C86 Show - Indie Pop

Jim Shepherd in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/prelp-12-be-careful-what-you-wish-for

https://www.facebook.com/thejasmineminks/?locale=en_GB

Alongside his pals, Jasmine Minks front man Jim Shepherd has produced his masterpiece.

Okay, I guess we might have to call them a 'Creation supergroup' because the Pillars of Creation features a band of mainly former label stalwarts who bring Shepherd’s epic to life.

Dave Morgan from the Loft (and many others!) is on drumming, mixing and production duties, for example, with Frank Sweeney and Arash Torabi from the June Brides also on the team. (OK, the June Brides never released a record on Creation but let’s not quibble here … and Frank is indeed on any number of records by the likes of Primal Scream and Felt etc). Ruth Tidmarsh and Innes Mackintosh complete the crew.

They’ve produced a brilliantly memorable album – not far off a concept album of sorts, albeit with the title track as the lead digital single (released on Friday). It’s distinctive and unique and you won’t want to miss it.

Includes unlimited streaming of PRELP 12: Be Careful What You Wish For via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Phillip Johnston in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://phillipjohnston.com/

American saxophonist, composer, and author. He came to prominence in the 1980s as co-founder of The Microscopic Septet and went on to write extensively for films, particularly new scores for classic silent films from the early 20th Century.

Tracey Belland in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://www.voiceofthebeehive.com/

The group featured Californian lead vocalist sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland (daughters of The Four Preps singer Bruce Belland). They teamed with British musicians Mike Jones, Martin Brett, and Daniel Woodgate – a former member of Madness. The band took their name from the Greek meaning of the name Melissa, meaning honey bee.

Chris Musto in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://www.facebook.com/chris.musto.12

British drummer, designer, production and stage manager from London. Creative director from 2009 to 2011 at The Mustard Laboratory

Richard Langston in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://feralhouse.com/the-clean/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clean-Dreamlife-Need-Rubber-Soul/

In 1978 in Dunedin , New Zealand, the Kilgour brothers, Hamish and David, and their schoolfriend Peter Gutteridge, got together to form a band called The Clean. When Robert Scott joined in 1980, the band found a combination that endured for nearly forty years.

The Clean profoundly changed alternative music: hitting the New Zealand charts for months with a single made for 50 dollars, 'Tally Ho!'; helping establish Flying Nun and a music scene independent of the big labels; pioneering a low-fi, do-it-yourself approach to rock music; and touring internationally to influence bands like Pavement and Yo La Tengo.

Raw and immediate, this is the story as told by members of The Clean and their inner circle - fellow musicians such as Chris Knox, Martin Phillipps, Graeme Downes and Ira Kaplan, friends and family, pub promoters and sound engineers, and their good friend, Richard Langston. From teenagers in a Dunedin practice room to New York City on 9/11 - this is the band's history as it unfolds.