches and the debut solo album Random Centuries.
2024-12-172h 41C86 Show - Indie PopMark Hoyle - Dub SexMark Hoyle in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve
https://dubsex.net/about
Dub Sex are often cited as one of Manchester’s greatest ‘lost’ bands. Formed in the concrete landscape of 1980s Hulme, their music is appropriately raw and intense, bass-led with wiry guitar patterns swirling around the impassioned vocal style and presence of frontman Mark Hoyle.
They came to prominence over the release of five critically acclaimed EPs and mini-albums in the late 80s. John Peel picked up on them from the outset playing a demo re...
2024-12-151h 29C86 Show - Indie PopLenny Helsing - The Green Telescope,The ThanesLenny Helsing in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-048-the-green-telescope-andy-kershaw-session-230186
Forerunners to The Thanes, The Green Telescope started out in 1981 as ardent ambassadors for 60s-style psychedelic sounds, soon becoming well known around Edinburgh for putting together exotic-sounding shows featuring freak-out style lights.
A couple of line-up changes later, they took fresh inspiration from the British beat group era plus the US/European teen garage-punk explosion – think ‘Nuggets’ and ‘Pebbles’.
There were only two singles – including the much-sought-after ‘Face In A Crowd’ seven-inch – so this, their only BBC session from 1986, is a proper one-of...
2024-12-151h 44C86 Show - Indie PopNick Beales - Sweetpool, Nightingales, PigbrosNic Beales in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://sweetpool.bandcamp.com/
Pigbros was an English indie band formed in Birmingham in 1984 by Nick Beales (guitar & vocals) fresh from a stint in The Nightingales and Jonathan Cooke (bass). Recruiting a teenage Fuzz Townshend - as well as projects under his own name) the band played a few gigs before augmenting the line up a few months later to include Svor Naan (saxophone & guitar) not long departed from The Cravats & DcL Locomotive.
The initial sound was a rumbling, bass-heavy groove, driven by Fuzz’s drumming an...
2024-12-1355 minC86 Show - Indie PopPink Peg Slax - Mark Wilson & Pete BarkerMark Wilson & Pete Barker in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWEISh0MznA
Anarchic rockabilly beloved by the late John Peel. "If Elvis had been a Marx Brother, he would have invented Pink Peg Slax" (James Brown, NME) With a name derived from an obscure Eddie Cochran rocker, Pink Peg Slax promise rockabilly revivalism, but these veterans of the Leeds 80s music scene deliver musical subversion. Borne out of punk, the Slax line-up were original members of the Mekons, the Sisters of Mercy and The Gang of Four. Celebrated by John...
2024-12-081h 02C86 Show - Indie PopStuart Bruce - Band Aid, Trevor Horn, Real World Studios, Duran Duran, Kate Bush, Stevie Wonder etcStuart Bruce in conversation with David Eastaugh
Stuart Robert Bruce is an English recording engineer. He was the engineer for the recording of the Band Aid's charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" on 25 November 1984.
Bruce started his career at Trevor Horn's Sarm West Studios. When Horn offered Bob Geldof and Midge Ure the studio free of charge for 24 hours to record the charity single, but was unavailable to produce it, Bruce was approached to engineer and mix what became one of the biggest selling singles ever. With many of the most famous artists of...
2024-12-072h 30C86 Show - Indie PopRichard Witts - The PassageRichard Witts in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Passage were a post-punk band from Manchester, England, who appeared on several record labels including Object Music, Cherry Red Records, and their own label Night & Day, a subsidiary label to Virgin Records.
https://richardwitts.com/
2024-12-011h 40C86 Show - Indie PopJoe Dilworth - Th' Faith Healers, Stereolab, Cat Power,Joe Dilworth in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://bildbandberlin.com/products/joe-dilworth-everything-all-at-once-forever?srsltid=AfmBOop7qFncpNI6g3QxwWIi_P1wOGycmFmfMmgE2wP6t9pW7Egjs87v
http://joedilworth.com/
Th' Faith Healers were an English indie rock band who were originally active between 1990 and 1994. They recorded multiple EPs and singles along with two full LPs
2024-11-301h 05C86 Show - Indie PopFlowers In The Dustbin - Gerard EvansGerard Evans in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/flowersinthedustbinofficial/?locale=en_GB
http://anarchoscene.blogspot.com/2011/07/flowers-in-dustbin.html
2024-11-281h 48C86 Show - Indie PopRedd Kross - Andrew Reich, Jeffrey McDonald & Steve McDonaldAndrew Reich, Jeffrey McDonald & Steve McDonald in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.reddkrossfilm.com/
https://reddkross.com/
From inventing Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Hair Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years.
2024-11-221h 12C86 Show - Indie PopAlan Clayson - Clayson And The ArgonautsAlan Clayson in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://alanclayson.com/
https://alanclayson.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-and-modern-highlights-of-half-a-century-2
Singer-songwriter, author and music journalist. He gained popularity in the late 1970s as leader of the band Clayson and the Argonauts. In addition to contributing to publications such as Record Collector, Mojo and Folk Roots, he subsequently established himself as a prolific writer of music biographies. Among his many books are Backbeat, which details the Beatles' early career in Germany, Ringo Starr: Straight Man or Joker?
