Dolly Mixture special with Debsey Wykes talking about life in music with David Eastaugh The group was formed in Cambridge , England, by Bor, Smith, and Wykes, three school friends who shared a fondness for The Shangri-Las and The Undertones . Dolly Mixture supported The Undertones on one of their first UK tours. The band also played venues with The Fall and The Transmitters in 1979. They were once supported by U2 . In Autumn 1981, they toured as the featured support band for Bad Manners on their...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 307
The Psylons with John Haskett talking about life in music, the band and the Portsmouth music scene - with David Eastaugh The Psylons were a UK post-punk band formed in Portsmouth 1984 by Keith Wyatt, Carl Edwards, Jack Packer and Warren Grech. The band produced four singles, an EP and two albums, the second of which, “Gimp” was produced by Jim Shaw of Cranes. The debut single “Run To The Stranger” was a New Musical Express Single of the Week and reached number 13 in the Alternative/Indie chart. ...
Apr 02, 2020•57 min•Ep. 306
Gary Lucas (born June 20, 1952) is an American guitarist who was a member of Captain Beefheart and worked with the likes of Jeff Buckley, John Cale, Nick Cave and Lou Redd - plus writing Touched by Grace: My Time with Jeff Buckley published in English by Jawbone Press - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Apr 01, 2020•45 min•Ep. 305
MC5 special with Wayne Kramer talking about life in music, creativity and much much more with David Eastaugh
Mar 31, 2020•50 min•Ep. 304
Goober Patrol with Tom Blyth talking about life in music with David Eastaugh Like their contemporaries Snuff and Leatherface, Goober Patrol formed in the late 1980s, bringing together influences from the British pop punk and American hardcore scenes; reviewers have highlighted the Goobers sound as equal parts Stiff Little Fingers, Circle Jerks and Snuff. In the early 1990s the Goobers received lots of praise from fanzines and mainstream music presses for their live shows plus their two albums an...
Mar 29, 2020•55 min•Ep. 302
Penny Rimbaud in conversation with David Eastaugh Penny "Lapsang" Rimbaud, is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and in 1972 was co-founder of the Stonehenge Free Festival , together with Phil Russell aka Wally Hope . In 1977, alongside Steve Ignorant , he co-founded and played drums in the seminal anarchist punk band Crass , who disbanded in 1984. Up until 2000 he devoted himself almost entirely to...
Mar 27, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 301
The Lime Spiders with Mick Blood with David Eastaugh Lime Spiders were an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1979 with Mick Blood on lead vocals. He was later joined by Tony Bambach on bass guitar, Gerard Corben on guitar, Richard Lawson on drums, and David Sparks on guitar. Their debut studio album, The Cave Comes Alive! was released in June 1987 and reached the top 60 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Their most successful single, "Weirdo Libido", was released in January that year ...
Mar 25, 2020•53 min•Ep. 300
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction special with Cobalt Stargazer in conversation with David Eastaugh
Mar 24, 2020•44 min•Ep. 299
Died Pretty special with Ron Peno in conversation with David Eastaugh The Died Pretty, founded by mainstays Ron Peno (lead singer) and Brett Myers (lead guitarist and backing vocalist) in Sydney in 1983. The band was briefly called Final Solution. Their music started from a base of early electric Bob Dylan with psychedelic influences, including The Velvet Underground and Television . They were managed by John Needham, who is the owner of Citadel Records , their main label. Died Pretty's 1990s al...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 297
Tony Zanetta - talking Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Pork & much much more Tony Zanetta is a foundational gure in the history of 1960s and ’70s underground New York and London, and thereafter a secret in uence on all the androgyny in punk and rock music, the radical queerness in theater, the marrying of camp and pomp on stage and in lm... all the multifarious worlds that sprang up—and that continue to do so— lled with inspiration from those heady times. Zanetta was an actor in the off-off-Broadw...
