C86 Show - Indie Pop

Jerome Soligny in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/david-bowie-music-lover/ David Bowie: Music Lover is a compelling mix of personal insight and expert commentary, jointly written by Bowie’s lifelong friend, collaborator and listening companion, Geoff MacCormack, and Jérôme Soligny, author of the seminal Rainbowman, who knew Bowie for 25 years. From Classical t...

Jason Stoll in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://jaawband.bandcamp.com/ https://godunknownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/zones-3 https://deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/twin-sister https://sexswing.bandcamp.com/ Jason Stoll is a prolific musician and has featured in many bands including Mugstar, KLÄMP, Sex Swing, Twin Sister and now JAAW. Plus he also runs the God Unknown Records label who...

Frank Sweeney in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.facebook.com/frank.sweeney1 After forming in June 1983, they first played live as a band in August that year, soon attracting the attention of future Creation Records boss Alan McGee, who gave them several gigs at the 'Living Room', but reputedly decided not to sign The June Brides to his new label as it would have been "too obvious"....

Nicholas Freeman & Ramiel Petros in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpJfIG03yE Former Norwich City star Tony Powell vanished from professional soccer in the 1970s. Decades later, he's found managing a West Hollywood motel, the last tenant of a disappearing place and of a life lived in secret.

Bruce Watson in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://bigcountry.co.uk/ Big Country Redux are led by Bruce Watson, one of the founding members of Big Country, alongside the late, great guitarist, singer and songwriter Stuart Adamson. Now, Big Country Redux announce the ‘Eastworld’ album, which will be released on CD, Vinyl and Digital on 19 September through Absolute. The album will be precede...

Alfie Agnew in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://professorandthemadman.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/professorandthemadman   Sean Elliott and Alfie Agnew are the songwriters and co-frontmen of Professor and the Madman. Elliott sees Dreamworld as a continuation of themes discussed on the group’s previous album, the critically acclaimed Séance, released in 2020.    “Séance was about...

Robert Wringham in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://wringham.co.uk/film/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54J_1Be63q4 In the 1980s and 1990s, Anthony Irvine was a comedian and cabaret performer. His act was a little unusual. As the Iceman, he went on stage… to melt ice. Literally. He’d bring a large block of ice onto the stage then proceed to melt it (or fail to melt it) in a variety of cr...

Stephen Lawrie in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://thetelescopes.bandcamp.com/ The Telescopes are an English noise, space rock, dream pop and psychedelic band formed in 1987 by artist, composer, and musician Stephen Lawrie, with band members David Fitzgerald and Joanna Doran joining later. The band's line-up is in constant flux; there can be anywhere between 1 and 20 members on a recordin...

Paul Leary in conversation with David Eastaugh https://buttholesurfersmovie.com/ THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS ARE LEGENDS. NO ONE FLEW THEIR FREAK FLAG HIGHER.    The band exploded onto the underground music scene in the 1980s, amazing a growing audience as they built one of the most mind-boggling surrealist rock and roll spectacles ever devised. Their very name was a fuck you to the straight, conformist,...

Kim J Simpson in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.kimsimpson.us/ https://kimsimpson.bandcamp.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-70s-Radio-Kim-Simpson Kim Simpson is an Austin-based singer-songwriter, fingerstyle guitarist, and radio host whose musical journey defies genre boundaries. A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Kim grew up surrounded by a rich blend of jazz, rock, and Scandinav...

Molly Tie in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://omnibuspress.com/products/rebel-grrrls?srsltid=AfmBOopJhSAnhQq9LIB3NO8T9zN9PSlNCL7axjGdFHoXKjLVSHFm7RNP From the gritty streets of 1970s London to the sun-soaked beaches of 2000s California, Rebel Grrrls: The Real Story of Women and Punk is a raw and exhilarating exploration of rebellion and identity, seen through the eyes of its fans. This bo...

