C86 Show - Indie Pop

• Phil Eaglesham - Stretchheads, Desalvo, Donkey, PH Family, Sarandon, Security etc

  Phil Eaglesham in conversation with David Eastaugh The band was formed in 1987 by Richie Dempsey, Phil Eaglesham, Mofungo Diggs, Steven MacDougall, and Andy MacDonald (aka "Dr. Technology". The band wore asbestos firewear, gas masks, dubious ethnic shirts and balaclavas on stage, and blossomed despite depressing support slots with indie establishment acts such as Happy Mondays, The Wonderstuff and The Shamen. Their debut album, Five Fingers, Four Thingers, a Thumb, a Facelift and a New Identity followed in 1989.

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• Jem Tayle - Shelleyan Orphan & Vamberator

  Jem Tayle in conversation with David Eastaugh https://vamberator.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-loneliness https://www.facebook.com/Vamberator   From the dying embers of Shelleyan orphan (with the late Caroline Crawley), jem Tayle plucks out its heart, and along with Boris Williams of the Cure, they forge the beast that is Vamborator: a magical funky hybrid; a frisky colt on a journey to find a meaning in this age of loneliness. This is Vamberator growing in the shade where the most interesting plants grow: a rebellious beast!

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• John Mendelssohn

  John Mendelssohn in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.nortonrecords.com/a4-peculiar-to-mr-bowie-by-john-mendelssohn/ https://johnmendelssohn.wixsite.com/jnm-creative PECULIAR TO MR BOWIE : A Day With David Bowie. 1971 by John Mendelssohn  New photobook! Limited 48 page souvenir photobook by rock n' rollin' author/artist/photographer/journalist/bon vivant John Mendelssohn,  who  was tapped to meet up with an unknown longhair from London named David Bowie on his first trip to the US on a press junket for the  just-released Mercury album  The Man Who Sold The World. John met up with DB in San Franscisco with his camera in tow, and started  snappin and yappin. This book includes John's original story from Rolling Stone,  his revelations and jubilations on (and of) the topic of DB, plus we have Paul Gorman writing brilliantly about the origin and influence of the man-dress, as created by bespoke tailor Mr. Fish of London... and we have the photos, one roll of film that captured  both Mr Fish man-dresses-- the luxe, flowing, floral that appeared on the UK cover of The Man Who Sold The World and the sublime blue-gray raw silk number that graced a special edition collection, presented in a newspaperly dot screen reminiscent of the Rolling Stone print methods of the day.

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• Sheila Seal - The Man from Delmonte

  Sheila Seal in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.facebook.com/groups/44800212324 https://www.truckstophoneymoon.com/ Band members included Mike West, Sheila Seal (bass), Martin Vincent (guitar and harmonica), and Howard Goody (drums). The band played many gigs at the Boardwalk club, in Manchester, where they recorded their Big Noise live album in 1989. They took their name from a series of 1980s television advertisements for Del Monte fruit juices, featuring the "man from Del Monte". In these, the man would visit villages to sample their fruit juices, to see if they were good enough to be included in his company's drinks. The tagline, shouted jubilantly by a villager on approval was, "The man from Del Monte, he say 'Yes!'". At one point they were managed by journalist Jon Ronson. After they split up in 1990, some members continued as Surfurbia. West moved to New Orleans to pursue a solo career in the early 1990s. The band are reforming to play gigs in the UK in February and April 2025.

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• Anja Huwe - Xmal Deutschland

  Anja Huwe in conversation with David Eastaugh https://anjahuwe.com/ Musician, artist and former television editor and producer born in Hamburg, Germany, She was the singer and only stable member in the various incarnations of German Post-Punk band X Mal Deutschland. After the band finally split up in 1990, she worked as producer and editor for German "VIVA TV". More recently she has taken up visual arts and exhibits in New York and London. After Xmal Deutschland’s success with four albums on cult labels such as 4AD, Huwe abandoned music to pursue her visual art career. But leaving her legacy in the past was not so easy. Invited by her long-time friend Mona Mur, Huwe reconsidered her decades-long hiatus from music and decided to join Mur in her studio in Berlin. Together, they worked for a year and a half, composing, performing and producing the tracks from scratch, which would eventually become the album ‘Codes’. Integral to the overall sound experience was the input of Manuela Rickers who added her famed signature guitar style. Initially inspired by the diary entries of Moshe Shnitzki, who, at the age of 17, left his home in 1942 to live in the cavernous White Russian forests as a partisan, Codes is about the human experience and what extremes can do to an individual. "The result is a poetic, musical cosmos that encompasses the following themes: forest, fear, pain, loss, violence, and loneliness but also beauty, longing, hope and the will to survive,” Huwe explains. These thematic extremities cause an erraticism to Codes- a passing thunderstorm, a cyclonic burst of nature’s force - but one that exudes anticipation amidst the chill. 

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