C86 Show - Indie Pop

The Passions with Barbara Gogan in conversation with David Eastaugh Based in Shepherd's Bush in west London , The Passions formed in early 1978 as the Youngsters with a line-up of Gogan (guitar, vocals), Claire Bidwell (bass guitar), Richard Williams (drums), Dack Dyde (guitar) and Mitch Barker (vocals). [4] Williams and Gogan were previously in the punk rock outfit the Derelicts . After a name ch...

Danny B Harvey in conversation with David Eastaugh DANNY B. HARVEY was born in Killeen, Texas and at the age of 6 moved to Catlettsburg, KY. where he first picked up and started playing the guitar. At the age of 15 after moving to Canyon Country, CA. he was fortunate enough to receive his first formal lessons with the great JOE PASS. Feeling out of place (after all he had only moved away for rural...

Lenny Kaye - Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega & author of Lightning Striking in conversation with David Eastaugh As musician, writer, and record producer, Kaye was intimately involved with an array of artists and bands. He was a guitarist for poet/rocker Patti Smith from her band's inception in 1974, and co-authored Waylon, The Life Story of Waylon Jennings. He worked in the studio with such artists as R...

Simon Fisher Turner in conversation with David Eastaugh Simon Fisher Turner is an 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 in Britain when his mentor, Jonathan King , released Turner's eponymous first album on UK...

The Crazies with Bi Marshall in conversation with David Eastaugh The Crazies - A Simple Vision LP The legendary session from members of The Outsiders, The Sound and Honolulu Mountain Daffodils. released for the very first time Overseen by Adrian Janes and remastered by Nick Robbins with sleeve design and artwork by Bi Marshall In December 1978 Pete Williams, later to achieve cult infamy as Lord Su...

Faust with Jean-Hervé Péron in conversation with David Eastaugh Faust formed in 1971 in the rural setting of Wümme. They secured a recording contract with Polydor and soon began recording their debut, Faust , which sold poorly but received critical acclaim for its innovative approach and established a devoted fan base. Meifert was sacked shortly afterwards because, as Peron wrote in 2004, "he disc...

Zal Cleminson - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band & Orphans of Ash - in conversation with David Eastaugh A self-taught guitarist, at the start of the 1970s he played and recorded with the Glasgow-based band Tear Gas. The musicians in that band then provided the backing for Alex Harvey in The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (SAHB). Cleminson was an extremely distinctive stage presence with SAHB owing t...

Graham Bailey - The Sound, The Crazies, Outsiders & Second Layer - in conversation with David Eastaugh  Note: THE CRAZIES - A SIMPLE VISION LP The legendary session from members of The Outsiders, The Sound and Honolulu Mountain Daffodils. released for the very first time Overseen by Adrian Janes and remastered by Nick Robbins with sleeve design and artwork by Bi Marshall In December 1978 Pete Will...

The Crazies with Adrian Janes in conversation with David Eastaugh   New album on Optic Nerve - A Simple Vision The legendary session from members of The Outsiders, The Sound and Honolulu Mountain Daffodils. released for the very first time Overseen by Adrian Janes and remastered by Nick Robbins with sleeve design and artwork by Bi Marshall. In December 1978 Pete Williams, later to achieve cult inf...

The Woodentops with  Rolo McGinty in conversation with David Eastaugh The band formed in 1983 in South London with an initial line-up of Rolo McGinty (vocals, guitar, formerly of The Wild Swans and The Jazz Butcher ), Simon Mawby (guitar), Alice Thompson (keyboards), Frank DeFreitas (bass guitar), and Benny Staples replacing Paul Hookham (drums). After a debut single, "Plenty" on Food Records in 1...

Mark Stewart in conversation with David Eastaugh The Pop Group are an English band formed in Bristol in 1977 by vocalist Mark Stewart , guitarist John Waddington , bassist Simon Underwood , guitarist/saxophonist Gareth Sager , and drummer Bruce Smith . Their work in the late 1970s crossed diverse musical influences including dub , funk , and free jazz with radical politics , helping to pioneer pos...

Twisted Sister special with Jay French in conversation with David Eastaugh - talking about his new book Twisted Business Twisted Sister was an American heavy metal band originally from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey , and later based on Long Island , New York. Their best-known songs include " We're Not Gonna Take It " and " I Wanna Rock ". Twisted Sister evolved from a band named Silver Star, and experienc...

Subterraneans special with  Jude Rawlins in conversation with David Eastaugh Jude Rawlins is an award-winning English singer, songwriter, filmmaker, author, poet, and music producer. He works primarily in the medium of rock music, mostly with his band Subterraneans, which he formed in 1992 with guitarist Carl Homer. Subterraneans have released ten albums, as well as creating critically acclaimed s...

