Anne Clark in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.anneclarkofficial.com/ https://anneclarkofficial.bandcamp.com/ English poet, singer and songwriter. Her first album, The Sitting Room , was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then. Her poetry work with experimental musicians occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic, dance (techno applies on occasion) and possibly avant-garde genres, with varying hard as well as romantic and orchestral styles. Clark is...
Nov 08, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 1274
Anne-Marie Hurst in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.ghost-dance.com/ https://ghost-dance.bandcamp.com/music Ghost Dance is a British gothic rock band formed in 1985 by Gary Marx (ex-Sisters of Mercy guitarist) and Anne-Marie Hurst (ex-Skeletal Family vocalist) as both were leaving their respective bands. The band were originally signed to Nick Jones' record label, Karbon Records, then were later signed to the major label Chrysalis Records, before splitting up in 1989. In 2019 the ba...
Nov 03, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 1273
Thomas Leer in conversation with David Eastaugh http://thomasleer.co.uk/ Leer played in several local experimental pop groups in the early to mid-1970s, moving to London when the punk rock scene was at its height. He formed the punk band Pressure, but by 1978 had moved on to music influenced by synthpop and Krautrock bands such as Can. That year, he self-financed his debut single, "Private Plane". Although it was recorded in his own flat and was only issued in 650 copies on his own label, it gai...
Nov 02, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 1272
Rusty Egan in conversation with David Eastaugh https://rustyeganpresents1.bandcamp.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rusty-Egan-Autobiography/dp/0857162934 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAM6TFMvAc https://www.mixcloud.com/rustyegan/ Egan was the drummer of British new wave band Rich Kids, from its inception in March 1977, until its disbandment in December 1978, along with former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock (bass and vocals), Steve New (guitar and vocals), and Midge Ure (guitar, vocals, and k...
Nov 01, 2025•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 1271
Berni Armstrong in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/c/berniarmstrong https://thesaturdaybluesproject.bandcamp.com/ Organised shows at various Fayres the biggest success was the Earth Fayre at East Bergholt, where they had an installation called "Beyond the Belly of the Giant".
Oct 28, 2025•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 1269
Peter Greenberg in conversation with David Eastaugh In 1977, White enrolled at Boston University to study journalism. While in school, he worked in a record shop in Brookline, Massachusetts, named Good Vibrations, where his singing was heard by musician Peter Greenberg of the Lyres. White adopted the stage name Barrence Whitfield to avoid being mistaken for superstar Barry White and began performing with Greenberg and former members of the Lyres as Barrence Whitfield & the Savages STARR AND ...
Oct 27, 2025•58 min•Ep. 1268
Chris Payne in conversation with David Eastaugh http://chrispaynemusic.com/ Known as a member of Gary Numan's backing band, Tubeway Army and for being the co-writer of Visage's 1981 synthpop hit single "Fade to Grey". Payne plays keyboards and viola and also a number of medieval instruments. He formed the band Dramatis with other members of Numan's backing-band in the early 1980s. Payne has composed music for television and films and formed the band Celtic Legend. He has composed, scored, record...
Oct 26, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 1267
Marina Muhlfriedel (also known as Marina del Rey) in conversation with David Eastaugh As a keyboard player and vocalist, Marina was the co-founder of Vivabeat, a Los Angeles-based techno-pop band started in 1978 and active into the mid-1980s. It is best known for being discovered by and signed to its first record deal at the request of Peter Gabriel. It became the first American band on Tony Stratton Smith's British label, Charisma Records. The band released one album for Charisma Records, Party...
Oct 25, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 1266
Larry Stabbins in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.larrystabbins.com/ Played in the cult pop group Weekend and started writing with its guitarist Simon Booth. This later evolved into Working Week, a band that took a mix of Latin, soul, jazz and funk into the pop charts. From the Latin Jazz Dance scene in London clubs, the band mixed jazz with Latin dance rhythms and vocals by singers such as Juliet Roberts, Julie Tippetts, Robert Wyatt and Tracy Thorn. The band toured extensively in ...
Oct 23, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1265
Zaine Griff in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.zainegriff.com/#home In 1979 Griff started his solo career. He released two albums, Ashes and Diamonds (recorded in 1979, released in 1980), produced by Tony Visconti, and Figvres (1982), on which he collaborated with future successful film composer Hans Zimmer, and many colleagues from the new wave and new romantic era including Kate Bush, Warren Cann of Ultravox and Yukihiro Takahashi, of Japanese electronic band YMO. The single "Toni...
