Peter Prescott in conversation with David Eastaugh https://minibeast.bandcamp.com/ American post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. The group formed in 1979 with Roger Miller on guitar, Clint Conley on bass, Peter Prescott on drums, and Martin Swope contributing audiotape manipulation and acting as the band’s sound engineer. In this initial line…

Magnus Karlsson in conversation with David Eastaugh Happydeadmen were one of the first Swedish acts to have been given credit for inspiring the '90s explosion of pop acts. With the thank-you list that includes The Cardigans and Popsicle, Happydeadmen's melody of charming indie glee debuted in 1988. With their first full-length, "Eleven Pop Songs" (…

Peter Crowley in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Down-at-Maxs-Peter-Crowley/dp/B0D7QR4F6Y https://www.farwestpress.com/far-west-books/p/down-at-maxs-peter-crowley Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max's Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all fro…

Don Pyle in conversation with David Eastaugh https://shadowymen.bandcamp.com/album/dim-the-lights-chill-the-ham Pyle's first group was a punk band called Crash Kills Five, which was active from 1979 to 1981. Crash Kills Five released one EP in 1980, titled What Do You Do At Night?. It was in this four piece band that Pyle first played with two memb…

Michael Alago in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.michaelalago.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-Michael-Alago-Breathing-Metallica/dp/1617137251 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgTBj2Zbr0w Musician, nightlife impresario, record label executive, photographer, and author, Michael Alago takes readers through this amazing journey that is his…

Tom Ashton & Mat Thorpe in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.marchvioletsband.com/ https://marchvioletsband.bandcamp.com/album/crocodile-promises Crocodile Promises, the all new album from legendary post-punk/goth rock act The March Violets builds upon the band's 40 year legacy. Founding members Rosie Garland and Tom Ashton are now joine…

Laura Davis-Chanin in conversation with David Eastaugh http://backbeatbooks.com/books/9781617136870 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Dreams-Life-Alan-Vega/dp/149307248X Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Excellence in Writing and named in Billboard's top 10 Music books of 2018 for her book, "The Girl in the Back," Laura is p…

Liz Lamere in conversation with David Eastaugh http://backbeatbooks.com/books/9781493072484 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Dreams-Life-Alan-Vega/dp/149307248X https://lizlamere.bandcamp.com/album/one-never-knows Liz Lamere was Alan Vega’s wife and long-term creative collaborator. They met in 1985 when she was a corporate lawyer at a major Wall S…

Simon Fisher Turner in conversation with David Eastaugh https://simonfisherturner.bandcamp.com/album/instability-of-the-signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKWlALrBIA English musician, songwriter, composer, producer and actor. After portraying Ned East in the 1971 BBC TV adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays and roles in films such as The Big Sl…

Vix in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWqfxj-mlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlHXTesRos https://www.happilife.uk/about We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It!!, often shortened to Fuzzbox, are a British alternative rock group. Formed in Birmingham in 1985, the all-female quartet originally consisted of Vi…

Mick McCarthy in conversation with David Eastaugh When Blab Happy split up, singer/guitarist Mick McCarthy and bassist Tony Owen recruited John Waddington to form Perfume, initially releasing records on their own "Aromasound" label. Beginning with scented limited edition vinyl, they enjoyed a string of Indie Top 10 hits. Their first release was "Yo…

Steve Wynn in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.stevewynn.net/ https://stevewynn1.bandcamp.com/merch http://jawbonepress.com/i-wouldnt-say-it-if-it-wasnt-true/ Founding member of The Dream Syndicate, whose debut album, The Days Of Wine And Roses, is widely regarded as a cornerstone of the indie/alternative rock scene of the 1980s. He has…

Tiffany Murray in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/tiffany-murray/my-family-and-other-rock-stars/9780349727530/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Family-Other-Rock-Stars-groundbreaking/dp/0349727538 It’s the late 1970s and Tiff lives with her mum, Joan, at Rockfield, the iconic recording studios. This place of legend, where…

