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…

Penny Slinger in conversation with David Eastaugh https://pennyslinger.com/ British-born American artist and author based in California. As an artist, she has worked in different mediums, including photography, film and sculpture. Her work has been described as being in the genres of surrealism and feminist surrealism. Her work explores the nature …

Mike West in conversation with David Eastaugh The band members had little in common with most Manchester bands. Goody was a graduate of Winchester School of Art. Vincent had been an art critic and painter. Seal, a Glaswegian, was a classically trained musician who had run an art gallery. And West, who wrote the songs, was the Australian-born son of…

Jakko Jakszyk in conversation with David Eastaugh https://kingmakerpublishing.com/jakko-m-jakszyk/ Jakko M. Jaksyzk is an award-winning, world-renowned musician, best known for having been a member of Level 42, but most recently, for the past 13 years, lead singer and guitarist with progressive rock founding fathers King Crimson. Who’s The Boy With…

Bill Leeb in conversation with David Eastaugh http://www.mindphaser.com/ https://frontlineassembly.bandcamp.com/album/model-kollapse Electronic musician and record producer. He is best known for being a founding member of the industrial music group Front Line Assembly and Delerium. Leeb began his musical career with industrial band Skinny Puppy in …

Ian Christie in conversation with David Eastaugh https://khartomb.bandcamp.com/album/swahili-lullaby-teekon-warriors-daisy-high-before-i-die-edition https://www.khartomb.com/ https://www.youtube.com/khartomb Khartomb were an English reggae-influenced independent group inspired by The Slits, among other widely-varying sounds of the era, who started …

Chris Sullivan in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thesullivan.net/home https://www.cherryred.co.uk/blue-rondo-bees-knees-and-chicken-elbows-expanded-2cd-edition?srsltid=AfmBOop68rFMyboq_cMuXbKfDxStVOacJIeB2YGuD-iZUNlgpTsdKf9E Blue Rondo à la Turk was a floating collective of jazz and salsa oriented musicians, created by singer/lyricist…

Mike Batt in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.mikebatt.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Closest-Thing-Crazy-Musical-Adventures/dp/1785120840 Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has be…

Paul Rutner in conversation with David Eastaugh Mumps were a popular band at clubs such as Max's Kansas City and CBGB. They also performed at Irving Plaza and Maxwell's (Hoboken, New Jersey), and opened for the Ramones at Hurrah in August 1978. Their concerts were lively and featured energetic, expressive performances from Lance Loud and other band…

David Bash in conversation with David Eastaugh https://internationalpopoverthrow.com/ The festival is dedicated to bring classic pop music to the public, and is run by CEO and founder David Bash and Rina Bardfield. Although the festival has over the years featured several major label acts, such as Phantom Planet, Maroon 5 (under their previous inca…

Jez Willis in conversation with David Eastaugh http://utahsaints.com/ Utah Saints were described as "the first true stadium house band" by the KLF's Bill Drummond, though their music is difficult to place into one genre. The dance group originally met as music promoters and DJs for the Mix Nightclub in Harrogate in the early 1990s. They began as MD…

Raymond Watts in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.pigindustries.com/ Following hot on the heels of his new album ‘Red Room’ (released in May 2024), industrial rock mainstay Raymond Watts aka PIG has today reissued a fully remastered version of his seminal mid-‘90s album ‘Sinsation’ via Metropolis Records (CD, digital) and Armalyte Indus…

Steve Kilbey in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.thechurchband.com/ https://kilbeykennedy.bandcamp.com/ https://stevekilbey.bandcamp.com/ https://easyaction.co.uk/product/the-church-eros-zeta-the-perfumed-guitars-cd/Por thec86show

Richard King in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379668-travels-over-feeling/ An icon of New York’s downtown music scene is brought vividly to life in this tapestry of archive and oral history’ Guardian The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work whi…

Micky Greaney in conversation with David Eastaugh https://mickygreaney.bandcamp.com/album/and-now-its-all-this 'Lost' album from Birmingham singer-songwriter Micky Greaney, originally recorded 1995-6, and now finally getting a release with all the loving care that we have come to expect from midlands independent label Seventeen Records. Elegantly a…

Chris Gunstone in conversation with David Eastaugh https://orkestargrupapecalbari.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawE9yq5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZDm_3cVz11MGq5Cl4V4A9WTzbFiU5-ifB_lYJCBT3RfOJPnN8wUwgt5tA_aem_avFXoze_4IGrhh50EjqT_Q Blowzabella was formed in Whitechapel, London in 1978 by original members Bill O'Toole, Jon Swayne, Chris Gunstone,Dave Armitage an…

Marco Pirroni in conversation with David Eastaugh Pirroni was lead guitarist and co-songwriter in the second incarnation of Adam and the Ants, co-penning two UK number ones and a further four 10 hits, with Ant. The two albums he co-wrote for Adam and the Ants, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming, both made the Top 10 in the ("Kings" numb…

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…