Episodes
51 minutes ago
51 minutes ago
Christopher Merrick Hughes in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.chrismerrickhughes.com/
music producer, songwriter, and former drummer of Adam and the Ants. Best known as producer of Tears for Fears' Songs from the Big Chair, and as the co-writer of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", Hughes has a joint background as a musician, songwriter and producer. His career began with Adam and the Ants as drummer and producer of the "Cartrouble" and "Kings of the Wild Frontier" singles, then the Kings of the Wild Frontier album. Yielding three hit singles, the album earned Hughes Music Week's 'Producer of the Year Award'.
5 days ago
5 days ago
Simon Heavisides in conversation with David Eastaugh
You can pre-order the book from Stichting Opposite Direction, Jean-Paul van Mierlo: vanmierlojeanpaul00@gmail.com
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Destiny-Stopped-Screaming-Adrian-Borland/
Adrian Borland, was singer/guitarist and main songwriter with The Sound, a band which between 1979 and 1987 released seven albums that never failed to be at the very least full of passion and raw emotion. They made their debut in 1979 with the "Physical World" e.p, but it wasn't until the release of the "Jeopardy" album in 1980 that it became clear how special the band was. Two more albums for WEA followed, "From The Lions Mouth" and "All Fall Down", which resulted in the band leaving the label. Indie label Statik signed the band and released "Shock Of Daylight" and "Heads & Hearts" along with the double live album "In The Hothouse". A move to the Belgium based Play It Again Sam brought with it
the band's final album "Thunder Up". They disintegrated at the end of 1987.
5 days ago
Marisa Carnesky
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5 days ago
Marisa Carnesky in conversation with David Eastaugh
British live artist and showwoman. She uses spectacular entertainment forms, including fairground devices and stage illusion, and draws on themes of contemporary ritual, to investigate social issues from an ecofeminist perspective. Time Out declared that Carnesky's 'unique niche of interactive end-of-the-pier esoterica has fused ghost trains, anatomical models and tattoo culture with religion, feminism and class consciousness in ways both playful and rewardingly demanding.
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Lora Logic - Essential Logic - X-Ray Spex & Essential Logic
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Lora Logic in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.essential-logic.co.uk/
https://essentiallogic.bandcamp.com/
fter co-founding X-Ray Spex, Lora Logic formed Essential Logic in 1978, shaping post-punk with unique sax, whimsical melodies. Their 1979 album, 'Beat Rhythm News,' stood out. After a long hiatus, Essential Logic returned in 2022 with 'Land of Kali.’
Essential Logic are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 by saxophonist Lora Logic after leaving X-Ray Spex. The band initially consisted of Lora on vocals, Phil Legg on guitar and vocals, William Bennett (later of Whitehouse) on guitar, Mark Turner on bass guitar, Rich Tea (Richard Thompson) on drums and Dave Wright on saxophone. Turner was later replaced by Sean Oliver (later of Rip, Rig & Panic) on bass. The band split in 1981 and reformed in 2001.
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Monika Hempel - Klaus Nomi
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Monika Hempel in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.verlag-reiffer.de/produkt/nomi/v
Singing space robot. Galactic Pierrot. The thing from the other planet. To put the phenomenon of Klaus Nomi into words, the media prefers to stylize him as an alien. In fact, the artist cannot be classified into gender or genre categories and appears to be a hybrid creature of human, machine and Martian.
He effortlessly bridges the gap from baroque opera to 1960s pop to new wave, from the frosty “Cold Song” to the ironic, infernal “Total Eclipse”. Despite a narrow oeuvre of two albums released during his lifetime, Nomi's influence is present not only in the world of music, but in all areas of art, forty years after his untimely death from AIDS. How did this ongoing fascination come about?
Monika Hempel went looking for clues, spoke to friends and companions, looked through archives and Nomi's personal legacy. It tells the extraordinary life story of the singer born Klaus Sperber and explains why his voice still speaks to us after countless revolutions in orbit
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Louise Rutkowski in conversation with David Eastuagh
At 19, Louise was signed to CBS Records, recording three singles and an album with soul producer Pete Wingfield with the band Sunset Gun. Prior to forming this band with sister Dee and keyboard player Ross Campbell, Louise, along with sister Dee, performed as backing vocalists for Bourgie Bourgie; a band created by legendary Postcard Records' boss Alan Horne.
As part of the This Mortal Coil collective, Louise's distinctive voice can be heard on the Filigree & Shadow and Blood albums, and as lead vocalist on The Hope Blister's critically acclaimed 1998 Smile's OK album, all of which were released on the 4AD Records recording label.