Shelleyan Orphan special with Jemaur Tayle in conversation with David Eastaugh In 1980, Caroline Crawley and Jemaur Tayle met in Bournemouth , England, where they discovered a mutual appreciation of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley . [2] Two years later, after taking the name Shelleyan Orphan from the Shelley poem Spirit of Solitude , the pair moved to London to seek out orchestral elements to add to the...

The Wolfhounds special with Andy Golding in conversation with David Eastaugh  The Wolfhounds began as a slightly askew indie pop/rock band, and signed to the Pink label in 1986. First EP Cut the Cake was well enough received for the NME to include them on their C86 compilation album . After three singles and debut album Unseen Ripples From A Pebble on Pink, they briefly moved to Idea Records for t...

Jeff Bloom + Television Personalities & Rude Mechanicals in conversation with David Eastaugh The Television Personalities are an English post-punk band formed in 1977 by London singer-songwriter Dan Treacy. Their varied, volatile and long career encompasses post punk , neo-psychedelia and indie pop ; the only constant being Treacy's songwriting. Present and former members include Chelsea childhood...

  The Pop Group are an English band formed in Bristol in 1977 by vocalist Mark Stewart , guitarist John Waddington , bassist Simon Underwood , guitarist/saxophonist Gareth Sager , and drummer Bruce Smith . [5] Their work in the late 1970s crossed diverse musical influences including dub , funk , and free jazz with radical politics , helping to pioneer post-punk music. The Pop Group and dub maestro...

Dub Sex with Mark Hoyle  in conversation with David Eastaugh  Dub Sex are often cited as one of Manchester’s greatest ‘lost’ bands. Formed in the concrete landscape of 1980s Hulme, their music is appropriately raw and intense, bass-led with wiry guitar patterns swirling around the impassioned vocal style and presence of frontman Mark Hoyle.  They came to prominence over the release of five critica...

Magic Roundabout with Linda Jennings in conversation with David Eastaugh  Manchester band 1986-88, releases forthcoming on Third Man Records From Dangerous Minds - The footprint left behind by Manchester’s Magic Roundabout was a small one. During the band’s incarnation in the later part of the 1980s, they released just one song. “She’s a Waterfall (Parts 1 and 2)” was included on a 1987 fanzine ca...

Cody with Chris Tighe in conversation with David Eastaugh Oxford’s lost electro-gaze hopefuls from the turn of the 21st century. Cody whipped electronica, art pop, shoegaze and post- rock into a stubbornly indefinable but compelling whole. Cody’s unconventional and sinuous songs mixed the emotional ache of Sarah Records with sardonic dissections of globalization, the ambiguities of personal respon...

William Ritchie - 1-2-3 and Clouds - in conversation with David Eastaugh William Ritchie  is a British keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of The Satellites, The Premiers, 1-2-3, and Clouds . He is generally acknowledged as being the first keyboard player in rock music to stand and take a leading role, thereby providing a model for others such as Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman . He is...

Whiteout with Eric Lindsay in conversation with David Eastaugh Whiteout were a British rock group from  Scotland , who were most famous for their hit "Jackie's Racing". Although they had existed in a different incarnation since the very early 1990s, the band's classic line-up consisted of Andrew Caldwell (vocals), Paul Carroll (bass), Eric Lindsay (guitar) and Stuart Smith (drums). The name came f...

Duncan Hannah in conversation with David Eastaugh Celebrated painter Duncan Hannah arrived in New York City from Minneapolis in the early 1970s as an art student hungry for experience, game for almost anything, and with a prodigious taste for drugs, girls, alcohol, movies, rock and roll, books, parties, and everything else the city had to offer. Taken directly from the notebooks Hannah kept throug...

Party Day with Carl Firth in conversation with David Eastaugh Party Day were an English goth / indie rock band formed in 1981 in Wombwell near Barnsley , South Yorkshire , England, originally a four-piece consisting of guitarists Martin Steele, Greg Firth, bassist Carl Firth and drummer, Mick Baker. Their sound was described as being "hard knuckleduster goth with post-punk overtones". The band wer...

  Gerry Leonard is an Irish lead guitarist and solo artist, known for his harmonic and ambient guitar style and for his work with David Bowie featuring on the Heathen , Reality and The Next Day albums.  He works a lot with Suzanne Vega , touring with her effectively as a duo; he produced and is given writing credits on all the songs on her album, Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles (Ama...