C86 Show - Indie Pop

Wayne Hussey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://themissionukband.com/home Book - Heady Daze The Mission Years 1985-1990 Picking up where the critically acclaimed Salad Daze left off, Heady Daze sees Wayne Hussey revisit the years from 1985 to 1990 leading The Mission through their formation to global success. From headlining some of Europe’s major festivals, playing with U2, Robert Plant...

Graham Parker in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.grahamparker.net/Home.html In the spring of 1975, Graham Parker, a 24-year-old petrol pump attendant from Surrey, England, began to drive up to London to meet like-minded musicians and get a backing band behind his songs, which he now considered to be stronger and more interesting than anything he was hearing on the radio. By placing an...

Annie Hogan  in conversation with David Eastaugh https://annihogan.co.uk/ https://annihogan.bandcamp.com/ Annie Hogan studied piano before attending Leeds University in 1979 to study politics. It was while in Leeds she met Marc Almond and Dave Ball at a local music venue. In 1980, Hogan took a year out and began DJing and promoting in local clubs. Some of her first bookings were bands like Soft Ce...

Vinita Joshi  in conversation with David Eastaugh https://rocketgirl.co.uk/ Rocket Girl has evolved over two decades to become one of the UK’s most innovative and eclectic small independent labels, providing a home for a whole spectrum of alternative artists, new and established: Television Personalities, Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie, Füxa, A Place to Bury Strangers, Piano Magic, God is an Astrona...

Allan Jones Allan Jones  in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/too-late-to-stop-now-9781448218257/ More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones brings stories – many previously unpublished – from the golden days of music reporting. Long nights of booze, drugs and unguarded conversations which i...

Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.hackedepicciotto.de/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpB_TGQIOg hackedepicciotto – Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto – have announced details of a new album,  Keepsakes , set for release on vinyl, CD and digitally on 28 July 2023. The album will precede a European tour – first dates announced bel...

Roxane Jessi in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.roxanejessi.com/ Thirty-five years into the Burning Man movement, there are now over 100 annual events around the world. In 2018, aid worker Roxane Jessi set out to experience seven of these events firsthand, to get to the heart of a culture that is creating community in a disconnected world. Her journey spanned five continents, from Afr...

David Cousins in conversation with David Eastaugh https://strawbsweb.co.uk/index0.asp Founded in 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys. The band started out as a bluegrass group, but eventually moved on to other styles such as folk rock and progressive rock . They are best known for their hit " Part of the Union ", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart in February 1973, as well as for " Lay...

Wreckless Eric in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.wrecklesseric.com/#/ https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/wreckless-eric English rock/new wave singer-songwriter, best known for his 1977 single " Whole Wide World " on Stiff Records . More than two decades after its release, the song was included in Mojo magazine's list of the best punk rock singles of all time. It was also acclaimed...

Daniel Jeanrenaud in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thekingsnakes.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-old-waldorf-june-5-1981   THE KINGSNAKES – Live at the Old Waldorf: June 5, 1981 A wild and dangerous rockabilly band! That's what the Kingsnakes were in San Francisco in 1980, part of a local music scene comprised of punk, new wave, and hard rock acts. Led by Frenchman Daniel Jeanrenaud, a f...

Tymon Dogg in conversation with David Eastaugh https://tymondogg.bandcamp.com/album/battle-of-wills-expanded-edition https://tymondogg.uk/ English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Dogg's career started early with shows at the Cavern and Peppermint Lounge in Liverpool when he was 15. As well as pursuing a solo career, he collaborated with many bands and musicians including The Clash, an...

Simon Dunford in conservation with David dEastaugh https://linktr.ee/thebardots?fbclid=IwAR1eMGHnZPfEonJDLYhND6EJnW1S68i0qj_o0pNgtBFdhD4lFNBDENNDXXk   Formed in Norwich, England in 1989. Simon Dunford (guitar/vocals), Andy Murphy (guitar), Steve Cox (bass), and Neil Cox (drums) had begun playing together in university. They released their debut single (a flexi-disc) "Sofaelaine" in 1990. After the...