2024-11-221h 19C86 Show - Indie PopThe Armoires - Christina & RexChristina Bulbenko & Rex Broome in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://bigstirrecords.com/the-armoires
https://thearmoires.bandcamp.com/
The new record from the Burbank, CA indie pop quintet represents both a fresh start and the distillation of the potential inherent in their unique sound – somewhere between the sunshine pop of the '60s, the college rock jangle of the '80s and the Sarah Records/C86 chamber pop aesthetic of the '90s – and a lyrical approach that's always felt untethered to any one era or place. They've even put a name to the soun...
2024-11-171h 09C86 Show - Indie PopLeah Kardos - Kate Bush 'Hounds of Love'Leah Kardos in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.leahkardos.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kate-Bushs-Hounds-Love-33/dp/B0CYP75PF3
Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds of Love’ and ‘The Big Sky’, some of the best-loved and most enduring compositions in Bush’s catalogue. On side B, a hallucinatory seven-part song cycle called The Ninth Wave broke away from th...
2024-11-1651 minC86 Show - Indie PopDan Synge - Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream?: Postcards from the edge of '80s popDan Synge in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068530812
https://open.spotify.com/track/546BO0xumtrdTs9FMiqbvb?si=eb83d941dd2c41ce
https://rosavillemusic.bandcamp.com/album/soundtrack-of-our-lives
www.dansyngeauthor.com
Anyone can start a band. Anyone can be famous. Not everyone can wait a lifetime.
From hammering it with the ‘gods of rock’ to heroin diaries, white line fevers and the inevitable ghost written My Story, it would seem that every gnarled old pop star has had a crack at the rock and roll memoir. Wrong-side-of-the-tracks childhood? Check. Abusive stepda...
2024-11-141h 16C86 Show - Indie PopPeter Kelly - BeerjacketPeter Kelly in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://beerjacket.bandcamp.com/
Beerjacket is Scottish singer/songwriter, Peter Kelly, who has opened for The National, St Vincent, Kristin Hersh & Frightened Rabbit.
In 2018, Scottish Fiction released album/book of songs & short stories, Silver Cords, leading to an appearance at Edinburgh International Book Festival, a sold-out show with Cairn String Quartet at Celtic Connections, & radio play from BBC Radio 6 Music and KEXP.
2024-11-101h 05C86 Show - Indie PopKazuko Hohki - Frank ChickensKazuko Hohki in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.kazukohohki.com/
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/frank-chickens?srsltid=AfmBOooDDNlbGuF-rplim_W0Q1z4FFliWJ_ehN3sGCtlLFB0W4kpAGNM
Frank Chickens are a Japanese musical group based in London, who have performed songs mainly in English since 1982.
They were nominated for the 1984 Edinburgh Comedy Award for their performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the same year, their single "Blue Canary" was number 42 in BBC DJ John Peel's Festive Fifty, a poll of his listeners' favourite tracks of the year. The band recorded 28...
2024-11-101h 16C86 Show - Indie PopJonathon Grasse - Jazz Revolutionary: The Life & Music Of Eric DolphyJonathon Grasse in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://jawbonepress.com/jazz-revolutionary/
Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to Paris, where sixty years ago he died from the complications of undiagnosed diabetes. It presents an engaging examination of this innovative musician and composer, from his family background to posthumous memorials, and provides insight into his recordings both as sideman and leader.
2024-11-091h 23C86 Show - Indie PopJoe McKechnie - The Passage, Benny Profane, Modern Eon, Blue OrchidsJoe McKecknie in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Passage were a post-punk band from Manchester, England, who appeared on several record labels including Object Music, Cherry Red Records, and their own label Night & Day, a subsidiary label to Virgin Records.
https://ra.co/dj/joemckechnie/biography
2024-11-061h 40C86 Show - Indie PopKristi Callan - Wednesday Week, David Gray, Wondermints, Cruzados, Dave Davies, The Ventures, Big Soul, LuckyKristi Callan in conversation with David Eastaugh
Vocalist and rhythm guitarist originally from Texas. Kristi Callan has performed with Wednesday Week, David Gray, Wondermints, Cruzados, Dave Davies, The Ventures, Big Soul, Lucky, The Roswell Sisters and others.
Founders of the band were the sisters Kristi and Kelly Callan—daughters of actress K Callan. The sisters formed their first group, The Undeclared, in 1979. The duo evolved into a trio, Goat Deity, in 1980, when they were joined by Steve Wynn. Wynn left to concentrate on his other band, The Dream Syndicate, and Kjehl Johansen (of The Urinals) joi...
2024-11-041h 22C86 Show - Indie PopKatell KeinegKatell Keineg in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://katell.keineg.com/news
https://westhampsteadarts.com/nightery_event/katell-keineg/
Katell Keineg was born in Brittany and was brought up first there and then in Wales. After graduating from the London School of Economics she moved to Ireland and started gigging, before re-locating to New York in 1992. She was quickly embraced by the scene around St Mark’s Place’s now legendary Sin-é, building her reputation for ‘conveying a nearly beatific sense of joy in performance’ (Los Angeles Times). In 1993 she released a seven-inch single, ‘Hestia’ – ‘arc...
