C86 Show - Indie Pop

Matt Devine in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://ventilatorofficial.bandcamp.com/album/reseda-spleen https://matt-devine.bandcamp.com/album/a-distant-present Thirty years after its original release, Reseda Spleen, the 1996 debut album from Los Angeles psychedelic rock project Ventilator, is getting a new lease on life through a reissue from  Bar/None Records . Led by singer, songwriter, an...

Julie Hair in conversation with David Eastaugh https://femalegenius.bandcamp.com/album/female-genius https://www.facebook.com/ftothegenius/ Julie Hair and Marnie Jaffe blasted out of the LES underground rock scene of the 1980’s and are still creating. Julie’s experience in the the art rock band 3 Teens Kill 4 and Marnie’s Live Skull footprint inform their musicality. Nikki D’Agostino is an an avan...

Steve Hill in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.route-online.com/all-books/friday-night-fever https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-night-fever-inside-the-cult-of-half-man-half-biscuit-steve-hill-tickets-1999016058844 Half Man Half Biscuit occupy a unique place in British culture. Existing largely outside the music business, this idiosyncratic Birkenhead band has flown under the radar...

Kathryn Pepper in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.zervaspepperjonitribute.com/ https://zervasandpepper.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/Zerodeo Zervas & Pepper are Songwriters Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper that have been creating and performing original music for over a decade professionally. The duo and their recording/touring band enjoy cult success in UK and Europe, having r...

Jay Collins in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://ryvvolterecords.bandcamp.com/ https://ryvvolterecords.storenvy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RyvvolteRecords/ https://katecollinsart.bigcartel.com/ Hardcore Punk label based in Philadelphia. Formed in 2014, ran by Jay & Kate Collins.

Patti Rothberg in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://pattirothberg.wordpress.com/ Patti Rothberg played all the guitar and bass parts on her debut album, Between the 1 and the 9, which was released on April 2, 1996. The first single, "Inside", reached number 25 on the Billboard magazine Alternative chart.  

Stan Greenwood in conversation with David Eastaugh  The original line-up of the band was Anne-Marie Hurst (vocals), Stan Greenwood (guitar), Roger "Trotwood" Nowell (bass guitar), Ian "Karl Heinz" Taylor (keyboard/saxophone) and Steve Crane (drums). In 1983, after their first single, "Trees", the band signed to independent record label Red Rhino Records. They recorded their first single for Red Rh...

Jennifer Herrema in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://royal-trux.com/ https://www.facebook.com/realblackbananasband Herrema formed Royal Trux with her partner Neil Hagerty and lived with him in Washington, Virginia. After producing several records, the band split in 2001. Herrema then went on to form a new band, RTX, which eventually became the band Black Bananas

David Holzer in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lou-Reed-Metal-Machine-Mystic/dp/1916829368 One of rock music’s most enigmatic and confounding artists is here revealed as never before through the murky prism of his most extreme and polarising work: Metal Machine Music, a double album of vocal-free, unrelentingly shocking noise. Initially dismissed on its release in 1975...

Brian Gulland in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.facebook.com/newgryphon/ Gryphon are an English progressive folk band formed in London in 1972. They are known for their medieval and Renaissance style of music. The band briefly flourished in the progressive rock heyday of the early 1970s, and then retired to other musical activities before reforming for a one-off reunion in 2009. Sub...

Michael Allen in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://regis-dns.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/18219547955/?locale=en_GB The Wolfgang Press are an English post-punk band, originally active from 1983 to 1995. The core of the band during that era was Michael Allen (vocals, bass), Mark Cox (keyboards), and Andrew Gray (guitar). They reformed in 2024 with Stephen Gray, brother of A...

Legs McNeil in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Resident-Punk/Legs-McNeil/9781637749470 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Resident-Punk-Smoked-Stumbled-Through/dp/1637749465 Time-travel to the punk scene of 1970s New York and beyond, as seen through the eyes of its chief reporter known as “the original punk” who gave the movement its name. Part memoir and part cultu...

