Episodes
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Prince Stash - Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Sunday Oct 08, 2023
Prince Stash in conversation with David Eastaugh
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola is an Author, Entreprenuer, Actor, Singer, and Music Producer. He performed and worked with a various bands including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor & The Playboys, during the Swinging Sixties in London, Rome, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Known for his infamous arrest with The Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones, his engagement to Italian superstar, Romina Power, and for being a deluxe hippie during the ‘60s, Prince Stash comes from a line of scandalous and very colorful figures in his ancestry.
Prince Stash currently spends his time between his Italian castle, Californian beach house, and other exotic international locations.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Dorothy Max Prior - Rema Rema, Psychic TV, The Monochrome Set
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Dorothy Max Prior in conversation with David Eastaugh
Discussing her new book - 69 Exhibition Road
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dorothy-max-prior/69-exhibition-road
Dorothy Max Prior is a writer and artist living in Brighton. In other lives, Max was a punk muse, post-punk drummer, and exotic dancer. Somewhere along the way, she has taught ballroom dancing and toured the world as a street theater performer, choreographer, director, and cabaret dancer.
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Johanna Went & Mark Wheaton
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Johanna Went & Mark Wheaton in conversation with David Eastaugh
Johanna Went is an American performance artist who primarily works in the Los Angeles area.
She started her career in the late 1970s as musician in the punk scene. Music is still an important element of her shows. She has often worked with musician Mark Wheaton, whose fast, rhythmic music beats provide the background noise in several of her performances. Further predominant elements of Went's shows are the use of elaborate costumes, which Went herself creates from various found objects, and the use of artificial blood. The latter played an especially important role in her early work. Went's performances are not strictly text-based. She typically works based on a sketch that determines the rough sequence of actions, but leaves much room for improvisation. Went rarely uses language in her shows as means of communication. She rather sings, screams, whines and murmurs, thus rendering large parts of the spoken words incomprehensible.
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Anthony Irvine - Iceman
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Anthony Irvine - Iceman - in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Iceman’s blocks, when photographed in action, capture a timeless moment often including other human beings in relation to the block at a precise moment on the planet Earth. Ironically, despite their ephemeral state, the ice blocks gain a life of their own by being recorded, and even multiply through the copies sold.
Life, death, transformation, hope, despair and time are just some of the themes arising – these ice block records are truly metaphysical. No wonder the audiences chant “Deep!Deep!” No wonder people increasingly want to have their own copy of a block.
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Rumi Missabu - The Cockettes
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Rumi Missabu - The Cockettes - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Rumi Missabu is a founding member of the San Francisco-based, glittery drag-spectacle known as The Cockettes. A prominent group within the experimental, psychedelic theater and arts scene, the Cockettes were known for pushing the boundaries of drag and sexuality and exploring gender fluidity from the 1960s on. One of their most well-known and often-revived productions is Pearls over Shanghai, a mock-operetta set in 1937 Shanghai in which issues of miscegenation and white slavery are explored. Film credits for Missabu include the documentaries The Cockettes and Uncle Bob and the short The Glitter Emergency. Throughout the 2000s, Missabu continued to collaborate with artists and musicians as well as be involved in revival shows of Cockette productions
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Tony - Tibetan Ukranian Mountain Troupe & Kidzfield
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Tony - Tibetan Ukranian Mountain Troupe and the Kidzfield - in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.kidzfield.com/classroom/
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Neil Oram in conversation
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Neil Oram in conversation with David Eastaugh
In 1956 Oram traveled to Africa where he met musician Mike Gibbs in Salisbury, (now Harare). He played double bass in the Mike Gibbs Quintet with Gibbs on piano, vibes and trombone. A post-concert epiphany where a voice repeatedly told him "Je suis un poet!" led him to take up writing. Oram returned to Britain in 1958 where he ran a jazz café called The House of Sam Widges at 8 D'Arblay Street in Soho, London.The café was known for its jukebox which only had modern jazz records. It attracted many of the top London musicians. Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes, Graham Bond, Dave Tomlin and Bobby Wellins were frequent customers, occasionally enjoying a bowl of spaghetti bolognese crafted by Oram. Downstairs was a club/performance space called 'The Pad'.
Oram was now writing poetry, giving readings and painting large abstract jazz inspired paintings. In 1960 he opened The Mingus art gallery in Marshall Street, Soho where abstract paintings by O. G. Bradbury, George Popperwell, Jaime Manzano, Tony Shiels and William Morris the American beat poet/action painter could be seen. Morris's huge, jazz paintings were executed in The Pad to the vibrant sounds of the Graham Bond Quartet, then carried round the corner and hung up wet in The Mingus.
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Laurence Myers - talking David Bowie, music & his new book Hunky Dory
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Laurence Myers - talking David Bowie, music & his new book Hunky Dory with David Eastaugh
Laurence Myers is a Theatre and Film Producer. He was formerly a Music Executive, owning and running record and artist management companies.
First coming to prominence as a Financial Advisor/ Accountant to The Rolling Stones and other leading artists in the 1960s, Laurence entered the music business full-time in 1970, signing then unproven David Bowie to his record label ‘Gem’.