2024-10-281h 00C86 Show - Indie PopPenny SlingerPenny Slinger in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://pennyslinger.com/
British-born American artist and author based in California. As an artist, she has worked in different mediums, including photography, film and sculpture. Her work has been described as being in the genres of surrealism and feminist surrealism. Her work explores the nature of the self, the feminine and the erotic
2024-10-271h 04C86 Show - Indie PopThe Man from Delmonte - Mike WestMike West in conversation with David Eastaugh
The band members had little in common with most Manchester bands. Goody was a graduate of Winchester School of Art. Vincent had been an art critic and painter. Seal, a Glaswegian, was a classically trained musician who had run an art gallery. And West, who wrote the songs, was the Australian-born son of the author Morris West.
The band played many gigs at the Boardwalk club, in Manchester, where they recorded their Big Noise live album in 1989.
West moved to New Orleans to pursue a solo...
2024-10-261h 36C86 Show - Indie PopJakko Jakszyk - Level 42, King Crimson,Jakko Jakszyk in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://kingmakerpublishing.com/jakko-m-jakszyk/
Jakko M. Jaksyzk is an award-winning, world-renowned musician, best known for having been a member of Level 42, but most recently, for the past 13 years, lead singer and guitarist with progressive rock founding fathers King Crimson.
Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? is, at first glance, a traditional rock’n’roll memoir, charting Jakko’s long and varied musical career, packed with eyebrow-raising and hilarious anecdotes about his encounters with everyone from Michael Jackson to Kate Bush and Gene Simmons, Uri Geller, C...
2024-10-201h 05C86 Show - Indie PopBill Leeb - Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly & DeliriumBill Leeb in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.mindphaser.com/
https://frontlineassembly.bandcamp.com/album/model-kollapse
Electronic musician and record producer. He is best known for being a founding member of the industrial music group Front Line Assembly and Delerium.
Leeb began his musical career with industrial band Skinny Puppy in 1985 under the pseudonym Wilhelm Schroeder, contributing bass synth and occasional backing vocals to a few of their recordings and concerts. He left in 1986 and formed his own industrial project Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch, and later Rhys Fulber...
2024-10-171h 23C86 Show - Indie PopIan Christie - KhartombIan Christie in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://khartomb.bandcamp.com/album/swahili-lullaby-teekon-warriors-daisy-high-before-i-die-edition
https://www.khartomb.com/
https://www.youtube.com/khartomb
Khartomb were an English reggae-influenced independent group inspired by The Slits, among other widely-varying sounds of the era, who started up in the 1981 timeframe and featured songwriters Ian Christie (guitar) and Caroline Clayton (bass, vocals, flute), as well as originally Simon (General Gordon) on drums (later on percussion), augmented by Ali Barnes, and Paula Crolla and Karen (surname undisclosed) on vocals. Their only release was a 7 inch on Whaaam! R...
2024-10-161h 19C86 Show - Indie PopChris Sullivan - Blue Rondo à la TurkChris Sullivan in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.thesullivan.net/home
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/blue-rondo-bees-knees-and-chicken-elbows-expanded-2cd-edition?srsltid=AfmBOop68rFMyboq_cMuXbKfDxStVOacJIeB2YGuD-iZUNlgpTsdKf9E
Blue Rondo à la Turk was a floating collective of jazz and salsa oriented musicians, created by singer/lyricist Chris Sullivan who arrived in London from Merthyr Tydfil in the mid 1970s. His stated goal for the band was "to bring back show biz".
In the band’s first interview, Sullivan said of their sound: “Call it Latin American jazz with funk and African leanings – plus a few oth...
2024-10-121h 32C86 Show - Indie PopMike Batt - Wombles, Art Garfunkel, George Harrison, Cliff Richard, Andrew Lloyd-Webber & Katie MeluaMike Batt in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.mikebatt.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Closest-Thing-Crazy-Musical-Adventures/dp/1785120840
Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has been full of both glorious victories and bitter failures.
For better or for worse, he is a man who has always lived life on his own terms. Idiosyncratic but mainstream, complicated but compassionate, steadfastly maverick in spirit but avowedly commercial in outlook...
2024-10-1158 minC86 Show - Indie PopMumps - Paul RutnerPaul Rutner in conversation with David Eastaugh
Mumps were a popular band at clubs such as Max's Kansas City and CBGB. They also performed at Irving Plaza and Maxwell's (Hoboken, New Jersey), and opened for the Ramones at Hurrah in August 1978. Their concerts were lively and featured energetic, expressive performances from Lance Loud and other band members on songs like "We're Americans", "I Believe In Anyone But You", "Strange Seed", "Brain Massage", "Scream and Scream Again".
Their first 45 record single was "I Like To Be Clean", backed by "Crocodile Tears" on Bomp Records. Their second...
2024-09-2659 minC86 Show - Indie PopDavid Bash - International Pop OverthrowDavid Bash in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://internationalpopoverthrow.com/
The festival is dedicated to bring classic pop music to the public, and is run by CEO and founder David Bash and Rina Bardfield. Although the festival has over the years featured several major label acts, such as Phantom Planet, Maroon 5 (under their previous incarnation, Kara's Flowers), and The Click Five, Bash tries to maintain the grassroots feel of the festival by featuring primarily unsigned bands, and presenting them in a festival platform with similar minded artists.
