Kev Reverb - Crazyhead - in conversation with David Eastaugh Formed in 1986, the band signed to the independent record label , Food , later that year and their début single, "What Gives You The Idea That You're So Amazing, Baby?", reached number 2 in the UK Indie Chart in March 1987. [2] For the rest of the year they toured extensively, supporting The Cult , then Julian Cope , and also played at the Glastonbury Festival . Their second single "Baby Turpentine" reached number 4 in the Indie Chart....
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 848
Henry Lowther in conversation with David Eastaugh Lowther's first musical experience was on cornet in a Salvation Army band. He studied violin briefly at the Royal Academy of Music but returned to trumpet by 1960, though he sometimes played violin professionally. In the 1960s, he worked with Mike Westbrook (beginning in 1963 and continuing into the 1980s), Manfred Mann , John Dankworth (1967–77), Graham Collier (1967), John Mayall (1968), John Warren (1968 and subsequently), Neil Ardley (1968), ...
Jan 04, 2023•54 min•Ep. 847
Raymond Gorman - That Petrol Emotion - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thatpetrolemotion.com That Petrol Emotion were a London -based Northern Ireland -originating band with an American vocalist , Steve Mack. It featured the O'Neill brothers from celebrated Derry pop-punk band The Undertones plus ex-members of fellow Derry bands Bam Bam and The Calling and The Corner Boys. They recorded five albums between 1986 and 1994, exploring an eclectic fusion of alternative rock, post-punk...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 846
Rocco Barker - Flesh for Lulu & Wasted Youth - in conversation with David Eastaugh Nick Marsh (vocals and guitar) and James Mitchell (drums) formed the band and soon recruited Rocco Barker (originally from Wasted Youth , guitar and vocals), and Glen Bishop (bass), taking their name from an American cult movie. After a well received John Peel session, they signed to Polydor Records in 1983, and soon thereafter, bassist Glen Bishop left to join Under Two Flags, and was replaced by Kevin Mills ...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 845
Scott Ledgerwood - Bam Bam - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://buttocksproductions.com/home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell Formed in 1983 in Seattle, WA. First line up was Tina Bell (vocals), Tommy Martin (guitar), Scott Ledgerwood (bass), Matt Cameron (drums). When Cameron left in 1984, Tom Hendrickson joined on drums. Ledgerwood and Hendrickson left in the mid 80s, Bell in 1990. Tommy reformed the band as an instrumental 3 piece with Nick Rhinehart, Mike Peterson in 1991....
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 844
Gavin Hogg & Hamish Ironside - We Peaked at Paper: An Oral History of British Zines - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.boatwhistle.com/we-peaked-at-paper The book consists of 21 in-depth interviews with editors of zines. Hogg and Ironside travelled across Britain to carry out interviews, seeking to examine the widest possible range of publications: from the science fiction zines of the 1930s right up to the present day, in the form of a thriving Bristolian zine begun by a ten-...
Dec 27, 2022•44 min•Ep. 843
Jay Bergen - John Lennon - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.lennonthemobsterandthelawyer.com/jay-bergen Before John Lennon retreated peacefully into private life in 1975, he fought a major legal battle that went under the public radar. Just as his Rock 'n' Roll oldies album hit the market, Morris Levy, the Mob-connected owner of Roulette Records, released Roots, an unauthorized version of the same record. Levy had used rough mixes of John's unfinished Rock 'n' Roll recordings—and ...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 842
Helen O'Hara - Dexys Midnight Runners & Tanita Tikaram - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.helenohara-violin.com/biog She was a member and violinist of Dexys Midnight Runners from 1982 to 1987, including performing on songs such as " Come on Eileen ", and in 2021 rejoined the band. She was offered a place with Rowland's new line-up of Dexys—the result of a session she and two other violinists from the university had carried out as part of Rowland's decision to revamp the band's...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 841
Rodney Orpheus - The Cassandra Complex - in conversation with David Eastaugh http://cassandracomplex.co.uk The band was initially composed of Rodney Orpheus and Paul Dillon, who met when Orpheus gatecrashed Dillon's 21st birthday party in Leeds. They began putting on large multimedia shows featuring various avant-garde acts from the Leeds area. Andy Booth was a journalist who interviewed the band and was later asked to join. The band released their first self-financed single, "March", in March 1...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 840
Sal Principato - Liquid Liquid - in conversation David Eastaugh Liquid Liquid emerged from downtown New York's no wave scene. The group's original records were pressed in very limited quantities on 99 Records , and can now fetch high prices. "Cavern" originally appeared on the EP, Optimo , recorded by Don Hunerberg. Though the pressings were small, the music has had a lasting and far reaching impact. A music video for "Cavern" was produced by Michael Sporn . After "Cavern" was sampled for Grandm...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 839
David Palmer - Space, The Balcony & Moongoose - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-4oKztK70 https://moongoosecult.bandcamp.com https://thebalcony.bandcamp.com https://yorkie1.bandcamp.com British musician who was a member of the Liverpool -based band Space from 1997 to 2005. Yorkie is the son of Gladys Palmer, a Liverpool-based singer who owned several rehearsal rooms for bands in Liverpool. Yorkie begin his music career as a member of post-punk band The D...