Greg Jarvis in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.flowersofhell.com/ https://flowersofhell.bandcamp.com/album/keshakhtaran The Flowers of Hell are a transatlantic experimental orchestra made up of a revolving line-up of 16 or so independent musicians based in Toronto and London. Their mostly instrumental sound builds bridges between classical music and post-rock, shoegaze, space rock and...

Tommy Stinson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.tommystinson.com/ Stinson's latest venture is Cowboys in the Campfire. A duo with Chip Roberts, their debut album ‘Wronger’ is perhaps the most ‘American' album he has ever made, its ten songs riding a giddy trail of twang and grit, melody and (mostly lyrical) mayhem. The very first song, ‘Here We Go Again’, sets the tone; Stinson on uk...

Ginger Coyote inn conversation with David Eastaugh White Trash Debutante deals with issues of gender equality and transcendence. The band's original line-up featured thirteen musicians, including lead vocalist Ginger Coyote, vocalists Ariana Uptime and Cindy Uptime, vocalist Roy Wonder, bassist Billy Gould, drummer Michael Crawford, guitarist Jay Crawford, trumpet player Terra Leong, harmonica pla...

Blag in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thedwarves.com/ https://thedwarves.bandcamp.com/album/blag-dahlia-introducing-ralph-champagne Formed as a garage punk band under the name Suburban Nightmare, their career subsequently saw them move in a hardcore direction before settling into an eclectic punk rock sound emphasizing intentionally shocking lyrics. They have been described as "one of t...

Audrey Golden  in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.audreyjgolden.com/ Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory's cultural significance. The untold history of...

Ian Masters in conversation with David Eastaugh https://isolatedgate.bandcamp.com/album/universe-in-reverse h ttps://imsore.bandcamp.com/album/inside https://hisnameisalive.bandcamp.com/album/- http://www.eat78rpm.co.uk https://bigbeautifulbluebottle.bandcamp.com/album/please-come-away-from-the-edge Best known for being a founding member of the English indie pop band Pale Saints . Masters was thei...

Edgar Broughton in conversation with David Eastauugh http://www.edgarbroughton.com/ The band started their career as a blues group under the name of The Edgar Broughton Blues Band, playing to a small following in the region around their hometown of Warwick. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, dropping the 'Blues' from their name as well as their music, V...

Dave Formula in conversation with David Eastaugh English keyboardist and film-soundtrack composer from Manchester, who played with the post-punk bands Magazine and Visage during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s and in the "world music" band The Angel Brothers. Formula was a member of Magazine, joining in 1978 after the departure of Bob Dickinson and the release of their debut si...

Richard Langston inn conversation with David Eastaugh https://hozacrecords.com/product/pull-down-the-shades/ https://hozacrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/pull-down-the-shades-garage-fanzine-1984-86-compendium-book-by-richard-langston The incredible sound of New Zealand from Flying Nun Records and Xpressway in the 1980s-90s is the stuff of legend. Hozac Books proudly presents Richard Langston’s ultra-ob...

Gregg Kostelich in conversation with David Eastaugh https://gethip.com/ The Cynics are an 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 debuted with their first album, B...

Lesley Woods in conversation with David Eastaugh Touring with The Chameleons 20th June 2023 - 11th July 2023 British post-punk band that formed in Birmingham in 1978 and continued until 1983. They produced two studio albums and three singles. Their songs were said to have "contempt for the cliches of contemporary sexual politics" and their music has been compared to that of the Gang of Four and th...

Alice Genese in conversation with David Eastauugh https://alicegenese.bandcamp.com/album/sticks-and-bones https://ovstarsmusic.com/music Alice Genese recorded her first solo recording in 2014. She has been the bass player of Psychic TV from 2003 until present. Hailing from the great city of Hoboken NJ Alice's first musical experiences were with Gut Bank (Coyote Records) and Sexpod (Slab/BMI)

Chris Low in conversation with David Eastaugh https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/cease-resist-sonic-subversion-anarcho-punk-in-the-uk-1979-86 https://www.facebook.com/chris.low1 https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/evn3ej/up-yours-photographing-tokyos-punk-scene?fbclid=IwAR1JkBfS_EYSwXnslemly7Wcjm2bz13VUIW3YJUHjclnzttSL578lN_RU0I ‘Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-1986...