Alan Tyler in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.alantyler.com/ https://alantyler.bandcamp.com/merch/how-to-never-have-a-hit-the-confessions-of-an-unsuccessful-singer-songwriter Alan Tyler is the singer of The Rockingbirds, the chaotic, swashbuckling country-rockers who galloped haphazardly into the 90s Camden indie scene, got signed, appeared on Top Of The Pops, went head to head with Nirvana at Reading ‘92, and produced, eventually, four albums of unsurpassed Americana. From DIY/punk ...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 1152
Roque Ruiz in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/ http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/ "Indiepop label purveying the sound of jangly guitars based in Astoria, NY. Far away from the hipsters."
Feb 01, 2025•55 min•Ep. 1151
Aaron Tanner in conversation with David Eastaugh https://officialmerchandise.store/collections/melodic-virtue https://www.melodicvirtue.com/collections/books/products/cardiacs Compiled and designed by Aaron Tanner, Cardiacs: A Big Book and a Band and Whole World Window spans the group’s formative years as Cardiac Arrest to their last single, Ditzy Scene (2007). This new release features rare and unseen photos, artwork, and other ephemera that will captivate long-time fans and newcomers alike. Wi...
Jan 30, 2025•47 min•Ep. 1150
Clive Langer in conversation with David Eastaugh https://newclang.bandcamp.com/album/new-clang Best known as one of the UK’s most successful record producers with a string of high-profile credits in his portfolio, CLIVE LANGER returns in the new year with a second album from his band project, THE CLANG GROUP.A belated follow-up to 2016’s Practice, the Group’s maiden outing for Domino Records, New Clang was recorded with Deaf School co-conspirators John Wood (aka Max Ripple) and Gregg Braden, alo...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 1149
Phil Eaglesham in conversation with David Eastaugh The band was formed in 1987 by Richie Dempsey, Phil Eaglesham, Mofungo Diggs, Steven MacDougall, and Andy MacDonald (aka "Dr. Technology". The band wore asbestos firewear, gas masks, dubious ethnic shirts and balaclavas on stage, and blossomed despite depressing support slots with indie establishment acts such as Happy Mondays, The Wonderstuff and The Shamen. Their debut album, Five Fingers, Four Thingers, a Thumb, a Facelift and a New Identity ...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 1148
Jem Tayle in conversation with David Eastaugh https://vamberator.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-loneliness https://www.facebook.com/Vamberator From the dying embers of Shelleyan orphan (with the late Caroline Crawley), jem Tayle plucks out its heart, and along with Boris Williams of the Cure, they forge the beast that is Vamborator: a magical funky hybrid; a frisky colt on a journey to find a meaning in this age of loneliness. This is Vamberator growing in the shade where the most interesting plants ...
Jan 25, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 1147
John Mendelssohn in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.nortonrecords.com/a4-peculiar-to-mr-bowie-by-john-mendelssohn/ https://johnmendelssohn.wixsite.com/jnm-creative PECULIAR TO MR BOWIE : A Day With David Bowie. 1971 by John Mendelssohn New photobook! Limited 48 page souvenir photobook by rock n' rollin' author/artist/photographer/journalist/bon vivant John Mendelssohn, who was tapped to meet up with an unknown longhair from London named David Bowie on his first trip to the US on a p...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 1146
Sheila Seal in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/groups/44800212324 https://www.truckstophoneymoon.com/ Band members included Mike West, Sheila Seal (bass), Martin Vincent (guitar and harmonica), and Howard Goody (drums). The band played many gigs at the Boardwalk club, in Manchester, where they recorded their Big Noise live album in 1989. They took their name from a series of 1980s television advertisements for Del Monte fruit juices, featuring the " man from Del Monte "...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 1145
Anja Huwe in conversation with David Eastaugh https://anjahuwe.com/ Musician, artist and former television editor and producer born in Hamburg, Germany, She was the singer and only stable member in the various incarnations of German Post-Punk band X Mal Deutschland. After the band finally split up in 1990, she worked as producer and editor for German "VIVA TV". More recently she has taken up visual arts and exhibits in New York and London. After Xmal Deutschland’s success with four albums on cul...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1144
William D Drake in conversation with David Eastaugh https://williamddrake.wordpress.com/ https://williamddrake.bandcamp.com/ https://lakeofpuppies.bandcamp.com/album/lake-of-puppies Musician, keyboardist, pianist, composer and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a former member of the cult English rock band Cardiacs , whom he played with for nine years between 1983 and 1992. He has also been a member of the Sea Nymphs , North Sea Radio Orchestra , Nervous, Wood, Lake of Puppies and The Grown-...
