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Peter Case - The Nerves & The Plimsouls

March 04, 2024 21:51 - 43 minutes - 79.2 MB

Peter Case in conversation with David Eastaugh https://petercase.com/ Case was born in Buffalo, New York. He wrote his first song "Stay Away," in 1965, at the age of eleven. A veteran of several rock bands and the local bar scene as a teenager, Case dropped out of high school when he was fifteen (he would later earn a GED), and after several years of traveling arrived in 1973 in San Francisco, where he performed as a street musician. During this period a documentary about the local music s...

Nick Laird-Clowes - The Dream Academy & Trashmonk

March 02, 2024 13:40 - 1 hour - 193 MB

Nick Laird-Clowes in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-dream-academy-religion-revolution-railways-7cd-box-set/    Seven CD box set of the complete recordings of The Dream Academy. Featuring their three official albums and including all official B-sides and remixes and unreleased tracks. The band’s Nick Laird-Clowes has searched the Warner Bros archives to find rarities and unreleased tracks and has been closely involved with remastering, creating a...

Sid Griffin - Coal Porters, The Long Ryders & The Unclaimed

February 28, 2024 22:34 - 1 hour - 136 MB

Sid Griffin in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.sidgriffin.com/ https://www.thelongryders.com/ American singer, songwriter, guitarist-mandolinist, bandleader, and author. He led the Long Ryders band in the 1980s, founded the Coal Porters group in the 1990s, has recorded several solo albums and is the author of volumes on Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons and bluegrass music. In 2022, Sid Griffin was on hand to accept the International Trailblazers Award on behalf of the Long Ryders fro...

Men Without Hats - Ivan Doroschuk

February 21, 2024 22:04 - 59 minutes - 109 MB

Ivan Doroschuk in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.safetydance.com/ Men Without Hats are a Canadian new wave and synth-pop band, originally from Montreal, Quebec. Their music is characterized by the voice of their lead singer Ivan Doroschuk, as well as their elaborate use of synthesizers and electronic processing. They achieved their greatest popularity in the 1980s with "The Safety Dance", a worldwide top ten hit (No. 3 in the United States), and "Pop Goes the World". After a ...

Rob Harvilla - 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

February 18, 2024 22:16 - 1 hour - 136 MB

Rob Harvilla in conversation with David Eastaugh https://robharvilla.com/ The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytel...

Bob Andrews - Brinsley Schwarz & Graham Parker and the Rumour

February 14, 2024 23:07 - 1 hour - 135 MB

Bob  Andrews in conversation with David Eastaugh http://neworleanspiano.com/ http://neworleanspiano.com/minaandbob.html Bob Andrews - I grew up in the thick of the 60's British music scene, beginning my musical career in 1966, and spent thirteen years on the road honing my Hammond organ and piano skills with cult bands BRINSLEY SCHWARZ and GRAHAM PARKER and THE RUMOUR. In the 80’s as a producer my credits included “THERE SHE GOES” by The La’s and UK top ten hits for THE BLUEBELLS and seve...

The Bambi Slam - Roy

February 11, 2024 21:23 - 1 hour - 158 MB

Roy in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gDxQ0FudI The Bambi Slam were a UK based Canadian-British quartet with an unusual instrumental lineup of guitar, cello, bass, drums, led by singer/guitarist Roy and featuring cellist Linda Miller and drummer Nick Maynard. By the time of the release of the first full-length album, The Bambi Slam, in 1988, the group had splintered, leaving the Bambi Slam as a Feldon solo project. (The album credit reads, "Written, prod...

John Sparrow - Violent Femmes

February 11, 2024 15:58 - 1 hour - 114 MB

John Sparrow in conversation with David Eastaugh Long-time drummer and percussionist of iconic folk punk band Violent Femmes, John Sparrow has spent his life steeped in a wild mélange of music. John joined Violent Femmes in 2005 as a member of the Horns of Dilemma, playing cajon. In 2016 he made his drumming debut with the band, playing a Weber Grill as part of his drum kit on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Several other notable performances with Violent Femmes include headlining C...

Andy Shernoff - The Dictators

February 10, 2024 15:32 - 1 hour - 113 MB

Andy Shernoff in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.andyshernoff.com/ Founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and keyboards, and sang backing vocals and occasional leads. He has been involved with a variety of other musical projects, most notably the heavily Dictators-populated Manitoba's Wild Kingdom and Joey Ramone's first studio album, Don't Worry About Me.