Stephen Kent in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/stephen.kent.336 Stephen Kent is one of the most celebrated performers and composers playing the Australian Aboriginal Didgeridoo (Didjeridu) in the contemporary world. In a career spanning four decades of professional appearances across five continents, he has amassed a catalog of over thirty full length albums, including e...

Roman Jugg in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/roman.jugg n late 1981, Jugg worked with the Damned as a touring keyboardist before becoming a full-time member in 1982 for the album Strawberries. Jugg also worked on a number of Damned-adjacent projects, including Naz Nomad and the Nightmares (under the alias Sphix Svenson_. and David Vanian and the Phantom Chords. After Cap...

Bridget St John in conversation with David Eastaugh English singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel's Dandelion record label. Peel produced her debut album, Ask Me No Questions. She also recorded a large number of BBC Radio and Peel sessions and toured regularly on the British college and festival circuit. St John appeared a...

Graeme Revell in conversation with David Eastaugh  Soundtrack composer, experimental musician and author. Born in Auckland, New Zealand on 23 October 1955. Moved to Australia where he founded the legendary industrial band SPK in 1978. After 3 records of extreme noise assaults and controversial subjects, SPK turned toward synth-pop, consisting of just Revell and his then wife Sinan Leong . In the m...

Barry Blue in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://barryblue.co.uk/home English singer, producer, and songwriter. As an artist, he is best known for his hit songs "Dancin' (on a Saturday Night)" and "Do You Wanna Dance" (both 1973). Blue has also been a prolific songwriter and producer for many artists and has had over forty worldwide hits, including those by Andrea Bocelli, Diana Ross, Celin...

John L Williams in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heatwave-Summer-Britain-Boiling-Point/dp/1800961715 With temperatures soaring to 35ºC, severe water shortages and a sunburned population queuing at the standpipes, the summer of 1976 was always remembered as Britain's hottest. But the wave that hit the UK that year was also cultural and political, with upheaval on the st...

Ian Prowse in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://amsterdam-music.com/ Singer-songwriter, currently frontman of Amsterdam and previously of Pele .    

David Kilgour in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clean-Dreamlife-Need-Rubber-Soul/dp/1627311831 The Clean was a New Zealand indie rock band formed in Dunedin in 1978. They have been described as the most influential band to come from the Flying Nun label, which recorded many artists associated with the "Dunedin sound", and one of the first bands to be described as "indie...

Jesse Rifkin in conversation with David Eastaugh https://walkonthewildsidenyc.com/about https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Must-Be-Place-Community/dp/1335449329 Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you'll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won't know it--almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no recor...

Simon Reynolds in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/still-in-a-dream Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated through the mid-Eighties into the early Nineties. Capturing...

Robert Rotifer in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.robertrotifer.co.uk/ https://robertrotifer.bandcamp.com/album/radical-friendship-theory https://robertrotifer.bandcamp.com/album/not-your-door Growing up in Vienna. In the 1980s he began his musical career as a singer and guitarist in several Vienna Britpop bands. This was followed by the founding of the mod band Electric Eels, after...

Trevor Johnson in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://the15thband.bandcamp.com/album/inside-out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgWkLb-DEU&t=1s An underground indie & jangle pop single from 1989 that has never really seen the light of day, “Inside Out” B/w “Rumours Of Rain” although both sides are regarded as A sides. These recordings were initially recorded as demos for the purpose...

Stephen Hunking in conversation with David Eastaugh https://hypnolovewheel1.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-universe Hypnolovewheel was an American indie rock band from Long Island . Despite positive critical reviews, the band's albums were never particularly successful, and they split in 1993. Band's members include Stephen Hunking (guitar and vocals) Dan Cuddy (bass and vocals), Peter Walsh (drums a...

Rachel Carns in conversation with David Eastaugh https://drawingroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-being-the-ballad-of-kicking-giant-halo-nyc-olympia-1989-1993 American musician, composer, artist and performer living in Olympia, Washington , U.S. Raised in small-town Wisconsin , she went on to study painting and drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City , whe...