Joseph Arthur in conversation with David Eastaugh https://josepharthur.com/ https://westhampsteadarts.com/ Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-1990s, and signed to Gabriel's Real World label as the first North American artist on the label's roster. Arthur released his debut album, Big City Secrets (1997), and follow-up, Come to Where …

Caroline Swift in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.hessle-bookshop.co.uk/product-page/taylor-swift-era-by-era-the-unauthorized-biography-by-caroline-sullivan In this revealing and entertaining biography, author and music journalist Caroline Sullivan charts Taylor’s journey from budding country starlet to pop music phenomenon, encompassi…

Michael Beinhorn in conversation with David Eastaugh https://michaelbeinhorn.com/ Michael Beinhorn started out as a musician in the early 1980's New York downtown scene where he played keyboards and handled electronics and tapes; he is probably best known for being a full member of Bill Laswell's collective Material (as musician, arranger and produ…

Stan Erraught in conversation with David Eastaugh The Stars Of Heaven were formed in 1983 by Stephen Ryan (vocals, guitar), Stan Erraught (guitar, formerly of The Peridots), Peter O'Sullivan (bass guitar), and Bernard Walsh (drums).They were strongly influenced by The Byrds and Gram Parsons, even being labelled "Ireland's answer to The Byrds, Gram …

Jack Meille in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.tygersofpantang.com/ The Tygers of Pan Tang were formed by guitarist Robb Weir (born Robert Mortimer Weir, 1958), Richard "Rocky" Laws (bass), Jess Cox (vocals) and Brian Dick (drums). They played in working men's clubs and were first signed by local independent label Neat Records before M…

Peter Watts in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.spygenius.co.uk/ SPYGENIUS frontman and songwriter Peter Watts got his start in the 80s as the lead singer with the Murrumbidgee Whalers, whose jangle-pop classic "Giving Way to Trains" has recently been re-released on the Cherry Red C88 compilation. The 21st century saw the Watts moving o…

Margarita Vasquez-Ponte in conversation with David Eastaugh The original members of the band were Andrew Tully (guitars/vocals), Eric Webster and Angus McPake (bass guitar), Fran Schoppler (vocals), Margarita Vasquez-Ponte (drums), Kevin McMahon (guitars), and Stuart Clarke (guitar). Tully and Vasquez-Ponte were also members of Rote Kapelle, a band…

Karen Haglof in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdAA7_gIr5w http://www.howlinwuelf.com/clients/karen-haglof/ One Hand Up is the fourth full length release by guitarist/songwriter Karen Haglof.  The album was produced by Haglof and Mario Viele, recorded at Cowboy Technical Services and Excello studios in Brooklyn, pr…

Paul Haig in conversation with David Eastaugh https://linktr.ee/paulhaig Together with Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and The Go-Betweens, Josef K were one of the Postcard label's million dollar quartets, recording five smart singles and an album, The Only Fun In Town. Touring the album during July and August of 1981, however, the band split after a fi…

Gerry Colvin in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.gerrycolvin.co.uk/index.html In the 1970's Gerry joined pop band 'The Man Upstairs'. They released three singles and toured with 'The Smiths'. In the early 1980's he co-founded and fronted the legendary John Peel favourite skiffle-cowpunk indie outfit 'Terry & Gerry'. This seminal band to…

Gaye Black in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.gayeblack.co.uk/ English punk rock musician, who played bass guitar in the band The Adverts in the late 1970s. She was one of the first female rock stars of the punk rock movement, whom The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the "first female punk star". She was "one of punk’s first fe…

Gered Mankowitz in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mankowitz.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolling-Stones-Rare-Unseen-afterword/dp/1802797335 "Mankowitz (Goin' Home with the Rolling Stones '66), who at 18 became the official photographer for the then newly formed Rolling Stones, gathers a rich and revealing trove of images from the band's …