C86 Show - Indie Pop

Anne Clark in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.anneclarkofficial.com/ https://anneclarkofficial.bandcamp.com/ English poet, singer and songwriter. Her first album, The Sitting Room, was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then. Her poetry work with experimental musicians occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic, dance (techno applies on occasion) and...

Anne-Marie Hurst in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.ghost-dance.com/ https://ghost-dance.bandcamp.com/music Ghost Dance is a British gothic rock band formed in 1985 by Gary Marx (ex-Sisters of Mercy guitarist) and Anne-Marie Hurst (ex-Skeletal Family vocalist) as both were leaving their respective bands. The band were originally signed to Nick Jones' record label, Karbon Records, the...

Thomas Leer in conversation with David Eastaugh  http://thomasleer.co.uk/ Leer played in several local experimental pop groups in the early to mid-1970s, moving to London when the punk rock scene was at its height. He formed the punk band Pressure, but by 1978 had moved on to music influenced by synthpop and Krautrock bands such as Can. That year, he self-financed his debut single, "Private Plane"...

Rusty Egan in conversation with David Eastaugh https://rustyeganpresents1.bandcamp.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rusty-Egan-Autobiography/dp/0857162934 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAM6TFMvAc https://www.mixcloud.com/rustyegan/ Egan was the drummer of British new wave band Rich Kids, from its inception in March 1977, until its disbandment in December 1978, along with former Sex Pistols bassist...

Berni Armstrong in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.youtube.com/c/berniarmstrong https://thesaturdaybluesproject.bandcamp.com/ Organised shows at various Fayres the biggest success was the Earth Fayre at East Bergholt, where they had an installation called "Beyond the Belly of the Giant".        

Peter Greenberg in conversation with David Eastaugh In 1977, White enrolled at Boston University to study journalism. While in school, he worked in a record shop in Brookline, Massachusetts, named Good Vibrations, where his singing was heard by musician Peter Greenberg of the Lyres. White adopted the stage name Barrence Whitfield to avoid being mistaken for superstar Barry White and began performi...

Chris Payne in conversation with David Eastaugh  http://chrispaynemusic.com/ Known as a member of Gary Numan's backing band, Tubeway Army and for being the co-writer of Visage's 1981 synthpop hit single "Fade to Grey". Payne plays keyboards and viola and also a number of medieval instruments. He formed the band Dramatis with other members of Numan's backing-band in the early 1980s. Payne has compo...

Marina Muhlfriedel (also known as Marina del Rey) in conversation with David Eastaugh  As a keyboard player and vocalist, Marina was the co-founder of Vivabeat, a Los Angeles-based techno-pop band started in 1978 and active into the mid-1980s. It is best known for being discovered by and signed to its first record deal at the request of Peter Gabriel. It became the first American band on Tony Stra...

Larry Stabbins in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.larrystabbins.com/ Played in the cult pop group Weekend and started writing with its guitarist Simon Booth. This later evolved into Working Week, a band that took a mix of Latin, soul, jazz and funk into the pop charts. From the Latin Jazz Dance scene in London clubs, the band mixed jazz with Latin dance rhythms and vocals by singers...

Zaine Griff in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.zainegriff.com/#home In 1979 Griff started his solo career. He released two albums, Ashes and Diamonds (recorded in 1979, released in 1980), produced by Tony Visconti, and Figvres (1982), on which he collaborated with future successful film composer Hans Zimmer, and many colleagues from the new wave and new romantic era including Kate Bus...

Debsey Wykes in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Teenage-Daydream-Girls-Play-Band/dp/1917923090 Debsey Wykes was the bass playing singer in the first all girl punk group Dolly Mixture. Thrown into the musky, misogynistic, male dominated world of the UK music industry in the late 1970s, they enjoyed unlikely #1 success alongside Captain Sensible of The Damned on1982’s even...

Micko Westmoreland in conversation with David Eastaugh https://landlinerecords.com https://www.facebook.com/MickoMellotronic/ The Mellotronics formed in 2017 with the intention of turning Micko Westmoreland’s songwriting skills into a dynamic live prospect. Expanding from their initial three piece to the current four strong line up, the band sees Micko’s rabble rousing vocals and spiky, agitationa...