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 838
Karen Yarnell - The Gymslips - in conversation with David Eastaugh East London’s The Gymslips, Paula Richards, Suzanne Scott and Karen Yarnell, barged their way onto the post punk scene in 1981. They openly embraced drinking, Pie & Mash, monkey boots and double denim right from the start. Often credited with being the first female Oi! band, but they brought so much more to the table with their punky 60s influenced girl pop, Formed in 1980, The Gymslips started playing live the following year...
Dec 16, 2022•40 min•Ep. 837
Steve Mack - That Petrol Emotion - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thatpetrolemotion.com That Petrol Emotion were a London -based Northern Ireland -originating band with an American vocalist , Steve Mack. It featured the O'Neill brothers from celebrated Derry pop-punk band The Undertones plus ex-members of fellow Derry bands Bam Bam and The Calling and The Corner Boys. They recorded five albums between 1986 and 1994, exploring an eclectic fusion of alternative rock, post-punk, ga...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 836
Leigh Gorman in conversation with David Eastaugh Bow Wow Wow signed with EMI Records in July 1980. Their first single, " C·30 C·60 C·90 Go !", for which Gorman shared songwriting credit with McLaren, Ashman and Barbarossa, holds the distinction of being the world's first-ever cassette single . It reached No. 34 on the UK Singles Chart and stayed on the chart for seven weeks. In November 1980, Bow Wow Wow released the cassette-only mini-album , Your Cassette Pet . Gorman again shared songwriting ...
Dec 09, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 835
Ricky Dineen - Five Go Down to the Sea? - in conversation with David Eastaugh Five Go Down to the Sea? were an Irish post-punk band from Cork , active from 1978 to 1989. Vocalist and lyricist Finbarr Donnelly , guitarist Ricky Dineen and brothers Philip (bass) and Keith "Smelly" O'Connell (drums) formed the band as Nun Attax when they were teenagers. They became known for Donnelly's absurdist , surreal lyrics and stage presence, Dineen's angular guitar and bass parts and their Captain Beefheart ...
Dec 09, 2022•56 min•Ep. 834
Dorothy Max Prior in conversation with David Eastaugh Discussing her new book - 69 Exhibition Road https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dorothy-max-prior/69-exhibition-road Dorothy Max Prior is a writer and artist living in Brighton. In other lives, Max was a punk muse, post-punk drummer, and exotic dancer. Somewhere along the way, she has taught ballroom dancing and toured the world as a street theater performer, choreographer, director, and cabaret dancer....
Dec 07, 2022•56 min•Ep. 833
Gary Asquith - Renegade Soundwave & Rema Rema- in conversation with David Eastaugh Debuting on Rhythm King label with the "Kray Twins" single, their early records mixed together the sound of the then embryonic dance scene, hip-hop , dub , sampling and electro-industrial noise . Later singles such as "Biting My Nails" (a cover version of a song by Genevieve Waite , from her 1974 album, Romance is on the Rise , produced by her husband, John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas ) and "Probably a...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 831
Simon Nelson - Milltown Brothers - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://milltownbrothers.wordpress.com Their first release, in 1989, was the "Coming From The Mill" EP which became single of the week in the NME magazine , and featured the songs "Roses", "We've Got Time" and "Something On My Mind". The same publication tipped Milltown Brothers for stardom in the 1990s, along with The Hoovers, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine , The Charlatans , The Mock Turtles and New Fast Automatic Daffo...
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 830
Dale Farrington - American TV Cops - in conversation with David Eastaugh American TV Cops - were: Anthony Cluer - Vocals, guitar Dale Farrington - Guitar Steve (Sam) Allsop - Bass Andy Whitty - Drums, vocals During the mid nineties they released three critically acclaimed 7" vinyl singles on their own Pest Records label. The first of these, 'Thirst', was granted Single of the Week status on BBC Radio One 's Steve Lamacq Show, and all three enjoyed extensive airplay on national and local radio as...