In an impressive career in the music world spanning decades, Laurence’s companies represented artists including The Animals, Herman’s Hermits, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Donovan, Lionel Bart, Heatwave, The New Seekers, Alan Price, The Tremeloes, The Sweet, Donna Summer, Scott Walker and Billy Ocean, as well as advising The Beatles on their Apple Corp venture.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Dana Gillespie in conversation
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Dana Gillespie in conversation with David Eastaugh
Dana Gillespie recorded initially in the folk genre in the mid-1960s. Some of her recordings as a teenager fell into the teen pop category, such as her 1965 single "Thank You Boy", written by John Carter and Ken Lewis and produced by Jimmy Page. Her acting career got under way shortly afterwards, and it overshadowed her musical career in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The song "Andy Warhol" was originally written by David Bowie for Gillespie, who recorded it in 1971, but her version of the song was not released until 1973 on her album Weren't Born a Man. Her version also featured Mick Ronson on guitar. After performing backing vocals on the track "It Ain't Easy" from Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, she recorded an album produced by Bowie and Mick Ronson in 1973, Weren't Born a Man. Subsequent recordings have been in the blues genre, appearing with the London Blues Band. She is also notable for being the original Mary Magdalene in the first London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, which opened at the Palace Theatre in 1972. She also appeared on the Original London Cast album. During the 1980s Gillespie was a member of the Austrian Mojo Blues Band.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Joey Arias in conversation
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Joey Arias in conversation with David Eastaugh
Joey Arias is a multi-talented artist based in New York City, best known for work as a performance artist, cabaret singer, and drag artist, but also known as a published author, comedian, stage persona and cult-movie star. He also goes by the names Joseph Arias and Joe Arias.
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
The Cockettes special with Pam Tent
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
The Cockettes with Pam Tent in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Cockettes were an avant garde psychedelic hippie theater group founded by Hibiscus(George Edgerly Harris III)[1] in the fall of 1969. The troupe was formed out of a group of hippie artists, men and women, who were living in Kaliflower, one of the many communes in Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Hibiscus came to live with them because of their preference for dressing outrageously and proposed the idea of putting their lifestyle on the stage.
Their brand of theater was influenced by The Living Theater, John Vaccaro's Play House of the Ridiculous, the films of Jack Smith and the LSD ethos of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The troupe performed all original material, staging musicals with original songs. The first year they parodied American musicals and sang show tunes (or original musical comedies in the same vein). They gained an underground cult following that led to mainstream exposure.
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Karl Minns special - Nimmo Twins
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Saturday Apr 25, 2020
Karl Minns in conversation - talking about comedy, writing, performing & much much more with David Eastaugh
The Nimmo Twins are a sketch comedy duo from Norfolk, UK comprising Owen Evans and Karl Minns. Formed in 1996 in Norwich, they first came to national attention after their show Posh Spice Nude was a sell-out success at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival. Appearances on BBC One's Stand Up Show followed and they became regulars on Radio 4's Loose Ends programme with Ned Sherrin. They returned to Edinburgh in 1998 and 1999, selling out in critically acclaimed shows both years. They toured Britain, played Paris, New York and two sell-out years at the Singapore Comedy Festival.
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
The Cockettes special with Fayette Hauser
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
The Cockettes special with Fayette Hauser in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Cockettes were an avant garde psychedelic hippie theater group founded by Hibiscus (George Edgerly Harris III) in the fall of 1969. The troupe was formed out of a group of hippie artists, men and women, who were living in Kaliflower, one of the many communes in Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Hibiscus came to live with them because of their preference for dressing outrageously and proposed the idea of putting their lifestyle on the stage.
Their brand of theater was influenced by The Living Theater, John Vaccaro's Play House of the Ridiculous, the films of Jack Smith and the LSD ethos of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The troupe performed all original material, staging musicals with original songs. The first year they parodied American musicals and sang show tunes (or original musical comedies in the same vein). They gained an underground cult following that led to mainstream exposure.
The Cockettes were the subject of a 2002 documentary titled The Cockettes and directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber.
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Tony Zanetta - talking Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Pork & much much more
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
Tony Zanetta - talking Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Pork & much much more
Tony Zanetta is a foundational gure in the history of 1960s and ’70s underground New York and London, and thereafter a secret in uence on all the androgyny in punk and rock music, the radical queerness in theater, the marrying of camp and pomp on stage and in lm... all the multifarious worlds that sprang up—and that continue to do so— lled with inspiration from those heady times. Zanetta was an actor in the off-off-Broadway movement that gained full force in the radical theater of the Play-House of the Ridiculous and Company One (Through Seven). He was present as the habitués of the original Silver Factory speed-rapped at Max’s Kansas City. Later, he saw the nascent punk scene taking form at the Mercer Arts Center. He starred as the man himself in Andy Warhol’s 1971 play Pork, a New York sensation that traveled to London, where it was digested whole by Hunky Dory–era David Bowie. Soon, Zanetta found himself tour-managing Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust global tour. As Bowie and Zanetta became con dants, he and other Pork stars formed the nucleus of MainMan, the production company whose clients included Bowie, Iggy Pop, Dana Gillespie, and Mott the Hoople.
The conversation below is excerpted from a larger body of interviews between Zanetta and the writer Steve Lafreniere. Here, Steve and Tony talk at length about the through line of New York underground theater, the bisexual chic of Bowie and the New York Dolls, and the radical queens of days gone by.
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Bruce Lacey in conversation
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Bruce Lacey in conversation with David Eastaugh
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Penny Arcade in conversation
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Penny Arcade in conversation with David Eastaugh
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Lucy Porter in conversation
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Lucy Porter in conversation with David Eastaugh
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Arthur Smith in conversation
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Arthur Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh