C86 Show - Indie Pop
Channelling the spirit of Indie Pop!
Episodes
Rob Janicke in conversation with David Eastaugh
HAVE I GOT A LITTLE STORY FOR YOU...
The year was 1984. I was eleven years old and popular music was in a state of confusion. Along with songs by artists I liked such as Van Halen, Prince, Quiet Riot, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, and The Police, Top 40 radio constantly played songs from bands or artists that didn't quite do it for me. Apologies to Kenny Loggi...
Jon Klein in conversation with David Eastaugh
In 1980, he formed Bristol band Specimen with Ollie Wisdom and Kev Mills. In 1982, after moving in London and renting a place in Soho, Klein co-founded with Wisdom the club the Batcave, which was a party on Wednesday nights at The Gargoyle. Klein and Wisdom then opened a Batcave club night in New-York.
In 1987, he became a full-time member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. He recorded three...
Howard Wuelfing in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.diwulf.com/products/available-for-presale-descenes-and-discords-an-anthology
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John Ellerby in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.waveneyclarion.co.uk/
The Waveney Clarion was a unique publication, born of the Barsham Fairs. A monthly magazine, it hammered away for eleven years at social injustice, music, ecology, beer, art and the best type of potato to grow on your allotment.
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Mark Brend in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://jawbonepress.com/down-river/
Down River: In Search Of David Ackles is an illuminating study of mythmaking, the popular music industry, and a forgotten enigma of the 1970s.
In 1972, David Ackles’s third album, American Gothic, was released to a flurry of press plaudits declaring it to be ‘the Sgt Pepper of folk’ and one of the greatest records ever made. Yet the album, like its t...
Paul Da Vinci in conversation with David Eastaugh
Paul Da Vinci is best known as the "incredible" voice on the Rubettes' number one selling single "Sugar Baby Love", which sold over 8 million copies world-wide featuring his three and a half octave voice. Paul sang all the lead vocals on the record, including t...
Jamie James in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://shop.bandwear.com/collections/oglio-records-shop/products/ogl048
James was initially known as the leader and founder of the rockabilly trio The Kingbees, active between 1978 and 1982. The group included drummer Rex Roberts and bassist Michael Rummans. The Kingbees recorded two albums with David J. Holman, producing on RSO. The first, titled The Kingbees, (released March 1980)...
Joe Boyd in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roots-Rhythm-Remain-Journey-Through
Gerard Langley & Chris Sharp in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.theblueaeroplanes.com/
The Blue Aeroplanes first performed under that name at the King Street Art Gallery in Bristol in 1981. They consisted mainly of former members of Art Objects, with the addition of Nick Jacobs, former guitarist and vocalist of Southampton band the Exploding Seagulls.
The Blue Aeroplanes' first album, Bop Art was released on their...
Cara Tivey in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread
https://carativey.bandcamp.com
Cara Tivey joined Birmingham band Au Pairs as keyboard player in 1983. In 1985, Tivey got her first recording break with Everything But the Girl on Baby the Stars Shine Bright.
In 1988, she started working with Billy Bragg on the Workers Playtime album, singing vocals on "Mus...
Alan Williams in conversation with David Eastaugh
The Rubettes' first and biggest hit was "Sugar Baby Love" (1974) which was a number one in the United Kingdom, going on to sell around 500,000 copies in the UK and three million copies globally. With three more songs, "Sugar Baby Love" was recorded in October 1973 at Lansdowne Studios in Holland Park, London. "Sugar Baby Love" was their only UK No. 1 and sole US Top 40 entry.
Brixton Key
Brixton Key was born in 1950’s London to a party-loving mum and an errant scallywag dad. As a small boy, he fell in love with the sound of his elder brother’s Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf’s Chess records, Charles Dickens novels, Edith Sitwell poems. causing continual mischief and on the bombsites surrounding his parents central London pub.
Now longhaired and Kings Road dressed, Brixton copped...
Martin Porter & David Goggin in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buzz-Me-Inside-Record-studios/dp/0500028699
Strap yourself in and take a helter-skelter ride through more than a decade’s worth of high drama, hedonism, high tech and musical genius as told by the insiders at the heart of Record Plant studios, one of the most prolific recording factories of all time, founded in 1968 by charismatic audio en...
Rolf Brendel in conversation with David Eastaugh
The band was formed in 1981 when vocalist Gabriele Kerner (Nena) came to West Berlin with drummer Rolf Brendel, her boyfriend at the time.
The band wrote all of their songs themselves, typically working in pairs. They became overnight sensations in Germany when they performed their debut single "Nur geträumt" on German TV in August 1982
Philip Sanderson in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://snatchtapes.bandcamp.com/
Storm Bugs are a post-punk band formed in 1978 in Deptford, London, by Philip Sanderson and Steven Ball who had met in the Medway Towns, England. The band have been linked to a number of genres including: cassette culture, industrial music and DIY. Storm Bugs were initially active between 1978–82 and defying gravity reformed in 2001.
After moving...
Mark Flunder in conversation with David Eastaugh
The McTells - Formed in 1985 in Hertford, UK. Initially a 4 piece comprising Paul Rixon on guitar and vocal, Bill on guitar, Stuart on bass, Mark Flunder from the Television Personalities on stand up drums. Bill later left to form The Big Paintings but the rest of the band continued as a three piece releasing records on Pauls own Bi-Joopiter label and on Frank, K, Little Teddy Recor...
Kavus Torabi in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://kavustorabi.bandcamp.com/album/the-banishing
https://theutopiastrong.bandcamp.com/album/the-utopia-strong
Musician, composer, record label owner and radio broadcaster. A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his work in the psychedelic, avant-garde rock field (primarily as a guitarist). Torabi was one of the founding members of the Monsoon Basso...
Deb Googe in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread
English musician, who achieved international fame as the bassist for the band My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) established Googe as a pioneering figure in the shoegaze genre. She has also worked with Snowpony, Primal Scream and Thurston Moore.
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