Oct 20, 2025•46 min•Ep. 1264
Debsey Wykes in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Teenage-Daydream-Girls-Play-Band/dp/1917923090 Debsey Wykes was the bass playing singer in the first all girl punk group Dolly Mixture. Thrown into the musky, misogynistic, male dominated world of the UK music industry in the late 1970s, they enjoyed unlikely #1 success alongside Captain Sensible of The Damned on1982’s even unlikelier cover version of ‘Happy Talk’, whilst fame and success on their own individual terms allu...
Oct 19, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 1263
Micko Westmoreland in conversation with David Eastaugh https://landlinerecords.com https://www.facebook.com/MickoMellotronic/ The Mellotronics formed in 2017 with the intention of turning Micko Westmoreland’s songwriting skills into a dynamic live prospect. Expanding from their initial three piece to the current four strong line up, the band sees Micko’s rabble rousing vocals and spiky, agitational guitar work augmented perfectly by the crack squad of drummer Nick Mackay of hotly tipped rock duo...
Oct 18, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 1262
Double Dee & Steinski in conversation with David Eastaugh https://ddski.com/ Double Dee and Steinski is a duo of hip hop producers, composed of Doug "Double Dee" DiFranco and Steven "Steinski" Stein. They achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of underground hip-hop sample-based collages known as the "Lessons". Their contest entry, "Lesson 1 – The Payoff Mix", was packed with sampled appropriations from other records—not only from early hip-hop records and from Funk and Disco rec...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1261
Boz Boorer in conversation with David Eastaugh https://westhampsteadarts.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ThePolecats/?locale=en_GB English guitarist and producer. He founded the new wave rockabilly group the Polecats, and starting in 1991 had a 30-year collaboration with singer Morrissey as co-writer, guitarist and musical director.
Oct 15, 2025•59 min•Ep. 1246
Steven Seibold in conversation with David Eastaugh https://hatedept.bandcamp.com/ Seibold is a multi-instrumentalist who writes, records and releases Hate Dept. albums with minimal outside help. He formed Hate Dept. in 1991 in reaction to fickle 'electro' audiences and antipathy towards live electronic bands, taking his sound in a more punk direction.
Oct 13, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 1260
Moritz R in conversation with David Eastaugh https://derplan.bandcamp.com/album/save-your-software https://chakchak.de/ https://gerireig.blogspot.com/ Der Plan was founded in 1979 by Frank Fenstermacher, Moritz R, Robert Görl & Chrislo Haas. Görl and Haas left after the first release, and were replaced by Kurt Dahlke. This trio remained constant until the group disbanded in 1993. In 2004, Moritz R reformed the band with new members Achim Treu & J.J. Jones, but due to disagreements with o...
Oct 13, 2025•59 min•Ep. 1259
Genny Schorr in conversation with David Eastaugh https://hozacrecords.com/product/pre-order-all-roads-lead-to-punk-book-7-record-set-by-genny-schorr/ https://gennyschorr.com/ As a founding member of one of Los Angeles’ earliest female-led bands, BACKSTAGE PASS, Genevieve Schorr lived and breathed rock’n roll growing up like a lot of teenagers at the time. What set her apart was forging her unique band so early in the punk timeline (a direct shot from her glam & pub rock influences) and event...
Oct 12, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1258
Emma Pollock in conversation with David Eastaugh https://emmapollock.com/ https://emmapollock.bandcamp.com/ A founding member of Glasgow band The Delgados, Emma Pollock has been a solo artist since 2006, releasing 4 solo albums on 4AD and Chemikal Underground. Her new album Begging The Night To Take Hold is out now.
Oct 11, 2025•55 min•Ep. 1257
Andrew Perer in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turn-Head-Into-Sound-Valentine/dp/1916829147 Turn My Head Into Sound: A history of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine tells the story of one of the great sonic innovators of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. My Bloody Valentine have released only three albums in their forty-year career, but each of them has made a seismic impact. Isn’t Anything (1988) is often cited as one of the Ur-texts of shoegaze ...
Oct 10, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1256
Steve Boltz in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.steveboltz.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/920848814634353/ In 1971 he was recruited into the band Atomic Rooster , part of a new line-up for a tour supporting the band's third album In Hearing of Atomic Rooster and their No. 4 charting single "The Devil's Answer". The band was also recording their fourth LP Made in England which was released in 1972 with a more funky sound replacing their original progressive rock leanings. Bolt...
Oct 06, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 1255
Barrence Whitfield in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/BarrenceWhitfieldSavages White adopted the stage name Barrence Whitfield to avoid being mistaken for superstar Barry White and began performing as Barrence Whitfield & the Savages. The band garnered a strong reputation for explosive stage performances, described as "raucous and rough, in high gear from the moment they hit the stage." Whitfield himself was described as "a soul screamer in the spirit of Little Rich...
