C86 Show – Indie Pop
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Tim Stegall - Anarchy In The Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979 —The Rise Of Punk Rock
Tim Stegall in conversation with David Eastaugh https://ruffianbooks.com/products/anarchy-in-the-studio-punk-music-1970-1979-the-rise-of-punk-rock-foreword-by-laura-jane-grace …
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Tim Stegall in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://timnapalmstegall.substack.com/p/the-story-of-punk-told-12-inches
https://thehormonesaustintx.bandcamp.com/
Punk rock did not begin in New York City in 1975, any more than it started in London in 1976. Punk was a spontaneous eruption of fans of a handful of outsider American rock ‘n’ roll bands — The Velvet Underground, MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls — forming the band they heard in their heads, because they were not hearing it in the outside world. They happened virtually simultaneously, before the groundswell became unignorable: Ramones, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell in NYC; Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Damned in London; Buzzcocks in Manchester; The Saints in Brisbane, Australia; Radio Birdman in Sydney, Australia. Whether by Legs McNeil at Punk Magazine or Caroline Coon at England’s Melody Maker, the music got branded with the name Creem writer Lester Bangs coined for what’s now known as ‘60s garage: “punk rock.”
Anarchy In The Studio: Punk Music 1970-1979 —The Rise Of Punk Rock is veteran punk journalist/historian/musician Tim Stegall’s comprehensive ‘70s punk history. Based on a selection of over 140 of the best punk albums from the ‘70s, Anarchy In The Studio is the rare punk book that is not regionally focused. The early protopunk era not only includes the aforementioned American influences such as The Stooges and the Dolls, but also English forerunners such as Third World War, Pink Fairies, Mott the Hoople, and The Hollywood Brats. All of the biggest names of the ‘70s are here: Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Dead Boys, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, The Damned, The Slits, Buzzcocks, Generation X. Equal attention is given to regional heroes such as X, DMZ, The Weirdos, Pure Hell, Death, The Nuns, The Bags, Avengers, and The Dils.
Colin Bass - 3 Mustaphas 3, Camel, Clancy, Steve Hillage Band, Velvet Opera
Colin Bass in conversation with David Eastaugh https://colinbass.bandcamp.com/ https://www.colinbass.com/ healthandfood.wales English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Since 1979, he has been a …
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Colin Bass in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://colinbass.bandcamp.com/
English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Since 1979, he has been a member of the British progressive rock band Camel, who, after a ten-year hiatus due to the ill health of bandleader Andrew Latimer, returned to active touring in 2013. From 1984 to 1992, he was also a core figure in the pioneering world music group 3 Mustaphas 3. He has also made two solo albums under his own name and three albums recorded in Indonesia under the name Sabah Habas Mustapha.
The title track of the first, "Denpasar Moon", became a hugely popular song in Indonesia in the mid-1990s and has been covered by over 50 Indonesian, Malaysian, Japanese and Filipino artists. As a record producer he has worked with a diverse range of international artists including: the Klezmatics (USA), SambaSunda (Indonesia), Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird (USA) Krar Collective (Ethiopia), Etran Finatawa (Niger) and 9Bach (Wales) amongst others. As a guest artist he has appeared on albums by a number of artists including Malian singing star Oumou Sangare, playing on all tracks of her 1993 Ko Sira album.
Root Cartwright - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
Root Cartwright in conversation with David Eastaugh Their first public performance was at an event called "Dance of Words" organised by students (one of whom was Jeremy Ensor) in Portsmouth and hosted by John …
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Root Cartwright in conversation with David Eastaugh
Their first public performance was at an event called "Dance of Words" organised by students (one of whom was Jeremy Ensor) in Portsmouth and hosted by John Peel in May 1968, which also featured Fairport Convention, Free, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Alexis Korner, Gary Farr, Pete Brown's Poetry Band with John McLaughlin on guitar, and poets Brian Patten and Michael Horovitz.
They were signed by Korner's management team and, with Peel's active support, performed at similar events and gigs in London and elsewhere, sharing bills with Pink Floyd, The Fugs, Family, Free, King Crimson, Yes, Deep Purple, Elton John, Ten Years After and others. The group were the first to be signed to Peel's Dandelion Records; though the label's co-founder Clive Selwood later described them as "the most pretentious act I have ever come across", and Peel's radio producer John Walters described them as "incorporating all kinds of arty-farty nonsense"; and performed at the first Bath Festival of Blues in June 1969.