Gemma Townley - Blueboy

February 06, 2024 21:08 - 1 hour - 156 MB

Gemma Townley in conversation with David Eastaugh https://blueboy.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063570168121 https://www.janeduffus.com/sarah-records Originally a duo of Keith Girdler (vocals) and Paul Stewart (guitars), Blueboy rose from the ashes of Reading band Feverfew. Mark Cousens (bass), Gemma Townley (cello, vocals), Lloyd Haggar (drums) and ex-Field Mouse Harvey Williams (guitar) joined the line-up, with Martin Rose later taking over on drums. They rel...

Ali Smith - Speedball Baby

February 05, 2024 22:22 - 1 hour - 122 MB

Ali Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.alismith.com/ https://www.blackstoneindie.com/the-ballad-of-speedball-baby-gkno.html#541=2790081 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/05/ali-smiths-90s-new-york-punk-scene-in-pictures The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith―coming of age in ’90s New York―who commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and a...

Allan Crockford - The Prisoners, The James Taylor Quartet & The Galileo 7

February 04, 2024 15:34 - 1 hour - 164 MB

Allan Crockford  in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.thegalileo7.co.uk/ The Prisoners - British 1960s garage/mod/R'n'B-inspired band formed in early 1980 in Chatham, Kent, England as a three-piece. James Taylor joined early 1982 after he saw The Prisoners for the first time around Christmas 1981. Signed to Countdown (an offshot / subsidiary of Stiff Records) in the second half of 1985, but later decided to disband in 1986 following the parent label's bankruptcy. Last gig before...

Andy Spinoza - Manchester unspun How a city got high on music

February 04, 2024 14:41 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Andy Spinoza in conversation with David Eastaugh https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174062/ At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history. Today the city is an international destination for culture and sport, and one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Europe. This book offers a first-hand account of what happened in between. Arriving in Manchester as a wide-eyed student in 1979, Andy Spinoza went on to establish the arts magazine Cit...

Larry Schemel - Death Valley Girls, Kill Sybil, Midnight Movies, The Flesh Eaters

February 01, 2024 20:39 - 1 hour - 205 MB

Larry Schemel  in conversation with David Eastaugh One time member of the Death Valley Girls - American rock band formed in 2013 in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of vocalist and keyboardist Bonnie Bloomgarden, guitarist Larry Schemel, bassist Sammy Westervelt, and drummer Rikki Styxx. Now entering a new musical phase.  Kill Sybil were a five piece from Seattle; three chicks and two dicks, as they liked to say. Girl-pop reverb hell on shitty equipment, powered by Schmidt beer. ...

Iain Matthews - Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort & Plainsong

January 28, 2024 12:25 - 1 hour - 167 MB

Iain Matthews in conversation with David Eastaugh http://iainmatthews.nl/ Iain Matthews first gained attention as a founding member and vocalist for the innovative Fairport Convention’s first three albums, changing the voice of folk music in his country. He moved on to create Matthews’ Southern Comfort, exploring his interest in American music. They had a No 1 hit in the UK with Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock’. Never one to stand still for very long Iain moved on during the 1970’s with another...

Frank Secich - Blue Ash, Dead Boys, Stiv Bators & Club Wow

January 26, 2024 21:06 - 56 minutes - 77 MB

Frank Secich in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.highvoltagepublishing.com/product/frank-secich-not-that-way-anymore https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-That-Anymore-Frank-Secich/dp/0994629060 Blue Ash is an American band, formed in Ohio in the summer of 1969 by bassist Frank Secich & vocalist Jim Kendzor. Guitarist Bill Yendrek and drummer David Evans were recruited later that summer. The band debuted at "The Freak Out", a club in Youngstown, Ohio, on October 3, 1969. They gained a...

Greg Roberts - Big Audio Dynamite, Screaming Target & Dreadzone

January 24, 2024 22:20 - 1 hour - 160 MB

Greg Roberts in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.dreadzone.com/ He was a member of Big Audio Dynamite from 1984 to 1990, a band led by , former lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the Clash. He went on to form Screaming Target in 1991 with ex-Big Audio Dynamite members Don Letts and Leo "E-Zee Kill" Williams, then started Dreadzone with Tim Bran, Williams and Dan Donovan, another former Big Audio Dynamite member. Dreadzone had a No. 20 hit in the with "Little Britain" in 19...

