C86 Show - Indie Pop

Mark Brend in conversation with David Eastaugh http://jawbonepress.com/down-river/ Down River: In Search Of David Ackles is an illuminating study of mythmaking, the popular music industry, and a forgotten enigma of the 1970s. In 1972, David Ackles’s third album, American Gothic, was released to a flurry of press plaudits declaring it to be ‘the Sgt Pepper of folk’ and one of the greatest records e...

Paul Da Vinci in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pauldavinci.com/home https://www.pauldavinci.net/ Paul Da Vinci is best known as the "incredible" voice on the Rubettes' number one selling single "Sugar Baby Love", which sold over 8 million copies world-wide featuring his three and a half octave voice.  Paul sang all the lead vocals on the record, including the high falsetto, and was also...

Jamie James in conversation with David Eastaugh https://shop.bandwear.com/collections/oglio-records-shop/products/ogl048 James was initially known as the leader and founder of the rockabilly trio The Kingbees, active between 1978 and 1982. The group included drummer Rex Roberts and bassist Michael Rummans. The Kingbees recorded two albums with David J. Holman, producing on RSO. The first, titled T...

Terry Reid in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.terryreid.com/  

Joe Boyd in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.joeboyd.co.uk/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roots-Rhythm-Remain-Journey-Through  

Chris Stamey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.chrisstamey.com/ https://chrisstamey.bandcamp.com/ Anything Is Possible, the latest collection of original material (and one affectionate cover) from North Carolina songwriter / vocalist / guitarist / producer Chris Stamey, an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history that’s encompassed co-founding seminal avant-pop band the dB...

Gerard Langley & Chris Sharp in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.theblueaeroplanes.com/ The Blue Aeroplanes first performed under that name at the King Street Art Gallery in Bristol in 1981. They consisted mainly of former members of Art Objects , with the addition of Nick Jacobs, former guitarist and vocalist of Southampton band the Exploding Seagulls. The Blue Aeroplanes' first...

Cara Tivey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread https://www.carativey.com/ https://carativey.bandcamp.com Cara Tivey joined Birmingham band Au Pairs as keyboard player in 1983. In 1985, Tivey got her first recording break with Everything But the Girl on Baby the Stars Shine Bright. In 1988, she started working with Billy Bragg on the Workers Pla...

Alan Williams in conversation with David Eastaugh The Rubettes' first and biggest hit was " Sugar Baby Love " (1974) which was a number one in the United Kingdom, going on to sell around 500,000 copies in the UK and three million copies globally. With three more songs, "Sugar Baby Love" was recorded  in October 1973 at Lansdowne Studios in Holland Park, London. "Sugar Baby Love" was their only UK...

Brixton Key https://brixtonkey.com/ Brixton Key was born in 1950’s London to a party-loving mum and an errant scallywag dad.  As a small boy, he fell in love with the sound of his elder brother’s Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf’s Chess records, Charles Dickens novels, Edith Sitwell poems. causing continual mischief and on the bombsites surrounding his parents central London pub.   Now longhaired and...

Martin Porter & David Goggin in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buzz-Me-Inside-Record-studios/dp/0500028699 Strap yourself in and take a helter-skelter ride through more than a decade’s worth of high drama, hedonism, high tech and musical genius as told by the insiders at the heart of Record Plant studios, one of the most prolific recording factories of all time, foun...

Rolf Brendel in conversation with David Eastaugh https://rolfbrendel.de/ The band was formed in 1981 when vocalist Gabriele Kerner (Nena) came to West Berlin with drummer Rolf Brendel , her boyfriend at the time.  The band wrote all of their songs themselves, typically working in pairs. They became overnight sensations in Germany when they performed their debut single "Nur geträumt" on German TV i...

Philip Sanderson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://snatchtapes.bandcamp.com/ Storm Bugs are a post-punk band formed in 1978 in Deptford, London, by Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball who had met in the Medway Towns, England. The band have been linked to a number of genres including: cassette culture, industrial music and DIY. Storm Bugs were initially active between 1978–82 and defying gra...

