Trevor Tanner & Paul Clark in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thebolshoibrothers.com/ https://thebolshoibrothers.bandcamp.com/ Trevor Tanner and Paul Clark started working on their debut album during the Covid lockdown. They recorded the album together remotely, Trevor from Florida and Paul from Seattle. The album release will be followed by live shows featuring songs from new album as well as a selection of songs originally recorded by The Bolshoi....
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 1183
Nancy Barile author of 'I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-and-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion' in conversation with David Eastaugh From Catholic school girl to glam maniac to organiser of classic early 1980s East Coast hardcore shows, Nancy Barile made her place behind the boards and right in the front row as SSD, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, and Black Flag wrote new rules. In the dangerous early years of punk, she rebelled, fighting for fair space as she found her purpose....
Apr 09, 2025•30 min•Ep. 619
Nick Nicely in conversation with David Eastaugh https://nicknicely1.bandcamp.com/track/or-a-brockley-afternoon English singer-songwriter who records psychedelic and electronic music. He is best known for his 1982 single "Hilly Fields (1892)". Nicely released only one other record in the early 1980s, the single "D.C.T. Dreams", before retreating from the music industry. The influence of "Hilly Fields" has been noted on Bevis Frond, Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Wyatt , and XTC's psychedelic alter egos ...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1182
Wendy Robinson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thecalmzone.net/ The band was formed by Wendy Robinson (vocals) and Polly Hancock (vocals, guitar), initially with a drum machine. This line-up recorded the debut "Don't Go Back" EPon Big Cat UK (catalogue number BBA02) in August 1988) achieving "Single of the Week" in Melody Maker . A John Peel session, produced by Dale Griffin and recorded at the BBC studios in Golders Green, London, was first broadcast on 21 September 1988 and rep...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 1181
Susan Rogers in conversation with David Eastaugh American professor, sound engineer, and record producer best known for being Prince 's staff engineer during his commercial peak (1983-1987), including on albums like Purple Rain , Around the World in a Day , Parade , Sign o' the Times , and The Black Album . During this time, Rogers laid the foundations for Prince's now-famous vault by beginning the process of collecting and cataloguing all his studio and live recordings....
Apr 05, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 1180
Keith West in conversation with David Eastaugh https://hozacrecords.com/bands/brats/ Before there was KISS, before there were The Ramones and Blondie, there was The Brats. The Brats and The New York Dolls were at the forefront of the NYC music scene of the Seventies. Brat, Rick Rivets, actually quit The Dolls to form The Brats. The Brats would become the biggest draw in NYC from 1972 to 1981 and every band hoped to open for them for the exposure. Just ask any one of the members of KISS or The Ra...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 1179
Christoph Menningen in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/colognepopfest mail@colognepopfest.com https://colognepopfest.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJWi5VleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHd3R4gg0iuW4A2ZBvJDJ0oqzCvYA2JNTMgfyN0fdEsEPSiJtzKFbd9WuRg_aem_a6rMBrOhdGnpc8KLlBf45A
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1177
Matt James in conversation with David Eastaugh https://musicmattjames.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/geneofficialband Matt is a musician, singer, songwriter & former drummer & co-songwriter in the UK guitar band Gene. Gene had success around the world including many UK top 40 hits & top 10 LP's. They also toured the world extensively in their active years. Matt left the music industry in 2008 but returned in 2021 as a solo artist & has recently finished recording his debu...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 1175
Terry Newman in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/marilyn-monroe-style/ Marilyn Monroe Style celebrates Marilyn’s impact on fashion by revealing the influence of her many iconic looks. Her wardrobe encompassed sensual femininity as well as low-key minimalism. Outfits span from shimmering showpieces such as the Jean Louis gown worn to serenade JFK on his birthday, to Pucci slacks and cats-eye spectacles. Born Norma Jeane Mortensen, whenever she ‘became’ Marilyn,...
