C86 Show - Indie Pop

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C86 Show - Indie Pop episodes

October 19 Patti Rothberg
Patti Rothberg in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://pattirothberg.wordpress.com/
Patti Rothberg played all the guitar and bass parts on her debut album, Between the 1 and the 9, which was released on April 2, 1996. The first single, "Inside", reached number 25 on the Billboard magazine Alternative chart.

1 hr 26 min
October 17 Stan Greenwood - Skeletal Family, Psycho Surgeons, The Elements
Stan Greenwood in conversation with David Eastaugh
The original line-up of the band was Anne-Marie Hurst (vocals), Stan Greenwood (guitar), Roger "Trotwood" Nowell (bass guitar), Ian "Karl Heinz" Taylor (keyboard/saxophone) and Steve Crane (drums). In 1983, after their first single, "Trees", the band signed to independent record label Red Rhino Records.
They recorded their first single for Red Rhino, "The Night", shortly after losing their original drummer Crane, who was replaced by Howard Daniels. Daniels soon left, joining My Pierrot Dolls, and was replaced by Martin Henderson (formerly of The Last Laugh).Skeletal Family's first album, Burning Oil, recorded in four days at a cost of £640, was released by Red Rhino in August 1984. It topped the UK Independent Chart, staying in the top 10 until the end of the year. The band began touring with the Sisters of Mercy during the Sisters' First and Last and Always tour. Skeletal Family released the Futile Combat album in 1985, along with the "Promised Land" single.
1 hr 15 min
October 16 Jennifer Herrema - Royal Trux, RTX, Black Bananas
Jennifer Herrema in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://royal-trux.com/
https://www.facebook.com/realblackbananasband
Herrema formed Royal Trux with her partner Neil Hagerty and lived with him in Washington, Virginia. After producing several records, the band split in 2001. Herrema then went on to form a new band, RTX, which eventually became the band Black Bananas
1 hr 37 min
October 15 David Holzer - Lou Reed: Metal Machine Mystic
David Holzer in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lou-Reed-Metal-Machine-Mystic/dp/1916829368
One of rock music’s most enigmatic and confounding artists is here revealed as never before through the murky prism of his most extreme and polarising work: Metal Machine Music, a double album of vocal-free, unrelentingly shocking noise. Initially dismissed on its release in 1975 as an avant-garde prank or an act of career suicide (or both), the album has acquired a growing number of admirers over the subsequent half-century, along the way to becoming a kind of secret handshake of hipness.
Through his work both in The Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, Reed is one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the rock era, yet he remains a defiantly inscrutable figure. Drawing on extensive research and exclusive interviews with more than sixty friends, collaborators, and admirers, David Holzer reveals him anew as a spiritual seeker with a deep interest in the esoteric practices of Alice Bailey and others, and a man with a profound belief in the power of one’s inner spirit. In so doing, he positions Metal Machine Music as a deeply serious, talismanic work that is unique in rock’n’roll.

1 hr 12 min
October 14 Brian Gulland - Gryphon, Malicorne, The New Scorpion Band
Brian Gulland in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.facebook.com/newgryphon/
Gryphon are an English progressive folk band formed in London in 1972. They are known for their medieval and Renaissance style of music.
The band briefly flourished in the progressive rock heyday of the early 1970s, and then retired to other musical activities before reforming for a one-off reunion in 2009. Subsequently, Gryphon played some gigs in 2015, featured at the Cropredy Festival in 2016, and in 2017, an invitation to a ProgRock festival in Portugal, and in the UK, the NewDay Festival near Canterbury. The first new Gryphon record for 41 years was released in 2018.
1 hr 25 min
October 12 Michael Allen - The Wolfgang Press, Geniuser, Mass, Rema-Rema, The Models,
Michael Allen in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://regis-dns.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/18219547955/?locale=en_GB
The Wolfgang Press are an English post-punk band, originally active from 1983 to 1995. The core of the band during that era was Michael Allen (vocals, bass), Mark Cox (keyboards), and Andrew Gray (guitar). They reformed in 2024 with Stephen Gray, brother of Andrew, replacing Cox, to release a new LP titled "A 2nd Shape" on Downwards Records.
The group is best known for its 1992 international hit single "A Girl Like You".

1 hr 26 min
October 11 Legs McNeil
Legs McNeil in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Resident-Punk/Legs-McNeil/9781637749470
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Resident-Punk-Smoked-Stumbled-Through/dp/1637749465
Time-travel to the punk scene of 1970s New York and beyond, as seen through the eyes of its chief reporter known as “the original punk” who gave the movement its name.

Part memoir and part cultural history, Resident Punk offers a no-holds-barred expose chronicling the iconic and unforgettable music scene that would become defined by bands like the Ramones, Blondie, Television, the Heartbreakers, and Talking Heads.

In 1975 at just 19 years old, Legs McNeil—alongside John Holmstrom and Ged Dunn—cofounded PUNK magazine. In doing so, they inadvertently chronicled the start of a movement. McNeil’s role in the whole thing? To be their resident punk, embodying the zeitgeist the magazine was looking to capture, often by getting f*cked up with musicians, artists, writers, and hangers-on . . . and sleeping with a different girl every day of the week.

Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary of PUNK magazine, Legs tells the stories behind the stories in a sleazy, star-studded adventure. The coauthor of Please Kill Me, Legs invites readers along for the ride as he tussles with musicians and artists, groupies and writers, Golden Age Hollywood film stars and legendary figures of ‘70s New York. Featuring untold stories about Joey Ramone, William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Alan Vega, Martin Rev, the Dictators, the Dead Boys, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, and Poly Styrene, this book is an immersive look at the punk music scene as only a true insider can tell it.
1 hr 30 min
October 07 Mike Badger - The La's, The Onset & The Kachinas
Mike Badger in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://mike-badger.co.uk/
English singer-songwriter, artist and sculptor from Liverpool, England. Co-founder of The La's he went on to form alternative country/roots rockabilly band The Onset in 1988 and Mike Badger and The Shady Trio in 2010. In addition he is co-owner of Liverpool's independent Viper Label with Paul Hemmings.

1 hr 48 min
October 07 Simon Brenner - Talk Talk, Angel River, Blue Section Two, Soho & Woyehyeh
Simon Brenner in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewn7jKe_dZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kVQD2pAho
Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), Paul Webb (bass), and Simon Brenner (keyboards). Initially a synth-pop group, Talk Talk's first two albums, The Party's Over (1982) and It's My Life (1984), reached top 40 in the UK
1 hr 17 min
October 04 Nancy Thompson
Nancy Thompson in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://substack.com/@communekid75
Nancy spent her early years at Shrubb Family in Norfolk. This is her story about growing up in East Anglian during the 1970s and 80s. And what happens next
2 hr 2 min