Jan 11, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 1143
Patrick Fitzgerald in conversation with David Eastaugh https://patrickfitzgerald.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Zr_w9cxtQ Patrick Fitzgerald, singer and bass player in Kitchens of Distinction. After Kitchens he was: Fruit, one half of three fabulous duos - Lost Girls | The April Seven | Oskar's Drum - and solo he is Stephen Hero. He has been releasing records under all these guises and more since 1987. Kitchens of Distinction (sometimes shortened colloquially to KoD) formed in T...
Jan 10, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 1142
Nick Toczek in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.nicktoczek.com/ British writer and performer working variously as poet, journalist, magician, vocalist, lyricist and radio broadcaster. He was raised in Bradford and then took a degree in Industrial Metallurgy at Birmingham University (1968–71) where he began reading and publishing his poetry. Staying on in Moseley, Birmingham, until 1977, he founded his poetry magazine The Little Word Machine , had several books and pamphlets published...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 1141
Morley Bartnof in conversation with David Eastaugh https://andyandtherattlesnakes.com/about https://www.facebook.com/cosmo.topper American keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and composer, born 1959, in Los Angeles, California. Originally Bartnof spelled with one "f" and later changed to Bartnoff. May appear on releases as Morley Bartof or CosMorley Be. Stepping Away from his previous project Cosmo Topper, Morley's new project is the aptly named "Randy Californians."...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 1140
Richard Bellia in conversation with David Eastaugh https://richardbellia.com/ Photographer Richard Bellia was there when it mattered carrying his trusted camera to capture moments in music’s vast cannon of historical importance, some which now forms his own tapestry of work in Un œil sur la musique 1980-2016 i.e. An eye on music 1980-2016. The intro to the book says ‘’a thousand photos: breathe the same air as the musicians, feel the bass, the riffs and the silences, sixtieth of a second per six...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 1139
Graham Bonnet in conversation with David Eastaugh English rock singer. He has recorded and performed as a solo artist and as a member of several rocks bands including Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, and Impellitteri. He is known for his powerful singing voice but is capable of also singing soft melodies. In 1979, Bonnet was approached to join Sweet to replace Brian Connolly . However, he was chosen by Ritchie Blackmore to replace Ronnie James Dio as the vocalist of hard rock band Rai...
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 1138
Angel Eye in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.sunsofarqa.co.uk/ Suns of Arqa are a world music collective founded in 1979 by Michael Wadada. Since the group's formation, over 200 people from around the world have played and recorded with them, and in many cases these were like-minded musicians Wadada met as he travelled the world. Pioneers of World Beat, Ambient, Downtempo and Electro-Dub, Suns of Arqa draw inspiration from around the world, interpreting indigenous, tribal and classi...
Dec 22, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 1137
Alan Buckley in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyCcKAa35PE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayh-vWqDzBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ioIhmzGEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVfK1tbeGwk&list=PLcDwkXhr5uEwekhN-p-OKHqcY_cLxvWjR Mid 80s proto-janglers Here Comes Everybody inspired Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis) to buy his first guitar, then, mission accomplished, broke up in 1986. Singer/ guitarist Richard and drummer Pete were introduced to bassist Alan by some H...
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 1136
Tot Taylor in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.tottaylor.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thgIeoqRyok https://www.riflemaker.org/ London-based songwriter, composer, record producer, author and art curator. He was a songwriter, singer, performer and band member throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties as well as composer of film soundtracks and theatre scores including stage-productions for the UK's National Theatre. In 2003 he founded the Riflemaker Gallery in London with ...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 1094
Chris Wilson in conversation with David Eastaugh guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, most known for his role as the lead singer of the San Francisco band the Flamin' Groovies , having replaced original singer Roy Loney in 1971. With Wilson on lead vocals, the band released their influential 1976 album Shake Some Action . His song "Shake Some Action", co-written with Cyril Jordan , appeared in the 1995 movie Clueless . He was also a long-term member of The Barracudas and in 1993 he released the ...
