Bee left school at 16 to form his first band the Danse Society. He moved to London to join a pop band, which really did become big in Japan. Bee spent his time there doing tours, TV shows, and dodging crazy fans. During his club kid days in London, he ran the door at London’s first fetish club SKIN2.
Episodes
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Julia Gorton - NOWHERE NEW YORK
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Julia Gorton in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.juliagorton.com/coming-new-products/nowhere-new-york
With a synthesis of imagery, metaphor and feeling, in a space located between attraction and angst, Julia Gorton's photos of New York's No Wave scene, 1976-1980, capture a fleeting time with unique style. 192 pages and 170 photos.
Her beautiful vision of downtown Manhattan, in the moments before AIDS, crack, Disney and condos changed everything forever, focus on subjects including musicians and friends; Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Lydia Lunch, Iggy Pop, James Chance, Richard Hell, Anya Phillips and many others less well known, but certainly just as memorable.
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Eater with Andy Blade
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Andy Blade in conversation with David Eastaugh
Andy Blade relaunched Eater in 2022, playing shows across The UK - an album is planned for release in 2023.
In October 2001, the band's second single, "Thinking of the USA" (originally released in June 1977), was included in Mojo magazine's list of the best punk rock singles of all time. In 1999, the track also appeared on the five-CD box set 1-2-3-4 Punk & New Wave 1976-1979.
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Pat Irwin - Raybeats, 8-Eyed Spy & B52s
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Pat Irwin in conversation with David Eastaugh
American composer and musician who was a founding member of two bands that grew out of New York City's No Wave scene in the late 1970s, the Raybeats and 8-Eyed Spy. He joined The B-52s from 1989 through 2008. He currently performs and records with SUSS who have released several records on the indie label Northern Spy.
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Peppy Castro - Blues Magoos
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Peppy Castro - Blues Magoos - in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.peppycastro.com/about.html
The Blues Magoos are an American rock group from The Bronx, a borough of New York City, United States. They were at the forefront of the psychedelic music trend, beginning in 1966. They are best known for the hit song "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet".
The band was formed in 1964 as The Trenchcoats. The original members were Emil "Peppy" Thielhelm a.k.a. "Peppy" Castro (vocals and guitar), Dennis LePore (lead guitar), Ralph Scala (organ and vocals), Ron Gilbert (bass) and Jon Finnegan (drums). The band made a name for itself in various clubs in Greenwich Village. The band changed its name first to the Bloos Magoos and by 1966 to the Blues Magoos. Mike Esposito joined as lead guitarist and Geoff Daking as drummer.
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Jeff Drake - The Joneses
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Jeff Drake - The Joneses - in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://hozacrecords.com/product/guilty/
The Joneses were a punk band from Anaheim, Southern California. In 1981 guitarist and singer Jeff Drake and professional skateboarder, Steve Olson, formed its nucleus but over the years the Joneses included numerous players with Drake being the only constant member.
The Joneses' first seven-inch, 45 rpm single was "Criminals in My Car" b/w "Jonestown". They next released a pair of songs, "Graveyard Rock" and "Pillbox", on the 1982 BYO Records compilation, Someone Got Their Head Kicked In. The EP, Criminals, was the Joneses next released recording. Hell Comes to Your House Volume 2, included the two Joneses tracks: "I'm Bad" and "She's So Filthy".
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Penny Arcade
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Penny Arcade in conversation with David Eastaugh
Penny Arcade Aka Susana Ventura is an internationally respected performance artist, writer, poet and experimental theatre maker known for her magnetic stage presence, her take no prisoners wit and her content rich plays and one liners. She is the author of 16 scripted performance plays and hundreds of performance art pieces. Her work has always focused on the other and the outsider, giving voice to those marginalized by society. Her willingness to speak truth to power at the expense of career concerns has made her an international icon of artistic resistance. Her decades long focus on the creation of community and inclusion as the goals of performance and her efforts to use performance as a transformative act mark her as a true original in American theatre and performance. Since 1992 Penny has collaborated with Steve Zehentner , a former architect turned video producer. In 1999 Penny and Steve launched The Lower East Side Biography Project “Stemming The Tide Of Cultural Amnesia” an oral history video project that has broadcast and streamed weekly since its inception..introducing highly self individuated people to the general public
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Jon Caffery - Joy Division, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Toten Hosen etc
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Jon Caffery in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://joncaffery.de
British music producer and engineer, born 1960 in Dorset, England, UK. Began his career in London, but moved to Germany in 1983.
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Bam Bam - Scott Ledgerwood
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Scott Ledgerwood - Bam Bam - in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://buttocksproductions.com/home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell
Formed in 1983 in Seattle, WA. First line up was Tina Bell (vocals), Tommy Martin (guitar), Scott Ledgerwood (bass), Matt Cameron (drums).
When Cameron left in 1984, Tom Hendrickson joined on drums.
Ledgerwood and Hendrickson left in the mid 80s, Bell in 1990.
Tommy reformed the band as an instrumental 3 piece with Nick Rhinehart, Mike Peterson in 1991.
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Five Go Down to the Sea? with Ricky Dineen
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Ricky Dineen - Five Go Down to the Sea? - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Five Go Down to the Sea? were an Irish post-punk band from Cork, active from 1978 to 1989. Vocalist and lyricist Finbarr Donnelly, guitarist Ricky Dineen and brothers Philip (bass) and Keith "Smelly" O'Connell (drums) formed the band as Nun Attax when they were teenagers. They became known for Donnelly's absurdist, surreal lyrics and stage presence, Dineen's angular guitar and bass parts and their Captain Beefheart-style rhythm section. The group later included guitarists Mick Finnegan, Giordaí Ua Laoghaire, Mick Stack,and cellist Úna Ní Chanainn.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Dorothy Max Prior - Rema Rema, Psychic TV, The Monochrome Set
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Dorothy Max Prior in conversation with David Eastaugh
Discussing her new book - 69 Exhibition Road
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/dorothy-max-prior/69-exhibition-road
Dorothy Max Prior is a writer and artist living in Brighton. In other lives, Max was a punk muse, post-punk drummer, and exotic dancer. Somewhere along the way, she has taught ballroom dancing and toured the world as a street theater performer, choreographer, director, and cabaret dancer.
