C86 Show - Indie Pop

Carmen with David Clark Allen in conversation with David Eastaugh The group was founded by David Clark Allen, a Mexican/American Californian trained in flamenco guitar. Originally a seven-member band in Los Angeles, the band relocated to London, England, in January 1973, where the personnel soon stabilized as a quintet . In London, they became friendly with several rock stars of the time, includin...

Bitch Magnet with Jon Fine in conversation with David Eastaugh Bitch Magnet was an American post-hardcore band who formed in 1986 at Oberlin College in Ohio and later moved to North Carolina, United States. They released their first record in 1988. All of the band's albums were released on Communion Records in the US; they were also signed to the European labels Shigaku/What Goes On and Glitterhou...

  The band's first single, "I Think I Need Help", was released in April 1982. [2] In January 1983, "More Than a Dream" was re-issued as their first single for EMI . Several more singles and two albums, Get Out and Walk and With These Handswere released before the band split in 1985, citing the enigmatical reason of "electrical differences". They also recorded notable BBC Sessions at Maida Vale Stu...

Echobelly with Glenn Johansson & Sonya Madan in conversation with David Eastaugh Madan and Johansson first met in a pub, with Sonya expressing her desire to sing in a band "I used to sing to myself as a child. I suppose I had a secret desire to sing", They soon teamed up with bass guitarist Alex Keyser and drummer Andy Henderson, who had previously played with PJ Harvey 's band. Guitarist Debbie S...

Bruce Thomas - Elvis Costello & The Attractions & Suzanne Vega - in conversation with David Eastaugh English rock bass guitarist, best known as bassist for the Attractions ; the band formed in 1977 to back Elvis Costello in concert and on record . In addition to his work with the Attractions, Thomas has recorded with Billy Bragg , John Wesley Harding , Suzanne Vega , and Tasmin Archer . Played wit...

Neil Oram in conversation with David Eastaugh In 1956 Oram traveled to Africa where he met musician Mike Gibbs in Salisbury , (now Harare). He played double bass in the Mike Gibbs Quintet with Gibbs on piano, vibes and trombone. A post-concert epiphany where a voice repeatedly told him "Je suis un poet!" led him to take up writing. Oram returned to Britain in 1958 where he ran a jazz café called T...

Adrian Shaw or Ade Shaw - bass player with Hawkwind, Bevis Frond, Arthur Brown - in conversation with David Eastaugh Ade Shaw, is a musician primarily working in the psychedelic field. He has a long history dating back to the 1960s working with such acts as Hawkwind , Country Joe McDonald , Arthur Brown , and the Deviants . Shaw played bass for former Tyrannosaurus Rex percussionist Steve Peregrin...

Michael Visceglia talking about his life in music with David Eastaugh "Native New Yorker Michael Visceglia got his professional start as a bassist touring with Welsh rocker, and Velvet Underground alumnus, John Cale. Since then he has recorded and/or performed with artists as diverse as: Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Avril Lavigne, Jorma Kaukonen, Phoebe Snow, Cyndi Lauper, Bette Midler, and...

John Porter special - The Smiths, Roxy Music & much more - talking about his life in music with David Eastaugh Porter met singer Bryan Ferry , and was part of his fledgling band The Gas Board. Ferry's later band Roxy Music had achieved success in the early 1970s, but having had some troubles with bass players, Ferry invited Porter on board to record the 1973 album For Your Pleasure . Porter went o...

The Nivens from Northumberland special with Peter Martin with David Eastaugh  The Nivens from Northumberland existed between 1987 to 1990. Recording for the excellent Woosh label, Their debut 'Yesterday' hit the indie top ten in January 1989. Indie pop band from Cramlington, Northumberland, UK. Not to be confused with The Nivens from Norwich, UK who recorded at the same time for the French Dancete...

Basti & Globo special with Steve Appleton in conversation with David Eastaugh Basti was formed in the late 1980s by members of The Herman Herd and Eva Valve. The two bands used to share a rehearsal space and were both very active in the Norwich Venue Campaign at around that time. Most of the members were also involved in The Waterfront . When Basti split up in 1993, four of the members went on to...

Thea Gilmore also known as Afterlight -  in conversation with David Eastaugh  Thea Eve Gilmore  also known as Afterlight, is an English singer-songwriter. She has released more than twenty albums since her 1998 debut Burning Dorothy . She has had three Top 40 entries on the UK Albums Chart and one on the UK Singles Chart . Her first album as Afterlight will be released in 2021. Gilmore has announc...

