Alistair Jackson in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0Cw6j70H4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXMB0fZMhxw

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYyl_FDTE94&t=374s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGp--gpTOQ

A Riot Of Colour were an indie pop band from Swiss Cottage, North London, originally consisting of:

• Alex Osman (drums)
• Alistair Jackson (guitar)
• Dominic Blaazer (bass, vocals, guitar)

The band released several singles in the 80's and a compilation album of their work in 2015.

Andy Allan in conversation with David Eastaugh

https://www.facebook.com/andy.allan.1232

https://www.facebook.com/hankdogsband

Hank Dogs are an acoustic folk band from South London. The band members are Piano Pace, her ex-husband Andy Allan (formerly of Lightning Raiders and The Professionals), and his daughter Lily Ramona. Their music is considered to be in the English folk tradition. They started out in 1992 at an acoustic club in South London. In 1998 they traveled to Seattle with producer Jon Kertzer and played at the Bumbershoot Festival there.

Their first album Bareback, produced by Joe Boyd, was well received and was named Record of the Month for WXPN in Philadelphia. Their third album Fiveways was recorded in 2010 but remained unreleased until 2024 following the break up of the band. The band reunited to celebrate the release.

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.”