Mar 26, 2025•41 min•Ep. 1174
Jim Walters in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/DasDamenOfficial The band was formed in 1984 by Jim Walters (vocals, guitar), Alex Totino (guitar, vocals), Phil Leopold von Trapp (bass, vocals), and Lyle Hysen (drums). Totino and Hysen were previously in the New York hardcore band The Misguided. Das Damen released their self-titled debut album on Thurston Moore 's Ecstatic Peace! in 1986. They subsequently signed to SST Records and released Jupiter Eye in 1987, which has...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 1173
Colin Gregory in conversation with David Eastaugh https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-028-one-thousand-violins-john-peel-session-021286 https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-027-one-thousand-violins-john-peel-session-250985
Mar 23, 2025•42 min•Ep. 1172
Leah Andreone in conversation with David Eastaugh Andreone's first album, Veiled , produced by Rick Neigher, was released by RCA in 1996. It included the hit single "It's Alright, It's OK", which charted in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. It was introspective whereas her next album, Alchemy , was more sexual and intimate. Andreone's lyrics are often treatises on psychology, reflecting her interest in the subject....
Mar 22, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 1171
Paul Rappaport in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gliders-Over-Hollywood-Airships-Promotion/dp/191682918X Gliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed ‘Rap’ who grew up in thrall to rock’n’roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes’ lives as he became the most renowned rock promotion man in the USA. Paul Rappaport enjoyed a storied thirty-three-year career at Columbia Records, where he was instrumental i...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 1170
Craig Wedren in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.craigwedren.com/ American singer-songwriter, musician and composer, who began his career fronting post-hardcore band Shudder to Think. Following the disbandment of Shudder to Think, Wedren pursued a career as a television and film music composer, as well as releasing solo material.
Mar 18, 2025•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 1169
Sharon Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.ideanow.online/cameragirl https://store.magalleria.co.uk/products/camera-girl-sharon-smith In New York in 1979, Sharon was a 28- year-old photographer who walked into the Ritz, an East Village club that was the center of the New Wave music scene. She went on to work at the Savoy, the Red Parrot, Studio 54, Roseland Ballroom, Merlyn’s, 4D, Area, Palladium, Mars and the club called New York, New York. The book is of course full of unseen...
Mar 16, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1168
Jon Ronson in conversation with David Eastaugh http://jonronson.com/ In the late 1980s, Ronson replaced Mark Radcliffe as the keyboard player for the Frank Sidebottom band for a number of performances. Ronson was the manager of the Manchester indie band The Man from Delmonte
Mar 15, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 1167
Justin K Broadrick in conversation with David Eastaugh https://jesu.bandcamp.com/ https://avalancherecordings.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/officialgodflesh Best known as the lead singer and a founding member of the band Godflesh , followed by Jesu . He was briefly in the English grindcore band Napalm Death when he was a teenager in the mid-1980s, writing and recording guitar for their debut album, Scum . Broadrick has also maintained a parallel career as a producer, producing records a...
Mar 13, 2025•2 hr 13 min•Ep. 1166
Simon Barber in conversation with David Eastaugh https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-049-the-chesterfields-janice-long-session-060187 https://simonchesterfield.bandcamp.com/album/simon-chesterfield PRE 049: THE CHESTERFIELDS – Janice Long session 06.01.87 Leading lights among the generation of indie pop outfits that thrived in the post-C86 environment, The Chesterfields released three singles on the Subway Organization label before reaching the dizzy heights of No.2 on the ...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 1165
Amy Rigby in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amyrigby.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-City-Memoir-Amy-Rigby After playing with several New York bands she began a solo career, recording several albums which had only modest sales despite enthusiastic reviews. She settled into a career of touring while raising a daughter, then formed a duo with Wreckless Eric , whom she also married. As of November 2011 they continue to tour from a base in upstate New York. She is the author of a me...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 1164
John McKay in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thejohnmckay.bandcamp.com/album/sixes-and-sevens McKay's influence lives on; many of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades credit him as a major influence - Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2's The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr and even the two guitarists - The Cure's Robert Smith and Magazine's John McGeoch - who followed him in The Banshees. McKay's burgeoning status as the anti-guita...
