C86 Show - Indie Pop

Michael Wiener & Jim Coleman in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thechildrenband.bandcamp.com/album/a-sudden-craving Principal songwriters for The Children... are Michael Wiener (vocals/lyrics), Jim Coleman (electronics & various instruments) and Phil Puleo (drums, acoustic guitar & various instruments). Other core members, both live and on this recording: John Nowlin (bass), R...

Danny Kroha in conversation with David Eastaugh https://dannykroha.bandcamp.com/album/detroit-blues https://www.facebook.com/hotepnefti Danny Kroha, founding member of minimal garage rock trio the Gories, has recently been spending time perfecting and recording more traditional folk, blues, and gospel tunes from the public domain. His upcoming Detroit Blues could be considered part two of his solo...

Muz Murray in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.muzmurray.com/   Muz Murray is a world-travelling mystic master with an international reputation, having given guidance for many years in his “SHARING THE QUEST” workshops—on Mantra Yoga, Mystical Awakening, Massage and Meditation—in the UK and Europe. He follows the way of the Universal Mystic—the Path of the Heart—embracing the essence o...

Linda Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh https://lindasmith2.bandcamp.com/ https://capturedtracks.com/artist/linda-smith/ A pioneer of the home recording movement, Linda Smith released several collections of delicate, bewitching solo music on cassette in the 1980s and 90s. The 2021 release of Till Another Time: 1988-1996, Captured Tracks’ compilation of Smith’s work, has helped bestow right...

Stan Cullimore  in conversation with David Eastaugh

Max in conversation with David Eastaugh https://ausgang-kabuki.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/ausgangkabuki/ Ausgang was formed by members of the band Kabuki. Some members had also been members of another band, the Solicitors. Max (vocals), Cub (bass guitar) and Matthew (guitar) were all previously in Kabuki, who released one 1982 single ("I Am a Horse") before splitting up. With drummer Ib...

Alan Lee Shaw in conversation with David Eastaugh English guitarist whose career began after leaving art school, in music projects with Twink. He later formed short-lived The Rings with 'Twink' Alder & drummer Rod Latter , before he and Latter created punk band Maniacs with bassist Robert Crash. In 1977 Shaw created glam-punksters Physicals , who released a single, with Paul Cook on drums. Thi...

Chris Cuffaro in conversation with David Eastaugh https://cuffarophoto.com/ https://cuffarohits.com/ https://cuffaroplus.com/ Over the past 50 years, Chris’ signature work with a galaxy of A-List actors, models, athletes and musicians has helped them define their public image while establishing his reputation as one of the most respected photographers in the entertainment industry.  Drawn to the e...

Ron Ward in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuNY6w6BEk&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAvTdONLJ4Q&t=1s    

Kim Richey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://kimrichey.com/news/ Over the past two decades Kim has released ten critically acclaimed albums, been listed in the ‘Top 10 Albums of 1999’ in Time Magazine for her album Glimmer, plus received 4-stars in Rolling Stone and named ‘Alt-Country Album of the Year’ in People Magazine for her album Rise. Her 2013 release Thorn In My Heart was named i...

Ira A Robbins in conversation with David Eastaugh https://trouserpress.com/ Trouser Press magazine began as a mimeographed fanzine in March 1974 and grew to a 60,000-circulation glossy rock music monthly. Started by two high school Who-freak friends and a Jeff Beck fanatic they’d recently met, Trouser Press published 96 issues over the following decade, covering everything from British Invasion ba...

Graeme Thomson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://omnibuspress.com/products/small-hours-the-long-night-of-john-martyn Small Hours is an intimate, unflinching biography of one of the great maverick artists. Though Martyn never had a hit single, his extraordinary voice, innovative guitar playing and profoundly soulful songs secured his status as a much admired pioneer. Covered by Eric Clapt...

