C86 Show - Indie Pop

David Ford - Easyworld - in conversation with David Eastaugh http://davidfordmusic.com Easyworld were an English indie alternative rock/pop band hailing from Eastbourne , consisting of David Ford on vocals, Jo Taylor on bass and Glenn Hooper on drums , active between 1997 and 2004. The band achieved limited success in the early 2000s, releasing 3 albums in total; Better Ways to Self Destruct , Thi...

Colin Latter - Flux of Pink Indians - in conversation with David Eastaugh The band formed in Hertfordshire , England in 1980 from the remaining members of The Epileptics (who during the first half of 1979 changed their name to Epi-X, owing to letters of complaint from The British Epilepsy Association ) by Colsk Latter (vocals) and Derek Birkett (bass guitar) with guitarists Andy Smith, Neil Punche...

Kev Reverb - Crazyhead - in conversation with David Eastaugh Formed in 1986, the band signed to the independent record label , Food , later that year and their début single, "What Gives You The Idea That You're So Amazing, Baby?", reached number 2 in the UK Indie Chart in March 1987. [2] For the rest of the year they toured extensively, supporting The Cult , then Julian Cope , and also played at t...

Henry Lowther in conversation with David Eastaugh Lowther's first musical experience was on cornet in a Salvation Army band. He studied violin briefly at the Royal Academy of Music  but returned to trumpet by 1960, though he sometimes played violin professionally. In the 1960s, he worked with Mike Westbrook (beginning in 1963 and continuing into the 1980s), Manfred Mann , John Dankworth (1967–77),...

Raymond Gorman - That Petrol Emotion - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thatpetrolemotion.com That Petrol Emotion were a London -based Northern Ireland -originating band with an American vocalist , Steve Mack. It featured the O'Neill brothers from celebrated Derry pop-punk band The Undertones plus ex-members of fellow Derry bands Bam Bam and The Calling and The Corner Boys. They rec...

Rocco Barker - Flesh for Lulu & Wasted Youth - in conversation with David Eastaugh Nick Marsh (vocals and guitar) and James Mitchell (drums) formed the band and soon recruited Rocco Barker (originally from Wasted Youth , guitar and vocals), and Glen Bishop (bass), taking their name from an American cult movie. After a well received John Peel session, they signed to Polydor Records in 1983, and soo...

Scott Ledgerwood - Bam Bam - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://buttocksproductions.com/home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell Formed in 1983 in Seattle, WA. First line up was Tina Bell (vocals), Tommy Martin (guitar), Scott Ledgerwood (bass), Matt Cameron (drums). When Cameron left in 1984, Tom Hendrickson joined on drums. Ledgerwood and Hendrickson left in the mid 80s, Bell in 199...

Gavin Hogg &  Hamish Ironside - We Peaked at Paper: An Oral History of British Zines - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.boatwhistle.com/we-peaked-at-paper The book consists of 21 in-depth interviews with editors of zines. Hogg and Ironside travelled across Britain to carry out interviews, seeking to examine the widest possible range of publications: from the science fiction zines of...

Jay Bergen - John Lennon - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.lennonthemobsterandthelawyer.com/jay-bergen Before John Lennon retreated peacefully into private life in 1975, he fought a major legal battle that went under the public radar. Just as his Rock 'n' Roll oldies album hit the market, Morris Levy, the Mob-connected owner of Roulette Records, released Roots, an unauthorized vers...

Helen O'Hara - Dexys Midnight Runners & Tanita Tikaram - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.helenohara-violin.com/biog She was a member and violinist of Dexys Midnight Runners from 1982 to 1987, including performing on songs such as " Come on Eileen ", and in 2021 rejoined the band. She was offered a place with Rowland's new line-up of Dexys—the result of a session she and two other v...

Rodney Orpheus - The Cassandra Complex - in conversation with David Eastaugh http://cassandracomplex.co.uk The band was initially composed of Rodney Orpheus and Paul Dillon, who met when Orpheus gatecrashed Dillon's 21st birthday party in Leeds. They began putting on large multimedia shows featuring various avant-garde acts from the Leeds area. Andy Booth was a journalist who interviewed the band...

Sal Principato - Liquid Liquid - in conversation David Eastaugh Liquid Liquid emerged from downtown New York's no wave scene. The group's original records were pressed in very limited quantities on 99 Records , and can now fetch high prices. "Cavern" originally appeared on the EP, Optimo, recorded by Don Hunerberg. Though the pressings were small, the music has had a lasting and far reaching impac...

David Palmer - Space, The Balcony & Moongoose - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-4oKztK70 https://moongoosecult.bandcamp.com https://thebalcony.bandcamp.com https://yorkie1.bandcamp.com British musician who was a member of the Liverpool -based band Space from 1997 to 2005. Yorkie is the son of Gladys Palmer, a Liverpool-based singer who owned several rehearsal...