Double Dee & Steinski in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://ddski.com/ Double Dee and Steinski is a duo of hip hop producers, composed of Doug "Double Dee" DiFranco and Steven "Steinski" Stein. They achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of underground hip-hop sample-based collages known as the "Lessons". Their contest entry, "Lesson 1 – The Payoff Mix", was packed with samp...

Boz Boorer in conversation with David Eastaugh https://westhampsteadarts.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ThePolecats/?locale=en_GB English guitarist and producer. He founded the new wave rockabilly group the Polecats, and starting in 1991 had a 30-year collaboration with singer Morrissey as co-writer, guitarist and musical director.

Steven Seibold in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://hatedept.bandcamp.com/ Seibold is a multi-instrumentalist who writes, records and releases Hate Dept. albums with minimal outside help. He formed Hate Dept. in 1991 in reaction to fickle 'electro' audiences and antipathy towards live electronic bands, taking his sound in a more punk direction.

Moritz R in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://derplan.bandcamp.com/album/save-your-software https://chakchak.de/ https://gerireig.blogspot.com/ Der Plan was founded in 1979 by Frank Fenstermacher, Moritz R, Robert Görl & Chrislo Haas. Görl and Haas left after the first release, and were replaced by Kurt Dahlke. This trio remained constant until the group disbanded in 1993. In 2004, Mor...

Genny Schorr in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://hozacrecords.com/product/pre-order-all-roads-lead-to-punk-book-7-record-set-by-genny-schorr/ https://gennyschorr.com/ As a founding member of one of Los Angeles’ earliest female-led bands, BACKSTAGE PASS, Genevieve Schorr lived and breathed rock’n roll growing up like a lot of teenagers at the time. What set her apart was forging her unique...

Emma Pollock in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://emmapollock.com/ https://emmapollock.bandcamp.com/ A founding member of Glasgow band The Delgados, Emma Pollock has been a solo artist since 2006, releasing 4 solo albums on 4AD and Chemikal Underground. Her new album Begging The Night To Take Hold is out now.

Andrew Perer in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turn-Head-Into-Sound-Valentine/dp/1916829147 Turn My Head Into Sound: A history of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine tells the story of one of the great sonic innovators of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. My Bloody Valentine have released only three albums in their forty-year career, but each of the...

Steve Boltz in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.steveboltz.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/920848814634353/ In 1971 he was recruited into the band Atomic Rooster , part of a new line-up for a tour supporting the band's third album In Hearing of Atomic Rooster and their No. 4 charting single "The Devil's Answer". The band was also recording their fourth LP Made in England which...

Barrence Whitfield in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/BarrenceWhitfieldSavages White adopted the stage name Barrence Whitfield to avoid being mistaken for superstar Barry White and began performing as Barrence Whitfield & the Savages. The band garnered a strong reputation for explosive stage performances, described as "raucous and rough, in high gear from the moment t...

David Miller, Simon McGlynn & Chris Connelly in conversation with David Eastaugh THE SHEER ACTION OF FINI TRIBE is the first retrospective of the band, curated and designed by the band. It includes a wealth of archival photographs, an essay by original member ANDY MCGREGOR, who also designed the sleeve, and essays by longtime friend SHIRLEY MANSON and author ALASTAIR MCKAY, an early champion o...

Audrey Golden in conversation with David Eastaugh https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/shouting-out-loud https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouting-Out-Loud-Lives-Raincoats/dp/1399624865 Art students Gina Birch and Ana da Silva formed The Raincoats in 1977. Since the release of their seminal early records, the 'godmothers of grunge' have been revered by punk, queer, feminist and indie pop artists...

Steve Avo Lindsey in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://linktr.ee/steveavolindsey A nervous suitor, a guitarist at the end of his Strat and his tether, wistful ex-partners on a work trip to Wales. Art school Futurists and singalongs in Cooper’s Bar, Denmark Street and suburbia’s (two) ups and downs – and earbudded Londoners on the Tube, sailing away on their own private playlists. “In my he...

Jon Poole in conversation with David Eastaugh A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his work as guitarist for Cardiacs and as bass player for the Wildhearts and Lifesigns. Poole is the frontman and main performer of God Damn Whores, co-fronts the Dowling Poole with Willie Dowling, and has released two solo albums. He has also been a member of Ad Nauseam and Dr Brighton, and worked with the...