Episodes

Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Craig Gannon - The Smiths, The Bluebells, Terry Hall & Aztec Camera
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Craig Gannon in conversation with David Eastaugh
Gannon had played in bands with friends since he was 12 years old, and in 1983 joined Aztec Camera after replying to an ad in Melody Maker. In 1984 he briefly joined The Colourfield, and went on to join The Bluebells.
After another brief stint in The Colourfield, when bass player Andy Rourke was fired from The Smiths in early 1986, Gannon was hired to replace him. Within a fortnight, however, Rourke was reinstated and Gannon moved to rhythm guitar becoming the official fifth member, playing on the "Panic" and "Ask" singles and touring the UK, Canada and the US with the band. Gannon also played on the scrapped single "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby", which was included on The World Won't Listen compilation album. After the tour ended in October 1986, Gannon was no longer part of the line-up. Gannon has been affectionately known thereafter as "the Fifth Smith".

Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Mark Saunders - Part Two
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Mark Saunders in conversation with David Eastaugh
Mark Saunders is a British record producer and audio engineer who has worked on a number of albums since the 1980s, with artists including the Cure, David Byrne, Erasure, and Tricky.

Sunday Sep 06, 2020
The Mighty Lemon Drops with David Newton
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
The Mighty Lemon Drops with David Newton in conversation with David Eastaugh
Originally called the Sherbet Monsters, the quartet first formed in the spring of 1985 in Wolverhampton, in The Black Country. Paul Marsh, Dave Newton and Tony Linehan had played together in a band called Active Restraint in 1982, with Newton later leaving to become a founding member of the Wild Flowers. Dave Newton and Tony Linehan were the principal songwriters for the group. Their sound can best be described as a more psychedelia-influenced post-punk, played with a ringing Rickenbacker guitar as the lead instrument. They drew comparisons to Echo and the Bunnymen, who were also influenced by psychedelia.
After losing original drummer Martin Gilks (later to join the Wonder Stuff), the Drops line-up settled as Paul Marsh (vocals), David Newton (guitar), Tony Linehan (bass), and Keith Rowley (drums). In December 1985 the quartet, now officially the Mighty Lemon Drops, released their first independent single "Like an Angel", on Daniel Treacy of Television Personalities' Dreamworld Records label which went to the top of the UK Indie Chart and sold 14,000 copies. They also recorded a session for John Peel around the same time. Becoming part of the C86 movement, which was championed by the New Musical Express, they were soon snapped up by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade for his new Blue Guitar label, a subsidiary of Chrysalis Records. They signed with Sire Records for the United States and Canada around the same period. Derek Jarman produced the video for the "Out of Hand" single in 1987 which was followed by their hit "Inside Out" in 1988.

Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Max's Kansas City special with Peter Crowley
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Max's Kansas City special with Peter Crowley in conversation with David Eastaugh
Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South in New York City, which became a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s. It was opened by Mickey Ruskin (1933–1983) in December 1965 and closed in 1981.

Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Bill Carey special - Crash, Something Pretty Beautiful & The Stick Figures
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Bill Carey special talking about life in music with David Eastaugh
Songwriter, guitarist, engineer and producer. Spent his early years in Florida where he formed The Stick Figures, he was also an original member of King Of Culture and NEMB. Relocated to New York City in 1981, where he joined Crash. Moved to London in 1986, where he formed Something Pretty Beautiful and later Gone Walkers. Currently living in Florida and fronting Gone Walkers and Agent 13.

Monday Aug 31, 2020
Jarboe special - Swans & World of Skin
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Jarboe special - Swans & World of Skin - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Between 1985 and 1996, she worked as a vocalist and keyboardist in the band, appearing on albums including Children of God (1987), The Burning World (1989), and Soundtracks for the Blind (1996). Jarboe's inclusion in the band marked a departure from their previous noise rock sound to a more melodic industrial and even folk rock sound. She also collaborated with Gira, forming their side project, The World of Skin in 1987, releasing several albums and singles.
Jarboe left Swans in 1997 when the band broke up and embarked on a solo career, releasing various experimental records (many of which she has self-released and distributed over the internet)[10] including Sacrificial Cake (1995) and Anhedoniac (1998). She has continued to self-release solo albums and, despite not returning to the group, recorded vocals for two tracks on the re-formed Swans' album, The Seer (2012).
Jarboe completed a world tour in the autumn/winter of 2013, with Veil of Thorns' P. Emerson Williams on guitar. She released an experimental soundscape album, With Sun Falling, with Veil of Thorns in June 2015.

