Episodes
3 days ago
Michael Kastelic - The Cynics
3 days ago
3 days ago
Michael Kastelic in conversation with David
https://www.facebook.com/thecynics/
American garage rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The band, at the time consisting of guitarist Gregg Kostelich, drummer Bill Von Hagen, vocalist Michael Kastelic who joined in 1985, bass player Steve Magee, and keyboardist Becky Smith (later founder of New York City's Bellwether gallery), debuted with their first album, Blue Train Station in 1986. Many of their songs "carry the torch" for other favorite bands as cover songs or tributes. They underwent a number of lineup changes culminating in 1989's Rock and Roll album. They formed their own independent record label called Get Hip Records in 1986.
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
The Bambi Slam - Roy
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Roy in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gDxQ0FudI
The Bambi Slam were a UK based Canadian-British quartet with an unusual instrumental lineup of guitar, cello, bass, drums, led by singer/guitarist Roy and featuring cellist Linda Miller and drummer Nick Maynard. By the time of the release of the first full-length album, The Bambi Slam, in 1988, the group had splintered, leaving the Bambi Slam as a Feldon solo project. (The album credit reads, "Written, produced, arranged and performed by Roy," though former group members also contributed.)
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
John Sparrow - Violent Femmes
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
John Sparrow in conversation with David Eastaugh
Long-time drummer and percussionist of iconic folk punk band Violent Femmes, John Sparrow has spent his life steeped in a wild mélange of music.
John joined Violent Femmes in 2005 as a member of the Horns of Dilemma, playing cajon. In 2016 he made his drumming debut with the band, playing a Weber Grill as part of his drum kit on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Several other notable performances with Violent Femmes include headlining Coachella, as well as orchestral engagements with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, and Kansas City Symphony Orchestra.
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Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Andy Shernoff - The Dictators
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Andy Shernoff in conversation with David Eastaugh
Founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and keyboards, and sang backing vocals and occasional leads. He has been involved with a variety of other musical projects, most notably the heavily Dictators-populated Manitoba's Wild Kingdom and Joey Ramone's first studio album, Don't Worry About Me.
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Ali Smith - Speedball Baby
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Ali Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.alismith.com/
https://www.blackstoneindie.com/the-ballad-of-speedball-baby-gkno.html#541=2790081
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/05/ali-smiths-90s-new-york-punk-scene-in-pictures
The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith―coming of age in ’90s New York―who commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse to comply.
As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to.
She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world―from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene full of addiction, violence, and misogyny―all while keeping her sharp wit and dark humor intact.
Rimmed with heavy black eyeliner and smelling faintly of cheap booze, The Ballad of Speedball Baby is a pulse-quickening, unpredictable ride through the ’90s music scene―alternately terrifying, hilarious, and painfully evocative―as well as a love letter to the power of female solidarity.
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Larry Schemel - Death Valley Girls, Kill Sybil, Midnight Movies, The Flesh Eaters
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Larry Schemel in conversation with David Eastaugh
One time member of the Death Valley Girls - American rock band formed in 2013 in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of vocalist and keyboardist Bonnie Bloomgarden, guitarist Larry Schemel, bassist Sammy Westervelt, and drummer Rikki Styxx. Now entering a new musical phase.
Kill Sybil were a five piece from Seattle; three chicks and two dicks, as they liked to say. Girl-pop reverb hell on shitty equipment, powered by Schmidt beer. They started out as "Sybil", but had to change their name after their first single to avoid legal trouble from some soul singer with the same name
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Frank Secich - Blue Ash, Dead Boys, Stiv Bators & Club Wow
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Frank Secich in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.highvoltagepublishing.com/product/frank-secich-not-that-way-anymore
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-That-Anymore-Frank-Secich/dp/0994629060
Blue Ash is an American band, formed in Ohio in the summer of 1969 by bassist Frank Secich & vocalist Jim Kendzor. Guitarist Bill Yendrek and drummer David Evans were recruited later that summer.
The band debuted at "The Freak Out", a club in Youngstown, Ohio, on October 3, 1969. They gained a loyal following playing an endless stream of one-nighters over that year. In October 1970, Bill Yendrek, was replaced by guitarist/songwriter Bill "Cupid" Bartolin.
