Richard Bellia in conversation with David Eastaugh https://richardbellia.com/ Photographer Richard Bellia was there when it mattered carrying his trusted camera to capture moments in music’s vast cannon of historical importance, some which now forms his own tapestry of work in Un œil sur la musique 1980-2016 i.e. An eye on music 1980-2016. The intr…

Graham Bonnet in conversation with David Eastaugh English rock singer. He has recorded and performed as a solo artist and as a member of several rocks bands including Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, and Impellitteri. He is known for his powerful singing voice but is capable of also singing soft melodies. In 1979, Bonnet was approached t…

Angel Eye in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.sunsofarqa.co.uk/ Suns of Arqa are a world music collective founded in 1979 by Michael Wadada. Since the group's formation, over 200 people from around the world have played and recorded with them, and in many cases these were like-minded musicians Wadada met as he travelled the world. Pione…

Alan Buckley in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyCcKAa35PE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayh-vWqDzBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ioIhmzGEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVfK1tbeGwk&list=PLcDwkXhr5uEwekhN-p-OKHqcY_cLxvWjR Mid 80s proto-janglers Here Comes Everybody inspired Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis) to buy hi…

Tot Taylor in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.tottaylor.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thgIeoqRyok https://www.riflemaker.org/ London-based songwriter, composer, record producer, author and art curator. He was a songwriter, singer, performer and band member throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties as well as composer of fi…

Chris Wilson in conversation with David Eastaugh guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, most known for his role as the lead singer of the San Francisco band the Flamin' Groovies, having replaced original singer Roy Loney in 1971. With Wilson on lead vocals, the band released their influential 1976 album Shake Some Action. His song "Shake Some Action"…

Mark Hoyle in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.route-online.com/all-books/swerve https://dubsex.net/about Dub Sex are often cited as one of Manchester’s greatest ‘lost’ bands. Formed in the concrete landscape of 1980s Hulme, their music is appropriately raw and intense, bass-led with wiry guitar patterns swirling around the impassioned …

Lenny Helsing in conversation with David Eastaugh https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-048-the-green-telescope-andy-kershaw-session-230186 Forerunners to The Thanes, The Green Telescope started out in 1981 as ardent ambassadors for 60s-style psychedelic sounds, soon becoming well known around Edinburgh for putting together exot…

Nic Beales in conversation with David Eastaugh https://sweetpool.bandcamp.com/ Pigbros was an English indie band formed in Birmingham in 1984 by Nick Beales (guitar & vocals) fresh from a stint in The Nightingales and Jonathan Cooke (bass). Recruiting a teenage Fuzz Townshend - as well as projects under his own name) the band played a few gigs befo…

Mark Wilson & Pete Barker in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWEISh0MznA Anarchic rockabilly beloved by the late John Peel. "If Elvis had been a Marx Brother, he would have invented Pink Peg Slax" (James Brown, NME) With a name derived from an obscure Eddie Cochran rocker, Pink Peg Slax promise rockabilly revivalism…

Stuart Bruce in conversation with David Eastaugh Stuart Robert Bruce is an English recording engineer. He was the engineer for the recording of the Band Aid's charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" on 25 November 1984. Bruce started his career at Trevor Horn's Sarm West Studios. When Horn offered Bob Geldof and Midge Ure the studio free of c…

Richard Witts in conversation with David Eastaugh The Passage were a post-punk band from Manchester, England, who appeared on several record labels including Object Music, Cherry Red Records, and their own label Night & Day, a subsidiary label to Virgin Records. https://richardwitts.com/Av thec86show

Joe Dilworth in conversation with David Eastaugh https://bildbandberlin.com/products/joe-dilworth-everything-all-at-once-forever?srsltid=AfmBOop7qFncpNI6g3QxwWIi_P1wOGycmFmfMmgE2wP6t9pW7Egjs87v http://joedilworth.com/ Th' Faith Healers were an English indie rock band who were originally active between 1990 and 1994. They recorded multiple EPs and s…

Gerard Evans in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/flowersinthedustbinofficial/?locale=en_GB http://anarchoscene.blogspot.com/2011/07/flowers-in-dustbin.htmlAv thec86show

Andrew Reich, Jeffrey McDonald & Steve McDonald in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.reddkrossfilm.com/ https://reddkross.com/ From inventing Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Hair Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years.…

Alan Clayson in conversation with David Eastaugh https://alanclayson.com/ https://alanclayson.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-and-modern-highlights-of-half-a-century-2 Singer-songwriter, author and music journalist. He gained popularity in the late 1970s as leader of the band Clayson and the Argonauts. In addition to contributing to publications such as…

Christina Bulbenko & Rex Broome in conversation with David Eastaugh https://bigstirrecords.com/the-armoires https://thearmoires.bandcamp.com/ The new record from the Burbank, CA indie pop quintet represents both a fresh start and the distillation of the potential inherent in their unique sound – somewhere between the sunshine pop of the '60s, the c…

Leah Kardos in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.leahkardos.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kate-Bushs-Hounds-Love-33/dp/B0CYP75PF3 Hounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, ‘Running Up That H…

Dan Synge in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068530812 https://open.spotify.com/track/546BO0xumtrdTs9FMiqbvb?si=eb83d941dd2c41ce https://rosavillemusic.bandcamp.com/album/soundtrack-of-our-lives www.dansyngeauthor.comAnyone can start a band. Anyone can be famous. Not everyone can wait a lifetime. From hammering it with…

Peter Kelly in conversation with David Eastaugh https://beerjacket.bandcamp.com/ Beerjacket is Scottish singer/songwriter, Peter Kelly, who has opened for The National, St Vincent, Kristin Hersh & Frightened Rabbit. In 2018, Scottish Fiction released album/book of songs & short stories, Silver Cords, leading to an appearance at Edinburgh Internatio…

Kazuko Hohki in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.kazukohohki.com/ https://www.cherryred.co.uk/frank-chickens?srsltid=AfmBOooDDNlbGuF-rplim_W0Q1z4FFliWJ_ehN3sGCtlLFB0W4kpAGNM Frank Chickens are a Japanese musical group based in London, who have performed songs mainly in English since 1982. They were nominated for the 1984 Edinburgh Comed…

Jonathon Grasse in conversation with David Eastaugh http://jawbonepress.com/jazz-revolutionary/ Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to Paris, where sixty years ago he died from the complications …

Joe McKecknie in conversation with David Eastaugh The Passage were a post-punk band from Manchester, England, who appeared on several record labels including Object Music, Cherry Red Records, and their own label Night & Day, a subsidiary label to Virgin Records. https://ra.co/dj/joemckechnie/biography…

Kristi Callan in conversation with David Eastaugh Vocalist and rhythm guitarist originally from Texas. Kristi Callan has performed with Wednesday Week, David Gray, Wondermints, Cruzados, Dave Davies, The Ventures, Big Soul, Lucky, The Roswell Sisters and others. Founders of the band were the sisters Kristi and Kelly Callan—daughters of actress K Ca…

Katell Keineg in conversation with David Eastaugh https://katell.keineg.com/news https://westhampsteadarts.com/nightery_event/katell-keineg/ Katell Keineg was born in Brittany and was brought up first there and then in Wales. After graduating from the London School of Economics she moved to Ireland and started gigging, before re-locating to New Yor…