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Anita Gabrielle Tedder - Zenana
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Anita Gabrielle Tedder in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://zenana1.bandcamp.com/album/witches-with-the-spell-of-love
Zenana are a forward thinking 80s female trio whose synthesiser-based musical output was shaped in the front room of a terraced house in Cornwall, UK.
In September 23 they released a five track digital album of remixed and remastered recordings from the 1980s and four songs on a 12" vinyl record.
Zenana means 'pertaining to women' in Persian.
This historic limited-edition 12” release features Zenana's 1986 much sought after 'Witches' in a newly-remastered edition plus 'The Final Winter,' 'The Touch of a Woman' and 'When the Comet Comes' remixed and mastered for the first time for vinyl. The lavishly-produced package comes bundled with an extensive booklet documenting the previously untold story of Zenana through recollections and never-seen-before photographs.
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Simon Reynolds in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/futuromania
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience.
Starting with an extraordinary chapter on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, taking in illuminating profiles of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boards of Canada, Burial, and Daft Punk, and arguing for Auto-Tune as the defining sound of 21st century pop, Futuromania shapes over two-dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to now. Reynolds explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, always emphasising the quirky human individuals abusing the technology as much as the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software.
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
David 'Taffy' Hughes - Hurrah! & The Girl with the Replaceable Head
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Taffy Hughes in conversation with David Eastaugh
Formed in the early 1980s and originally known as the Green-Eyed Children, Hurrah! initially consisted of Paul Handyside guitar/vocals), David 'Taffy' Hughes, Southmoor guitar/vocals), David Porthouse ;(bass), and Mark Sim (drums). Sim was soon replaced by Damien Mahoney.
Hurrah! were one of the first acts signed to Kitchenware Records, who issued the band's debut single, "The Sun Shines Here", in 1982. Second single "Hip Hip" was released the following year, and gave the band an hit, reaching No. 21.
The third single, "Who'd Have Thought," was another indie hit in 1984, reaching No. 7 on the UK chart. After one more single, "Gloria" – produced by Jimmy Miller, the band's early recordings were compiled on the Boxed album in 1985.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
David Wolfenden - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
David Wolfenden in conversation with David Eastaugh
n 1982, the Lorries' manager Dave Hall provided independent record label Red Rhino with a cassette of the group's demos. Impressed by the quality of the songs, Red Rhino label head "Tony K" (Tony Kostrzewa) signed the band and immediately released "Beating My Head" unchanged from the demo as the band's debut single. Fagan and Smith soon departed the band, to be replaced by Dave Wolfenden and Paul Southern respectively. Afterwards, bassist Southern was replaced by Leon Phillips. While numerous additional personnel changes would occur in the history of the band, Wolfenden became a mainstay and a frequent songwriting partner of Reed's during the band's most productive period. In 1983 and 1984, the band released several more singles (including "He's Read" and "Monkeys On Juice", which reached No. 9 on the NME indie chart). John Peel was an early supporter, and the band recorded two radio sessions for him in March and November 1983 (released on CD in 2014 as BBC Sessions 1983 - 1984, part of the band's 3-CD compilation See the Fire).
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
The Children - Michael Wiener & Jim Coleman
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Michael Wiener & Jim Coleman in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://thechildrenband.bandcamp.com/album/a-sudden-craving
Principal songwriters for The Children... are Michael Wiener (vocals/lyrics), Jim Coleman (electronics & various instruments) and Phil Puleo (drums, acoustic guitar & various instruments). Other core members, both live and on this recording: John Nowlin (bass), Rock Savage (drums) and Kirsten McCord (cello). Shelley Hirsch has been a memorable collaborator on several live shows. John Andersen was a founding member and important early collaborator. Norman Westberg (guitar) and Johnny Gasper (clarinet) were key contributors to the sessions for ‘A Sudden Craving’, which took place over the course of two years in the mid-late 2010s.
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Danny Kroha - The Gories, Demolition Doll Rods, Rocket 455, The Readies
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Danny Kroha in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://dannykroha.bandcamp.com/album/detroit-blues
https://www.facebook.com/hotepnefti
Danny Kroha, founding member of minimal garage rock trio the Gories, has recently been spending time perfecting and recording more traditional folk, blues, and gospel tunes from the public domain. His upcoming Detroit Blues could be considered part two of his solo debut LP - Angels Watching Over Me.
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Muz Murray
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Muz Murray in conversation with David Eastaugh
Muz Murray is a world-travelling mystic master with an international reputation, having given guidance for many years in his “SHARING THE QUEST” workshops—on Mantra Yoga, Mystical Awakening, Massage and Meditation—in the UK and Europe. He follows the way of the Universal Mystic—the Path of the Heart—embracing the essence of all traditions, but is attached to none.