2024-09-251h 10C86 Show - Indie PopJez Willis - Utah Saints, MDMA, Surfin Dave And The Absent Legends, The Cassandra Complex,Jez Willis in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://utahsaints.com/
Utah Saints were described as "the first true stadium house band" by the KLF's Bill Drummond, though their music is difficult to place into one genre. The dance group originally met as music promoters and DJs for the Mix Nightclub in Harrogate in the early 1990s. They began as MDMA, featuring two former The Cassandra Complex members Jez Willis and Keith Langley, along with Bobby Rae and guitarist Martin Scott. Willis started The Utah Saints with the addition of Tim Garbutt
2024-09-201h 24C86 Show - Indie PopRaymond Watts aka PIG, The Hit Parade, Clones & SchweinRaymond Watts in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.pigindustries.com/
Following hot on the heels of his new album ‘Red Room’ (released in May 2024), industrial rock mainstay Raymond Watts aka PIG has today reissued a fully remastered version of his seminal mid-‘90s album ‘Sinsation’ via Metropolis Records (CD, digital) and Armalyte Industries (deluxe 2xLP vinyl). Out of print for almost three decades, it makes a timely reappearance just ahead of a North American tour.'Sinsation' was originally released in 1995 on Nothing Records, the label established by Nine Inch Nails kingpin Trent Reznor, and not lo...
2024-09-1459 minC86 Show - Indie PopThe Church - Steve KilbeySteve Kilbey in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.thechurchband.com/
https://kilbeykennedy.bandcamp.com/
https://stevekilbey.bandcamp.com/
https://easyaction.co.uk/product/the-church-eros-zeta-the-perfumed-guitars-cd/
2024-09-121h 48
C86 Show - Indie PopRichard King - Arthur RussellRichard King in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379668-travels-over-feeling/
An icon of New York’s downtown music scene is brought vividly to life in this tapestry of archive and oral history’ Guardian
The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his pioneering compositions as part of the New York avant-garde alongside artists including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, to his genre-expanding disco and art pop productions, to his posthumously released folk songs.
Travels Over Feel...
2024-09-041h 36C86 Show - Indie PopMicky GreaneyMicky Greaney in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://mickygreaney.bandcamp.com/album/and-now-its-all-this
'Lost' album from Birmingham singer-songwriter Micky Greaney, originally recorded 1995-6, and now finally getting a release with all the loving care that we have come to expect from midlands independent label Seventeen Records. Elegantly arranged folk-rock that reminds us of Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake and the Kinks.
2024-08-3159 minC86 Show - Indie PopBlowzabella - Chris GunstoneChris Gunstone in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawE9yq5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZDm_3cVz11MGq5Cl4V4A9WTzbFiU5-ifB_lYJCBT3RfOJPnN8wUwgt5tA_aem_avFXoze_4IGrhh50EjqT_Q
Blowzabella was formed in Whitechapel, London in 1978 by original members Bill O'Toole, Jon Swayne, Chris Gunstone,Dave Armitage and Juan Wijngaard. When the band first formed, Swayne, O'Toole, and Armitage were studying woodwind instrument making at the London College of Furniture, while Sam Palmer (joined Blowzabella in May 1979) had recently finished the course and had already began a career making hurdy-gurdies.
2024-08-301h 24C86 Show - Indie PopMarco Pirroni - Adam & The Ants, Rema-Rema, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Models & The WolfmenMarco Pirroni in conversation with David Eastaugh
Pirroni was lead guitarist and co-songwriter in the second incarnation of Adam and the Ants, co-penning two UK number ones and a further four 10 hits, with Ant. The two albums he co-wrote for Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming, both made the Top 10 in the ("Kings" number 1; "Prince Charming" number 2).
When Adam and the Ants disbanded in 1982, Pirroni was retained as Adam Ant's co-writer and studio guitarist; they produced another number-one single ("Goody Two Shoes") and an album (Friend or Foe), followed...
2024-08-282h 16C86 Show - Indie PopPeter Prescott - Mission Of Burma, The Molls, Volcano Suns, Kustomized & MinibeastPeter Prescott in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://minibeast.bandcamp.com/
American post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. The group formed in 1979 with Roger Miller on guitar, Clint Conley on bass, Peter Prescott on drums, and Martin Swope contributing audiotape manipulation and acting as the band’s sound engineer. In this initial lineup, Miller, Conley, and Prescott all shared singing and songwriting duties.
2024-08-241h 27C86 Show - Indie PopHappydeadmen - Magnus KarlssonMagnus Karlsson in conversation with David Eastaugh
Happydeadmen were one of the first Swedish acts to have been given credit for inspiring the '90s explosion of pop acts. With the thank-you list that includes The Cardigans and Popsicle, Happydeadmen's melody of charming indie glee debuted in 1988. With their first full-length, "Eleven Pop Songs" (1990), and "Game, Set, Match" (1993) independently released, Happydeadmen would spend a part of 1995 touring Japan before their follow-up album, "Bullfights Every Sunday", came out two years later. After settling down the line-up in 1997 with Jan Hedin (vocals/guitar), Magnus Karlsson (guitar), Roger Kjellgren (bass...
2024-08-221h 03C86 Show - Indie PopPeter Crowley - Max's Kansas CityPeter Crowley in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-at-Maxs-Peter-Crowley/dp/B0D7QR4F6Y
https://www.farwestpress.com/far-west-books/p/down-at-maxs-peter-crowley
Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max's Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all from the West Village in the 1960s to the color sound of California to managing and booking bands during the punk explosion of the 1970s. Like a beer for a breakfast, a reflection on what it was...
