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Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.paradiseroad.co.uk/marquee-the-story-of-the-worlds-greatest-music-venue Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue tells the story of both the music club and the festival, from the birth of the club in 1958 and festival in 1961, through to their sale by original owners Harold and Barbara Pendleton thirty y...

Terry Newman in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/taylor-swift/ Terry Newman worked in the fashion industry for more than 20 years, both as an editor at i-D, Attitude, and Self Service and as a contributing writer for newspapers including the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, and the Sunday Times. Taylor Swift is the quintessential millennial. Free-thinking a...

Steve Parsons in conversation with David Eastaugh Sharks are a British rock band formed in 1972 by former Free bassist Andy Fraser upon his departure from Free. They were signed to Island Records and were highly rated by critics, especially for Chris Spedding's guitar work. The original line-up consisted of Fraser (bass, piano), Snips (real name, Steve Parsons ) (vocals), Spedding (guitar) and Mar...

Stephen Budd  in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.record-producers.com/ Stephen Budd is a British music industry executive based in London. He is a director of artist and producer management company Stephen Budd Music Ltd, the OneFest Festival, the Africa Express project and is the co-founder of the NH7 Weekender festivals in India.  In June 2017 he completed his 3-year term as co-chai...

Gitane Demone in conversation with David Eastaugh https://darkvinylrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-young-kings-of-midnight?fbclid=IwAR2yqngs8N6zgEivN3YHKOsvq8e5u1cxCm4SBvX3TlMNwgU9Hg6Bd6TJAl4 https://gitanedemone.bandcamp.com/ American singer, musician and visual artist. Her career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s as the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the i...

Derwood Andrews in conversation with David Eastaugh https://derwoodandrews1.bandcamp.com/ Guitarist, writer and founding member for- Generation X, Empire, Westworld, Dead Horse, Moondogg, Speedtwinn, Tone Poet and other glorious stuff... In late 1976, Andrews was playing lead guitar with an band called Paradox. Whilst performing at a gig at the Fulham Arts Centre he was talent-spotted by the punk-...

Mark Turrell in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.evergreendazed.com/home.html Evergreen Dazed were formed in Leicester, England, in 1991, when Elizabeth Bruce, a US student on a year long exchange, answered a 'vocalist wanted' advert by Mark Turrell.   They found an instant chemistry between his dreamy pop tunes and her smoky, jazz-tinged vocals, which can be heard on their first album,...

Andy Prieboy in conversation with David Eastaugh https://wallofvoodoo2.com/home https://www.andyprieboy.com/home In early 1984, he was invited to join Wall of Voodoo, occupying the vacated front-person position. Touring the world and recording three albums with the band, his composition Far Side of Crazy charted in foreign markets, going top ten in Australia.  In the early 1990's, his solo work fe...

Annie Haslam in conversation with David Eastaugh https://anniehaslam.com/annie-haslam-original-art/ https://johnwettonlegacy.co.uk/ In February 1971, Haslam became the new lead singer of Renaissance after answering an advertisement in the British periodical Melody Maker - Haslam was lead vocalist on seven studio albums during their classic period (1972–1979), four studio albums from 1981–present,...

Nick Haeffner in conversation with David Eastaugh https://nickhaeffnerdimplediscs.bandcamp.com/album/what-time-can-do-2 http://www.nickhaeffner.co.uk/index.html In 1980 he joined post-punk band The Tea Set, recording an album and several singles and gigging extensively including supports for U2, Iggy Pop, The Clash and XTC. Nicks solo album The Great Indoors was released on Bam Caruso records in 1...

Kevin Armstrong in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.kevin-armstrong.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Absolute-Beginner-Memoirs-least-known-guitarist/dp/1911036173 Armstrong was signed by Charlie Gillett's Oval Records in 1980 and formed the group Local Heroes SW9  and released two albums, Drip Dry Zone in 1980 and New Opium in 1981. Armstrong took part in the recording of The Passions 's...

Mick Rossi in conversation with David Eastaugh https://secretrecordslimited.com/products/seccd293 https://open.spotify.com/album/6CDdnpP6vmKBji4D0JLslu?si=-aD8bL4ySwuM8Je73_5geA Legendary Slaughter & The Dogs guitarist Mick Rossi released solo album All The Saints and All The Souls in 2020 - his new album Gun St, named after the street where his family moved to in Ancoats in the 1930s, was rel...

  https://www.paul-simpson.co.uk/the-wild-swans/ https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/product/paul-simpson/revolutionary-spirit-a-post-punk-exorcism-the-teardrop-explodes-care-the-wild-swans-and-beyond Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician's scenic route to fame and artistic validation, and marks the arrival of an ori...

