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Channelling the spirit of Indie Pop!

  1. 4D AGO

    Gary Lachman - Blondie, The Know & Iggy Pop

    Gary Lachman in conversation with David Eastaugh https://www.amazon.co.uk/Touched-Presence-Blondies-Bowery-Occult/dp/B0DSV388DQ https://www.gary-lachman.com/ https://garylachman.co.uk/ In this memoir, Lachman recounts how he went from being a successful rock and roller to a writer on consciousness and the Western inner tradition. He shares encounters with rockers such as the Ramones, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop and also his time with Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Living with Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein on New York’s Bowery, a block from CBGB, the birthplace of punk rock, Lachman discovered occultism via a follower of Aleister Crowley. Post rock and roll, Lachman’s occult studies brought him to the Golden Dawn, Manly P. Hall, Gnosticism, and a stint in Crowley’s O.T.O. He details his time in the Fourth Way, including a visit to the site of Gurdjieff ’s Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, and his years studying philosophy and literature and working as a science writer while managing a famous metaphysical bookshop at the height of the New Age movement. Excursions to Stonehenge, Avebury, and Glastonbury in search of ley lines and pilgrimages to Colin Wilson’s home in Cornwall are a few of the highlights of this introspective, often humorous account of a nascent writer’s struggle from rock and roll to individuation.

    1h 30m
  2. APR 1

    Mikey Georgeson - David Devant & His Spirit Wife & The Middle People

    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.”

    1h 58m
4.9
out of 5
22 Ratings

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