Blueboy special with Paul Stewart in conversation with David Eastaugh   Blueboy formed around 1989 and initially consisted of Keith Girdler (on vocals) and Paul Stewart (on guitars), formerly of little-known band Feverfew. They soon signed to Sarah Records , releasing the home-recorded single "Clearer" in 1991, and took on more members, including singer/ cellist Gemma Townley and second guitarist...

Power of Dreams special with Craig Walker in conversation with David Eastaugh Power of Dreams released their critically acclaimed first EP A Little Piece of God, [1] on Keith Cullen 's London-based Setanta Records in 1989, while Walker was still at school. Following a six-figure bidding war between rival record labels, the band signed a deal with Polydor Records . In December 1989, the British mus...

Blue Orchids & The Fall with Martin Bramah    Blue Orchids are an English post-punk band formed in Manchester in 1979, when Martin Bramah decided to quit The Fall after playing on the band's debut album Live at the Witch Trials . Christened by Salford-based punk poet John Cooper Clarke the band recorded for Rough Trade and acted as backing band for the Velvet Underground's Nico before a 25-year pe...

Quentin Budworth in conversation with David Eastaugh Quentin Budworth is famous for playing Hurdy-Gurdy with Celtarabia and recently collaborated with Lou Duffy-Howard of the Red Guitars to form Agent Startling, their  debut album, European Howl was released May 2021 Agent Starling are Quentin Budworth hurdy-gurdy and Lou Loudhailer voices & other instruments. Recorded in the first three months of...

The Three O'Clock special with Michael Quercio in conversation with David Eastaugh The Three O'Clock is an American alternative rock group associated with the Los Angeles 1980s Paisley Underground scene. Lead singer and bassist Michael Quercio is credited with coining the term "Paisley Underground" to describe a subset of the 1980s L.A. music scene which included bands such as Dream Syndicate , Ra...

The Bevis Frond special with Nick Saloman in conversation with David Eastaugh Saloman was originally in a band known as the Bevis Frond Museum in the late 1960s, and in the 1970s, whilst at college, he played guitar with a duo called Oddsocks. They released one album, Men of the Moment. In 1979 he formed a band called the Von Trap Family, who released the first single on his own Woronzow Records l...

  Gallon Drunk, The Flaming Stars & Nikki Sudden special with Max Décharné in conversation with David Eastaugh In his musical career, Décharné has released eleven albums and something in the region of twenty singles since 1989. He played drums with his friend Nikki Sudden before joining Gallon Drunk in 1991, with whom he toured the world. Since 1994, he has been the singer and principal songwriter...

The Erasers with David Ebony  in conversation with David Eastaugh The Erasers were part of the ‘70s CBGB art-punk scene that included Television and Richard Hell, and though they made a brief appearance on a (long out-of-print) 1982 ROIR compilation , their music and history were lost for decades to everyone outside of a very small circle of critics, collectors, and old punks. But their one excell...

Global Village Trucking Company with James Lascelles in conversation with David Eastaugh Lascelles was a co-founder of the Global Village Trucking Company, known to its fans as "The Globs", in the early 1970s. The band, the road crew and their families all lived together in a commune in an old farmhouse in Sotherton , Suffolk, [2] [3] and undertook numerous benefit concerts and free festivals, pla...

Keith Christmas  in conversation with David Eastaugh English singer and songwriter. In 1969, his first album, Stimulus, was released. Christmas played acoustic guitar on David Bowie 's Space Oddity album, and appeared at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970. Through the 1970s he released four more albums, Fable Of The Wings, Pigmy, Brighter Day and Stories From The Human Zoo, while touring with...

Breathless with Dominic Appleton in conversation with David Eastaugh English band formed in 1983 by Dominic Appleton (vocals, keyboards), Gary Mundy (guitar), Ari Neufeld (bass) and Tristram Latimer Sayer (drums). Across nearly four decades, Breathless have released seven studio albums, one compilation album and 13 singles and EPs, all on their own label, Tenor Vossa Records. Their music has been...

Daisy Chainsaw & Queenadreena special with Crispin Gary in conversation with David Eastaugh English guitarist and songwriter. Best known for his bands Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena , [1] [2] Gray has also played with Dizzy Q Viper , Vapid Dolly and The Dogbones . He is currently a member of Starsha Lee. His great uncle was British poet John Gray , allegedly the inspiration for Oscar Wilde's The...

Pat Thomas talking about the life of Jerry Rubin & his book Did It! with David Eastaugh First biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubin- ”co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War activist, Chicago 8 defendant, social-networking pioneer, and a proponent of the Yuppie era”but a visual retrospective, with countless candid photos, personal diaries, and lost newspaper clippings. It includ...