C86 Show - Indie Pop
Channelling the spirit of Indie Pop!
Episodes
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.
Nick Hobbs in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://soundcloud.com/nikolaigalen
https://www.youtube.com/user/nikolaigalen/featured
The Shrubs were an English rock music group, formed in 1985, releasing three albums before splitting up in 1989.
Shrubs contributed Bullfighters Bones to the NME's famous C86 album.
A further 12", Blackmailer followed towards the end of the year, with debut album Take Me Aside for a Midnight Har...
Mike Howlett in conversation with David Eastaugh
Howlett was the bassist in Sydney pop band the Affair, which included vocalist Kerrie Biddell. The group travelled to England after winning a prize in the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds band competition. Howlett settled in London and in 1973 joined renowned British progressive rock group Gong, which had been founded by an Australian Daevid Allen. He remained with Gong until 1977, rec...
Michael Kerr in conversation with David Eastaugh
The band consisted of Alex Taylor (vocals, formerly of Shop Assistants), Paul McDermott (drums), Michael Kerr (guitar), and Eddy Connelly (bass) (all formerly of Meat Whiplash), and David "Scottie" Scott (guitar). They were signed by Rough Trade Records, who issued their debut s...
Zander Schloss in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/zander.schloss
http://www.circlejerks.net/Home/
https://www.blindowlsd.com/zander-schloss
American musician, actor and composer. He is known as bass player for the Circle Jerks, the Weirdos, his many collaborations with Joe Strummer musically and in film and for his contributions to independent feature films.
His first screen appearance was as "Kevin the Ne...
Gail Petersen in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.thecatholicgirls.net/
The Catholic Girls are a hard rocking all female band from New Jersey. The Catholic Girls are: Gail Petersen (lead vocals/rhythm guitar) Roxy Andersen (lead guitar/backing vocals) Doreen Holmes (drums and percussion)
Bob Bert in conversation with David Eastaugh
Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, Bert initially came to prominence as drummer for the experimental rock band Sonic Youth during the early to mid-1980s. Bert played on the Sonic Youth releases Confusion Is Sex, Sonic Death, and Bad Moon Rising. After Bad Moon Rising, Bert quit the group.
Bert contributed during the last half of the 1980s as percussionist for noise band Pussy Galore.
Casino Steel in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/casinosteel
https://www.theboys.co.uk
The Hollywood Brats were a British glam rock and protopunk band in the early 1970s. They found little commercial success at the time, and split up in 1974, but are regarded as influential on the later punk rock scene.
Peter Holsapple in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://peter-holsapple.bandcamp.com/album/the-face-of-68
https://label51recordings.com/peter-holsapple/
American musician who, along with Chris Stamey, formed the dB's. He became the band's principal songwriter and singer after Stamey's departure. The band, with Stamey back in the fold, reformed with new material in 2005–2006.
After the dB's disbanded in 1988, Holsapple played as...
Markus Zizenbacher in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2916/
A blazingly colourful and exuberantly transgressive personality who dazzled Los Angeles' underground musical and artistic scenes in the late-1990s and 2000s, Sean DeLear (1964-2017) suddenly emerged as a genuinely seminal cultural figure via the posthumous 2022 publication of their intimate and explicit teenage diaries from 1979. ...
Jonathan Segel in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.jonathansegel.com/
https://campervanbeethoven.com/home
Segel joined the indie rock group Camper Van Beethoven in 1984, while in college at Santa Cruz. His contributions as violinist became the band's hallmark, creating a distinctive identity and sound
n addition to the revived Camper Van Beethoven, Segel records solo projects and leads the Jonathan Segel band, performs ...
Patrick Dougher in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.godbodyart.com/new-page-3
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/patrick-dougher/concrete-dreamland/9780316571043/
https://lionsgatesound88.bandcamp.com/album/algorhythm
Born in Brooklyn in 1963, Patrick Dougher grew up in some of the most turbulent and culturally impactful periods of NYC's history. Often neglected as a child by his parents-a father who struggled wit...
Peter Coyne in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.thegodfathersofficial.com/
2025 sees The Godfathers celebrate the historic milestone of the 40th anniversary since their formation with multiple record releases as well as tours & festivals across the UK, Europe and around the world.An 18-track compilation entitled Electric Déjà Vu featuring numbers personally selected by The Godfathers’ founder and frontman Peter Coyn...
Brian Bilston in conversation with David Eastaugh
Bilston has published three collections of verse, You Took the Last Bus Home (2016); Alexa, What Is There to Know About Love? (2021); and Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems (2022). He has also written a book of foot...
Jeff Trott in conversation with David Eastaugh
Perhaps most well-known for his collaborations with American singer Sheryl Crow, having co-written some of her biggest hits, including "If It Makes You Happy", "Everyday Is a Winding Road", and "Soak Up the Sun"; he also produced tracks on her albums C'mon, C'mon, Wildflower, Be Myself, and Threads. Trott won the BMI Songwriter of the Year award in 1998.
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David Walker in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/groups/952963613406389
https://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=2806
Manchester-based indie four-piece, active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Three members went on to form Brassy.
Robert Dean in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://lightofdaycr.bandcamp.com/album/dimensions
https://vivabeat.bandcamp.com/album/the-house-is-burning-the-best-of-vivabeat
https://vivabeat.bandcamp.com/album/party-in-the-war-zone-expanded
https://robertdeanmartinbirke.bandcamp.com/album/triptych
Perhaps best known as the original guitarist in the British band Japan.
Upon leaving the group after the "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" a...
Dominic Silvani in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/people/Dominic-Silvani-Music/100037388325690/
Formed by Dominic Silvani, Penelope's Web were around for some years between the mid 80's - early 90's. During that time the band released two 12" singles. 'The Gap' EP was put out on their own label in 1987. At the end of the 80's the band signed to Cherry Red for their second EP which was released eventually ...
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