Wendy Houstoun

January 21, 2024 15:52 - 1 hour - 121 MB

Wendy Houstoun in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.wendyhoustoun.com/ Edgehill University Performance coming up. You can book for this show - or Manchester Lowry 14th March 8.00 pm or Soho Theatre March 20th-23rd 7.00 pm Wendy Houstoun is a director, choreographer and performance maker who was worked  with experimental movement and theatre forms since 1980. Her solo works Haunted Daunted and Flaunted, Happy Hour , The 48 Almost Love Lyrics  , Desert Island Dances and  50 ACT...

Robert Hecker - Redd Kross and It's OK!

January 17, 2024 21:41 - 1 hour - 150 MB

Robert Hecker in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.itsoktheband.com/ Played lead guitar and sang with Redd Kross from 1984 to 1991, and again from 2006 to the present, in addition to occasional on-stage reunions throughout the 1990s. He has also played guitar and sang with the band It's OK! since 1992. As of 2013, he no longer actively tours with Redd Kross, but continues to perform live with It's OK! It’s OK! is/are: Robert Hecker (chameleon-voiced guitar guru, Redd Kross), Ell...

Slade - Dave Hill

January 16, 2024 20:49 - 50 minutes - 69 MB

Dave Hill in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.davehillslade.com/the-band Without doubt one of the most exciting bands to come out of Great Britain in the past 50 years. With their unique blend of perfect pop-rock'n'roll, outrageous flamboyance and pure fun, and no less than 23 Top-20 singles of which 6 were No-1 smash hits...plus 6 smash albums, Slade have become a firm favourite in the hearts of pop fans all over the world.   SLADE'S chart career has spanned 6 decades and th...

Desmond Child

January 14, 2024 20:22 - 1 hour - 83 MB

Desmond Child in conversation with David Eastaugh https://desmondchild.com/ Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated songwriter Desmond Child is one of music’s most prolific and accomplished hitmakers. He’s a film, television, theater and music producer, recording artist, performer, and author. His credits appear on more than eighty Billboard Top 40 singles spanning six decades, including “Livin’ On A Prayer,” “You Give Love A Bad Name,” “I Was Made For Lovin’ You,” “Dude Looks Like A Lady,” “How...

Evergreen Dazed - Elizabeth Bruce

January 14, 2024 16:05 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MB

Elizabeth Bruce in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.evergreendazed.com/ https://evergreendazed.bandcamp.com/ Evergreen Dazed were formed in Leicester, England, in 1991, when Elizabeth Bruce, a US student on a year long exchange, answered a 'vocalist wanted' advert by Mark Turrell.   They found an instant chemistry between his dreamy pop tunes and her smoky, jazz-tinged vocals, which can be heard on their first album, 'Cloudbeams In Your Eye' (CBBMLP3). This was recorded at hom...

Steve Almaas - Beat Rodeo & The Suicide Commandos

January 09, 2024 22:13 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MB

Steve Almaas in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.discogs.com/artist/633930-Steve-Almaas https://www.facebook.com/salmaas The Suicide Commandos are an American punk rock trio from Minneapolis. They formed in 1975 and released two 7-inch EPs on an indie label in 1976 and 1977 before signing with Blank Records (a subsidiary label of Mercury Records) in 1977 and releasing one album, Make a Record. Despite their short original 4-year stint together, the Suicide Commandos are consid...

Fifth Column - Caroline Azar & G.B. Jones

January 06, 2024 17:48 - 1 hour - 147 MB

Caroline Azar & G.B. Jones in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYSvRgOMKKIY6SktAeGdFgg Their first vinyl release was the 7" Boy-Girl EP produced in 1983 by Voicepondence Records. The name of their first full-length recording To Sir With Hate was a play on the theme song from the British school film Produced by Michael Phillip Wojewoda, it is now considered a classic of Canadian music; at the 2016 Polaris Music Prize it was named a shortlisted nominee in th...

Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton - Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue

January 02, 2024 20:15 - 1 hour - 105 MB

Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.paradiseroad.co.uk/marquee-the-story-of-the-worlds-greatest-music-venue Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue tells the story of both the music club and the festival, from the birth of the club in 1958 and festival in 1961, through to their sale by original owners Harold and Barbara Pendleton thirty years later. Hardback, 320 pages, with 49 black & white illustrations The Marquee is the mos...

Terry Newman - Taylor Swift

December 30, 2023 20:43 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MB

Terry Newman in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/taylor-swift/ Terry Newman worked in the fashion industry for more than 20 years, both as an editor at i-D, Attitude, and Self Service and as a contributing writer for newspapers including the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, and the Sunday Times. Taylor Swift is the quintessential millennial. Free-thinking and creative, she navigates pop stardom with boundless charisma and a keen eye on her digital ...

Steve Parsons - Sharks

December 24, 2023 22:44 - 1 hour - 128 MB

Steve Parsons in conversation with David Eastaugh Sharks are a British rock band formed in 1972 by former Free bassist Andy Fraser upon his departure from Free. They were signed to Island Records and were highly rated by critics, especially for Chris Spedding's guitar work. The original line-up consisted of Fraser (bass, piano), Snips (real name, Steve Parsons) (vocals), Spedding (guitar) and Marty Simon (drums). Steve Parsons and Anke Trojan directed the 2023 documentary Not a Rock-Doc: ...

Stephen Budd

December 23, 2023 18:49 - 2 hours - 166 MB

Stephen Budd  in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.record-producers.com/ Stephen Budd is a British music industry executive based in London. He is a director of artist and producer management company Stephen Budd Music Ltd, the OneFest Festival, the Africa Express project and is the co-founder of the NH7 Weekender festivals in India.  In June 2017 he completed his 3-year term as co-chairman of the MMF (Music Managers Forum). He is a co-executive producer of Amnesty Internationa...

Gitane Demone - Pompeii 99, Christian Death, Gitane Demone Quartet

December 20, 2023 14:27 - 1 hour - 125 MB

Gitane Demone in conversation with David Eastaugh https://darkvinylrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-young-kings-of-midnight?fbclid=IwAR2yqngs8N6zgEivN3YHKOsvq8e5u1cxCm4SBvX3TlMNwgU9Hg6Bd6TJAl4 https://gitanedemone.bandcamp.com/ American singer, musician and visual artist. Her career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s as the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the influential band Christian Death. In addition to her work with Christian Death, Demone was pre...

Bob Andrews or Derwood Andrews - Generation X, Empire & Westworld

December 15, 2023 22:28 - 1 hour - 135 MB

Derwood Andrews in conversation with David Eastaugh https://derwoodandrews1.bandcamp.com/ Guitarist, writer and founding member for- Generation X, Empire, Westworld, Dead Horse, Moondogg, Speedtwinn, Tone Poet and other glorious stuff... In late 1976, Andrews was playing lead guitar with an band called Paradox. Whilst performing at a gig at the Fulham Arts Centre he was talent-spotted by the punk-rocker Billy Idol, who was at that time looking for a guitar player to complete the line-up ...

Evergreen Dazed - Mark Turrell

December 13, 2023 22:45 - 1 hour - 101 MB

Mark Turrell in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.evergreendazed.com/home.html Evergreen Dazed were formed in Leicester, England, in 1991, when Elizabeth Bruce, a US student on a year long exchange, answered a 'vocalist wanted' advert by Mark Turrell.   They found an instant chemistry between his dreamy pop tunes and her smoky, jazz-tinged vocals, which can be heard on their first album, 'Cloudbeams In Your Eye' (CBBMLP3). This was recorded at home and released in Nov 1992. It f...

Andy Prieboy - Wall of Voodoo

December 10, 2023 21:45 - 2 hours - 192 MB

Andy Prieboy in conversation with David Eastaugh https://wallofvoodoo2.com/home https://www.andyprieboy.com/home In early 1984, he was invited to join Wall of Voodoo, occupying the vacated front-person position. Touring the world and recording three albums with the band, his composition Far Side of Crazy charted in foreign markets, going top ten in Australia.  In the early 1990's, his solo work featured Tomorrow Wendy, covered by Concrete Blonde on their Bloodletting album. In addition, ...

Annie Haslam - Renaissance

December 10, 2023 16:19 - 1 hour - 91 MB

Annie Haslam in conversation with David Eastaugh https://anniehaslam.com/annie-haslam-original-art/ https://johnwettonlegacy.co.uk/ In February 1971, Haslam became the new lead singer of Renaissance after answering an advertisement in the British periodical Melody Maker - Haslam was lead vocalist on seven studio albums during their classic period (1972–1979), four studio albums from 1981–present, and a number of live albums. In August 1978 the band's single "Northern Lights" reached the ...

Nick Haeffner - The Tea Set

December 08, 2023 21:02 - 1 hour - 117 MB

Nick Haeffner in conversation with David Eastaugh https://nickhaeffnerdimplediscs.bandcamp.com/album/what-time-can-do-2 http://www.nickhaeffner.co.uk/index.html In 1980 he joined post-punk band The Tea Set, recording an album and several singles and gigging extensively including supports for U2, Iggy Pop, The Clash and XTC. Nicks solo album The Great Indoors was released on Bam Caruso records in 1987.In 2019 after a number of years as a lecturer Nick has returned to music with self releas...

Kevin Armstrong - David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Paul McCartney, Morrissey

December 06, 2023 22:34 - 1 hour - 89.5 MB

Kevin Armstrong in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.kevin-armstrong.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Absolute-Beginner-Memoirs-least-known-guitarist/dp/1911036173 Armstrong was signed by Charlie Gillett's Oval Records in 1980 and formed the group Local Heroes SW9  and released two albums, Drip Dry Zone in 1980 and New Opium in 1981. Armstrong took part in the recording of The Passions's third album Sanctuary, produced by Mick Glossop. The first single from that album was "Jump ...

Mick Rossi - Slaughter & The Dogs

December 03, 2023 21:39 - 1 hour - 119 MB

Mick Rossi in conversation with David Eastaugh https://secretrecordslimited.com/products/seccd293 https://open.spotify.com/album/6CDdnpP6vmKBji4D0JLslu?si=-aD8bL4ySwuM8Je73_5geA Legendary Slaughter & The Dogs guitarist Mick Rossi released solo album All The Saints and All The Souls in 2020 - his new album Gun St, named after the street where his family moved to in Ancoats in the 1930s, was released on Secret Records Ltd.  Slaughter and the Dogs are an English punk rock band formed in 197...

Paul Simpson - The Wild Swans, Care & Teardrop Explodes

December 03, 2023 15:47 - 2 hours - 178 MB

  https://www.paul-simpson.co.uk/the-wild-swans/ https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/product/paul-simpson/revolutionary-spirit-a-post-punk-exorcism-the-teardrop-explodes-care-the-wild-swans-and-beyond Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician's scenic route to fame and artistic validation, and marks the arrival of an original literary voice. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Simpson was...

Inge Kuijt - Comsat Angels

November 28, 2023 20:08 - 43 minutes - 60 MB

Inge Kuijt in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.comsatangels.org/missing.htm Comsat's fan Inge Kuijt is publishing her book Band. Fans. Friends. Music. The book is Inge's autobiography, a highly personal account of her "life with the Comsats". "I first saw and met the band in 1981. Since then I've seen them live 70 times. In the nineties I ran their Dutch fan club, and I am still regularly in touch with most band members. Not only did I meet the band early on, we became frien...

Celia Hemken - Ju JU & Blue Nouveaux

November 25, 2023 22:04 - 2 hours - 174 MB

Celia Hemken in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Kq806pWqw http://www.celiahemken.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab15SRDfdc4 Bio by Celia Hemken of Blue Nouveaux:  Before I signed with Black and Blue records I had played classical flute with the Richard Hickox orchestra, recorded a John Peel session for UK Radio One and co-founded a theatre company. I’d busked (American transl: playing street music) round Europe playing flute as a Harlequin and had...

Paul Chastain - The Small Square, Choo Choo Train, The Springfields, Velvet Crush etc

November 22, 2023 22:47 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Paul Chastain in conmversation with David Eastaugh https://thesmallsquare.bandcamp.com/album/ours-others https://farmtolabelrecords.com/artists/the-small-square/ Velvet Crush is an American band from Providence, that achieved prominence in indie-rock circles in the early- and mid-1990s. The band broke up in 1996 but re-formed in 1998 and have continued to record, releasing their most recent album in 2004. Vocalist/bassist Paul Chastain and drummer Ric Menck are the band's core members, ha...

Derek Philpott - Dear Catherine Wheel

November 22, 2023 22:07 - 1 hour - 90.7 MB

Derek Philpott in conversation with David Eastaugh Amazon UK https://a.co/d/5t6o7QM Amazon Worldwide For close to a decade and a half the Philpotts have been getting under the skin of musical artistes. Picking up on glaring errors in their lyrics or sometimes getting completely the wrong end of the stick (perhaps to irritate things a little further) they totally misunderstand the meaning of ‘poetic license’. Hundreds of missives have landed on the real and virtual doormats of musicians,...