Friday Aug 28, 2020
Annie Anxiety or Little Annie special
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Annie Anxiety special - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Little Annie began singing at the age of 16 with her band 'Annie and the Asexuals', formed in 1977. Upon moving to the UK in 1981 at the invitation of Steve Ignorant, she began working with Penny Rimbaud and Crass.
She then went on to become the house chanteuse for Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound Records, including the recording of three solo albums Soul Possession, Short & Sweet, and Jackamo. During this time she also recorded with The Wolfgang Press, Current 93, Coil,Nurse With Wound, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Bim Sherman,[2] CL Stealers, Swans, Kid Congo Powers,Fini Tribe, and wrote for the late Bim Sherman, Paul Oakenfold, Gary Clail, and Living Color.

Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Mark Saunders special
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Mark Saunders - record producer in conversation with David Eastaugh
In 1984, Mark landed a job as an assistant at West Side Studios, London working with renowned production pair Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley who had great success producing Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Elvis Costello and later Bush.

Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Vic Godard & Subway Sect special
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Vic Godard & Subway Sect special - in conversation with David Eastaugh
In 1976, Godard formed Subway Sect with three other fans of the Sex Pistols at the suggestion of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who wanted another band for the line-up of the 100 Club Punk Festival. Despite their inexperience, Subway Sect made a successful debut at the festival and were taken on by Clash manager Bernie Rhodes. They appeared with The Clash on the White Riot Tour in 1977 and released their debut single, "Nobody's Scared"/"Don't Split It", in March 1978. While recording their debut album at Gooseberry Studios, Rhodes suddenly fired the entire band except for Godard. Two tracks from the album's recording sessions, "Ambition"/"Different Story", were released by Rough Trade Records; the single was a major hit on the alternative charts.

Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Tim Palmer special - discussing The Mission, David Bowie, Pearl Jam & much more
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Tim Palmer special - discussing The Mission, David Bowie, Pearl Jam & much more - with David Eastaugh
Palmer started his career in London. In the early 1980s, Palmer was an assistant engineer at Utopia Studios in London where he worked with musicians such as Mark Knopflerand Dead or Alive. By age 21, he had his first number one single, mixing "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" (1986) for Cutting Crew.
In the latter half of the 1980s, Palmer became a producer, and his ears and technical knowledge contributed to groups such as the Mighty Lemon Drops, The Mission, with whom he worked for several years, and Gene Loves Jezebel. In 1988, Palmer produced Now and Zen for rock singer Robert Plant (Top 10 U.S. album) as well as Tin Machine, David Bowie's debut LP with Tin Machine in 1989.

Monday Aug 24, 2020
The Vibrators with John Ellis
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
The Vibrators special with John Ellis in conversation with David Eastaugh
Ellis was a co-founder of the pub rock band Bazooka Joe in 1970 and a founding member of the punk rock band The Vibrators. He formed The Vibrators in 1976 while still at art school studying illustration. The Vibrators released two albums with Ellis and toured extensively. Ellis left the Vibrators in 1978 to form the short-lived group Rapid Eye Movement, before embarking on a solo career in 1979, releasing a couple of singles, one of which, "Babies in Jars" (a live Rapid Eye Movement recording) reached #34 on the UK Indie Chart.[2][3]
In 1980, Ellis toured with Peter Gabriel on his "Tour of China 1984", and he appears on the album Peter Gabriel 4. From 1982 onwards, he recorded a number of albums with Peter Hammill, and toured with Hammill (off and on) from 1981 until 1989. From 1981 until 1984, he was a member of the K Group with Peter Hammill. Hammill was "K" (on vocals, piano and guitar), Nic Potter was "Mozart" (on bass guitar), Guy Evans was "Brain" (on drums), and Ellis was "Fury" (on backing vocals and guitar).[4] The Peter Hammill album The Margin is a registration of live-concerts by the K group.
Between late 1990 and 2000, Ellis was a member of the punk rock band The Stranglers, starting with the album Stranglers in the Night.[1] During that period he also created music for European Art exhibitions and several short films. Ellis left the Stranglers in 2000. He is an exponent of the E-bow guitar.
Ellis has contributed to the recordings of Judge Smith, a founding member of Van der Graaf Generator.
In 2005, Ellis formed a community organisation called 'The Luma Group', that delivers arts based training and workshops.
In 2009, Ellis started his own record label, Chanoyu Records, in order to release his own music. The first release was Wabi Sabi 21©, an album of electronic instrumentals inspired by the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Monday Aug 24, 2020
Glass Records with David Barker
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Glass Records special with David Barker in conversation with David Eastaugh
Glass was one of the key London-based indie labels of the 1980s. Early releases focused on artists from Northampton (Religious Overdose, Where's Lisse & The Jazz Butcher), and the Midlands (Bron Area & In Embrace). The label released several records by artists having later associations with other London-based indies: Creation Records (The Jazz Butcher and Nikki Sudden & the Jacobites) ; Fire Records (Spacemen 3 and The Perfect Disaster). Glass's mainstay acts were The Pastels, In Embrace and The Jazz Butcher. The label also issued material by Bauhaus member David J, and American punk band The Replacements, and the influential Liverpool Ur-grunge Walkingseeds.
Founder David Barker went on to work for Fire Records, creating the Paperhouse label, taking the Walkingseeds with him, and releasing the first Teenage Fanclub album, then moving to Creation Records for 2 years.

Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Frazier Chorus & Client special with Kate Lucy Holmes
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Frazier Chorus & Client special with Kate Lucy Holmes in conversation with David Eastaugh
Frazier Chorus were a pop group from Brighton, England. A pop group without the usual guitarist, bassist or drummer; they instead utilised flute, clarinet, bongos and hushed vocals.

Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Hagar The Womb with Karen Amsden
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Hagar The Womb special with Karen Amsden in conversation with David Eastaugh
Hagar the Womb are an English punk rock band, active between 1981-1987. They re-formed in 2011 and the band is ongoing. Part of the Anarcho-Punk movement. Members went on to form We are Going to Eat You and Melt. The band play regular gigs and punk festivals and are on All The Madmen record label.

Thursday Aug 20, 2020
This Heat with Charles Hayward
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
This Heat special with Charles Hayward in conversation with David Eastaugh
This Heat were an English experimental rock band, formed in early 1976 in Camberwell, London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes).
This Heat were active in the ascendancy of British punk rock and post-punk, but stood apart from those scenes due to an experimental, confrontational, and politically charged approach. This Heat's commercial success was limited, and their discography consisted of only two albums and an EP, but in later years the band have been widely considered a link between early 1970s music styles such as krautrock and later experimental genres such as industrial music and post-rock.

Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Rob Duprey discussing Iggy Pop, The Mumps & much more
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Rob Duprey discussing life with Iggy Pop, The Mumps & much more with David Eastaugh
Rob Duprey is an American rock guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with Iggy Pop.
Duprey was also a guitarist for the mid-1970s New York City underground pop band Mumps, led by Lance Loud and Kristian Hoffman

Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
The Sundays special with Patrick Hannan
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Patrick Hannan in conversation with David Eastaugh - talking about life in The Sundays, Arnold, the audience & much much more
Wheeler had played gigs with Cruel Shoes, an early incarnation of the band Jim Jiminee. The duo soon augmented the band with bassist Paul Brindley and drummer Patrick Hannan.
The Sundays secured a recording contract with Rough Trade Records. Their debut single was "Can't Be Sure". Their first album, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, was released in 1990, along with their next single "Here's Where the Story Ends". The album was a UK Top 5 hit.

Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Alan McGee special
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Alan McGee in conversation with David Eastaugh
record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian. He co-founded the independent Creation Records label, running it from 1983 until its closure in 1999. He subsequently founded the Poptones label, running it from 1999 to 2007. He has managed or championed acts such as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis, and The Libertines. He was also the lead singer and guitarist for the indie pop group Biff Bang Pow!, who were active from 1983 to 1991.

Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Peter Bonas - Peter Murphy, Jim Capaldi, The Hundred Men, Zen Attack
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Peter Bonas special - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Played with the likes of Peter Murphy, Jim Capaldi, The Hundred Men, Zen Attack and now Fran Pegg & The Blu Band

Thursday Aug 13, 2020
The Jazz Butcher with Pat Fish
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
The Jazz Butcher special with Pat Fish in conversation with David Eastaugh
The band was formed in Oxford in 1982 by Pat Fish and Max Eider. The début album in Bath of Bacon was released by Glass Records in 1983. A second album A Scandal in Bohemia, also on Glass, featured guest appearances from David J and Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus. After four albums, and two singles collections for Glass, Fish signed to Creation Records in 1988, releasing eight albums on the label, culminating in 1995's Illuminate.