Martin Bisi - B.C. Studio
Martin Bisi in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.martinbisi.com/news.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5UpP0xMzMc https://www.martinbisi.com/ In 1981, he started B.C. Studiowith Bill Laswell and …
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Martin Bisi in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.martinbisi.com/news.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5UpP0xMzMc
In 1981, he started B.C. Studiowith Bill Laswell and Brian Eno in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, where he recorded much of the No Wave, avant garde, and hip-hop of the early 1980s including Lydia Lunch, Live Skull, Fred Frith and Afrika Bambaataa. In 1982, he recorded the instruments for the first song Whitney Houston recorded as a lead singer, "Memories" off of Material's One Down LP.
Soon after recording Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", Bisi split from Bill Laswell but continued working from BC Studio till present time, with a specialty in loud, dense, often noisy sound, with a focus on local NYC music such as White Hills (band), Clone, Cinema Cinema, and Weeping Icon.
Royal Ottawa - Philip Hogarth & D'Arcy Walsh
Philip Hogarth & D'Arcy Walsh in conversation with David Eastaugh https://royalottawa.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-everybody https://www.royalottawa.ca/ It all began in 1981 when Philip Hogarth moved to Dublin …
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Philip Hogarth & D'Arcy Walsh in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://royalottawa.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-everybody
It all began in 1981 when Philip Hogarth moved to Dublin to study Irish theater for his fourth year of university. “I ended up getting sidetracked because there was such an incredible music scene going on at that time that looked way more attractive than classes.” Hogarth would soon meet Michael Griffin and Aidan McGovern, and feeling like ‘like-minded lost souls watching this amazing music world go by too quickly’, the three got instruments – guitar, bass, and keyboards respectively - and started learning to play them and write songs. When, at the end of the year, Hogarth needed to return to Canada, Griffin and McGovern decided to join him to keep the band going. Back in Ottawa they teamed up with drummer D’Arcy Walsh, who’d cut his teeth playing with The Bureaucrats and The Action. And thus Bugs Harvey Oswald was born. They got a band house, played eight hours a day, and would go on to open for The Ramones, The Fall, and Mission Of Burma. Bugs’ 1982 7”, Bye-Bye, got a lot of airplay, bringing the band to the New York City for gigs at Danceteria, CBGB’s, and across the river at Maxwell’s. Yet a record deal remained elusive. By 1985 guitarist J.P. Vaucrosson had left the band, and marriage and kids were calling, so Bugs Harvey Oswald called it a day.
Come 1993 the members decided to reform as Royal Ottawa, with The Night Twisters’ Alan Pollock now on guitar, releasing the Heaven mini-album in 1996. Writing prolifically as ever, they also began to construct their own studio and rehearsal room to focus even more on their craft, the space evolving over three iterations in the decades since. The ripest fruit from these years was released on the full-length The World We Know in 2015, mastered at Abbey Road Studios, and the much-lauded Carcosa double album in 2023. The Here Comes Everybody EP was released earlier this year to glowing reviews across the globe.
Matt Devine - Ventilator, Elevated Lines, Medicine, Permanent Green Light, Possum Dixon
Matt Devine in conversation with David Eastaugh https://ventilatorofficial.bandcamp.com/album/reseda-spleen https://matt-devine.bandcamp.com/album/a-distant-present Thirty years after its original release …
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Matt Devine in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://ventilatorofficial.bandcamp.com/album/reseda-spleen
https://matt-devine.bandcamp.com/album/a-distant-present
Thirty years after its original release, Reseda Spleen, the 1996 debut album from Los Angeles psychedelic rock project Ventilator, is getting a new lease on life through a reissue from Bar/None Records. Led by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Matt Devine, Ventilator emerged following his departure from Permanent Green Light, the power-pop band he shared with former Three O’Clock frontman Michael Quercio.
Recorded largely in Devine’s North Hollywood apartment using a Tascam 388 eight-track tape recorder, Reseda Spleen blends melodic songwriting with noisy guitars, atmospheric textures, and moments of experimentation. While Devine was the driving creative force behind the project, the album also features contributions from drummer Byron Reynolds (Possum Dixon), lap steel guitarist Jeff Caruana, and Brad Laner of Medicine, who played bass on “Earthquake Song” and mixed “Schadenfreude.” The majority of the album was mixed by Earle Mankey, whose extensive credits include Sparks, the Runaways, and the Beach Boys.
