Episodes
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.paradiseroad.co.uk/marquee-the-story-of-the-worlds-greatest-music-venue
Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue tells the story of both the music club and the festival, from the birth of the club in 1958 and festival in 1961, through to their sale by original owners Harold and Barbara Pendleton thirty years later.
Hardback, 320 pages, with 49 black & white illustrations
The Marquee is the most famous and iconic music club in the world. Melody Maker called it, ‛The most important venue in the history of pop music.’
The story of the Marquee is the story of popular music in Britain. This new book from Paradise Road evokes the hot, sweaty and sticky life and times of the club through the words of the musicians, management, staff and fans who were there to witness music history being made.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Gitane Demone - Pompeii 99, Christian Death, Gitane Demone Quartet
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Gitane Demone in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://gitanedemone.bandcamp.com/
American singer, musician and visual artist. Her career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s as the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the influential band Christian Death. In addition to her work with Christian Death, Demone was previously a member of Pompeii 99, worked with Dreadful Shadows, and has had a solo career which has included three studio albums: Am I Wrong?, Stars of Trash and The Reflecting Shadow.
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
The Danse Society - Paul Nash
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Paul Nash in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.thedansesociety.com/
In June 2018 the band release an EP, The FUTUR1ST, including a cover of NIN's "Hurt" dedicated to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, and the tracks "One Thought in Heaven" and "Scream" featuring drummer Joss Rylance who replaced Iain Hunter, and who has subsequently been replaced by Tom Davenport. September 2020 saw the release of the bands 7th Studio album Sailing Mirrors whilst celebrating their 40 years anniversary. And the band are currently in production of their 8th studio album 'The Loop' due to be released late 2023.
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Wayne Hussey - The Mission
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Wayne Hussey in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://themissionukband.com/home
Book - Heady Daze The Mission Years 1985-1990
Saturday May 20, 2023
Cathi Unsworth - Season of the Witch, The Book of Goth
Saturday May 20, 2023
Saturday May 20, 2023
Cathi Unsworth in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.cathiunsworth.co.uk/
As Margaret Thatcher enters 10 Downing Street, a handful of bands born of punk - Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and the Cure - find a way to distil the dissonance and darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocked and dancing with the fetishistic, all will become global stars of goth.
By the time Thatcher is cast out of office in 1990, the arrival of goth will have imprinted on the cultural landscape as much as the Iron Lady herself.
Now, forty years since its inception, author Cathi Unsworth provides the first comprehensive overview of the music, context and lasting legacy of goth. This is the story of how goth was shaped by the politics of the era - from the miners' strikes and privatisation to the Troubles and AIDS - as well as how its rock 'n' roll outlaw imagery and innovative, atmospheric music cross-pollinated throughout Britain and internationally, speaking to a generation of alienated youths.
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Paul Roland
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Paul Roland in conversation with David Eastauugh
https://paul-roland.bandcamp.com/
English singer-songwriter, author and music journalist. Roland typically writes his songs in the form of stories, often addressing historical figures, characters from literature and film, or his own creations. He has explored genres including gothic rock, psychedelic pop, folk and baroque.
Described by Music Week as a "psychedelic cult celebrity", Roland has enjoyed an underground career as opposed to mainstream success, gathering a stronger fanbase in mainland Europe than in his native UK. He has been credited with spearheading steampunk music.
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Play Dead - Mark ”Wiff” Smith
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Mark "Wiff" Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.companyofjustice.com
The original line-up of Play Dead consisted of Rob Hickson (vocals), Pete Waddleton (bass guitar), Mark "Wiff" Smith (drums) and Re-Vox (guitar). In July 1981, Re-Vox was replaced by Steve Green.
During their active years, Play Dead supported a number of acts, including the likes of Killing Joke, The Cult and The Sisters Of Mercy in the UK. They also appeared on Channel 4's music TV show, The Tube in late 1984.
A string of singles were released (many through Stoke-based Clay Records) from late 1983, throughout 1984 and early 1985. Play Dead toured frequently around the UK and Europe and by 1985, felt they had enough material to be able to put out their first ever live album, Into The Fire, which was released in May of that year.