Justine Armatage in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/mirandasexgarden/?locale=en_GB https://soundcloud.com/justinearmatage

Herman De Tollenaere in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.punkstudies.nl https://www.punktuationmag.com/author/herman-tollenaere https://cheapnnastyband410118468.wordpress.com Co-founded Vipers band, Pin fanzine, Rock Against Racism Netherlands 1978, Cheap 'n' Nasty band 1979

Jeff Jacquin & Joey Cevetello in conversation with David Eastaugh https://greyfactor.bandcamp.com/album/grey-factor-1979-1980-a-d-complete-studio-recordings Pioneers of the Los Angeles underground art damage electronic music scene, Grey Factor have been more myth than legend for over 40 years. The band recorded two experimental synth/post-punk EPs and gigged sparingly before disbanding. None o...

Ted Milton in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.tedmilton.net/news/index.html Poet and musician, best known for leading Blurt , an experimental art rock group. He published some early poems in magazines like Paris Review and Brian Patten 's Underdog. In 1969 his poetry was published in the anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain . In the mid-sixties he began pe...

Simon Finn in conversation with David Eastaugh https://simonfinn.bandcamp.com/ First performance was opening for Al Stewart at the Marquee Club. He released his Pass the Distance LP in 1970, which in later years attained legendary status. "Pass the Distance" was remastered and re-released on Durtro/Jnana records in 2004 and again in 2008 on vinyl by Mayfair Music. In the same year, after a thirty-...

Rob Green in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.musicglue.com/the-fallen-leaves/ THE FALLEN LEAVES was formed in 2004 by Rob Green (Rob built himself a reputation singing at Bernie Rhodes’ “Club Left” and by performing with Vic Godard’s Subway Sect, notably supporting Siouxsie & The Banshees at the Music Machine in ’80), and by original ’76-’78 Subway Sect guitarist/founding member R...

Jonny Polonsky in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.jonnypolonsky.com/ https://jonnypolonsky.bandcamp.com/music Polonsky began writing, recording and self-releasing homemade cassettes as a teenager, under the name The Amazing Jonny Polonsky. Marc Ribot introduced New York composer John Zorn to these early tapes, and Zorn invited Polonsky to play his New Jewish Music festival in 1992 at...

Luke Haines in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freaks-Out-Weirdos-Deviants-Righteous/dp/1788709349 https://www.facebook.com/lukehainesuk/ Haines formed numerous bands when he was at school. At college he joined The Servants who recorded two commercially unsuccessful albums. It was only when Haines formed The Auteurs with Glenn Collins and girlfriend Alice Readman, who had...

Kate St John in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.katestjohn.co.uk/ https://www.cherryred.co.uk/the-dream-academy-religion-revolution-railways-7cd-box-set Classically trained on oboe, St. John's first band was The Ravishing Beauties.. The trio joined The Teardrop Explodes during the winter of 1981 for a series of dates at small clubs and a UK tour in early 1982. During the 1980s and earl...

Michael Kastelic in conversation with David https://www.facebook.com/thecynics/ American garage rock band from Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . The band, at the time consisting of guitarist Gregg Kostelich, drummer Bill Von Hagen, vocalist Michael Kastelic who joined in 1985, bass player Steve Magee, and keyboardist Becky Smith (later founder of New York City's Bellwether gallery ), debuted with their...

Billy Morrison in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.billymorrison.net/ https://billymorrison.bigcartel.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ayUXrZaaHA British guitarist and singer, who plays guitar with Billy Idol and performs with the Los Angeles–based cover band Royal Machines. Morrison previously played with Camp Freddy and fronted the hard rock act Circus Diablo . He has also toured...

Andy Ellison in conversation with David Eastaugh https://easyaction.co.uk/product/andy-ellison-stunt-rocker-book/ Autobiography of one of rock music’s ‘Enfant Terrible’...from the mod beat of the mid 60s, Psychedelic Pop of the late 60s glam rock of the mid seventies punk rock of the late seventies. Andy Ellison fronted many cult bands like John’s Children (with Marc Bolan) Jet with members of Spa...

David Owen in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.theinkcorporation.co.uk/ From Leeds, England. The group named itself after the poem by T. S. Eliot . The members were David Ashmoore on vocals, Choque on guitar, Howard Taylor on bass, Brian E Roberts on guitar and Jonny Cragg on drums. Between 1985 and 1994 The Hollow Men released four albums . Starting out as a two piece for the first sin...