Cruella de Ville - Philomena Muinzer

November 16, 2023 21:28 - 1 hour - 145 MB

Philomena Muinzer in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.cruelladeville.com/ https://soundcloud.com/cruelladevillemusic Cruella de Ville, formerly known as Blazer, was a band from Northern Ireland that presented a mixture of post-punk and gothic rock from 1982 to 1984. They were mostly a studio band, who performed on television on at least two occasions and released a number of singles. Their best-known song is "Those Two Dreadful Children", and their re-released single "I'll Do t...

The Newtown Neurotics - Steve Drewett

November 11, 2023 17:08 - 1 hour - 143 MB

Steve Drewett in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.newtownneurotics.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvooaI5ePso Formed in 1979 by Steve Drewett, they began like so many others to attempt to get their clumsy fingers around three chords and ape the Ramones who were their heroes. Sporting Joey Ramone length hair Steve would sneer at cries of "Bloody Hippie" from the audience but after a couple of numbers nobody cared they just went into pogo frenzy. The early stuff from the ...

Mike Baggetta - mssv

November 05, 2023 21:17 - 36 minutes - 50 MB

Mike Baggetta in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mikebaggetta.com/ mssv's second studio album Human Reaction , is released by BIG EGO Records as a digital download, 12” LP vinyl, and via streaming platforms on September 1. The band, composed of guitarist Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits, David Lynch) on drums and avant-punk icon mike watt on bass, creates music that is a heretofore unimagined hybrid of a punk power-trio and a dreamy experimental rock band, though they pref...

David Bowie - Jérôme Soligny

November 05, 2023 16:52 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Jérôme Soligny in conversation with David Eastaugh In David Bowie Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the musician with the help of those intimately involved with the creation of his music. This uniquely exhaustive work on Bowie's 1967-1980 albums draws on over 150 interviews with the musicians, producers and friends who knew Bowie best, including Robert Fripp, Hermione Farthingale, Lou Reed, George Underwood, Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Trevor Bolder, Mike Garson, W...

Crisis & Naevus - Lloyd James

November 05, 2023 16:26 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MB

Lloyd James in conversation with David Eastaugh English punk rock band formed in 1977. An openly left-wing and anti-fascist band, they performed at rallies for Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League, and at Right to Work marches. https://naevus.bandcamp.com/ Naevus is a British experimental rock group. Formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Joanne Owen (bass, accordion), Naevus were often categorised as part of the ‘neo-folk’ genre. Their music has als...

Chris Matthews - Shudder To Think & Quiz Show

October 31, 2023 21:03 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

Chris Matthews in conversation with David Eastaugh https://quizshow.bandcamp.com/album/quiz-show American indie rock trio Quiz Show release their debuut album this spring, the trio is made up of Chris Matthews (founding member of legendary DC alternative rock band Shudder To Think and his powerful rhythm section, bassist Jesse Krakow and drummer Joe Billy. But Quiz Show is not just any band - it's a continuation. After picking up his guitar and again writing songs, Matthews formed Quiz Sho...

Jill Smith

October 31, 2023 20:35 - 1 hour - 89.6 MB

Jill Smith in conversation with David Eastauggh https://www.jill-smith.co.uk/ Born in London, Jill trained as an actress at RADA, and was later known as Jill Bruce. In the 1970s and early 1980s, she was a Performance Artist in partnership with the late Bruce Lacey. For five years they received funding from the then Arts Council of Great Britain. Evolving through science fantasy and alchemy, the performances were spectacular, largely outdoor, ceremonial, ritual celebrations of the turning ...

The Danse Society - Paul Nash

October 29, 2023 14:25 - 1 hour - 108 MB

Paul Nash in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.thedansesociety.com/ In June 2018 the band release an EP, The FUTUR1ST, including a cover of NIN's "Hurt" dedicated to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, and the tracks "One Thought in Heaven" and "Scream" featuring drummer Joss Rylance who replaced Iain Hunter, and who has subsequently been replaced by Tom Davenport. September 2020 saw the release of the bands 7th Studio album Sailing Mirrors whilst celebrating their 40 years annivers...

Jim Cregan - Family, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Rod Stewart

October 29, 2023 13:35 - 1 hour - 143 MB

Jim Cregan in conversation with David Eastaugh www.jimcregan.com Rock guitarist and bassist, best known for his associations with Family, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Rod Stewart. Cregan is a former husband of the singer Linda Lewis and worked with her as a record producer. He has also worked with London Quireboys, Glass Tiger, Katie Melua and formed Farm Dogs with Bernie Taupin.    

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