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 1163
Angela Jaeger in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feel-Famous-Punk-Diaries-1977-1981/dp/1955125570 I Feel Famous: Punk Diaries 1977-1981 is a girl’s coming of age story set to the pulse of punk rock. The book tracks 17-year-old Angela Jaeger’s exciting discovery of punk music and its accompanying lifestyle in 1977. A music enthusiast living in New York’s East Village, Angela’s story unfolds chronologically, charting her late adolescence in tandem with her transition from...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 1162
Brian Nevill in conversation with David Eastaugh Since the 80's he has worked with many artists including Shriekback, Pigbag, Kirsty MacColl, Pete Molinari, Luc Van Acker, Virginia Astley, Big Joe Louis & His Blues Kings, Ronnie Dawson, Planet Rockers, Ray Sharpe, Eddie Angel, Neanderthals, Sonny George, Holly Golightly, Carl Sonny Leyland, Teddy Paige, Carlos & The Bandidos, Duffy Power, Jerimiah Marques. Sister Suzie.
Feb 26, 2025•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 1161
Sue Tilley in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leigh-Bowery-Life-Times-Icon/dp/034069310X Bowery's closest friend, Sue Tilley recounts the life of Leigh Bowery, the costume designer and performer who posed for the painter Lucien Freud. The biography follows Bowery's life from his arrival in London in 1981 to his death from AIDS in 1994 and was written with the co-operation of his friends and family....
Feb 22, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1160
Thomas Walsh in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pugwashtheband.bandcamp.com/ https://westhampsteadarts.com/events/ Pugwash are an Irish pop band fronted by Drimnagh-born musician Thomas Walsh. Pugwash has released six albums since its debut LP Almond Tea in 1999. Influences on the band's sound are regularly cited as including XTC , Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne , the Beach Boys , the Kinks , Honeybus and the Beatles , though Walsh dismisses the Beatles comparisons as "lazy"...
Feb 22, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 1159
John Aizlewood in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.johnaizlewood.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joy-Division-New-Order-Decades The definitive illustrated story of Joy Division + New Order. There’s no template for making it as a globally successful pop group. Some of the ingredients remain constant and beyond the music, there’s a mix’n’match selection of premature death, drugs, drink, destroyed friendships, lukewarm solo projects and bungled finances. The saga of Joy Division and New Or...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1158
Boris Williams in conversation with David Eastaugh https://vamberator.bandcamp.com/ Boris Williams was present during the Cure's most successful period and is often cited by fans as the best drummer in the band's history. 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 t...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 1157
Richard Dudanski in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Squat-City-Rocks-protopunk-beyond This musical memoir traces the author’s life in the corrugated-iron clad ruins of West London’s Squat Land during the two years immediately prior to the Punk Explosion of ’76, playing with Strummer’s seminal garage band “The 101’ers” in the spit-and-sawdust music bars of the capital. The thrills and spills of a crazy, quirky, hand-to-mouth existence gives way to relative disenchantment...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 1156
Andy Saunders in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.velocitypr.co.uk/ Andy Saunders joined Creation in 1992 as a press officer and remained with the label until the end. He now runs a company called Velocity PR. Velocity Communications has been the leading provider of corporate communications to the music industry for over 20 years.
Feb 15, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1155
Alan Childs in conversation with David Eastaugh https://soundcloud.com/alan-childs-4 Originally from New York City, now lives in Las Vegas - worked with Julian Lennon, toured with David Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour and is currently on tour with John Waite
Feb 12, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1154
John Etheridge in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.john-etheridge.com/ https://softmachine.org/ John Etheridge is an English jazz fusion guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music. He is best known for his work with Soft Machine from 1975 to 1978, 1984 and 2004 to present. In late 1972, Etheridge joined Curved Air violinist Darryl Way 's band Wolf, which went on to record three albu...
Feb 10, 2025•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 1153
