C86 Show - Indie Pop

C86 Show - Indie Pop

Channelling the spirit of Indie Pop!

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August 17, 2025 71 mins

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...

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August 16, 2025 68 mins

Paul Da Vinci in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://pauldavinci.com/home

https://www.pauldavinci.net/

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...

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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)...

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August 13, 2025 71 mins

Terry Reid in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://www.terryreid.com/

 

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August 13, 2025 69 mins
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August 11, 2025 50 mins

Chris Stamey in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://www.chrisstamey.com/

https://chrisstamey.bandcamp.com/

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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...

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Cara Tivey in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread

https://www.carativey.com/

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...

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August 8, 2025 48 mins

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.

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August 7, 2025 99 mins

Brixton Key

https://brixtonkey.com/

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...

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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...

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July 31, 2025 84 mins

Rolf Brendel in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://rolfbrendel.de/

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

The single reached num...

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July 31, 2025 98 mins

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...

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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...

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Kavus Torabi in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://kavustorabi.bandcamp.com/album/the-banishing

https://www.planetgong.co.uk/

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...

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Deb Googe in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://dagoogie.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-thread

https://www.dagoogie.com/

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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July 16, 2025 65 mins

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...

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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...

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Michael Kerr in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/pre-052-the-motorcycle-boy-john-peel-session-140987

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...

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