C86 Show - Indie Pop

Mikey Georgeson in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://vimeo.com/1160773241?share=copy&fl=cl&fe=ci

https://themiddlepeople.bandcamp.com/

With three albums under their collective belt since Mikey Georgeson (David Devant & His Spirit Wife) & António Olaio (Repórter Estrábico) first met in 2024, it is high time for a Best Of The Middle People compilation. Gathering tracks from Revenge Of The Killjoys,Dogmatists In Disguise, and even one from last year’s Christmas With The Middle People holiday album, Can You Feel The Moment: Best Of The Middle People also adds a trio of new songs to bring more ‘Art-Pop Joy’. 

  

Introduced through a mutual friend when Olaio was performing in a play in London, the two soon exchanged drawings. Georgeson sending him one titled ‘Losing My Virginity to Time Itself’, which ‘sort of set the tone.’ “We are both visual artists,” Olaio explains, “both used to putting things together in weird ways. I then asked Mikey to play on a song for an album I was going to make, and we became a band. It was very quick. We do everything very quickly.” The duo’s first song, ‘Hello John’, was their way of saying hello to each other. “It's not a very nice song,” Georgeson laughs. “It's about two twin brothers that hate each other. But it did feel like a conversation through music. That ambiguity is quite middle. We navigate both good and bad.”

Steve Nieve in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://events.liveit.io/west-hampstead-arts-club/steve-nieve-kessada/

https://www.stevenieve.com/solo-albums 

Musician and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello's backing bands the Attractions and the Imposters, as well as Madness. He has also experienced success as a prolific session musician, featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings.

In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

Andy Prince  in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://soundcloud.com/andrew-prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dna3ykpRUyY

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

Experienced bassist and composer Andy Prince writes and performs evocative instrumentals on the Chapman stick.
During his musical career, Andy has played bass with many well known bands and solo artists, including Sham 69, Toyah Wilcox, Damo Suzuki, Classix Nouveaux, Rikki and the Last Days of Earth, Jimmy Edwards and the Profile, Random Hold.

Maggie Holland in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://www.maggieholland.scot/

English singer and songwriter and became involved in the local folk club scene in the late 1960s. She has played in a number of bands and formed a number of collaborations with other artists, but has become well known in recent times as a solo artist and songwriter. She enjoys singing songs with meaningful words and has named her major influences as Bob Dylan, Al Stewart, Dave Evans, Leon Rosselson, Billy Bragg, Bruce Cockburn and Robb Johnson.

Michael Jung in conversation with David Eastaugh

http://www.alicedonut.com/

Alice Donut formed in 1986 after the demise of the Sea Beasts, a band at Columbia University, the name soon trimmed from the initial Alice Donut Liver Henry Moore, a play on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Ted Houghton, Tomas Antona, Dave Giffen and Tom Meltzer recruited drummer Stephen Moses and quickly found a substantial audience at CBGB. Guitarist Michael Jung soon replaced Meltzer. The band's first commercial release was the Donut Comes Alive album, released in 1988 on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label, followed in 1989 with Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an Otherwise Meaningless Life.