2024-08-211h 22C86 Show - Indie PopShadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Don PyleDon Pyle in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://shadowymen.bandcamp.com/album/dim-the-lights-chill-the-ham
Pyle's first group was a punk band called Crash Kills Five, which was active from 1979 to 1981. Crash Kills Five released one EP in 1980, titled What Do You Do At Night?. It was in this four piece band that Pyle first played with two members, Reid Diamond and Brian Connelly, who would later become his bandmates in Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet were together for eleven years; during this time, they recorded three LPs and thirteen...
2024-08-181h 38C86 Show - Indie PopMichael AlagoMichael Alago in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.michaelalago.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-Michael-Alago-Breathing-Metallica/dp/1617137251
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgTBj2Zbr0w
Musician, nightlife impresario, record label executive, photographer, and author, Michael Alago takes readers through this amazing journey that is his life. Alago grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a large, spirited, and devoted Puerto Rican family. Through his early passion for music, art, theater, and photography, he soon found himself rubbing elbows with many downtown NYC scene makers, from Stiv Bators to Jean...
2024-08-161h 45C86 Show - Indie PopThe March Violets - Tom Ashton & Mat ThorpeTom Ashton & Mat Thorpe in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.marchvioletsband.com/
https://marchvioletsband.bandcamp.com/album/crocodile-promises
Crocodile Promises, the all new album from legendary post-punk/goth rock act The March Violets builds upon the band's 40 year legacy. Founding members Rosie Garland and Tom Ashton are now joined by bassist Mat Thorpe. Crocodile Promises finds the March Violets in top form, creating a reinvigorated take on it's trademark boundary-shredding goth-tinged post punk.
2024-08-1056 minC86 Show - Indie PopLaura Davis-Chanin - Student TeachersLaura Davis-Chanin in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://backbeatbooks.com/books/9781617136870
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Dreams-Life-Alan-Vega/dp/149307248X
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Excellence in Writing and named in Billboard's top 10 Music books of 2018 for her book, "The Girl in the Back," Laura is pursuing her second love, writing. Her first love, her daughters, bring her eternal sunshine everyday. Her second book, "I am Michael Alago," about the unique and remarkable person who brought Metallica to the world as well as Nina Simone's last album, was released...
2024-08-081h 11C86 Show - Indie PopLiz Lamere - Alan Vega & SuicideLiz Lamere in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://backbeatbooks.com/books/9781493072484
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Dreams-Life-Alan-Vega/dp/149307248X
https://lizlamere.bandcamp.com/album/one-never-knows
Liz Lamere was Alan Vega’s wife and long-term creative collaborator. They met in 1985 when she was a corporate lawyer at a major Wall Street firm and played drums in a punk band, SSNUB. She co-wrote, co-produced, and recorded numerous songs with Vega. Now, she spearheads the ongoing release of recordings from the “Vega Vault,” a vast library of unreleased albums, songs, and sound recordings. She overse...
2024-08-071h 52C86 Show - Indie PopSimon Fisher TurnerSimon Fisher Turner in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://simonfisherturner.bandcamp.com/album/instability-of-the-signal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKWlALrBIA
English musician, songwriter, composer, producer and actor. After portraying Ned East in the 1971 BBC TV adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays and roles in films such as The Big Sleep (1978), Turner rose to fame as a teenage star in Britain when his mentor, Jonathan King, released Turner's eponymous first album on UK Records
2024-08-021h 28C86 Show - Indie PopVix - We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use ItVix in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWqfxj-mlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlHXTesRos
https://www.happilife.uk/about
We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It!!, often shortened to Fuzzbox, are a British alternative rock group. Formed in Birmingham in 1985, the all-female quartet originally consisted of Vix (Vickie Perks), Magz (Maggie Dunne), Jo Dunne and Tina O'Neill. The band's name was shortened to Fuzzbox for the US release of their debut studio album.
2024-07-281h 19C86 Show - Indie PopMick McCarthy - Blab Happy & PerfumeMick McCarthy in conversation with David Eastaugh
When Blab Happy split up, singer/guitarist Mick McCarthy and bassist Tony Owen recruited John Waddington to form Perfume, initially releasing records on their own "Aromasound" label. Beginning with scented limited edition vinyl, they enjoyed a string of Indie Top 10 hits. Their first release was "Yoga/Perfume” in December 1993, the white label was played repeatedly on Radio 1 by Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley. Second single "Young/Anointed” (which was also perfume-scented) appeared in April 1994. Third single "Lover" was picked up on by BBC Radio One DJ's Steve Lamacq and Jo Wile...
2024-07-251h 37C86 Show - Indie PopSteve Wynn - The Dream SyndicateSteve Wynn in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.stevewynn.net/
https://stevewynn1.bandcamp.com/merch
http://jawbonepress.com/i-wouldnt-say-it-if-it-wasnt-true/
Founding member of The Dream Syndicate, whose debut album, The Days Of Wine And Roses, is widely regarded as a cornerstone of the indie/alternative rock scene of the 1980s. He has also enjoyed a prolific solo career, touring the world on a regular basis and performing and recording in groups such as Danny & Dusty, Gutterball, and The Baseball Project (also featuring REM founders Mike Mills and Peter Buck). He scored...