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Flesh for Lulu & Wasted Youth - Rocco Barker
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Rocco Barker - Flesh for Lulu & Wasted Youth - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Nick Marsh (vocals and guitar) and James Mitchell (drums) formed the band and soon recruited Rocco Barker (originally from Wasted Youth, guitar and vocals), and Glen Bishop (bass), taking their name from an American cult movie. After a well received John Peel session, they signed to Polydor Records in 1983, and soon thereafter, bassist Glen Bishop left to join Under Two Flags, and was replaced by Kevin Mills (formerly of Specimen).
Wasted Youth were an English post-punk band from London, England, active between 1979 and 1982, which blended post-punk/pre-Goth with dark acoustic strains of the sort associated with Nick Drake and Syd Barrett. The line-up of the band was Ken Scott (vocals and guitar), Rocco Barker (guitar), Nick Nicole (synth), Darren Murphy (bass) and Andy Scott (drums)
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Pleasant Gehman - Screamin’ Sirens
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Pleasant Gehman in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://pleasantgehman.com/tarotreadings/
Pleasant Gehman is a true renaissance woman. A lifelong multi-disciplinary artist, she is a writer, professional dancer, actor, psychic, musician and painter; she has often been called “a force of nature”.
A Hollywood rock ‘n’ roll icon, during the 1970’s, she was one of the first punks in Los Angeles, documenting the scene she helped create in her fanzine Lobotomy, which lead to writing for the top mainstream rock publications. During the 1980’s, she toured fronting her three bands, all of whom released multiple recordings: The Screaming Sirens, The Ringling Sisters and Honk If Yer Horny. Concurrently, she was the talent booker for the seminal Los Angeles “alternative” clubs Cathay De Grande and Raji’s.
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Jerome Alexandre - The Deadcuts, Andi Sex Gang, Black Bordello
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Jerome Alexandre - The Deadcuts, Andi Sex Gang, Black Bordello - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Deadcuts are an English post punk group formed in 2012 by former Senseless Things front man, Mark Keds (vocals/guitar) and Jerome Alexandre (guitar/backing vocals.
Currently playing with the Andi Sex Gang and Black Bordello
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Andi Sex Gang
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Andi Sex Gang in conversation with David Eastaugh
Sex Gang Children are an early gothic rock and post-punk band that formed in early 1982 in Brixton in London, England. Although the original group only released one official studio album, their singles and various other tracks have been packaged into numerous collections, and they remain one of the more well-known bands of the early Batcave scene and have reformed for new albums and touring at various times since the early 1990s.
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Rob Miller - Amebix & Tau Cross
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Rob Miller - Amebix & Tau Cross - in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.castlekeep.co.uk
English musician and swordsmith. Beginning his musical career in 1978, he is primarily known as the lead vocalist and bass player of pioneering crust punkband Amebix. He also plays in the international supergroup Tau Cross.
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Party Day with Carl Firth
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Party Day with Carl Firth in conversation with David Eastaugh
Party Day were an English goth/indie rock band formed in 1981 in Wombwell near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, originally a four-piece consisting of guitarists Martin Steele, Greg Firth, bassist Carl Firth and drummer, Mick Baker. Their sound was described as being "hard knuckleduster goth with post-punk overtones".
The band were formerly called 'Further Experiments' (1979–81)[2] but refocussed as Party Day. They released their first single, "Row the Boat Ashore" c/w "Poison" on their own label, Party Day Records in 1983, and was well reviewed - "their simpering and delightful sound is a thing of beauty".
Their second single, "The Spider" was described as "Excellent punk junk howl" and was played on John Peel's BBC Radio 1. We shall hopefully continue to see them rip up the roots of this bland desolate music industry.
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Thursday May 06, 2021
Clan of Xymox with Ronny Moorings
Thursday May 06, 2021
Thursday May 06, 2021
Clan of Xymox with Ronny Moorings in conversation with David Eastaugh
Clan of Xymox, also known as simply Xymox, are a Dutch rock band formed in 1981. Clan of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters – Ronny Moorings, Anka Wolbert, and Pieter Nooten and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on 4AD, before releasing their third and fourth albums on Wing Records and scoring a hit single in the United States. Their 1980s releases included synthpop/electronic dance music. The band is still active, continuing to tour and release records with Moorings the sole remaining original songwriter.