Maggie Holland in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.maggieholland.scot/ English singer and songwriter and became involved in the local folk club scene in the late 1960s. She has played in a number of bands and formed a number of collaborations with other artists, but has become well known in recent times as a solo artist and songwriter. She enjoys singing songs with meaningful words and has named her major influences as Bob Dylan , Al Stewart , Dave Evans, Leon Rosselson , Billy Bragg...
Mar 26, 2026•51 min•Ep. 1333
Michael Jung in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.alicedonut.com/ Alice Donut formed in 1986 after the demise of the Sea Beasts, a band at Columbia University, the name soon trimmed from the initial Alice Donut Liver Henry Moore, a play on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore . Ted Houghton, Tomas Antona, Dave Giffen and Tom Meltzer recruited drummer Stephen Moses and quickly found a substantial audience at CBGB . Guitarist Michael Jung soon replaced Meltzer. The band's first commercial rel...
Mar 25, 2026•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1332
Jason Collins/Umbrellabird in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5uCjjeIi68 The Roots of the Seers lie in two places; Bristol (obviously) and Billericay (not so obviously). Leigh Wildman grew up in Billericay and it was there he met Jason Collins, a guitarist from nearby Brentwood. They had spent some time in bands around the Essex region and they, along with a few friends, had decided to up sticks and try somewhere else. At the suggestion of one of their number, B...
Mar 22, 2026•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 1331
Richard Barbieri in conversation with David Eastaugh https://richardbarbieri.bandcamp.com/ ‘Hauntings’ is Richard Barbieri’s first studio album since 2021’s ‘Under A Spell’ and deepens the pensive, dark instrumental aesthetic of its predecessor. A diverse collection of immersive sound worlds, both dark and uplifting in equal measure, ‘Hauntings’ is influenced by a nostalgia for the past and future, and for things that didn’t happen yet still manage to haunt the mind and soul. What is real and wh...
Mar 20, 2026•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 1330
Momus in conversation with David Eastaugh https://imomus.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwH79Z9-WQe2jwaHCK_Cgpg https://momus3.bandcamp.com/ Nicholas John Currie more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery ), is a Scottish musician and writer. For over forty years he has been releasing albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes use of continental philosophy, and has built up a pers...
Mar 18, 2026•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 1329
Roddy Bottum in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-We-Memoir-Roddy-Bottum/dp/1636142699 THE ROYAL WE is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents through prose his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle messengers, punk rock, street witches, wheatgrass, and rebellion. The book follows his travels from Los Ange...
Mar 16, 2026•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1328
Rob Tannenbaum in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.cherryred.co.uk/various-artists-cbgb-a-new-york-city-soundtrack-1975-1986-4cd?srsltid=AfmBOoohm1glA9ey7r6K1osC9drIJOO4YZT5Q0P6y6vXPapBUTVMN2ig “CBGB was a place for the dirty people.” - Jimmy Destri of Blondie “Afterwards, I took off and went crosstown to CBGB’s, the stronghold of the unknown, to be with my own people.” - Patti Smith In December 1973 Hilly Kristal changed the name of his roots music bar from Hilly’s on the Bowery to ...
Mar 13, 2026•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 1327
Dominic Blaazer in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXMB0fZMhxw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0Cw6j70H4 https://dominicblaazer.bandcamp.com/
Mar 09, 2026•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1326
Adele Bertei in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.roughtrade.com/product/adele-bertei/no-new-york-a-memoir-of-no-wave-and-the-women-who-shaped-the-scene In 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets photographer Nan Goldin - an encounter that will lead them to New York's bombed-out downtown, where something unprecedented is brewing. At Max's Kansas City and CBGBs, in derelict lofts and underground clubs, a generation of visionary women artists is rewriting the rules of creativity,...
Mar 06, 2026•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 1325
Ben Vaughn in conversation with David Eastaugh https://benvaughn.org/ https://www.straightfromthehat.com/ https://lnkfi.re/SFTH Ben Vaughn grew up in the Philadelphia area on the New Jersey side of the river. At age 6, his uncle gave him a Duane Eddy record and forever changed his life. In 1983, he formed the Ben Vaughn Combo. The band was together five years, releasing two albums and touring the U.S. several times. They received rave reviews in Rolling Stone and People magazine and video airpla...