Blue Ash continued playing 250–300 dates a year throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia, while the songwriting team Frank Secich and Bill Bartolin accumulated an enormous amount of original material. In June 1972, Blue Ash signed a production contract with Peppermint Productions of Youngstown and started recording and sending out demos. In late 1972, they were signed to Mercury Records by A&R man Paul Nelson. Their first album No More, No Less was released in May 1973 and received rave reviews in the rock press. It is considered a power pop classic, and is regarded as highly collectible among fans of that genre
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Steve Almaas - Beat Rodeo & The Suicide Commandos
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Steve Almaas in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.discogs.com/artist/633930-Steve-Almaas
https://www.facebook.com/salmaas
The Suicide Commandos are an American punk rock trio from Minneapolis. They formed in 1975 and released two 7-inch EPs on an indie label in 1976 and 1977 before signing with Blank Records (a subsidiary label of Mercury Records) in 1977 and releasing one album, Make a Record. Despite their short original 4-year stint together, the Suicide Commandos are considered the pioneers for jump-starting a punk rock music scene in the Twin Cities, which eventually produced bands like The Suburbs, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements and Soul Asylum
Saturday Jan 06, 2024
Fifth Column - Caroline Azar & G.B. Jones
Saturday Jan 06, 2024
Saturday Jan 06, 2024
Caroline Azar & G.B. Jones in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYSvRgOMKKIY6SktAeGdFgg
Their first vinyl release was the 7" Boy-Girl EP produced in 1983 by Voicepondence Records.
The name of their first full-length recording To Sir With Hate was a play on the theme song from the British school film Produced by Michael Phillip Wojewoda, it is now considered a classic of Canadian music; at the 2016 Polaris Music Prize it was named a shortlisted nominee in the 1976-1985 category for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize, the 2017 Polaris Music Prize, and the 2018 Polaris Music Prize.
A song from this LP, "The Fairview Mall Story" was based on true events concerning media publication of the names of men arrested after being entrapped by police and was instrumental in paving the way for the emergence of the queercore scene. Their video for the song, directed by indie feature film director Steven Rumbelow, involved 50's images of men cruising in their new cars, shopping malls, and car crashes, was intercut with the band and go-go dancer Bruce La Bruce. A video for the song "Where Are they Now?" was also made, directed by Marc de Guerre.
Their live shows often included films played overtop of the band and a 'go-go' boy dancing. They were frequently accompanied by guest musicians who played instruments as varied as saxophone, trumpet, flute, or violin.
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Steve Parsons - Sharks
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Steve Parsons in conversation with David Eastaugh
Sharks are a British rock band formed in 1972 by former Free bassist Andy Fraser upon his departure from Free. They were signed to Island Records and were highly rated by critics, especially for Chris Spedding's guitar work.
The original line-up consisted of Fraser (bass, piano), Snips (real name, Steve Parsons) (vocals), Spedding (guitar) and Marty Simon (drums).
Steve Parsons and Anke Trojan directed the 2023 documentary Not a Rock-Doc: A Shark's Tail, about the ups and downs in the story of this band, from the success heights in the '70 to the issues that led to its dissolution and then to further insights around the subsequent reunion. Filmed in Berlin, Tokyo and London, the film was noticed for its integration of various angles of raw footage and for its humor and irony. The narrative is stirred by interactions with Steve Parsons and Chris Spedding, notably Jordan Mooney (Pamela Rooke) managing to bring to light previously unknown nuances in discussions with an otherwise tight Chris Spedding.
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Stephen Budd
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Stephen Budd in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.record-producers.com/
Stephen Budd is a British music industry executive based in London. He is a director of artist and producer management company Stephen Budd Music Ltd, the OneFest Festival, the Africa Express project and is the co-founder of the NH7 Weekender festivals in India. In June 2017 he completed his 3-year term as co-chairman of the MMF (Music Managers Forum). He is a co-executive producer of Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds' ‘Give A Home’ global concert series. His current management roster includes the artists Dry The River and Nubiyan Twist, along with the record producers Rob Ellis, Tore Johansson, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Nick Zinner, Mike Hedges, and Arthur Verocai.