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Vile Cherubs - Seth Lorinczi
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Seth Lorinczi - Vile Cherubs - in conversation with David Eastaugh
https://www.sethlorinczi.com
Vile Cherubs blended the avant-garde of the '60s with the punk bluntness of the '80s. The group broke into the late-'80s D.C. punk club scene, eventually drawing the attention of Ian MacKaye and Dischord Records. They released one full-length with Dischord, Posthumous Relief, in 1990. A collection of demos from 1987-1988, The Man Who Has No Eats Has No Sweats, was released in 1993. Singer Tim Green went on to play guitar in Nation of Ulysses, while Seth Lorinczi later joined Circus Lupus as a bassist and Jesse Quitslund went onto play bass for the Capitol City Dusters. Green and Lorinczi later reunited in Evolution Revolution.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Honey Bane
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Honey Bane in conversation with David Eastaugh
http://www.honeybaneofficial.com
Honey Bane began her musical career at the age of 14 in 1978 when she formed the punk rock band the Fatal Microbes.[2] The band released a split 12" record with anarcho-punkband Poison Girls the same year. The first single, "Violence Grows" garnered some press attention and was given positive reviews by the British music paper Sounds.
After the 1979 breakup of the Fatal Microbes, and a stint in a juvenile detention facility that garnered more press attention, Bane began a collaboration with Crass, while she was on the run from the Social Services after serving a sentence at the St. Charles Youth Treatment Centre in Essex.[4] Lending lead vocals and backed by the band under the name Donna and the Kebabs, Crass released the EP You Can Be You in 1979. It was the debut release on Crass' newly found label, Crass Records.
In 1981, Bane began collaborating with her then manager, Jimmy Pursey. The collaboration resulted in a new single, "Turn Me On Turn Me Off" which peaked in the UK Singles Chart at No. 37,[1] and Bane subsequently appeared performing the single on Top of the Pops. "Turn Me On Turn Me Off" marked a musical departure of Bane from punk rock to a new wavesound.
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Penelope Houston - The Avengers
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Penelope Houston - The Avengers - in conversation with David Eastaugh
www.penelopehouston.bandcamp.com
American singer-songwriter best known as the singer for the San Francisco-based punk rock band the Avengers. She was raised in Seattle. In 1977, Houston moved to San Francisco, attended the San Francisco Art Institute, and shortly after became the lead singer and songwriter for the Avengers. That band released one album, their eponymous debut in 1983.
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Amy Ray - Indigo Girls
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Amy Ray - Indigo Girls - in conversation with David Eastaugh
www.amy-ray.com
American alto singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released six albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemon Records.
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Thatcher on Acid - Matt Cornish
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Matt Cornish- Thatcher on Acid - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Thatcher on Acid were an English anarcho-punk band. They formed in Somerset during 1983. Their name is a satirical reference to former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Ben Corrigan, Bob Butler and Andy Tuck also played in Schwartzeneggar with ex-Crassmember, Steve Ignorant. The band opened the anarcho-punk band Conflict's "Gathering of the 5000" show at Brixton Academy, an event which resulted in many arrests and achieved a degree of infamy.
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Paul ’Bee’ Hampshire - Into A Circle, Futon, Getting The Fear, & Panache
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Paul 'Bee' Hampshire - Into A Circle, Futon, Getting The Fear, & Panache in conversation with David Eastaugh
Shifting his focus back to the UK, Bee hooked up with Psychic TV. He teamed up with the remnants of Southern Death Cult to form Getting the Fear, which eventually became the indie duo, Into A Circle. At the start of the nineties, he spent a brief stint in NYC before moving to Asia permanently and settling in Thailand.
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Alex Novak - Venus Fly Trap, Religious Overdose, Attrition, and The Tempest
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Alex Novak Venus Fly Trap, Religious Overdose, Attrition, and The Tempest - in conversation with David Eastaugh
The band was formed by Alex Novak (vocals, formerly of Religious Overdose, Attrition, and The Tempest) and John Novak (guitar, vocals, formerly Where's Lisse?), and Tony Booker on bass guitar prior to their debut twelve-inch single "Morphine" in March 1988.
A further single followed later that year - the three-track Desolation Railway 12 inch EP - released their debut mini album Mars in 1988, collecting tracks from the earlier singles alongside several new numbers.
Sunday May 15, 2022
Dave Morgan - Alternative TV, The Loft, The Weather Prophets & much more
Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
Dave Morgan - Alternative TV, The Loft, The Weather Prophets & much more - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Terry Graham - The Gun Club - Part 3
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Terry Graham - The Gun Club - Part 3 - in conversation with David Eastaugh
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Terry Graham - The Gun Club - Part 1
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
The Gun Club with Terry Graham - Part 1 - in conversation with David Eastaugh
American drummer, started his career in the late 70's with The Bags, one of the first generation of punk rock bands to emerge out of Los Angeles, California; in the early 80's he joined The Gun Club.
The Gun Club were an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States, which existed from 1979 to 1996. Created and led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce, they were notable as one of the first bands in the punk rock subculture to incorporate influences from blues, rockabilly, and country music.