Episodes
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
ABC special with Martin Fry
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
ABC special with Martin Fry with David Eastaugh
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Barry Miles in conversation
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Barry Miles 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
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
David Bowie special with George Underwood in conversation
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
David Bowie special with George Underwood in conversation with David Eastaugh
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Blowzabella special with Paul James in conversation
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Blowzabella special with Paul James in conversation with David Eastaugh
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Rory McLeod in conversation
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Rory McLeod in conversation with David Eastaugh
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Bay City Rollers special with Les McKeown in conversation
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Bay City Rollers special with Les McKeown in conversation
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
The Zombies with Colin Blunstone in conversation
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
The Zombies with Colin Blunstone in conversation with David Eastaugh
Friday Oct 04, 2019
John Otway in conversation
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
John Otway in conversation with David Eastaugh
Friday Oct 04, 2019
My Life Story with Jake Shillingford
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
My Life Story with Jake Shillingford in conversation with David Eastaugh
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Steve Howe in conversation
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Steve Howe in conversation with David Eastaugh
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Pete Loveday in conversation
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Pete Loved in conversation with David Eastaugh.
Pete Loveday is a British underground cartoonist. He drew many comics charting the adventures of hippie character Russell including Big Bang Comics, Big Trip Travel Agency, Plain Rapper Comix printed by AK Press.
He draws like Robert Crumb or Gilbert Shelton with lots of cross-hatching. Big Bang Comics is Britain's most successful underground comics. Recurring themes in the comics are drugs, Rock festivals, environmentalism etc. Plain Rapper Comix #2 is Loveday's pamphlet in comic book form on a history of hemp and why it would be beneficial for the environment to replace tree paper with hemp paper and he practices what he preaches by being the first publication in modern times to be printed on such paper. The Russell comics were reprinted in book form Russell, The Saga of a peaceful man published by John Brown Publishing.
Russell reappeared in the Big Trip Travel Agency series published by AK Press (6 volumes); which are a series of short stand alone cartoons and also a serialised longer story. Issue 2 featured The Levellers. After Big Trip 5 (1999) Russell's story was to be continued in Volume 6, which it seemed would never appear. Then in 2012, to many fan's delight, AKPress made Big Trip 6 available through their website and through a mainstream Internet retailer where some reviews of Loveday's classic comics can also be read.
As a champion of British small press comics he drew lots of multi-artist jam strips in B. Patston's Psychopia. He drew a Russell comic in Danny King's Blah, Blah, Blah!
He used to have a stall at Glastonbury Festival, selling his comics and other items and now, after a gap of more than a decade, has a stall at the Secret Garden Party and Beautiful Days, both festivals for which he produces artwork.
Although he has had some problems with his eyesight these are finally being resolved, and have never really prevented him from producing a wide range of artwork, ranging from advertising posters (including some unlikely billboard art for Nike) through greetings cards, postcards, CD and record sleeve designs, book illustrations to flyers and T-shirt designs.
In July 2018 Freedom Seeds, a UK based seed bank, named a cannabis strain ‘Big Trip’ in tribute to Loveday. Pete created a logo for the product.
Loveday attributes his black sense of humour to having spent the 1969 Summer of Love disembowelling chickens in a poultry processing factory, a traumatic experience which left him with a morbid fear of death.
He lives in Devon with his wife Kate.
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
The Go-Betweens special with Lindy Morrison
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
The Go-Betweens special with Lindy Morrison in conversation with David Eastaugh.
The Go-Betweens were an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1977. The band was co-founded and led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, who were its only constant members throughout its existence. Drummer Lindy Morrison joined the band in 1980, and its lineup would later expand to include bass guitarist Robert Vickers and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown. Vickers was replaced by John Willsteed in 1987, and the quintet lineup remained in place until the band split two years later. Forster and McLennan reformed the band in 2000 with a new lineup that did not include any previous personnel aside from them. McLennan died on 6 May 2006 of a heart attack and The Go-Betweens disbanded again. In 2010, a toll bridge in their native Brisbane was renamed the Go Between Bridge after them.
In 1988, "Streets of Your Town", the first single from 16 Lovers Lane, entered the Top 100 on both the Kent Music Report chart in Australia and the UK Singles Chartin the United Kingdom. The follow-up single "Was There Anything I Could Do?" was a No. 16 hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. In May 2001, "Cattle and Cane", from 1983's Before Hollywood, was selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time. In 2008, 16 Lovers Lane was highlighted on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) TV's The Great Australian Albums series.
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
The Bats with Paul Kean
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
The Bats special with Paul Kean in conversation with David Eastaugh
In the early 1980s, Robert Scott and Kaye Woodward were sharing accommodation together in Christchurch. Scott was already playing bass in The Clean, and had also played with bassist Paul Kean in the short-lived band, Thanks To Llamas. After Scott taught Woodward some of his songs, the three began playing together at parties as The Percy Taiwan Band. After recruiting Malcolm Grant of The Bilders on drums, they renamed themselves The Bats.
The Bats first performed in Dunedin on New Year's Eve, 1982. Over the next two years, they were involved in the live music scene in Christchurch and Dunedin, before releasing their first EP, By Night (1984), on the nascent alternative New Zealand record label, Flying Nun. The band spent the next two years touring New Zealand and Australia, and released another EP, And Here Is 'Music for the Fireside' (1985). The band's early releases were accompanied by some typically low budget but original music videos, notably 'By Night', 'I Go Wild' and 'Downfall'.
The band then travelled to Europe and spent time touring Britain and Germany, including playing support for Alex Chilton. They recorded the Made Up in Blue EP at the 24 track Point Studio in London in December 1985. 'Made Up in Blue', the first single released in the U.K. by Flying Nun, was awarded 'Single of the Week' by the influential British magazine, NME. An acquaintance in Glasgow offered the use of his home 8 track studio, and half of the tracks for what would become their debut album, Daddy's Highway, were recorded there.
The Bats returned to New Zealand to finish recording for Daddy's Highway, which was released in 1987. The album has been named as their most highly regarded and one of the best New Zealand albums of the 1980s. In 2000, it was named No. 88 in music magazine Rip It Up's New Zealand's Top 100 Albums of All Time. Notable tracks on the album include "North By North", "Tragedy" and the lead single, "Block of Wood", all of which were staples on New Zealand student radio.
The Bats' second album The Law of Things (1990) continued to define a consistent Bats sound. It featured Alastair Galbraith on violin, as did Daddy's Highway. In 1991, The Bats released Fear of God. It spent three months on the French top 50 album charts. Also in 1990, Flying Nun re-released the band's first three EPs on a single compilation CD, Compiletely Bats.
The band found increasing success in the United States over this period. Between 1986 and 1993, The Bats toured the U.S.A four times, including 14 dates supporting Radiohead in 1993. Their fourth album, Silverbeet, reached No. 6 on the College Music Journal album chart.
The Bats' next album, Couchmaster (1995), would prove to be their last for ten years.