2024-07-201h 04
C86 Show - Indie PopTiffany Murray - My Family & Other Rock StarsTiffany Murray in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/tiffany-murray/my-family-and-other-rock-stars/9780349727530/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Other-Rock-Stars-groundbreaking/dp/0349727538
It’s the late 1970s and Tiff lives with her mum, Joan, at Rockfield, the iconic recording studios. This place of legend, where some of the most famous rock albums of all time were recorded, is the background to a freewheeling, ever-changing whirlwind of a childhood. Tiff’s days are spent running around the farm, making friends with local wildlife and helping out with the endless array of dishes her mum crea...
2024-07-1954 minC86 Show - Indie PopJoseph ArthurJoseph Arthur in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://josepharthur.com/
https://westhampsteadarts.com/
Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-1990s, and signed to Gabriel's Real World label as the first North American artist on the label's roster. Arthur released his debut album, Big City Secrets (1997), and follow-up, Come to Where I'm From (2000), on Real World before signing with various independent labels between 2002 and 2006. He established his own record label, Lonely Astronaut Records, in 2006, and released two studio albums, Let's Just Be (2007) and Temporary People (2008) with backing band The Lonely Astronauts.
2024-07-151h 41C86 Show - Indie PopMichael Beinhorn - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Hole, Korn, Soul Asylum and Marilyn Manson.Michael Beinhorn in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://michaelbeinhorn.com/
Michael Beinhorn started out as a musician in the early 1980's New York downtown scene where he played keyboards and handled electronics and tapes; he is probably best known for being a full member of Bill Laswell's collective Material (as musician, arranger and producer). In the mid 80's, he moved into engineering and producing and has since made himself a name as a big-time, Grammy-winning rock producer.
Worked with artists like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Hole etc. Began his...
2024-07-122h 00C86 Show - Indie PopStan Erraught - The Stars Of Heaven, Hey Paulette, Peridots, The Great Western Squares & The Sewing Room,Stan Erraught in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Stars Of Heaven were formed in 1983 by Stephen Ryan (vocals, guitar), Stan Erraught (guitar, formerly of The Peridots), Peter O'Sullivan (bass guitar), and Bernard Walsh (drums).They were strongly influenced by The Byrds and Gram Parsons, even being labelled "Ireland's answer to The Byrds, Gram Parsons and the Velvet Underground all in one package". After a début single on the Hotwire label ("Clothes of Pride") which received airplay from John Peel, they were signed by Rough Trade, who issued the album Sacred Heart Hotel in 1986, which reached number 11 o...
2024-07-031h 42C86 Show - Indie PopTygers of Pan Tang - Jack MeilleJack Meille in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.tygersofpantang.com/
The Tygers of Pan Tang were formed by guitarist Robb Weir (born Robert Mortimer Weir, 1958), Richard "Rocky" Laws (bass), Jess Cox (vocals) and Brian Dick (drums). They played in working men's clubs and were first signed by local independent label Neat Records before MCA gave them a major record deal. After several singles, they released their first album, Wild Cat, in 1980.
'Bloodlines' was released in 2023 featuring their two new members, followed by 'Live Blood' in 2024 showcasing songs from across the bands career...
2024-06-301h 26C86 Show - Indie PopPeter Watts - SpygeniusPeter Watts in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.spygenius.co.uk/
SPYGENIUS frontman and songwriter Peter Watts got his start in the 80s as the lead singer with the Murrumbidgee Whalers, whose jangle-pop classic "Giving Way to Trains" has recently been re-released on the Cherry Red C88 compilation. The 21st century saw the Watts moving on to create Spygenius, a classic British four piece pop-combo based in Canterbury and South London, who have built upon and extended that musical legacy. Ruth Rogers (bass), Matt Byrne (keys) and Alan Cannings (drums) complete the line-up...
2024-06-281h 43C86 Show - Indie PopMargarita Vasquez-Ponte - Jesse Garon and the DesperadoesMargarita Vasquez-Ponte in conversation with David Eastaugh
The original members of the band were Andrew Tully (guitars/vocals), Eric Webster and Angus McPake (bass guitar), Fran Schoppler (vocals), Margarita Vasquez-Ponte (drums), Kevin McMahon (guitars), and Stuart Clarke (guitar). Tully and Vasquez-Ponte were also members of Rote Kapelle, a band that was active from 1985–1988.
This initial line-up recorded the first two singles, "Splashing Along" and "The Rain Fell Down" (described by one reviewer as a "pop gem that's not to be missed") on Narodnik Records.
2024-06-231h 04C86 Show - Indie PopKaren Haglof - Band of Susans & Rhys ChathamKaren Haglof in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdAA7_gIr5w
http://www.howlinwuelf.com/clients/karen-haglof/
One Hand Up is the fourth full length release by guitarist/songwriter Karen Haglof. The album was produced by Haglof and Mario Viele, recorded at Cowboy Technical Services and Excello studios in Brooklyn, primarily mixed by Viele. Three songs were mixed at the Fidelitorium in Kernersville NC by Mitch Easter and mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering in North Scituate, RI. One Hand Up is being released on CD, digi...
2024-06-2054 minC86 Show - Indie PopPaul Haig - Josef KPaul Haig in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://linktr.ee/paulhaig
Together with Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and The Go-Betweens, Josef K were one of the Postcard label's million dollar quartets, recording five smart singles and an album, The Only Fun In Town. Touring the album during July and August of 1981, however, the band split after a final show in Glasgow. The exact reasons behind the split - principally the decision of frontman Paul Haig - remain obscure, although it would seem that a combination of too-great expectations, too-small financial returns, Haig's dislike of touring...
2024-06-171h 25C86 Show - Indie PopGerry Colvin - Terry and Gerry & The Man UpstarisGerry Colvin in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.gerrycolvin.co.uk/index.html
In the 1970's Gerry joined pop band 'The Man Upstairs'. They released three singles and toured with 'The Smiths'.
In the early 1980's he co-founded and fronted the legendary John Peel favourite skiffle-cowpunk indie outfit 'Terry & Gerry'. This seminal band toured Europe and the USA and appeared on countless Radio and TV shows including "The Tube" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Their five singles and album all reached No.1 in the indie charts. In 2010 Cherry Red released 'Let's...
2024-06-151h 31C86 Show - Indie PopGaye Black - The AdvertsGaye Black in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.gayeblack.co.uk/
English punk rock musician, who played bass guitar in the band The Adverts in the late 1970s. She was one of the first female rock stars of the punk rock movement, whom The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the "first female punk star". She was "one of punk’s first female icons". Dave Thompson wrote that her "photogenic" looks, "panda-eye make-up and omnipresent leather jacket defined the face of female punkdom until well into the next decade".
2024-06-1447 min
C86 Show - Indie PopGered MankowitzGered Mankowitz in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://mankowitz.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolling-Stones-Rare-Unseen-afterword/dp/1802797335
"Mankowitz (Goin' Home with the Rolling Stones '66), who at 18 became the official photographer for the then newly formed Rolling Stones, gathers a rich and revealing trove of images from the band's early years. Capturing the group as they were "finding their style and... becoming themselves," Mankowitz's photos depict the rockers in motion onstage; in their homes and luxury cars; and in heated exchanges with concert security, incidents that underlined their reputation as a more boisterous...
2024-06-091h 14C86 Show - Indie PopRed Money - Richard & JulianRichard & Julian in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://redmoney.co.uk/
http://www.firestation-records.de/catalogue.html
Red Money emerged as an acoustic band in January 1990. Originally performing as a larger line up, fate stepped in to change both the format and sound of the band. Booked to play their first gig of the year at the Fulham Greyhound in London, various members then dropped out due to other commitments. Rather than cancelling, founder founders Richard and Jules hastily arranged a stripped down set and took to the stage with saxophone player Roz...
2024-06-061h 01C86 Show - Indie PopMonogroove - Rin Lennon, Michael George,Jay Smith-drums & Alias WildeRin Lennon, Michael George,Jay Smith-drums & Alias Wilde in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://monogroove.bandcamp.com/album/the-flip-side
http://www.rinsrescues.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/rinlennon4/featured
2024-06-021h 08C86 Show - Indie PopJohnnie Johnstone - Josef KJohnnie Johnson in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://jawbonepress.com/through-the-crack-in-the-wall/
https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/product/johnnie-johnstone-foreword-by-stewart-lee/through-the-crack-in-the-wall-the-secret-history-of-josef-k#paperback-exclusive-signed-plus
Through The Crack in The Wall is the first ever biography of the band, tracing their story from their origins in the leafy suburbs of Edinburgh through to their untimely implosion four years later. It’s a tale of fun and frenzy, filled with highs and lows. From their thrilling live shows, which left onlookers spellbound, to more anxious occasions confronting a baying audience of rioting anarcho-punks in Brussels; from a brief spell as...
2024-06-011h 08C86 Show - Indie PopFrank Deserto - No Songs Tomorrow - Darkwave, Ethereal Rock And ColdwaveFrank Deserto in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/no-songs-tomorrow-darkwave-ethereal-rock-and-coldwave-1981-1990-4cd-box-set
• FEATURING THE CURE, DEAD CAN DANCE, CLAN OF XYMOX, COCTEAU TWINS, SOFT CELL, TONES ON TAIL, IN THE NURSERY, ATTRITION, IRON CURTAIN, ALIEN SEX FIEND, CRANES, KIRLIAN CAMERA, NEON AND MANY MORE.
• 4CD SET EXPLORING THE 1980s’ DARKWAVE/COLDWAVE SCENE THROUGHOUT THE UK, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
• A BROAD CHURCH TAKING IN ELECTRONICS, DARK AMBIENT, NEO-CLASSICAL NEW WAVE, GOTHIC SOUNDSCAPES AND COLD DREAM POP.
• CURATED BY THE TEAM WHO BROUGHT YOU ‘CHERRY STARS COLLIDE’, ‘SIL...
2024-05-3153 minC86 Show - Indie PopPat Thomas - Allen GinsbergPat Thomas in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://allenginsberg.org/2023/11/w-n-29-2/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Material-Wealth-Personal-Archive-Ginsberg/dp/1648230369
There are hundreds of thousands of items carefully stored and archived at Stanford University's Allen Ginsberg collection. Counterculture historian Pat Thomas, with the full cooperation of the Allen Ginsberg Estate's Peter Hale, has compiled and annotated a remarkable volume of material, unearthing in the process one astounding find after another. The result is a tome of previously unpublished historical paperwork and vintage graphics and photographs and ephemera that promises an unprecedented look inside one...