Mar 19, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 296
The Parachute Men with Fiona Gregg in conversation with David Eastaugh The Parachute Men formed in 1985, with a line-up of Fiona Gregg (vocals), Stephen H. Gregg (guitar), Andrew Howes (bass and keyboards), and Mark Boyce (drums and keyboards). After two years of gigging, the band were signed by large London indie label Fire Records in 1987. Their first release was a four-track EP with "Sometimes In Vain" as the lead track, in May 1988. This was followed in August of the same year by debut album...
Mar 12, 2020•52 min•Ep. 295
Sad Lovers and Giants with Simon Allard in conversation with David Eastaugh The original lineup included vocalist Garçe (Simon) Allard, guitarist Tristan Garel-Funk, bassist Cliff Silver, drummer Nigel Pollard and keyboardist/saxophonist David Wood. Following their debut EP Clé and the "Colourless Dream" single, both issued in 1981, they released their debut studio album, Epic Garden Music in 1982. It reached No. 21 in the UK Independent Albums Chart . During this initial period they recorded a ...
Mar 11, 2020•56 min•Ep. 294
The Adverts with TV Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh
Mar 10, 2020•53 min•Ep. 293
Geneva with Andrew Montgomery in conversation with David Eastaugh The band were formed in 1992 by vocalist Andrew Montgomery and guitarist Steven Dora. They recruited second guitarist Stuart Evans, bass player Keith Graham and finally drummer Craig Brown. Craig was later replaced by Douglas Caskie. Originally the band were called Sunfish. One of their demos found their way to Suede ’s record label , Nude , who signed the band in 1996. The band changed their name, originally to Garland, then late...
Mar 08, 2020•54 min•Ep. 292
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others new romantics, new wavers, the bats, or the morbids. "Goth" did not gain lexical currency until the late 1980s. But no matter what term was used, "postpunk" encompasses all the incarnations of the 1980s alternative movement. Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace is a visual and oral history of the first decade ...
Mar 05, 2020•20 min•Ep. 291
23 Skidoo with Alex Turnbull in conversation with David Eastaugh Formed in 1979 by Fritz Catlin, Johnny Turnbull and Sam Mills, and later augmented by Alex Turnbull and Tom Heslop, 23 Skidoo had interests in martial arts, Burundi and Kodo drumming, Fela Kuti , The Last Poets , William S. Burroughs , as well as the emerging confluence of industrial , post-punk and funk , heard in artists such as A Certain Ratio , Throbbing Gristle , Cabaret Voltaire , The Pop Group and This Heat . Their first 7",...
Mar 05, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 290
Marloes Bontje - co-author of Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s - in conversation with David Eastaugh It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others new romantics, new wavers, the bats, or the morbids. "Goth" did not gain lexical currency until the late 1980s. But no matter what term was used, "postpunk" encompasses all the incarnations of the 1980s alternative movement. Some Wear Leath...
Mar 02, 2020•24 min•Ep. 289
The Sound with Michael Dudley in conversation with David Eastaugh
Mar 01, 2020•51 min•Ep. 285
David Knight talking about his life in music - including Danielle Dax and much much more - with David Eastaugh
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 287
Thin Lizzy special with Eric Bell in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 26, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 286
The Raw Herbs with Derek Parker in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 20, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 284
The Black Sorrows with Joe Camilleri in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 283
Big Stick with John Gill and Yanna Trance in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 16, 2020•51 min•Ep. 281
“Vinca Petersen is a photographer, installation, multimedia, and performance artist who works in the area of social practice. All of her works, including her photography, emerge from her deep social and political engagement with underrepresented communities in order to give them a voice and recognition”. – Dr Mark Bartlett
Feb 16, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 280
Belouis Some in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 14, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 279
Swell Maps special with Stephen Bird aka Jowe Head in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 278
Paul Hanley - The Fall
Feb 11, 2020•29 min•Ep. 277
Balaam and the Angel special with Jim Morris in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 09, 2020•55 min•Ep. 275
Jacob's Mouse special with Jebb Boothby in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 08, 2020•56 min•Ep. 274
Joolz the poet special - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Feb 07, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 273