In consequence, he became the Founder of a mystical community in London, known as “Gandalf’s Garden” which produced a world-distributed esoteric magazine of the same name. The magazine and work of this community became a spiritual inspiration to many thousands in Britain and on the Continent during the ‘Flower-Power’ Era of the late Sixties and early Seventies. The centre hosted Gurus and teachers of every tradition from all over the world and pioneered the spirit of ‘spiritual cross-fertilisation’ between isolated esoteric groups, which resulted in many more universally-minded centres blossoming in its wake in several countries.
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Linda Smith
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Linda Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://lindasmith2.bandcamp.com/
https://capturedtracks.com/artist/linda-smith/
A pioneer of the home recording movement, Linda Smith released several collections of delicate, bewitching solo music on cassette in the 1980s and 90s. The 2021 release of Till Another Time: 1988-1996, Captured Tracks’ compilation of Smith’s work, has helped bestow rightful critical acclaim to the ahead-of-her-time artist. Now, Captured Tracks dives deeper into Smith’s catalog with the release of two full-length companion albums, Nothing Else Matters and I So Liked Spring, available for the first time on vinyl & streaming formats.
Recorded at Smith’s home in Baltimore in 1995, Nothing Else Matters chronicles the tension between the mundanity of daily life and the creative impulse: ”I was working for Ringling Bros at their corporate headquarters in Northern VA and driving there and back to Baltimore on the DC beltway,” Smith remembers. “I aimed for detachment and some degree of humor in order to see things more clearly.” Traffic noises on the charmingly boisterous “Little To Be Won” showcase this levity, as does the addition of playful hand claps and a laugh track to her striking cover of Young Marble Giants’ “Salad Days.” Despite its homespun inception, the arrangements are sophisticated, as in the bright, percussive opener “The Answer To Your Question.” This complexity is also reflective of Smith’s evolving recording techniques – having outgrown her 4-track tape machine, she’d purchased a Fostex 8-track, on which she recorded both Nothing Else Matters and I So Liked Spring.
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
The Housemartins - Stan Cullimore
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Stan Cullimore in conversation with David Eastaugh
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Ausgang - Max
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Max in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://ausgang-kabuki.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/ausgangkabuki/
Ausgang was formed by members of the band Kabuki. Some members had also been members of another band, the Solicitors. Max (vocals), Cub (bass guitar) and Matthew (guitar) were all previously in Kabuki, who released one 1982 single ("I Am a Horse") before splitting up. With drummer Ibo, they formed Ausgang and played their first gig in September 1983 at the Powerhouse in Birmingham. They toured with The Cult before signing to Criminal Damage Records, who released their debut EP, The Teachings of Web, in 1984. Their next release, the "Solid Glass Spine" 7" single, reached No. 28 on the UK Indie Chart. Their final release that year, the Head On ! EP, was produced by Andi Sex Gang.
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Alan Lee Shaw - The Damned, The Rings, Maniacs & Physicals
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Alan Lee Shaw in conversation with David Eastaugh
English guitarist whose career began after leaving art school, in music projects with Twink. He later formed short-lived The Rings with 'Twink' Alder & drummer Rod Latter, before he and Latter created punk band Maniacs with bassist Robert Crash.
In 1977 Shaw created glam-punksters Physicals, who released a single, with Paul Cook on drums. This was followed by stints in Brian James' "Brains" and "The Hellions" (managed by Miles Copeland) from 1980. During 1981, Shaw teamed up in a writing partnership with Kirsty MacColl.
During 1983 there was another brief band, "Hush Hush" with Chris Sol. Then, with Sol, the eponymous band album "Heaven And The Angels" in 1986 and a later shelved UK project with Dee Dee Ramone. Another brief spell with a Brian James band was followed by Shaw joining The Damned in 1993.
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Chris Cuffaro - Photographer
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Chris Cuffaro in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://cuffaroplus.com/
Over the past 50 years, Chris’ signature work with a galaxy of A-List actors, models, athletes and musicians has helped them define their public image while establishing his reputation as one of the most respected photographers in the entertainment industry. Drawn to the excitement of music as a teenager growing up in Northern California, Chris began his career by shooting local rock shows for fun. He quickly graduated to headlining acts and, since moving to Los Angeles in the early 1980’s, has worked with a massive catalog of performers in the music and entertainment industry.
He has shot the best of the best in the music world including ground-breaking bands like Jane’s Addiction, Pearl Jam, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana, George Michael, Iggy Pop, No Doubt, Henry Rollins, Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, Scott Weiland and Soundgarden. These images have regularly appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, RayGun, Vibe, Musician as well as on the covers of more than 300 record albums and CDs.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Ron Ward - Speedball Baby, Blood Oranges & Five Dollar Priest
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Ron Ward in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuNY6w6BEk&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAvTdONLJ4Q&t=1s