Mike Badger in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mike-badger.co.uk/ English singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor from Liverpool, England. Co-founder of The La's he went on to form alternative country/roots rockabilly band The Onset in 1988 and Mike Badger and The Shady Trio in 2010. In addition he is co-owner of Liverpool's independent Viper Label with Paul Hemmings.  

Simon Brenner in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewn7jKe_dZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kVQD2pAho Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), Paul Webb (bass), and Simon Brenner (keyboards). Initially a synth-pop group, Talk Talk's first two albums, The Party's Over (1982) and It's My Life (1984)...

Nancy Thompson in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://substack.com/@communekid75 Nancy spent her early years at Shrubb Family in Norfolk. This is her story about growing up in East Anglian during the 1970s and 80s. And what happens next 

Mark Laff in conversation with David Eastaugh  He began playing drums as a teenager, being influenced by England's 1960s Mod fashion and music movement and the work of Keith Moon. After a failed audition for The Clash (he was one of two drummers to get a call back), his first drumming role was with Subway Sect, sharing the bill with the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and Siouxsie and the Banshees for the...

Tony Fletcher in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://www.amazon.co.uk/POW-When-Punk-Went-1980-84/dp/B0GGGXLZPH POW! is the fascinating memoir of a precocious English teen in the early 1980s who published a music magazine, interviewed many of the era's top artists, befriended rock stars, ran a record label, appeared on television, played in a band and found first love -- all at the same time!...

Colin Moulding in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://burningshed.com/colin-moulding_want-it-bad_cd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3X4vcRTFjk Moulding began jamming with another local musician, Andy Partridge, circa 1972–1973 and soon joined Partridge's band Star Park, convincing Partridge to hire Chambers as well. In July 1975, after a period in which the band were known as the Helium Kid...

Julie Grant in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://jgrant.info/ https://www.facebook.com/juliegrantmusic https://www.discogs.com/release/37653312-Crimson-Mints-Threadbare Award-winning Britpop musician, Julie Grant, has been collaborating with 60’s guitarist Peter Collard to produce a new album, What’s Not Said, which is out now. This ten-track CD features a collection of acoustic and electr...

Patrick Redsell in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=2038 Medieval style illustrations establish the theme of the Last Barsham Faire. Early morning reveals an encampment with caravans, makeshift tents and shelters.  The fair is held next to the round tower church.  Against medieval music, a stilt walker, jesters, minstrels and other musicians perform amongst the crowd....

Marco Pirroni in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Marco-Pirroni/266126980 Marco Pirroni is a songwriter, guitarist and producer. A lynchpin of the UK punk scene, Marco’s first appearance on stage was with Siouxsie and the Banshees at the 100 Club in 1976. He went on to join bands the Models and then Rema-Rema before teaming up with a little-known punk out...

Anton Barbeau in conversation with David Eastaugh https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/album/come-home-to-me https://manbird.antonbarbeau.com https://www.facebook.com/antonbarbeau After the conceptual weight of 2025’s Dark Mystery Temple trilogy, Anton Barbeau clears the table. Come Home To Me offers fourteen songs with no grand scheme beyond his enduring faith in pop music. Recorded mainly at Barbea...

Dean Pianvani in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://portioncontrol.net/ https://portioncontrol.bandcamp.com/music Portion Control have been creating electronic dissonance for techno industrial pilgrims since 1979, rising as pioneers from the UK industrial electronics scene  

Martin McAloon https://www.martinmcaloon.com/ Prefab Sprout are an English pop/rock band. Formed in 1978 by brothers Paddy and Martin McAloon and joined by vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Wendy Smith in 1982, they released their debut album Swoon to critical acclaim in 1984. Their subsequent albums, including 1985's Steve McQueen and 1990's Jordan: The Comeback, have been described by Paul...

Welsey Stace in conversation with David Eastaugh  https://wesleystace.bandcamp.com/ https://www.wesleystace.com/albums Recorded at Studio 1935 in Philadelphia’s historic BOK Building, One Last Heist is produced, arranged and written by Wes and longtime collaborator David Nagler. The core band comprised Nagler himself (keyboards), Eddie Carlson (bass), and Stéphane San Juan (Caetano Veloso, David B...