Mar 02, 2026•59 min•Ep. 1324
Chris Anderson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://crayolalectern.com/n-e-w-s https://crayolalectern.bandcamp.com/ Departure Lounge was initially known as Tim Keegan & Departure Lounge, reflecting the fact that the band evolved from a solo project and Tim Keegan was the singer and main lyricist. They released an album under this name in 1999 (the US version with different tracklisting as Departure Lounge in 2000), Out of Here , which received warm reviews in both the general and musi...
Feb 24, 2026•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 1323
Kevin Cann in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.kevincann.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2011/mar/09/david-bowie-in-pictures https://www.amazon.co.uk/Any-Day-Now-London-1947-1974/dp/0955201780
Feb 22, 2026•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 1322
Peter Yarmouth in conversation with David Eastaugh https://blackandbluerecords.com/hom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pik16Mpn6Lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-izEjeVZCX4
Feb 20, 2026•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 1321
Michael Hampton in conversation with David Eastaugh https://michaelhampton.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-public-domain-2 https://www.youtube.com/@MaWaHa Among Hampton’s Funkadelic writing credits are group staples like “Who Says a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock?!” and “Funk Gets Stronger”, both released during the group’s late-’70s/early-’80s hit run. Into the Public Domain , an EP produced by 9-time Grammy Award winner and Ruffhouse Records co-founder Joe “The Butcher” Nicolo. A founding father of pow...
Feb 17, 2026•56 min•Ep. 1320
Ben Cardew in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Age-Batchelor-Pad-Music/dp/1916829325 http://jawbonepress.com/space-age-batchelor-pad-music/ Stereolab are one of the most fascinating guitar groups of the past fifty years, a source of constant reinvention and illuminating contrasts, where political ideology meets the sweetest pop melodies and driving guitars rub along with space-age jazz. They are perhaps the greatest Anglo-French collaboration since Concorde—a hugel...
Feb 16, 2026•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1319
Martin Dupont in conversation with David Eastaugh https://martindupont.bandcamp.com/music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5nAMbEQwu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i9pxew6-Xg A French group from Marseille formed in 1980, consisting of Alain Séghir, Beverley Jane Crew, Brigitte Balian, and Catherine Loy. The music they made was colorful, enthusiastic and delicate, but also melancholy and mysterious. A mixture of hot and cold, light and dark. They made electronic music that incorporated guitars...
Feb 15, 2026•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 1318
Ramona Carlier in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0JCoMYpiA0 Mo-dettes were a multinational all-female post-punk band, formed in 1979 by guitarist Kate Korris, an original member of the Slits and brief member of the Raincoats , and bassist Jane Crockford, a former member of Bank of Dresden. Ramona Carlier (vocals) and June Miles-Kingston (drums) completed the line-up....
Feb 13, 2026•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1317
Jeff Bright in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.jeffreyalanbright.com/ https://thepleasurespale.bandcamp.com/ https://jeffbrightthesunshineboys.bandcamp.com/ The Pleasures Pale was an influential indie quartet+ based in Dayton, Ohio, active from 1985 to 1987. Often compared to UK groups of the era, TPP's influences can now be read as more diverse — taking cues from post-punk, rockabilly, swing, Motown and Dayton funk. A band for misfits, their extensive, lyric-driven output sought to...
Feb 11, 2026•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 1316
David Bash in conversation with David Eastaugh https://internationalpopoverthrow.com/ The International Pop Overthrow Music Festival was created in December 1997. The name was chosen to pay tribute to Jim Ellison, singer songwriter of Material Issue , a power pop band from Chicago, whose 1991 debut album was entitled International Pop Overthrow . In August 1998, the first International Pop Overthrow festival was held in Los Angeles, featuring 120 pop and rock bands from Los Angeles, several othe...
Feb 09, 2026•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1315
Shayne Carter in conversation with David Eastaugh https://shaynepcarter.bandcamp.com/ https://www.lifeinonechordfilm.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/03/shayne-carter-documentary-life-in-one-chord-film-review New Zealand musician best known for leading Straitjacket Fits from 1986 to 1994, and as the only permanent member of Dimmer (1995–2012). Carter is a member of the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame , and has been awarded the New Zealand Herald Legacy Award (with Straitjacket Fits...
Feb 08, 2026•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 1314
Harold Bronson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mogandavidandhiswinos.bandcamp.com/album/savage-young-winos Out of circulation since 1976, the recordings of the Los Angeles rock band Mogan David and His Winos is finally be available again. The group's lineup featured a 'who's who' of heavyweights in the American music industry, including Harold Bronson and Richard Foos (co-founders of Rhino Records), Paul Rappaport (Columbia Records), and Mark Leviton (Rhino/Warner Music Group). Addit...
