C86 Show - Indie Pop

Raymond 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...

Steve 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/

Richard 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...

Micky 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,...

Chris 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, Sway...

Marco 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...

Peter 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 si...

Magnus 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) independentl...

Peter 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...

Don 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 l...

Michael 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 l...

Tom 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 fi...

Laura 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,...

Liz 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....

Simon 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...

Vix 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 an...

Mick 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...

Steve 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...

Tiffany 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 w...

Joseph 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 wit...

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...

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 pack...

Jack 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 si...

Peter 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 piec...

Margarita 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...