Dec 17, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 1133
Mark Hoyle in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve https://dubsex.net/about Dub Sex are often cited as one of Manchester’s greatest ‘lost’ bands. Formed in the concrete landscape of 1980s Hulme, their music is appropriately raw and intense, bass-led with wiry guitar patterns swirling around the impassioned vocal style and presence of frontman Mark Hoyle. They came to prominence over the release of five critically acclaimed EPs and mini-albums in the late...
Dec 15, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1135
Lenny Helsing in conversation with David Eastaugh https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-048-the-green-telescope-andy-kershaw-session-230186 Forerunners to The Thanes, The Green Telescope started out in 1981 as ardent ambassadors for 60s-style psychedelic sounds, soon becoming well known around Edinburgh for putting together exotic-sounding shows featuring freak-out style lights. A couple of line-up changes later, they took fresh inspiration from the British beat group era plu...
Dec 15, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 1134
Nic Beales in conversation with David Eastaugh https://sweetpool.bandcamp.com/ Pigbros was an English indie band formed in Birmingham in 1984 by Nick Beales (guitar & vocals) fresh from a stint in The Nightingales and Jonathan Cooke (bass). Recruiting a teenage Fuzz Townshend - as well as projects under his own name) the band played a few gigs before augmenting the line up a few months later to include Svor Naan (saxophone & guitar) not long departed from The Cravats & DcL Locomotive...
Dec 12, 2024•55 min•Ep. 1130
Mark Wilson & Pete Barker in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWEISh0MznA Anarchic rockabilly beloved by the late John Peel. "If Elvis had been a Marx Brother, he would have invented Pink Peg Slax" (James Brown, NME) With a name derived from an obscure Eddie Cochran rocker, Pink Peg Slax promise rockabilly revivalism, but these veterans of the Leeds 80s music scene deliver musical subversion. Borne out of punk, the Slax line-up were original members of the Mek...
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1132
Stuart Bruce in conversation with David Eastaugh Stuart Robert Bruce is an English recording engineer. He was the engineer for the recording of the Band Aid 's charity single " Do They Know It's Christmas? " on 25 November 1984. Bruce started his career at Trevor Horn's Sarm West Studios. When Horn offered Bob Geldof and Midge Ure the studio free of charge for 24 hours to record the charity single, but was unavailable to produce it, Bruce was approached to engineer and mix what became one of the...
Dec 06, 2024•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 1131
Richard Witts 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://richardwitts.com/
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 1120
Joe Dilworth in conversation with David Eastaugh https://bildbandberlin.com/products/joe-dilworth-everything-all-at-once-forever?srsltid=AfmBOop7qFncpNI6g3QxwWIi_P1wOGycmFmfMmgE2wP6t9pW7Egjs87v http://joedilworth.com/ Th' Faith Healers were an English indie rock band who were originally active between 1990 and 1994. They recorded multiple EPs and singles along with two full LPs
Nov 30, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 1129
Gerard Evans in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/flowersinthedustbinofficial/?locale=en_GB http://anarchoscene.blogspot.com/2011/07/flowers-in-dustbin.html
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 1128
Andrew Reich, Jeffrey McDonald & Steve McDonald in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.reddkrossfilm.com/ https://reddkross.com/ From inventing Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Hair Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years.
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1127
Alan Clayson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://alanclayson.com/ https://alanclayson.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-and-modern-highlights-of-half-a-century-2 Singer-songwriter, author and music journalist. He gained popularity in the late 1970s as leader of the band Clayson and the Argonauts. In addition to contributing to publications such as Record Collector , Mojo and Folk Roots , he subsequently established himself as a prolific writer of music biographies. Among his many books are Back...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 1126
Christina Bulbenko & Rex Broome in conversation with David Eastaugh https://bigstirrecords.com/the-armoires https://thearmoires.bandcamp.com/ The new record from the Burbank, CA indie pop quintet represents both a fresh start and the distillation of the potential inherent in their unique sound – somewhere between the sunshine pop of the '60s, the college rock jangle of the '80s and the Sarah Records/C86 chamber pop aesthetic of the '90s – and a lyrical approach that's always felt untethered ...
Nov 17, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 1125
