Episodes
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Ian Donaldson - H2O and Skroo
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Ian Donaldson in conversation with David Eastaugh
Ian Donaldson is a Scottish singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and writer - with a new single, All I Have is Forever, coming out spring 2022.
Donaldson's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of new wave band H2O, which released two UK Top 40 hits in 1983 with the singles "I Dream to Sleep" and "Just Outside of Heaven". After the band's break-up, he pursued a solo career and played in a band called FourGoodMen.
Donaldson released his debut novel, A Rainbow in the Basement, in 2016.
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Steve Conte - New York Dolls, Michael Monroe, Company of Wolves
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Steve Conte - New York Dolls, Michael Monroe, Company of Wolves - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Conte first became known to the music industry in the early 1990s as the songwriter and guitarist of the band Company of Wolves (Mercury Records). After the Wolves' breakup in 1992, he went on to form the band Crown Jewels with John Conte, and in 2003, the pair made an album under the name The Contes. In 2004, Steve Conte joined the New York Dollsas a guitarist and vocalist, where he would remain until 2010 when he joined Michael Monroe's new band.
American musician, songwriter, guitarist, music producer, and lead singer of the band Steve Conte NYC. He has worked with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno on a variety of anime soundtracks including Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, RahXephon and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG. He is the former lead guitarist of the New York Dolls.
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Ellen Foley
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Ellen Foley in conversation with David Eastaugh
American singer and actress who has appeared on Broadway and television, she has released five solo albums but is best known for her collaborations with rock singer Meat Loaf.
Fighting Words is her new album release in 2021, has seen the singer receive some of the best notices of her career. Classic Rock Magazine called the album “Vintage jukebox Americana” while Songfacts wrote “Fighting Words finds Foley in stunning vocal form and, like the title suggests, not backing down.”
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Christian Hayes or Bic Hayes special - Dark Star, Levitation & Ring
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Christian Hayes or Bic Hayes special - Dark Star, Levitation & Ring - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Bic Hayes, is an English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. Best known as the frontman of Dark Star and guitarist with Levitation, he has also released solo material as Mikrokosmos, which was produced by Tim Smith.
Hayes first appeared on the south London psychedelic rock scene in the mid-1980s: by 1988 he was playing guitar with Ring, moving on to become bass player with The Dave Howard Singers in 1989. In the same year he joined Cardiacs as second guitarist, replacing departing saxophonist Sarah Smith. Hayes would appear as part of the band on their All That Glitters is a Mare's Nest live album and video: he would also make writing and recording contributions to their studio album Heaven Born and Ever Bright. During this period, he also worked on an intermittent thrash rock project called Panixphere.
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Amebix & Zygote with Stig Miller
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Amebix & Zygote with Stig Miller in conversation with David Eastaugh
Amebix were an English crust punk band. Formed as the Band with No Name, the band's original run was from 1978 to 1987, during which time they released three EPs and two full-length albums. The group reunited in 2008, released another full-length album in 2011, and disbanded again in November 2012.
By being one of the first bands to blend anarcho-punk and heavy metal music, Amebix are often cited as one of the key bands that helped to create the crust punk style, and are considered as a proto-thrash/extreme/speed metal band.Such notable bands as Sepultura, Neurosis and Deviated Instinct have paid homage to the band.
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Here & Now with Keith da Missile Bass or Keith Bailey
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Here & Now with Keith da Missile Bass or Keith Bailey in conversation with David Eastaugh
The first version of the group was co-founded in London by drummer/vocalist Keith Dobson later known as "Kif Kif Le Batteur", guitarist/keyboardist José Gross, bassist Franco and others in March 1974.
In 1977, Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth recruited the band to tour with them under the name Planet Gong, and this combination released a live album Live Floating Anarchy 1977 and a single "Opium for the People".
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
The Scientists with Kim Salmon
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
The Scientists with Kim Salmon in conversation with David Eastaugh
Australian rock musician and songwriter from Perth. He has worked in various groups including The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Kim Salmon and the Business, and Darling Downs. Australian rock musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Salmon as one of the first Australians to "embrace wholeheartedly the emergent punk phenomenon of the mid-to-late 1970s" with The Scientists. He declared that Beasts of Bourbon were "masters of uncompromising gutbucket blues and hard-edged rock'n'roll". In 2004 Salmon was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame and in 2007, into the Music Victoria Awards Hall of Fame.
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Robin Guthrie - Cocteau Twins
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Robin Guthrie in conversation with David Eastaugh
40 years on from founding Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie has certainly been its most prolific member, offering a steady and stellar stream of material over the years. His film scores include Gregg Araki's ‘Mysterious Skin’ and ‘White Bird in a Blizzard’, co-written with longtime collaborator Harold Budd. His many other collaborators include John Foxx, Mark Gardener, Telefon Tel-Aviv, Eraldo Bernocchi and Jay Jay Johanson.
Following the October release of his 'Mockingbird Love' EP and the November release of his full-length album 'Pearldiving' (his first album in nine years) comes another unique release by legendary Scottish music sculptor Robin Guthrie - the 4-track 'Riviera' EP, a collection completed earlier this year..
The 'Riviera' EP is available on limited-edition CD and as a digital download via Soleil Après Minuit with distribution in North America via Darla and in Europe by Cargo.
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
The Belle Stars with Sarah-Jane Owen
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
The Belle Stars with Sarah-Jane Owen in conversation with David Eastaugh
After The Bodysnatchers broke up, guitarists Stella Barker and Sarah-Jane Owen, saxophonist Miranda Joyce, keyboardist Penny Leyton, and drummer Judy Parsons decided to form a new band, recruiting bass player Lesley Shone and lead vocalist Jennie Matthias (also known as Jennie Bellestar). Their first performance was on Christmas Day 1980, before they had chosen a name.
Within a short time, the group became well-known around London, notably appearing on the front cover of Sounds magazine early in 1981. Shortly thereafter, they were signed by Stiff Records, then highly successful through its star act, Madness.
The band's debut single, "Hiawatha", was released in the late spring of 1981; it was produced by Madness producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. The band promoted the single by playing support slots at gigs by ska acts The Beat and Madness.
When the third single, the radio-friendly "Another Latin Love Song" again failed to break into the charts, the band tried cover versions instead, with some success. "Iko Iko", a cover of The Dixie Cups' 1965 hit
In January 1983, the Belle Stars released what would be their signature single, "Sign of the Times", peaking at number three, and a chart success throughout Europe