Julie Hair - Female Genius, Live Skull, Missing Foundation, 3Teens Kill 4
Julie Hair in conversation with David Eastaugh https://femalegenius.bandcamp.com/album/female-genius https://www.facebook.com/ftothegenius/ Julie Hair and Marnie Jaffe blasted out of the LES underground rock …
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Julie Hair in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://femalegenius.bandcamp.com/album/female-genius
https://www.facebook.com/ftothegenius/
Julie Hair and Marnie Jaffe blasted out of the LES underground rock scene of the 1980’s and are still creating. Julie’s experience in the the art rock band 3 Teens Kill 4 and Marnie’s Live Skull footprint inform their musicality. Nikki D’Agostino is an an avant-garde composer who contributes integral skronk, and lyrical sax lines. LES Artist Janice Sloane's uber minimal guitar adds sonic texture.
Steve Hill - Inside The Cult Of Half Man Half Biscuit
Steve Hill in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.route-online.com/all-books/friday-night-fever https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-night-fever-inside-the-cult-of-half-man-half-biscuit-steve-hill-tick …
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Steve Hill in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.route-online.com/all-books/friday-night-fever
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-night-fever-inside-the-cult-of-half-man-half-biscuit-steve-hill-tickets-1999016058844
Half Man Half Biscuit occupy a unique place in British culture. Existing largely outside the music business, this idiosyncratic Birkenhead band has flown under the radar for over four decades. Without embarking on anything that could realistically be described as a tour, they have nevertheless garnered an army of adoring followers. This is one fan’s story.
Biscuit concerts are supremely joyous occasions, with disparate devotees often travelling huge distances to far-flung locations. United by their love of the band, some of the hardcore never miss a show. Following the enforced pandemic hiatus, author Steve Hill made the life changing decision to join these Ultras and go full-time.
Round Britain in a Dukla Prague away kit – from Somerset to Scotland and all points in between – Friday Night Fever is a raucous road trip: one man, one band, 25 gigs. But beyond the jocularity and Joy Division oven gloves, there is a poignant exploration of the lives touched by this most beloved national treasure.
Kathryn Pepper - Zervas & Pepper & Joni Mitchell
Kathryn Pepper in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.zervaspepperjonitribute.com/ https://zervasandpepper.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/Zerodeo Zervas & Pepper are Songwriters Paul Zervas and …
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Kathryn Pepper in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.zervaspepperjonitribute.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/Zerodeo
Zervas & Pepper are Songwriters Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper that have been creating and performing original music for over a decade professionally.
The duo and their recording/touring band enjoy cult success in UK and Europe, having released five critically-acclaimed studio albums. Undertaking countless headline and support tours, receiving strong national and international network radio support throughout their career.
'This Flight Tonight' is a celebration of Joni Mitchell's music that the duo has had in the making for many years, established in early 2023 and touring extensively thereafter. The carefully crafted set list will feature songs from Joni's million-selling albums such as 'Song To A Seagull', 'Clouds', 'Ladies of the Canyon', 'For The Roses', 'Court and Spark', 'Hissing of Summer Lawns' and 'Hejira' featuring many cuts from her 1971 landmark release 'Blue'.
Jay Collins - Ryvvolte Records
Jay Collins in conversation with David Eastaugh https://ryvvolterecords.bandcamp.com/ https://ryvvolterecords.storenvy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RyvvolteRecords/ https://katecollinsart.bigcartel.com/ …
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Jay Collins in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://ryvvolterecords.bandcamp.com/
https://ryvvolterecords.storenvy.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RyvvolteRecords/
https://katecollinsart.bigcartel.com/
Hardcore Punk label based in Philadelphia. Formed in 2014, ran by Jay & Kate Collins.
Patti Rothberg
Patti Rothberg in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pattirothberg.wordpress.com/ Patti Rothberg played all the guitar and bass parts on her debut album, Between the 1 and the 9, which was released on …
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Patti Rothberg in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://pattirothberg.wordpress.com/
Patti Rothberg played all the guitar and bass parts on her debut album, Between the 1 and the 9, which was released on April 2, 1996. The first single, "Inside", reached number 25 on the Billboard magazine Alternative chart.
