C86 Show - Indie Pop

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.

Gina Volpe in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZBwi0Y3Ao

https://www.lunachicks.com/

Theo Kogan, Gina Volpe, and Sydney "Squid" Silver were students at New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts when they decided to form a band. Sindi Benezra, an acquaintance of Silver, was asked to join shortly after. They rehearsed and wrote material in Gina's bedroom for about a year. Their first composition, the lengthy "Theme Song", was about killing Kogan's and Silver's English teacher. The band played their first show in 1988 with Theo's then-boyfriend Mike on the drums.

Juno Reactor  in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://junoreactor.bandcamp.com/album/mona-lisa-overdrive-reaky-reakson-remix

https://www.junoreactor.com/

In a powerful convergence of cinematic legacy and contemporary electronic music artistry, Juno Reactor (aka Ben Watkins) have released a stunning new remix of their iconic track ‘Mona Lisa Overdrive’ as a single today. Originally composed and scored for the 2003 movie ‘The Matrix Reloaded’, it has now been reimagined by the Slovenian DJ and producer Reaky Reakson.

Nikki Corvette in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://www.facebook.com/nikki.corvette/

This Detroit punk-pop outfit – formed in 1977 – was led by the Nikki Corvette and guitarist Peter James. They had a sound somewhere between The Go-Go’s and The Ramones, with bubblegum teenage libido maxed out with a dose of The Shangri La’s.

Led by a “new wave Betty Boop,” to quote one review, this group offered great sounds and sex appeal. Combining those undeniable elements of energy and enthusiasm.

The group disbanded in 1981, though Nikki returned in the 21st century as Nikki Corvette & The Stingrays – a band incorporating Travis Ramin on guitar, Georgia Peach on bass and Johnny O’Halloran on drums.

Anne Richmond Boston in conversation with David Eastaugh 

https://annerichmondboston.bandcamp.com/album/i-should-be-happy

Back in the late 70s Anne Richmond Boston was a part of a then up-and-coming, young new-wave band called The Swimming Pool Q’s—a band that would find a spiritual home alongside contemporaries like fellow Georgians The B-52s and R.E.M.

In 2026 Boston is still (bar a few years when she had moved on from the band) playing shows as a member of the band. Indeed The Swimming Pool Q’s have some shows coming up this May, information for which you can get here from their website.

But there’s another story to be told here. The story of how Boston set out to record the follow up to her debut solo record The Big House Of Time, only for that album (I Should Be Happy) to remain unfinished and unreleased for more than 30 years on from its original recording sessions.