Mark Flunder in conversation with David Eastaugh  The McTells - Formed in 1985 in Hertford, UK. Initially a 4 piece comprising Paul Rixon on guitar and vocal, Bill on guitar, Stuart on bass, Mark Flunder from the Television Personalities on stand up drums. Bill later left to form The Big Paintings but the rest of the band continued as a three piece releasing records on Pauls own Bi-Joopiter label...

Kavus Torabi in conversation with David Eastaugh https://kavustorabi.bandcamp.com/album/the-banishing https://www.planetgong.co.uk/ https://theutopiastrong.bandcamp.com/album/the-utopia-strong Musician, composer, record label owner and radio broadcaster. A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his work in the psychedelic, avant-garde rock field (primarily as a guitarist). Torabi was one of the fo...

Deb Googe in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread https://www.dagoogie.com/ English musician, who achieved international fame as the bassist for the band My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) established Googe as a pioneering figure in the shoegaze genre. She has also worked with Snowpony, Primal Scream...

Nick Hobbs in conversation with David Eastaugh    https://soundcloud.com/nikolaigalen https://www.youtube.com/user/nikolaigalen/featured The Shrubs were an English rock music group, formed in 1985, releasing three albums before splitting up in 1989. Shrubs contributed Bullfighters Bones to the NME 's famous C86 album. A further 12", Blackmailer followed towards the end of the year, with debut albu...

Mike Howlett in conversation with David Eastaugh Howlett was the bassist in Sydney pop band the Affair, which included vocalist Kerrie Biddell . The group travelled to England after winning a prize in the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds band competition. Howlett settled in London and in 1973 joined renowned British progressive rock group Gong, which had been founded by an Australian Daevid Allen. H...

Michael Kerr in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-052-the-motorcycle-boy-john-peel-session-140987 The band consisted of Alex Taylor (vocals, formerly of Shop Assistants), Paul McDermott (drums), Michael Kerr (guitar), and Eddy Connelly (bass) (all formerly of Meat Whiplash), and David "Scottie" Scott (guitar). They were signed by Rough Trad...

Zander Schloss in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/zander.schloss http://www.circlejerks.net/Home/ https://www.blindowlsd.com/zander-schloss American musician, actor and composer. He is known as bass player for the Circle Jerks, the Weirdos, his many collaborations with Joe Strummer musically and in film and for his contributions to independent feature films. His first scr...

Gail Petersen in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thecatholicgirls.net/ The Catholic Girls are a hard rocking all female band from New Jersey. The Catholic Girls are: Gail Petersen (lead vocals/rhythm guitar) Roxy Andersen (lead guitar/backing vocals) Doreen Holmes (drums and percussion)

Bob Bert in conversation with David Eastaugh Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, Bert initially came to prominence as drummer for the experimental rock band Sonic Youth during the early to mid-1980s. Bert played on the Sonic Youth releases Confusion Is Sex , Sonic Death , and Bad Moon Rising . After Bad Moon Rising, Bert quit the group. Bert contributed during the last half of the 1980s as percussionist...

Casino Steel in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/casinosteel https://www.theboys.co.uk The Hollywood Brats were a British glam rock and protopunk band in the early 1970s. They found little commercial success at the time, and split up in 1974, but are regarded as influential on the later punk rock scene.

Peter Holsapple in conversation with David Eastaugh https://peter-holsapple.bandcamp.com/album/the-face-of-68 https://label51recordings.com/peter-holsapple/ American musician who, along with Chris Stamey, formed the dB's. He became the band's principal songwriter and singer after Stamey's departure. The band, with Stamey back in the fold, reformed with new material in 2005–2006. After the dB's dis...

Markus Zizenbacher in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2916/ A blazingly colourful and exuberantly transgressive personality who dazzled Los Angeles' underground musical and artistic scenes in the late-1990s and 2000s, Sean DeLear (1964-2017) suddenly emerged as a genuinely seminal cultural figure via the posthumous 2022 publication of their intimate and e...