Leah Kardos in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.leahkardos.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kate-Bushs-Hounds-Love-33/dp/B0CYP75PF3 Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds of Love’ and ‘The Big Sky’, some of the best-loved and most enduring compositions in Bush’s catalogue....
Nov 16, 2024•52 min•Ep. 1124
Dan Synge in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068530812 https://open.spotify.com/track/546BO0xumtrdTs9FMiqbvb?si=eb83d941dd2c41ce https://rosavillemusic.bandcamp.com/album/soundtrack-of-our-lives www.dansyngeauthor.com Anyone can start a band. Anyone can be famous. Not everyone can wait a lifetime. From hammering it with the ‘gods of rock’ to heroin diaries, white line fevers and the inevitable ghost written My Story, it would seem that every gnarled old pop star has...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1123
Peter Kelly in conversation with David Eastaugh https://beerjacket.bandcamp.com/ Beerjacket is Scottish singer/songwriter, Peter Kelly, who has opened for The National, St Vincent, Kristin Hersh & Frightened Rabbit. In 2018, Scottish Fiction released album/book of songs & short stories, Silver Cords, leading to an appearance at Edinburgh International Book Festival, a sold-out show with Cairn String Quartet at Celtic Connections, & radio play from BBC Radio 6 Music and KEXP....
Nov 10, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 1122
Kazuko Hohki in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.kazukohohki.com/ https://www.cherryred.co.uk/frank-chickens?srsltid=AfmBOooDDNlbGuF-rplim_W0Q1z4FFliWJ_ehN3sGCtlLFB0W4kpAGNM Frank Chickens are a Japanese musical group based in London, who have performed songs mainly in English since 1982. They were nominated for the 1984 Edinburgh Comedy Award for their performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the same year, their single "Blue Canary" was number 42 in BBC DJ John Peel's Festi...
Nov 10, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1121
Jonathon Grasse in conversation with David Eastaugh http://jawbonepress.com/jazz-revolutionary/ Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to Paris, where sixty years ago he died from the complications of undiagnosed diabetes. It presents an engaging examination of this innovative musician and composer, from his family background to posthumous memori...
Nov 09, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 1119
Joe McKecknie in conversation with David Eastaugh The Passage were a post-punk band from Manchester, England, who appeared on several record labels including Object Music, Cherry Red Records, and their own label Night & Day, a subsidiary label to Virgin Records. https://ra.co/dj/joemckechnie/biography
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 1118
Kristi Callan in conversation with David Eastaugh Vocalist and rhythm guitarist originally from Texas. Kristi Callan has performed with Wednesday Week, David Gray, Wondermints, Cruzados, Dave Davies, The Ventures, Big Soul, Lucky, The Roswell Sisters and others. Founders of the band were the sisters Kristi and Kelly Callan—daughters of actress K Callan . The sisters formed their first group, The Undeclared, in 1979. The duo evolved into a trio, Goat Deity, in 1980, when they were joined by Steve...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 1117
Katell Keineg in conversation with David Eastaugh https://katell.keineg.com/news https://westhampsteadarts.com/nightery_event/katell-keineg/ Katell Keineg was born in Brittany and was brought up first there and then in Wales. After graduating from the London School of Economics she moved to Ireland and started gigging, before re-locating to New York in 1992. She was quickly embraced by the scene around St Mark’s Place’s now legendary Sin-é, building her reputation for ‘conveying a nearly beatifi...
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 1115
Penny Slinger in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pennyslinger.com/ British-born American artist and author based in California. As an artist, she has worked in different mediums, including photography, film and sculpture. Her work has been described as being in the genres of surrealism and feminist surrealism . Her work explores the nature of the self, the feminine and the erotic...
Oct 27, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1116
Mike West in conversation with David Eastaugh The band members had little in common with most Manchester bands. Goody was a graduate of Winchester School of Art . Vincent had been an art critic and painter. Seal, a Glaswegian, was a classically trained musician who had run an art gallery. And West, who wrote the songs, was the Australian-born son of the author Morris West . The band played many gigs at the Boardwalk club, in Manchester , where they recorded their Big Noise live album in 1989. We...
