C86 Show - Indie Pop
Channelling the spirit of Indie Pop!
Episodes
Rachel Carns in conversation with David Eastaugh
American musician, composer, artist and performer living in Olympia, Washington, U.S. Raised in small-town Wisconsin, she went on to study painting and drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where she completed her B.F.A. in 1991. C...
Tae Won You in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://kickinggiant.bandcamp.com/album/alien-i-d-klp034
Rachel Carns' first band was Kicking Giant with fellow Cooper Union student Tae Won Yu, with whom she played drums and sang from 1990–1995. Their first show was in the storefront window of a Brooklyn junk shop; Carns stood up and played ...
Frank Secich & Jim Kendor in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/fsecich
https://peppermintrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dinner-at-mr-billys
DINNER AT MR. BILLY'S
During 1971 and 1972, the classic Blue Ash line-up of David Evans, Jim Kendzor, Bill "Cupid" Bartolin and Frank Secich played more than quite a bit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It seemed like we were playing "The Burgh" 4-5 nights a week. At t...
Andrea Reid in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/wilderness.children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f79Th-VwMAc
Indie rock band from Dundee, Scotland
Annette Simons in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/baerchenunddiemilchbubis
https://www.facebook.com/annette.simons.18
Founded in Hanover in 1979 by Annette Grotkasten, Rudolf Grimm , Andreas Kühne, and Martin Fuchs, Bärchen und die Milchbubis played their first concert in Offenburg in early 1980. From mid-1980 onward, they regularly performed as the opening act for Hans-A-Plast .
In 1980, they releas...
Peter Guralnick in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/the-colonel-and-the-king
In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker discovered a teenage Elvis Presley and declared him destined for greatness. What followed was one of the most extraordinary partnerships in music history and the creation of a bond built on loyalty, ambition and an unshakeable belief in each other.
From the meteoric rise ...
Anthony Moore in conversation with David Eastaugh
British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and has made a number of solo albums, including Flying Doesn't Help (1979) and World Service (1981).
As a lyricist, Moore has collaborated with Pink Floyd on two of their albums: A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and Th...
Myke Scavone in conversation with David Eastaugh
Following the disbandment of the Doughboys, Scavone began a career as a session drummer throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was performing on demos for producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz when he joined the newly formed Ram Jam, led by guitarist Bill Bartlett, in 1977. The band had found success with a cover of the Lead Belly song "Black Betty". Scavone performed...
Dominic Mohan in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1996-Backstage-Wildest-Britains-must-read/dp/0008767130
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/1996-a-celebration-of-the-wildest-year-of-britains-wildest
1996. Britpop ruled the airwaves.
The tabloids framed reality long before Instagram.Football was finally coming home. Tony Blair was learning to play rock star – and rock stars were learning...
Alex Newport in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://fudgetunnel.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb232BkAe6A
Fudge Tunnel formed in 1989. They released their debut EP on Pigboy/Vinyl Solution in 1989, Fudge Tunnel. Although marketed as an EP, due to its short length, it was named "Single of the Week" in NME magazine in January 1990, with NME declaring "Absolutely and totall...
Neil Howson in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/prelp-8-age-of-chance-bbc-sessions-85-87
A stunning mix of Northern Soul, machine-like beats, electroclash, slogans and agitpop, Age of Chance were unquestionably one of the most exciting groups to emerge during the C86 era. They certainly didn’t sound like anybody else, that’s for sure. An uncompromising live ac...
Neil Taylor in conversation with David Eastaugh
Rough Trade is practically a byword for the history of independent music over the last thirty years. DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF ROUGH TRADE tells the story from the inside of a phenomenally influential record label, through the voices of Geoff Trav...
Julia Round in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gothic-Girls-Misty-British-Comics/dp/1496824466
Award-winning writer and independent scholar. She is one of the founders and editors of the academic journal Studies in Comics (Intellect Books) and of the book series Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies (University of Nebraska Press).
Today fans still remember and love ...
bob Bert in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://therealbobbert.bandcamp.com/album/beach-bongo-bloodbath
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Monica Queen & Johnny Smillie in conversation with David Eastaugh
TOUR DATES 07 Jul: The Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, UK 08 Jul: Central Bar, Gateshead, UK 09 Jul: Lending Room, Leeds, UK 10 Jul: Just Dropped in Records, Coventry, UK 11 Jul: Betsy Trotwood, London, UK 12 Jul: The Jacaranda Club, Liverpool, UK 13 Jul: C...
Jimmy Eadie in conversation with David Eastaugh
Into Paradise were an Irish indie rock group from Dublin, whose influences included Joy Division and Echo & the Bunnymen. They formed in 1986 as Backwards into Paradise, and released their debut EP, Blue Light, in 1989 on the independent record label, Setanta. Soon after came the EP Change, and the band's first album, Under the Water.
Their most successful album and major re...
Anthony Reynolds in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://anthonyreynolds.bandcamp.com/
n 1993, Reynolds moved to London, where he formed the group Jack, on lead vocals, signing a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music as well as a record deal with independent label Too Pure.
Jack released three full-length albums, the first two of which – Pioneer Soundtracks (1996) and The Jazz Age (1998) – garnered excell...
Janet Housden in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/janet.housden
A fixture in the earliest days of the LA area punk scene, Janet Housden played drums with Redd Kross and was a member of several other bands, while also appearing in classic cult films.
Janet Housden has been a creative force for decades in Southern California’s punk scene. She grew up alongside ma...
Alister Parker in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://bailterspace.bandcamp.com/
New Zealand shoegaze and noise rock band that formed in Christchurch in 1987 as Nelsh Bailter Space; they had previously recorded as the Gordons. Its members are Alister Parker (guitar, bass), John Halvorsen (bass, guitar), and Brent McLachlan (drums/percussion, samples). After releasing seven studio albums, numerous EPs/singles and a career...
David Whitaker in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJlsU1DVu30
Music For Pleasure was formed in Leeds, England in 1979, comprising David Whitaker - synths and keyboards, Mark Copson - vocals, Ivor Roberts - bass and Chris Oldroyd - drums. They released several 7'' singles and two albums ("Into The Rain" and "Blacklands"). They were heavily influenced by Punk and Krautrock and are still seen as ...
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