Inge Kuijt in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.comsatangels.org/missing.htm Comsat's fan Inge Kuijt is publishing her book Band. Fans. Friends. Music. The book is Inge's autobiography, a highly personal account of her "life with the Comsats". "I first saw and met the band in 1981. Since then I've seen them live 70 times. In the nineties I ran their Dutch fan club, and I am still regula...

Celia Hemken in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Kq806pWqw http://www.celiahemken.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab15SRDfdc4 Bio by Celia Hemken of Blue Nouveaux:  Before I signed with Black and Blue records I had played classical flute with the Richard Hickox orchestra, recorded a John Peel session for UK Radio One and co-founded a theatre company. I’d busk...

Paul Chastain in conmversation with David Eastaugh https://thesmallsquare.bandcamp.com/album/ours-others https://farmtolabelrecords.com/artists/the-small-square/ Velvet Crush is an American band from Providence, that achieved prominence in indie-rock circles in the early- and mid-1990s. The band broke up in 1996 but re-formed in 1998 and have continued to record, releasing their most recent album...

Derek Philpott in conversation with David Eastaugh Amazon UK https://a.co/d/5t6o7QM Amazon Worldwide For close to a decade and a half the Philpotts have been getting under the skin of musical artistes. Picking up on glaring errors in their lyrics or sometimes getting completely the wrong end of the stick (perhaps to irritate things a little further) they totally misunderstand the meaning of ‘poeti...

Philomena Muinzer in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.cruelladeville.com/ https://soundcloud.com/cruelladevillemusic Cruella de Ville, formerly known as Blazer, was a band from Northern Ireland that presented a mixture of post-punk and gothic rock from 1982 to 1984. They were mostly a studio band, who performed on television on at least two occasions and released a number of singles. Th...

Steve Drewett in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.newtownneurotics.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvooaI5ePso Formed in 1979 by Steve Drewett, they began like so many others to attempt to get their clumsy fingers around three chords and ape the Ramones who were their heroes. Sporting Joey Ramone length hair Steve would sneer at cries of "Bloody Hippie" from the audience but after...

Mike Baggetta in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mikebaggetta.com/ mssv's second studio album Human Reaction , is released by BIG EGO Records as a digital download, 12” LP vinyl, and via streaming platforms on September 1. The band, composed of guitarist Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits, David Lynch) on drums and avant-punk icon mike watt on bass, creates music that is a heretofor...

Jérôme Soligny in conversation with David Eastaugh In David Bowie Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the musician with the help of those intimately involved with the creation of his music. This uniquely exhaustive work on Bowie's 1967-1980 albums draws on over 150 interviews with the musicians, producers and friends who knew Bowie best, including Robert Fripp, Hermione Farth...

Lloyd James in conversation with David Eastaugh English punk rock band formed in 1977. An openly left-wing and anti-fascist band, they performed at rallies for Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League, and at Right to Work marches. https://naevus.bandcamp.com/ Naevus is a British experimental rock group. Formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Joanne Owen (bass, a...

Chris Matthews in conversation with David Eastaugh https://quizshow.bandcamp.com/album/quiz-show American indie rock trio Quiz Show release their debuut album this spring, the trio is made up of Chris Matthews (founding member of legendary DC alternative rock band Shudder To Think and his powerful rhythm section, bassist Jesse Krakow and drummer Joe Billy. But Quiz Show is not just any band - it's...

Jill Smith in conversation with David Eastauggh https://www.jill-smith.co.uk/ Born in London, Jill trained as an actress at RADA, and was later known as Jill Bruce. In the 1970s and early 1980s, she was a Performance Artist in partnership with the late Bruce Lacey. For five years they received funding from the then Arts Council of Great Britain. Evolving through science fantasy and alchemy, the pe...

Paul Nash in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.thedansesociety.com/ In June 2018 the band release an EP, The FUTUR1ST, including a cover of NIN's "Hurt" dedicated to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, and the tracks "One Thought in Heaven" and "Scream" featuring drummer Joss Rylance who replaced Iain Hunter, and who has subsequently been replaced by Tom Davenport. September 2020 saw the re...