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 1114
Jakko Jakszyk in conversation with David Eastaugh https://kingmakerpublishing.com/jakko-m-jakszyk/ Jakko M. Jaksyzk is an award-winning, world-renowned musician, best known for having been a member of Level 42, but most recently, for the past 13 years, lead singer and guitarist with progressive rock founding fathers King Crimson. Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? is, at first glance, a traditional rock’n’roll memoir, charting Jakko’s long and varied musical career, packed with eyebrow-raising ...
Oct 20, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 1113
Bill Leeb in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.mindphaser.com/ https://frontlineassembly.bandcamp.com/album/model-kollapse Electronic musician and record producer. He is best known for being a founding member of the industrial music group Front Line Assembly and Delerium . Leeb began his musical career with industrial band Skinny Puppy in 1985 under the pseudonym Wilhelm Schroeder, contributing bass synth and occasional backing vocals to a few of their recordings and concerts. He left ...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 1112
Ian Christie in conversation with David Eastaugh https://khartomb.bandcamp.com/album/swahili-lullaby-teekon-warriors-daisy-high-before-i-die-edition https://www.khartomb.com/ https://www.youtube.com/khartomb Khartomb were an English reggae -influenced independent group inspired by The Slits , among other widely-varying sounds of the era, who started up in the 1981 timeframe and featured songwriters Ian Christie (guitar) and Caroline Clayton (bass, vocals, flute), as well as originally Simon (Gen...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 1111
Chris Sullivan in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thesullivan.net/home https://www.cherryred.co.uk/blue-rondo-bees-knees-and-chicken-elbows-expanded-2cd-edition?srsltid=AfmBOop68rFMyboq_cMuXbKfDxStVOacJIeB2YGuD-iZUNlgpTsdKf9E Blue Rondo à la Turk was a floating collective of jazz and salsa oriented musicians, created by singer/lyricist Chris Sullivan who arrived in London from Merthyr Tydfil in the mid 1970s. His stated goal for the band was "to bring back show biz". In the band’s f...
Oct 12, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 1110
Mike Batt in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.mikebatt.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Closest-Thing-Crazy-Musical-Adventures/dp/1785120840 Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has been full of both glorious victories and bitter failures. For better or for worse, he is a man who has always lived life on his own terms. Idiosyncratic...
Oct 11, 2024•59 min•Ep. 1109
Paul Rutner in conversation with David Eastaugh Mumps were a popular band at clubs such as Max's Kansas City and CBGB . They also performed at Irving Plaza and Maxwell's (Hoboken, New Jersey), and opened for the Ramones at Hurrah in August 1978. Their concerts were lively and featured energetic, expressive performances from Lance Loud and other band members on songs like "We're Americans", "I Believe In Anyone But You", "Strange Seed", "Brain Massage", "Scream and Scream Again". Their first 45 r...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 1108
David Bash in conversation with David Eastaugh https://internationalpopoverthrow.com/ The festival is dedicated to bring classic pop music to the public, and is run by CEO and founder David Bash and Rina Bardfield. Although the festival has over the years featured several major label acts, such as Phantom Planet , Maroon 5 (under their previous incarnation, Kara's Flowers ), and The Click Five , Bash tries to maintain the grassroots feel of the festival by featuring primarily unsigned bands, and...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 1107
Jez Willis in conversation with David Eastaugh http://utahsaints.com/ Utah Saints were described as "the first true stadium house band" by the KLF 's Bill Drummond , though their music is difficult to place into one genre. The dance group originally met as music promoters and DJs for the Mix Nightclub in Harrogate in the early 1990s. They began as MDMA, featuring two former The Cassandra Complex members Jez Willis and Keith Langley, along with Bobby Rae and guitarist Martin Scott. Willis started...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 1106
Raymond Watts in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.pigindustries.com/ Following hot on the heels of his new album ‘Red Room’ (released in May 2024), industrial rock mainstay Raymond Watts aka PIG has today reissued a fully remastered version of his seminal mid-‘90s album ‘Sinsation’ via Metropolis Records (CD, digital) and Armalyte Industries (deluxe 2xLP vinyl). Out of print for almost three decades, it makes a timely reappearance just ahead of a North American tour. 'Sinsation' was ...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 1105
Steve Kilbey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thechurchband.com/ https://kilbeykennedy.bandcamp.com/ https://stevekilbey.bandcamp.com/ https://easyaction.co.uk/product/the-church-eros-zeta-the-perfumed-guitars-cd/
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 1104
Richard King in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379668-travels-over-feeling/ An icon of New York’s downtown music scene is brought vividly to life in this tapestry of archive and oral history’ Guardian The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his pioneering compositions as part of the New York avant-garde alongside artists including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, to his gen...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 1103
Micky Greaney in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mickygreaney.bandcamp.com/album/and-now-its-all-this 'Lost' album from Birmingham singer-songwriter Micky Greaney, originally recorded 1995-6, and now finally getting a release with all the loving care that we have come to expect from midlands independent label Seventeen Records. Elegantly arranged folk-rock that reminds us of Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake and the Kinks....