Stan Greenwood - Skeletal Family, Psycho Surgeons, The Elements
Stan Greenwood in conversation with David Eastaugh The original line-up of the band was Anne-Marie Hurst (vocals), Stan Greenwood (guitar), Roger "Trotwood" Nowell (bass guitar), Ian "Karl Heinz" Taylor …
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Stan Greenwood in conversation with David Eastaugh
The original line-up of the band was Anne-Marie Hurst (vocals), Stan Greenwood (guitar), Roger "Trotwood" Nowell (bass guitar), Ian "Karl Heinz" Taylor (keyboard/saxophone) and Steve Crane (drums). In 1983, after their first single, "Trees", the band signed to independent record label Red Rhino Records.
They recorded their first single for Red Rhino, "The Night", shortly after losing their original drummer Crane, who was replaced by Howard Daniels. Daniels soon left, joining My Pierrot Dolls, and was replaced by Martin Henderson (formerly of The Last Laugh).Skeletal Family's first album, Burning Oil, recorded in four days at a cost of £640, was released by Red Rhino in August 1984. It topped the UK Independent Chart, staying in the top 10 until the end of the year. The band began touring with the Sisters of Mercy during the Sisters' First and Last and Always tour. Skeletal Family released the Futile Combat album in 1985, along with the "Promised Land" single.
Jennifer Herrema - Royal Trux, RTX, Black Bananas
Jennifer Herrema in conversation with David Eastaugh https://royal-trux.com/ https://www.facebook.com/realblackbananasband Herrema formed Royal Trux with her partner Neil Hagerty and lived with him in …
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Jennifer Herrema in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/realblackbananasband
Herrema formed Royal Trux with her partner Neil Hagerty and lived with him in Washington, Virginia. After producing several records, the band split in 2001. Herrema then went on to form a new band, RTX, which eventually became the band Black Bananas
David Holzer - Lou Reed: Metal Machine Mystic
David Holzer in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lou-Reed-Metal-Machine-Mystic/dp/1916829368 One of rock music’s most enigmatic and confounding artists is here revealed as never before …
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David Holzer in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lou-Reed-Metal-Machine-Mystic/dp/1916829368
One of rock music’s most enigmatic and confounding artists is here revealed as never before through the murky prism of his most extreme and polarising work: Metal Machine Music, a double album of vocal-free, unrelentingly shocking noise. Initially dismissed on its release in 1975 as an avant-garde prank or an act of career suicide (or both), the album has acquired a growing number of admirers over the subsequent half-century, along the way to becoming a kind of secret handshake of hipness.
Through his work both in The Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, Reed is one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the rock era, yet he remains a defiantly inscrutable figure. Drawing on extensive research and exclusive interviews with more than sixty friends, collaborators, and admirers, David Holzer reveals him anew as a spiritual seeker with a deep interest in the esoteric practices of Alice Bailey and others, and a man with a profound belief in the power of one’s inner spirit. In so doing, he positions Metal Machine Music as a deeply serious, talismanic work that is unique in rock’n’roll.
Brian Gulland - Gryphon, Malicorne, The New Scorpion Band
Brian Gulland in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/newgryphon/ Gryphon are an English progressive folk band formed in London in 1972. They are known for their medieval and Renaissance …
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Brian Gulland in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/newgryphon/
Gryphon are an English progressive folk band formed in London in 1972. They are known for their medieval and Renaissance style of music.
The band briefly flourished in the progressive rock heyday of the early 1970s, and then retired to other musical activities before reforming for a one-off reunion in 2009. Subsequently, Gryphon played some gigs in 2015, featured at the Cropredy Festival in 2016, and in 2017, an invitation to a ProgRock festival in Portugal, and in the UK, the NewDay Festival near Canterbury. The first new Gryphon record for 41 years was released in 2018.
Michael Allen - The Wolfgang Press, Geniuser, Mass, Rema-Rema, The Models,
Michael Allen in conversation with David Eastaugh https://regis-dns.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/18219547955/?locale=en_GB The Wolfgang Press are an English post-punk band, originally active …
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Michael Allen in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://regis-dns.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/18219547955/?locale=en_GB
The Wolfgang Press are an English post-punk band, originally active from 1983 to 1995. The core of the band during that era was Michael Allen (vocals, bass), Mark Cox (keyboards), and Andrew Gray (guitar). They reformed in 2024 with Stephen Gray, brother of Andrew, replacing Cox, to release a new LP titled "A 2nd Shape" on Downwards Records.
