Terry Newman in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/marilyn-monroe-style/ Marilyn Monroe Style celebrates Marilyn’s impact on fashion by revealing the influence of her many iconic looks. Her wardrobe encompassed sensual femininity as well as low-key minimalism. Outfits span from shimmering showpieces such as the Jea…

Jim Walters in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/DasDamenOfficial The band was formed in 1984 by Jim Walters (vocals, guitar), Alex Totino (guitar, vocals), Phil Leopold von Trapp (bass, vocals), and Lyle Hysen (drums). Totino and Hysen were previously in the New York hardcore band The Misguided. Das Damen released their sel…

Colin Gregory in conversation with David Eastaugh https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-028-one-thousand-violins-john-peel-session-021286 https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-027-one-thousand-violins-john-peel-session-250985Di thec86show

Leah Andreone in conversation with David Eastaugh Andreone's first album, Veiled, produced by Rick Neigher, was released by RCA in 1996. It included the hit single "It's Alright, It's OK", which charted in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. It was introspective whereas her next album, Alchemy, was more sexual and intimate. Andreone's lyrics are often…

Paul Rappaport in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gliders-Over-Hollywood-Airships-Promotion/dp/191682918X Gliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed ‘Rap’ who grew up in thrall to rock’n’roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes’ lives as he became the m…

Craig Wedren in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.craigwedren.com/ American singer-songwriter, musician and composer, who began his career fronting post-hardcore band Shudder to Think. Following the disbandment of Shudder to Think, Wedren pursued a career as a television and film music composer, as well as releasing solo material.…

Sharon Smith in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.ideanow.online/cameragirl https://store.magalleria.co.uk/products/camera-girl-sharon-smith In New York in 1979, Sharon was a 28- year-old photographer who walked into the Ritz, an East Village club that was the center of the New Wave music scene. She went on to work at the Savoy, the Red …

Jon Ronson in conversation with David Eastaugh http://jonronson.com/ In the late 1980s, Ronson replaced Mark Radcliffe as the keyboard player for the Frank Sidebottom band for a number of performances. Ronson was the manager of the Manchester indie band The Man from DelmonteDi thec86show

Justin K Broadrick in conversation with David Eastaugh https://jesu.bandcamp.com/ https://avalancherecordings.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/officialgodflesh Best known as the lead singer and a founding member of the band Godflesh, followed by Jesu. He was briefly in the English grindcore band Napalm Death when he was a teenager in the mid-…

Simon Barber in conversation with David Eastaugh https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-049-the-chesterfields-janice-long-session-060187 https://simonchesterfield.bandcamp.com/album/simon-chesterfield PRE 049: THE CHESTERFIELDS – Janice Long session 06.01.87 Leading lights among the generation of indie pop outfits that thrived in…

Amy Rigby in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amyrigby.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-City-Memoir-Amy-Rigby After playing with several New York bands she began a solo career, recording several albums which had only modest sales despite enthusiastic reviews. She settled into a career of touring while raising a daughter, then formed a…

John McKay in conversation with David Eastaugh https://thejohnmckay.bandcamp.com/album/sixes-and-sevens McKay's influence lives on; many of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades credit him as a major influence - Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2's The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr and even th…

Angela Jaeger in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feel-Famous-Punk-Diaries-1977-1981/dp/1955125570 I Feel Famous: Punk Diaries 1977-1981 is a girl’s coming of age story set to the pulse of punk rock. The book tracks 17-year-old Angela Jaeger’s exciting discovery of punk music and its accompanying lifestyle in 1977. A music …

Brian Nevill in conversation with David Eastaugh Since the 80's he has worked with many artists including Shriekback, Pigbag, Kirsty MacColl, Pete Molinari, Luc Van Acker, Virginia Astley, Big Joe Louis & His Blues Kings, Ronnie Dawson, Planet Rockers, Ray Sharpe, Eddie Angel, Neanderthals, Sonny George, Holly Golightly, Carl Sonny Leyland, Teddy P…

Sue Tilley in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leigh-Bowery-Life-Times-Icon/dp/034069310X Bowery's closest friend, Sue Tilley recounts the life of Leigh Bowery, the costume designer and performer who posed for the painter Lucien Freud. The biography follows Bowery's life from his arrival in London in 1981 to his death from …

Thomas Walsh in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pugwashtheband.bandcamp.com/ https://westhampsteadarts.com/events/ Pugwash are an Irish pop band fronted by Drimnagh-born musician Thomas Walsh. Pugwash has released six albums since its debut LP Almond Tea in 1999. Influences on the band's sound are regularly cited as including XTC, Electric…

John Aizlewood in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.johnaizlewood.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joy-Division-New-Order-Decades The definitive illustrated story of Joy Division + New Order. There’s no template for making it as a globally successful pop group. Some of the ingredients remain constant and beyond the music, there’s a mix’n’mat…

Boris Williams in conversation with David Eastaugh https://vamberator.bandcamp.com/ Boris Williams was present during the Cure's most successful period and is often cited by fans as the best drummer in the band's history. Vamberator - From the dying embers of Shelleyan orphan (with the late Caroline Crawley), jem Tayle plucks out its heart, and alo…

Richard Dudanski in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Squat-City-Rocks-protopunk-beyond This musical memoir traces the author’s life in the corrugated-iron clad ruins of West London’s Squat Land during the two years immediately prior to the Punk Explosion of ’76, playing with Strummer’s seminal garage band “The 101’ers” in t…

Andy Saunders in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.velocitypr.co.uk/ Andy Saunders joined Creation in 1992 as a press officer and remained with the label until the end. He now runs a company called Velocity PR. Velocity Communications has been the leading provider of corporate communications to the music industry for over 20 years.…

Alan Childs in conversation with David Eastaugh https://soundcloud.com/alan-childs-4 Originally from New York City, now lives in Las Vegas - worked with Julian Lennon, toured with David Bowie on the Glass Spider Tour and is currently on tour with John WaiteDi thec86show

John Etheridge in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.john-etheridge.com/ https://softmachine.org/ John Etheridge is an English jazz fusion guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music. He is best known for his work with Soft Machine from 1…

Alan Tyler in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.alantyler.com/ https://alantyler.bandcamp.com/merch/how-to-never-have-a-hit-the-confessions-of-an-unsuccessful-singer-songwriter Alan Tyler is the singer of The Rockingbirds, the chaotic, swashbuckling country-rockers who galloped haphazardly into the 90s Camden indie scene, got signed, appe…

Roque Ruiz in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/ http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/ "Indiepop label purveying the sound of jangly guitars based in Astoria, NY. Far away from the hipsters."Di thec86show

Aaron Tanner in conversation with David Eastaugh https://officialmerchandise.store/collections/melodic-virtue https://www.melodicvirtue.com/collections/books/products/cardiacs Compiled and designed by Aaron Tanner, Cardiacs: A Big Book and a Band and Whole World Window spans the group’s formative years as Cardiac Arrest to their last single, Ditzy …