2024-05-2649 minC86 Show - Indie PopHollywood Stars - Scott PharesScott Phares in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.hollywoodstarsband.com/
https://thehollywoodstars.bandcamp.com/track/cant-do-it-right
American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in late 1973 by manager/impresario Kim Fowley. The band was created as a West Coast answer to the New York Dolls during the height of the popularity of the glam rock genre. The band signed with Columbia Records in 1974 and with Arista Records in 1976, releasing one self-titled LP with the latter label in 1977 and opening for The Kinks on their Sleepwalker tour the same year. The band's song "...
2024-05-231h 23C86 Show - Indie PopCarmen - Roberto Amaral & David Clark AllenRoberto Amaral & David Clark Allen in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/carmen-the-albums-1973-1975-3cd-box-set
CARMEN initially came together in Los Angeles as seven-piece band formed by guitarist DAVID CLARK ALLEN and his sister ANGELA ALLEN in 1970. The band’s unique style blended both Progressive Rock and Flamenco styles, with Angela Allen also being an accomplished Flamenco dancer aside from being keyboard player.
Despite interest from music mogul Clive Davis, the band failed to make any headway in getting a record contract they relocated to London in 1973. The Allens so...
2024-05-201h 28C86 Show - Indie PopBrainiac - John SchmersalJohn Schmersal in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://3ra1n1ac.com/
Schmersal was originally in the band Brainiac and formed Enon (named after the village in Ohio, which is close to Schmersal's hometown of Dayton) with Lee and Calhoon following the death of Brainiac's singer Timmy Taylor and their subsequent disbandment.
After Brainiac, Schmersal made a solo album under the name John Stuart Mill. Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon were both previous members of the band Skeleton Key, a befriended band Brainiac had toured with. Together they formed Enon. Lee created a...
2024-05-191h 38C86 Show - Indie PopChristian Death - Valor KandValor Kand in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://officialchristiandeath.com/
American rock band formed in 1979 by Rozz Williams. Williams was eventually joined by guitarist Rikk Agnew of the band Adolescents, James McGearty on bass guitar and George Belanger on drums. This line-up was responsible for producing the band's best known work, their 1982 debut studio album Only Theatre of Pain, which was highly influential in the development of the style of music known as death rock, as well as on the American gothic scene which also produced bands such as Kommunity FK and 45 Grave.
F...
2024-05-121h 07C86 Show - Indie PopMan ParrishMan Parrish in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.manparrish.com
Parrish's early live shows at Bronx hip-hop clubs were spectacles of lights, glitter, and pyrotechnics, which drew as much from the Warhol mystique as the Cold Crush Brothers.
His first release was "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)" issued in 1982, which Parrish said faced a racial backlash from the African-American hip hop community: "I was making the music that they played, and then they found out I was white and gay they pulled it. It didn't hurt sales but it was shocking."...
2024-05-111h 36C86 Show - Indie PopChristopher Merrick Hughes - Adam & The Ants, Tears for Fears, Robert Plant, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel etcChristopher Merrick Hughes in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.chrismerrickhughes.com/
music producer, songwriter, and former drummer of Adam and the Ants. Best known as producer of Tears for Fears' Songs from the Big Chair, and as the co-writer of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Hughes has a joint background as a musician, songwriter and producer. His career began with Adam and the Ants as drummer and producer of the "Cartrouble" and "Kings of the Wild Frontier" singles, then the Kings of the Wild Frontier album. Yielding three hit singles, the album earned...
2024-05-081h 28C86 Show - Indie PopSimon Heavisides - Adrian Borland The SoundSimon Heavisides in conversation with David Eastaugh
You can pre-order the book from Stichting Opposite Direction, Jean-Paul van Mierlo: vanmierlojeanpaul00@gmail.com
https://louderthanwar.com/destiny-stopped-screaming-the-life-and-times-of-adrian-borland-book-review/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Destiny-Stopped-Screaming-Adrian-Borland/
Adrian Borland, was singer/guitarist and main songwriter with The Sound, a band which between 1979 and 1987 released seven albums that never failed to be at the very least full of passion and raw emotion. They made their debut in 1979 with the "Physical World" e.p, but it wasn't until the release of the "Jeopardy" album in 1980 that it became c...
2024-05-041h 02C86 Show - Indie PopLora Logic - Essential Logic - X-Ray Spex & Essential LogicLora Logic in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.essential-logic.co.uk/
https://essentiallogic.bandcamp.com/
fter co-founding X-Ray Spex, Lora Logic formed Essential Logic in 1978, shaping post-punk with unique sax, whimsical melodies. Their 1979 album, 'Beat Rhythm News,' stood out. After a long hiatus, Essential Logic returned in 2022 with 'Land of Kali.’
Essential Logic are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 by saxophonist Lora Logic after leaving X-Ray Spex. The band initially consisted of Lora on vocals, Phil Legg on guitar and vocals, William Bennett (later of Whitehouse) on guitar, Ma...
2024-05-011h 50
C86 Show - Indie PopMonika Hempel - Klaus NomiMonika Hempel in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.verlag-reiffer.de/produkt/nomi/v
Singing space robot. Galactic Pierrot. The thing from the other planet. To put the phenomenon of Klaus Nomi into words, the media prefers to stylize him as an alien. In fact, the artist cannot be classified into gender or genre categories and appears to be a hybrid creature of human, machine and Martian.
He effortlessly bridges the gap from baroque opera to 1960s pop to new wave, from the frosty “Cold Song” to the ironic, infernal “Total Eclipse”. Despite a narrow...
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