The group is best known for its 1992 international hit single "A Girl Like You".
Legs McNeil
Legs McNeil in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Resident-Punk/Legs-McNeil/9781637749470 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Resident-Punk-Smoked-Stumbled-Through/dp/1637749465 …
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Legs McNeil in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Resident-Punk/Legs-McNeil/9781637749470
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Resident-Punk-Smoked-Stumbled-Through/dp/1637749465
Time-travel to the punk scene of 1970s New York and beyond, as seen through the eyes of its chief reporter known as “the original punk” who gave the movement its name.
Part memoir and part cultural history, Resident Punk offers a no-holds-barred expose chronicling the iconic and unforgettable music scene that would become defined by bands like the Ramones, Blondie, Television, the Heartbreakers, and Talking Heads.
In 1975 at just 19 years old, Legs McNeil—alongside John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn—cofounded PUNK magazine. In doing so, they inadvertently chronicled the start of a movement. McNeil’s role in the whole thing? To be their resident punk, embodying the zeitgeist the magazine was looking to capture, often by getting f*cked up with musicians, artists, writers, and hangers-on . . . and sleeping with a different girl every day of the week.
Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary of PUNK magazine, Legs tells the stories behind the stories in a sleazy, star-studded adventure. The coauthor of Please Kill Me, Legs invites readers along for the ride as he tussles with musicians and artists, groupies and writers, Golden Age Hollywood film stars and legendary figures of ‘70s New York. Featuring untold stories about Joey Ramone, William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Alan Vega, Martin Rev, the Dictators, the Dead Boys, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, and Poly Styrene, this book is an immersive look at the punk music scene as only a true insider can tell it.Mike Badger - The La's, The Onset & The Kachinas
Mike Badger in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mike-badger.co.uk/ English singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor from Liverpool, England. Co-founder of The La's he went on to form alternative …
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Mike Badger in conversation with David Eastaugh
English singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor from Liverpool, England. Co-founder of The La's he went on to form alternative country/roots rockabilly band The Onset in 1988 and Mike Badger and The Shady Trio in 2010. In addition he is co-owner of Liverpool's independent Viper Label with Paul Hemmings.
Simon Brenner - Talk Talk, Angel River, Blue Section Two, Soho & Woyehyeh
Simon Brenner in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewn7jKe_dZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kVQD2pAho Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals …
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Simon Brenner in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewn7jKe_dZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kVQD2pAho
Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), Paul Webb (bass), and Simon Brenner (keyboards). Initially a synth-pop group, Talk Talk's first two albums, The Party's Over (1982) and It's My Life (1984), reached top 40 in the UK
Nancy Thompson
Nancy Thompson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://substack.com/@communekid75 Nancy spent her early years at Shrubb Family in Norfolk. This is her story about growing up in East Anglian during the 1970s …
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Nancy Thompson in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://substack.com/@communekid75
Nancy spent her early years at Shrubb Family in Norfolk. This is her story about growing up in East Anglian during the 1970s and 80s. And what happens next
Mark Laff - Generation X, Empire, Subway Sect, Twenty Flight Rockers
Mark Laff in conversation with David Eastaugh He began playing drums as a teenager, being influenced by England's 1960s Mod fashion and music movement and the work of Keith Moon. After a failed audition for The …
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Mark Laff in conversation with David Eastaugh
He began playing drums as a teenager, being influenced by England's 1960s Mod fashion and music movement and the work of Keith Moon. After a failed audition for The Clash (he was one of two drummers to get a call back), his first drumming role was with Subway Sect, sharing the bill with the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and Siouxsie and the Banshees for the Anarchy and White Riot tours, however he left the band shortly afterwards.
In April 1977, the 18-year-old Laff was recruited as a replacement drummer for the punk rock band Generation X, a few months before it signed to Chrysalis Records and released its first single, "Your Generation". He was Generation X's drummer through its two albums, the self-titled Generation X (1978), followed by Valley of the Dolls (1979); which saw the band amidst a heavy performance schedule across Great Britain gaining momentum, drawing recognition and impacting the British pop music charts with its releases.
Tony Fletcher - Apocalypse
Tony Fletcher in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/POW-When-Punk-Went-1980-84/dp/B0GGGXLZPH POW! is the fascinating memoir of a precocious English teen in the early 1980s who published a …
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Tony Fletcher in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/POW-When-Punk-Went-1980-84/dp/B0GGGXLZPH
POW! is the fascinating memoir of a precocious English teen in the early 1980s who published a music magazine, interviewed many of the era's top artists, befriended rock stars, ran a record label, appeared on television, played in a band and found first love -- all at the same time!