Karen Yarnell - The Gymslips -  in conversation with David Eastaugh  East London’s The Gymslips, Paula Richards, Suzanne Scott and Karen Yarnell, barged their way onto the post punk scene in 1981. They openly embraced drinking, Pie & Mash, monkey boots and double denim right from the start. Often credited with being  the first female Oi! band, but they brought so much more to the table with their...

Steve Mack  - That Petrol Emotion - in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.thatpetrolemotion.com That Petrol Emotion were a London -based Northern Ireland -originating band with an American vocalist , Steve Mack. It featured the O'Neill brothers from celebrated Derry pop-punk band The Undertones plus ex-members of fellow Derry bands Bam Bam and The Calling and The Corner Boys. They recor...

Leigh Gorman in conversation with David Eastaugh Bow Wow Wow signed with EMI Records in July 1980. Their first single, " C·30 C·60 C·90 Go !", for which Gorman shared songwriting credit with McLaren, Ashman and Barbarossa, holds the distinction of being the world's first-ever cassette single . It reached No. 34 on the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for seven weeks. In November 1980, Bow...

Ricky Dineen - Five Go Down to the Sea? - in conversation with David Eastaugh Five Go Down to the Sea? were an Irish post-punk band from Cork , active from 1978 to 1989. Vocalist and lyricist Finbarr Donnelly , guitarist Ricky Dineen and brothers Philip (bass) and Keith "Smelly" O'Connell (drums) formed the band as Nun Attax when they were teenagers. They became known for Donnelly's absurdist , su...

Dorothy Max Prior in conversation with David Eastaugh Discussing her new book - 69 Exhibition Road   https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dorothy-max-prior/69-exhibition-road Dorothy Max Prior is a writer and artist living in Brighton. In other lives, Max was a punk muse, post-punk drummer, and exotic dancer. Somewhere along the way, she has taught ballroom dancing and toured the world as a stree...

Gary Asquith - Renegade Soundwave & Rema Rema- in conversation with David Eastaugh Debuting on Rhythm King label with the "Kray Twins" single, their early records mixed together the sound of the then embryonic dance scene, hip-hop , dub , sampling and electro-industrial noise . Later singles such as "Biting My Nails" (a cover version of a song by Genevieve Waite , from her 1974 album, Romance is o...

Simon Nelson - Milltown Brothers - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://milltownbrothers.wordpress.com Their first release, in 1989, was the "Coming From The Mill" EP which became single of the week in the NME magazine , and featured the songs "Roses", "We've Got Time" and "Something On My Mind". The same publication tipped Milltown Brothers for stardom in the 1990s, along with The Hoovers,...

Dale Farrington - American TV Cops - in conversation with David Eastaugh   American TV Cops - were: Anthony Cluer - Vocals, guitar Dale Farrington - Guitar Steve (Sam) Allsop - Bass Andy Whitty - Drums, vocals During the mid nineties they released three critically acclaimed 7" vinyl singles on their own Pest Records label. The first of these, 'Thirst', was granted Single of the Week status on BBC...

Sal Solo - Classix Nouveaux - in conversation with David Eastaugh In 1981, the first Classix Nouveaux album Night People was released along with two moderately successful singles "Guilty" and "Tokyo". Both singles reached the UK Top 75, and "Guilty" reached the Top 20 in Sweden and #25 in Australia. The album itself peaked at #66 in the UK. The second Classix Nouveaux album brought the band its bi...

Daniel Darrow - The Pull of Autumn - David Eastaugh https://thepullofautumn.bandcamp.com/album/the-pull-of-autumn Based between Boston and Rhode Island, The Pull of Autumn is a ‘super group’ of sorts, with songs orbiting around Daniel Darrow from Johanna’s House of Glamour and Luke Skyscraper (Fashion), but also involving numerous emerging and notable musicians from the local music scene and from...

Ian Wright - The Jack Rubies - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thejackrubies.bandcamp.com/album/foolish-boy Shaking off their slumber, the Jack Rubies are back, fists full of fab new sounds. Once described asuglier than the Stones, the slightly sinister Rubies are a mercurial delight, an utter delicacy. The black heart of Blue Velvet meets the tinsel town sex appeal of '61 Elvis.  

Graham Day - The Prisoners - in conversation with David Eastaugh  The Prisoners were a British garage rock band formed in 1980 in Rochester, Kent , England. Their 1960s garage sound made them a regular live fixture in London's underground "psychedelic revival" and "mod revival" scene of the early 1980s, as well as a linchpin of the Medway scene .