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.
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Bob Andrews or Derwood Andrews - Generation X, Empire & Westworld
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Derwood Andrews in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://derwoodandrews1.bandcamp.com/
Guitarist, writer and founding member for- Generation X, Empire, Westworld, Dead Horse, Moondogg, Speedtwinn, Tone Poet and other glorious stuff...
In late 1976, Andrews was playing lead guitar with an band called Paradox. Whilst performing at a gig at the Fulham Arts Centre he was talent-spotted by the punk-rocker Billy Idol, who was at that time looking for a guitar player to complete the line-up of a new band that he had just formed that would be named Generation X.
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Mick Rossi - Slaughter & The Dogs
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Mick Rossi in conversation with David Eastaugh
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Legendary Slaughter & The Dogs guitarist Mick Rossi released solo album All The Saints and All The Souls in 2020 - his new album Gun St, named after the street where his family moved to in Ancoats in the 1930s, was released on Secret Records Ltd.
Slaughter and the Dogs are an English punk rock band formed in 1975 in Wythenshawe, Manchester. Their original line-up consisted of singer Wayne Barrett McGrath, rhythm guitar Mick Rossi, drummer Brian "Mad Muffet" Grantham, lead guitarist Mike Day and bassist Howard Bates.
Saturday Nov 11, 2023
The Newtown Neurotics - Steve Drewett
Saturday Nov 11, 2023
Saturday Nov 11, 2023
Steve Drewett in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.newtownneurotics.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvooaI5ePso
Formed in 1979 by Steve Drewett, they began like so many others to attempt to get their clumsy fingers around three chords and ape the Ramones who were their heroes. Sporting Joey Ramone length hair Steve would sneer at cries of "Bloody Hippie" from the audience but after a couple of numbers nobody cared they just went into pogo frenzy.
The early stuff from the band like "Hypocrite" and "When The Oil Runs out" singles were both great melodic punk songs on the type found in the early eighties but both were written prior to the election of the Thatcher monster.
The horror of this event changed what was the non-political writing style of Steve's lyrics into the other extreme, and so in June 1982 "Kick Out The Tories" was released on CNT records. This was a double "A" side shared with Mindless Violence as it was quite obvious that the political nature of "Tories" would prevent it some what from being Radio One's Tony Blackburn's single of the week!
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Crisis & Naevus - Lloyd James
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Lloyd James in conversation with David Eastaugh
English punk rock band formed in 1977. An openly left-wing and anti-fascist band, they performed at rallies for Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League, and at Right to Work marches.
https://naevus.bandcamp.com/
Naevus is a British experimental rock group. Formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Joanne Owen (bass, accordion), Naevus were often categorised as part of the ‘neo-folk’ genre. Their music has also drawn comparison with acts such as Swans and Wire, and often includes elements of industrial music.
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Jean Caffeine - Pulsallama
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Jean Cafffeine in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://jeancaffeine.bandcamp.com/album/sadie-saturday-nite
https://jeancaffeine.bandcamp.com/album/pulsallama-2
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Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Jacqueline Bradley - The Hellfire Club, Sophisticated Boom Boom & His Latest Flame
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Jacqueline Bradley in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Hellfire Club, Glasgow - Rehearsal space and recording studio which was active in the early 1980's. Operated by David Henderson and Jacqueline Bradley with help from Henderson's sister Jaine Henderson.
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Johnette Napolitano - Concrete Blonde
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Johnette Napolitano in conversation with David Eastaugh
In 1986, Napolitano co-founded Concrete Blonde with guitarist James Mankey. She sang and sometimes played bass guitar. The pair had worked together under a variety of names since 1982. They released seven studio albums between 1986 and 2004.
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
June Miles-Kingston in conversation with David Eastaugh
British singer and drummer, best known for her work with various successful bands and singers in the 1980s. She was a founding member of the post-punk group the Mo-dettes, which lasted from 1979 to 1982, and later became a session drummer and backing vocalist for a variety of British post-punk, new wave, and pop artists.