In this sequel to his Boy About Town (2013), Tony Fletcher's incredible adventures in the world of British post-punk make for a compelling adventure of highs (an exclusive interview with Paul McCartney, friendship with Paul Weller of the hugely successful Jam, playing to huge audiences, discovering love and sex) and lows (heartbreak, learning the financial challenges of running a label the hard way, the collapse of his band).
Despite the passage of time, he summons up all the enthusiasm he felt for the music and women he loved and marvels at the incredible experiences he had as a hard-working young striver.
The generation raised on MTV, the New Musical Express and bands like Madness, Wham!, the Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dexy's Midnight Runners and Killing Joke will love reading this inside view of a knowledgeable fan who got to know them all.
Colin Moulding - XTC, The Dukes of Stratosphear & TC&I
Colin Moulding in conversation with David Eastaugh https://burningshed.com/colin-moulding_want-it-bad_cd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3X4vcRTFjk Moulding began jamming with another local musician, Andy …
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Colin Moulding in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://burningshed.com/colin-moulding_want-it-bad_cd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3X4vcRTFjk
Moulding began jamming with another local musician, Andy Partridge, circa 1972–1973 and soon joined Partridge's band Star Park, convincing Partridge to hire Chambers as well. In July 1975, after a period in which the band were known as the Helium Kidz, they changed their name to XTC.
Several of the band's early hits were penned by Moulding: 1979's "Life Begins at the Hop" was their first to chart in the UK, Australia and Canada; that same year, "Making Plans for Nigel", from the album Drums and Wires, became a Top 40 hit in the UK, Canada, Netherlands and New Zealand
Julie Grant - Crimson Mints
Julie Grant in conversation with David Eastaugh https://jgrant.info/ https://www.facebook.com/juliegrantmusic https://www.discogs.com/release/37653312-Crimson-Mints-Threadbare Award-winning Britpop musician …
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Julie Grant in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/juliegrantmusic
https://www.discogs.com/release/37653312-Crimson-Mints-Threadbare
Award-winning Britpop musician, Julie Grant, has been collaborating with 60’s guitarist Peter Collard to produce a new album, What’s Not Said, which is out now. This ten-track CD features a collection of acoustic and electric songs that highlight Grant’s distinctive voice and unflinching lyrics, paired with Collard’s rhythmic, melodic style.
The songs are inspired by the ten chapters from her forthcoming memoir, The Gatecrasher, set to be published in 2026. A respected and versatile artist, Julie has not only built a remarkable music career but has also performed on national television, recorded live sessions for BBC Radio, written for BBC television, and worked in theatre production.
Patrick Redsell - Barsham Fair
Patrick Redsell in conversation with David Eastaugh https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=2038 Medieval style illustrations establish the theme of the Last Barsham Faire. Early morning reveals an encampment with …
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Patrick Redsell in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=2038
Medieval style illustrations establish the theme of the Last Barsham Faire. Early morning reveals an encampment with caravans, makeshift tents and shelters. The fair is held next to the round tower church. Against medieval music, a stilt walker, jesters, minstrels and other musicians perform amongst the crowd. There is a medieval play and maypole dancing. One of the organisers tells how stall holders are encouraged to sell their own handmade goods, and to make their stalls look medieval.
Stallholders discuss their work: a bellows maker, women who spin by hand, and a lute maker. The committee talk about what the fair means to them. Other festivities include face painting, actors playing 'Punch and Judy', morris dancing and a man lying on a bed of nails. A performance takes place inside a tent, with children singing and dancing. A firework display ends the day.
Marco Pirroni - Adam And The Ants, Rema-Rema, The Models
Marco Pirroni in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Marco-Pirroni/266126980 Marco Pirroni is a songwriter, guitarist and producer. A lynchpin of the UK punk scene …
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Marco Pirroni in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Marco-Pirroni/266126980
Marco Pirroni is a songwriter, guitarist and producer. A lynchpin of the UK punk scene, Marco’s first appearance on stage was with Siouxsie and the Banshees at the 100 Club in 1976. He went on to join bands the Models and then Rema-Rema before teaming up with a little-known punk outfit – Adam and the Ants – in 1979 and within a year the band was on the brink of worldwide acclaim.