Dec 03, 2022•49 min•Ep. 829
Sal Solo - Classix Nouveaux - in conversation with David Eastaugh In 1981, the first Classix Nouveaux album Night People was released along with two moderately successful singles "Guilty" and "Tokyo". Both singles reached the UK Top 75, and "Guilty" reached the Top 20 in Sweden and #25 in Australia. The album itself peaked at #66 in the UK. The second Classix Nouveaux album brought the band its biggest hits. La Verité was released in 1982 and the single release "Is It A Dream" brought the group ...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 828
Daniel Darrow - The Pull of Autumn - David Eastaugh https://thepullofautumn.bandcamp.com/album/the-pull-of-autumn Based between Boston and Rhode Island, The Pull of Autumn is a ‘super group’ of sorts, with songs orbiting around Daniel Darrow from Johanna’s House of Glamour and Luke Skyscraper (Fashion), but also involving numerous emerging and notable musicians from the local music scene and from far abroad....
Dec 02, 2022•41 min•Ep. 827
Ian Wright - The Jack Rubies - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thejackrubies.bandcamp.com/album/foolish-boy Shaking off their slumber, the Jack Rubies are back, fists full of fab new sounds. Once described asuglier than the Stones, the slightly sinister Rubies are a mercurial delight, an utter delicacy. The black heart of Blue Velvet meets the tinsel town sex appeal of '61 Elvis.
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 826
Graham Day - The Prisoners - in conversation with David Eastaugh The Prisoners were a British garage rock band formed in 1980 in Rochester, Kent , England. Their 1960s garage sound made them a regular live fixture in London's underground "psychedelic revival" and "mod revival" scene of the early 1980s, as well as a linchpin of the Medway scene ....
Nov 28, 2022•50 min•Ep. 825
Johanna Went & Mark Wheaton in conversation with David Eastaugh Johanna Went is an American performance artist who primarily works in the Los Angeles area. She started her career in the late 1970s as musician in the punk scene. Music is still an important element of her shows. She has often worked with musician Mark Wheaton, whose fast, rhythmic music beats provide the background noise in several of her performances. Further predominant elements of Went's shows are the use of elaborate costu...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 824
P.P Arnold in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pparnold.com American soul singer. Arnold began her career as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1965. The following year she relocated to London to pursue a solo career. Arnold enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom with her singles " The First Cut Is the Deepest " (1967) and " Angel of the Morning "...
Nov 25, 2022•55 min•Ep. 823
Seth Lorinczi - Vile Cherubs - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.sethlorinczi.com Vile Cherubs blended the avant-garde of the '60s with the punk bluntness of the '80s. The group broke into the late-'80s D.C. punk club scene, eventually drawing the attention of Ian MacKaye and Dischord Records. They released one full-length with Dischord, Posthumous Relief, in 1990. A collection of demos from 1987-1988, The Man Who Has No Eats Has No Sweats, was released in 1993. Singer Tim Green we...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 822
Honey Bane in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.honeybaneofficial.com Honey Bane began her musical career at the age of 14 in 1978 when she formed the punk rock band the Fatal Microbes . [2] The band released a split 12" record with anarcho-punk band Poison Girls the same year. The first single, "Violence Grows" garnered some press attention and was given positive reviews by the British music paper Sounds . After the 1979 breakup of the Fatal Microbes, and a stint in a juvenile detenti...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 821
Luke Haines - Peter Buck, The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof & Black Box Recorder - in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/luke-haines-peter-buck-all-the-kids-are-super-bummed-out-2cd-edition/ English musician, songwriter and author. He has recorded music under various names and with various bands, including The Auteurs , Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder ....
Nov 20, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 820
Chris Silagyi - 20/20, The Redskins, The Furys, The ExTeens - in conversation with David Eastaugh 20/20 was an American power pop band based in Hollywood , California . They were active from 1977 to 1983 - Allen decided to move to Los Angeles in 1977 after fellow Tulsa natives Phil Seymour and Dwight Twilley met with success. Once in Los Angeles, Allen met with Mike Gallo (singer/songwriter/keyboardist/drummer), who had already conceived of the idea and name for the band (after having spent time...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 819
Maggie K. De Monde - Scarlet Fantastic - in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.scarlet-fantastic.co.uk British pop band active in the 1980s, consisting of Maggie K. De Monde and Rick P. Jones. The duo were former members of pop trio Swans Way , who had a hit with "Soul Train" in 1984. Scarlet Fantastic reached the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart only once, with October 1987 single "No Memory", a song which would become popular a few years later on the rave and Ibiza dance music scenes. S...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 818