Aug 31, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 1102
Chris Gunstone in conversation with David Eastaugh https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawE9yq5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZDm_3cVz11MGq5Cl4V4A9WTzbFiU5-ifB_lYJCBT3RfOJPnN8wUwgt5tA_aem_avFXoze_4IGrhh50EjqT_Q Blowzabella was formed in Whitechapel, London in 1978 by original members Bill O'Toole, Jon Swayne, Chris Gunstone,Dave Armitage and Juan Wijngaard. When the band first formed, Swayne, O'Toole, and Armitage were studying woodwind instrument making at the London College of Furnitur...
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 1101
Marco Pirroni in conversation with David Eastaugh Pirroni was lead guitarist and co-songwriter in the second incarnation of Adam and the Ants, co-penning two UK number ones and a further four 10 hits, with Ant. The two albums he co-wrote for Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming , both made the Top 10 in the ("Kings" number 1; "Prince Charming" number 2). When Adam and the Ants disbanded in 1982, Pirroni was retained as Adam Ant's co-writer and studio guitarist; they ...
Aug 28, 2024•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 1100
Peter Prescott in conversation with David Eastaugh https://minibeast.bandcamp.com/ American post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts . The group formed in 1979 with Roger Miller on guitar , Clint Conley on bass , Peter Prescott on drums , and Martin Swope contributing audiotape manipulation and acting as the band’s sound engineer. In this initial lineup, Miller, Conley, and Prescott all shared singing and songwriting duties....
Aug 24, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 1099
Magnus Karlsson in conversation with David Eastaugh Happydeadmen were one of the first Swedish acts to have been given credit for inspiring the '90s explosion of pop acts. With the thank-you list that includes The Cardigans and Popsicle , Happydeadmen's melody of charming indie glee debuted in 1988. With their first full-length, "Eleven Pop Songs" (1990), and "Game, Set, Match" (1993) independently released, Happydeadmen would spend a part of 1995 touring Japan before their follow-up album, "Bul...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1098
Peter Crowley in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-at-Maxs-Peter-Crowley/dp/B0D7QR4F6Y https://www.farwestpress.com/far-west-books/p/down-at-maxs-peter-crowley Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max's Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all from the West Village in the 1960s to the color sound of California to managing and booking bands during the punk explosion of the 1970s. Like a beer for...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 1097
Don Pyle in conversation with David Eastaugh https://shadowymen.bandcamp.com/album/dim-the-lights-chill-the-ham Pyle's first group was a punk band called Crash Kills Five , which was active from 1979 to 1981. Crash Kills Five released one EP in 1980, titled What Do You Do At Night? . It was in this four piece band that Pyle first played with two members, Reid Diamond and Brian Connelly, who would later become his bandmates in Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet . Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet were...
Aug 18, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 1096
Michael Alago in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.michaelalago.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-Michael-Alago-Breathing-Metallica/dp/1617137251 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgTBj2Zbr0w Musician, nightlife impresario, record label executive, photographer, and author, Michael Alago takes readers through this amazing journey that is his life. Alago grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a large, spirited, and devoted Puerto Rican family. Through his early passion for music, art, theater, ...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 1095
Tom Ashton & Mat Thorpe in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.marchvioletsband.com/ https://marchvioletsband.bandcamp.com/album/crocodile-promises Crocodile Promises, the all new album from legendary post-punk/goth rock act The March Violets builds upon the band's 40 year legacy. Founding members Rosie Garland and Tom Ashton are now joined by bassist Mat Thorpe. Crocodile Promises finds the March Violets in top form, creating a reinvigorated take on it's trademark boundary-shreddin...
Aug 10, 2024•56 min•Ep. 1093