An integral part of the band, Marco acted as lead guitarist and co-songwriter with Adam. Marco’s work with Adam left an indelible commercial and creative stamp across the 1980s and pop music in general. Marco went on to work with other artists including Sinéad O'Connor and had become regarded as an authority on the punk movement.
Anton Barbeau
Anton Barbeau in conversation with David Eastaugh https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/album/come-home-to-me https://manbird.antonbarbeau.com https://www.facebook.com/antonbarbeau After the conceptual weight of …
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Anton Barbeau in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://antonbarbeau.bandcamp.com/album/come-home-to-me
https://manbird.antonbarbeau.com
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After the conceptual weight of 2025’s Dark Mystery Temple trilogy, Anton Barbeau clears the table. Come Home To Me offers fourteen songs with no grand scheme beyond his enduring faith in pop music.
Recorded mainly at Barbeau’s home studio in Auburn, California, the album moves from clipped new wave and jazzy piano balladry to Cocteau Twins-tinted psychedelia and deep P-Funk. Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory of XTC appear alongside Andy Metcalfe, Donald Ross Skinner and Terry Edwards.
“World Calls Love” grew from a cassette fragment found while clearing Barbeau’s childhood Sacramento house; “All Thru The Night” was written during his final days there, around the last cup of tea in its kitchen.
An old tape, a last brew and fourteen fresh reasons to come home. creditsDean Piavani - Portion Control
Dean Pianvani in conversation with David Eastaugh https://portioncontrol.net/ https://portioncontrol.bandcamp.com/music Portion Control have been creating electronic dissonance for techno industrial pilgrims …
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Dean Pianvani in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://portioncontrol.bandcamp.com/music
Portion Control have been creating electronic dissonance for techno industrial pilgrims since 1979, rising as pioneers from the UK industrial electronics scene
Martin McAloon - Prefab Sprout
Martin McAloon https://www.martinmcaloon.com/ Prefab Sprout are an English pop/rock band. Formed in 1978 by brothers Paddy and Martin McAloon and joined by vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Wendy Smith in …
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Martin McAloon
https://www.martinmcaloon.com/
Prefab Sprout are an English pop/rock band. Formed in 1978 by brothers Paddy and Martin McAloon and joined by vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Wendy Smith in 1982, they released their debut album Swoon to critical acclaim in 1984. Their subsequent albums, including 1985's Steve McQueen and 1990's Jordan: The Comeback, have been described by Paul Lester of The Guardian as "some of the most beautiful and intelligent records of their era". Frontman Paddy McAloon is regarded as one of the great songwriters of his time and the band have been credited with producing some of the "most beloved" pop music of the 1980s and 1990s.
Welsey Stace - John Welsey Harding
Welsey Stace in conversation with David Eastaugh https://wesleystace.bandcamp.com/ https://www.wesleystace.com/albums Recorded at Studio 1935 in Philadelphia’s historic BOK Building, One Last Heist is produced …
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Welsey Stace in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://wesleystace.bandcamp.com/
https://www.wesleystace.com/albums
Recorded at Studio 1935 in Philadelphia’s historic BOK Building, One Last Heist is produced, arranged and written by Wes and longtime collaborator David Nagler. The core band comprised Nagler himself (keyboards), Eddie Carlson (bass), and Stéphane San Juan (Caetano Veloso, David Byrne, Marcos Valle) on the drums. These backing tracks were supplemented by stellar guitar work from Joe Gore (Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman) and Justin Mazer (Bob Weir), extra drums from Patrick Berkery (The War on Drugs) and backing vocals by Chris von Sneidern. The bells and whistles - string quartets, clarinets, flutes, flugelhorns etc - were contributed later by friends all over.
This heist began with frustrations about the one before, Stace recounts: “We'd intended the previous album Late Style to be the most elegant record imaginable, but COVID was a scruffy time and much of it was recorded in isolation in far-flung locations, without the chemistry and esprit de corps of musicians playing together in real time in the same space. It just couldn’t be done how we wanted. So the prime motive here was to go one better, to arrange the songs first, then record them as a band, playing live in the studio, to let it be a ‘players’ record, allowing for expressive solos, room to relax a little. Studio 1935 is open plan, very welcoming, not lots of isolated booths, so we were all able to congregate, interact, and improvise.”
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