Feb 08, 2026•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1313
John Andrew Fredrick in conversation with David Eastaugh https://theblackwatch.bandcamp.com/ https://www.bluematterrecords.com/copy-of-debbie-the-millbanks https://www.facebook.com/theblackwatchmusic/?locale=en_GB The Black Watch was formed in 1987 by John Andrew Fredrick in Santa Barbara, California, and he has been (and still is) it’s guiding light. They have released 25 albums over the last 38 years and show no sign of ageing. With a fantastic band behind him, John has presented us with a won...
Feb 06, 2026•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 1312
Alexander Larman in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Lazarus-The-Second-Coming-of-David-Bowie/Alexander-Larman/9781917923446 Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie is the first biography of Bowie that tells the full and candid story of what happened in between those two apparently unbridgeable points. With new and exclusive interviews with the musicians, filmmakers and cultural figures who worked with and befriended Bowie throughout this period, Lazaru...
Feb 01, 2026•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 1311
Roger Fisher in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.rogerfisher.com/ The band Heart started out as Army in 1967 in Seattle, Washington, formed by bassist Steve Fossen and brothers Roger and Michael Fisher. The group went by the names Army, Hocus Pocus, and White Heart before settling on just Heart in the mid-1970s. Ann Wilson joined the band in 1970 and Nancy in 1974; romances sprang up between the Fisher brothers and Wilson sisters, with Mike dating Ann and Roger dating Nancy. Heart ro...
Jan 31, 2026•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 1310
Heitham in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.senser.co.uk/ https://senser.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-dissidence-2 In 1993, Senser released two indie singles on Ultimate – "Eject" and "The Key". The latter would appear on NME Singles of the Week 1993 album. In March 1994, Senser released their third single, "Switch", which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 39. Senser's first album, Stacked Up , was released in May 1994, and entered the UK Albums Chart at number 4....
Jan 29, 2026•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 1309
Ray Russell in conversation with David Eastaugh http://tartaruspress.com/ray/fifty-forgotten-records.html Ray Russell was not at the crossroads when Robert Johnson met the devil, and he didn’t see Elvis Presley perform live. He wasn’t at Woodstock, or Altamont, or on the roof of the Apple Building. To his enduring frustration, he didn’t get to see The Sex Pistols in Manchester at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1976, because he was only ten years old. There will be many others who are just as...
Jan 26, 2026•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 1308
Peter Ormerod in conversation with David Eastaugh In this wide-ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for spirituality that powered David Bowie's creativity from his earliest recordings to his death-defying final album. Bowie's genre-expanding, era-crossing genius had an extraordinary impact on popular culture but his life-long search for spiritual truth and enlightenment has been overlooked. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/david-bowie-and-the-search-for-life-death-and-god-97813994228...
Jan 25, 2026•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 1307
Oliver Jackson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://oliverjackson1.bandcamp.com/album/south-foreland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhv-rEDOEQ&t=4s Biography by Alistair Fitchett, excerpt from "Young and Foolish" (Stride Books) Take Emily. Purveyors of sometimes ethereal genius with moments that can grow wings and fly, or grow horns and charge, depending on their mood / mode. A percussive assault that often puts me in mind of Big Star's magisterial 'You Can't Have Me' with its runaw...
Jan 24, 2026•50 min•Ep. 1306
Julie & Paul in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thewouldbes.bandcamp.com/album/hindzeitgeist Indie pop band from Ireland formed in 1988 by the three Finnegan brothers, evolving from their earlier band The Nobody's. Another brother James Finnegan managed the band, and footed the bill for the recording and for the first pressing of 250 copies of their debut single, released by Danceline Records. This single was famously championed by John Peel (it reached number 12 in that year's Fest...
Jan 24, 2026•53 min•Ep. 1305
Vix & Martin Tracey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1917504489/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1 https://www.facebook.com/OfficialFuzzbox Signed on only their second gig much of the story of the all-girl band We’ve got a …FUZZBOX… and we're gonna use it!! is what dreams are made of… but was it all Pink Sunshine? With exclusive access to original band members this authorised biography by fellow-Brummie Martin Tracey not only covers the brea...
Jan 20, 2026•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1304