Oct 05, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 1254
David Miller, Simon McGlynn & Chris Connelly in conversation with David Eastaugh THE SHEER ACTION OF FINI TRIBE is the first retrospective of the band, curated and designed by the band. It includes a wealth of archival photographs, an essay by original member ANDY MCGREGOR, who also designed the sleeve, and essays by longtime friend SHIRLEY MANSON and author ALASTAIR MCKAY, an early champion of the band. The release features the first legendary JOHN PEEL SESSION produced by DALE GRIFFIN and ...
Oct 03, 2025•57 min•Ep. 1253
Audrey Golden in conversation with David Eastaugh https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/shouting-out-loud https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouting-Out-Loud-Lives-Raincoats/dp/1399624865 Art students Gina Birch and Ana da Silva formed The Raincoats in 1977. Since the release of their seminal early records, the 'godmothers of grunge' have been revered by punk, queer, feminist and indie pop artists alike. The Raincoats reimagined the nature of experimental music and DIY design and went on to inspi...
Oct 02, 2025•59 min•Ep. 1252
Steve Avo Lindsey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://linktr.ee/steveavolindsey A nervous suitor, a guitarist at the end of his Strat and his tether, wistful ex-partners on a work trip to Wales. Art school Futurists and singalongs in Cooper’s Bar, Denmark Street and suburbia’s (two) ups and downs – and earbudded Londoners on the Tube, sailing away on their own private playlists. “In my head,” confides STEVE ‘AVO’ LINDSEY, making his solo long-playing debut just five decades into his musi...
Sep 29, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 1251
Jon Poole in conversation with David Eastaugh A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his work as guitarist for Cardiacs and as bass player for the Wildhearts and Lifesigns. Poole is the frontman and main performer of God Damn Whores, co-fronts the Dowling Poole with Willie Dowling, and has released two solo albums. He has also been a member of Ad Nauseam and Dr Brighton, and worked with the bands Ablemesh, La Momo, Crayola Lectern, Two Worlds Collide and Celebricide (as well as various pr...
Sep 27, 2025•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 1250
Peter Bruntnell in conversation with David Eastaugh https://peterbruntnell.co.uk/ In the early 1990s, Bruntnell returned to the UK and formed the band Milkwood, although he soon reverted to solo work and recordings with Matt Backer and Felix Harper as the Peter Bruntnell Combination. He was signed by Almo Sounds, who issued his debut album, Cannibal , in 1995. He recorded a second album for Almo, Camelot in Smithereens (1997), before moving to the Slow River label for his 1999 album Normal for B...
Sep 25, 2025•55 min•Ep. 1249
Jesse Hartman in conversation with David Eastaugh www.facebook.com/laptoptheband http://laptoptheband.bandcamp.com www.laptoptheband.com Laptop is the pioneering electro-pop project from Jesse Hartman — the sharp-witted New York songwriter who first made waves as a teenage guitarist/keyboardist on Richard Hell’s 1990 legendary tour of Japan, then again in the ’90s as the front man of indie rock duo Sammy (with guitarist Luke Wood, Geffen/Fire Records). After Sammy’s brief but buzzy run (two albu...
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 1248
Ken Sweeney in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/needlemythology Brian formed in 1989 comprising Ken Sweeney (ex Instant Party) and Niall Austin. Often said to be named in honour of suave Blades' bassist Brian Foley. They released a single on their own label and then relocated to London where a second single was recorded. Response to both singles was good and the band was signed to London Irish label Setanta Records. Niall Austin decided to leave around this time and Bria...
Sep 20, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 1202
Annabella Lwin in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.annabellalwin.com/ Bow Wow Wow signed a recording contract with EMI Records in July 1980, and released their first single, "C·30 C·60 C·90 Go!", shortly afterwards. Originally only released on cassette, it was the world's first-ever cassette single. EMI did not promote the cassingle due to lyrics ("Off the radio I get constant flow/Hit it, pause it, record and play/Turn it, rewind and rub it away") that promoted home taping during an...
Sep 20, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1247
Richie Stotts in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.richiestotts.com/ New York City born musician who began writing and performing in a fledgling 1970s NYC band named “The Numbers”. Richie’s songwriting skills and lead guitar playing experience ultimately lead to him becoming one of the founding members of the groundbreaking and inimitable punk/metal group, Plasmatics. In 1978, Richie was among the earliest musicians to sport a Mohawk, taking inspiration from the Travis Bickle characte...
Sep 15, 2025•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 1245
