The Clean - Compilation

Vehicle is the Clean at its strummiest, sort of the best fusion of its sensibilities and that of the Bats.

Here Come the Cars is great.

it is!
i just saw this recently, pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiPC9YCUN9M

Fun gig in DC last night although the sound was not mixed that well. David Kilgour was wearing an upturned on the sides straw cowboy like hat this time, with Bob Scott wearing a fisherman's one. Seems like a similar set from the other night. An hour and 15 minutes or so. Lots of Neu-ish sounding cuts, one that reminded me of Wire, another kinda Bowie-like, plus some jangly ones.

Thanks for the details. Bob was rocking the same look in NYC.

"Tally Ho" was again the last one before the encores. The Kilgours ranted about politics a bunch between a couple of songs. Dislike for Dubya and New Zealand's current head and the entire 2 party structure in the US of A

haha! that's awesome.
i still want to know if they played "at the bottom"

it's an instrumental, if that helps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wux81gYHjQ

Hmmmm? Will have to check videos later when I have access to them.

i'm pretty sure they played it the other night in boston, but tbh the sound was so weird and david's guitar playing was so ...loose... i can't be certain.

OH MAN I can't believe I'm missing these! ;_; x 1000000

yeah pretty sure they played "At the Bottom" in NYC toward the end of the set

I'm bad with their song titles

would have liked to hear "Beatnik"

hope that some live tapes emerge!

I checked nyctaper but it looks like he was at another show that night

sonofa!

maybe it'll show up on free music archive -- this thing is pretty great: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Kilgour/Phoning_It_In_041005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhcfCw4vTE&feature=youtu.be
from last weekend. i need to move to NZ.

anyone see 'em in chicago last night? friend said it was kind of a mess.

There's discussion of it on the Chicago thread.

ah... sounds like kind of a bummer!

Where?

That's a bummer, I read some interview recently with DK where he basically said that The Clean aren't likely to ever record again. When I saw them in 2010 they were fantastic.

Feel free to c/p my description from the other thread -- I'm on zing. The show was fun to talk about afterwards and started well, but kinda plopped rather than sizzled.

I do wonder whether DK was playing so poorly bcz he was out of it, bcz he didn't give a shit or out of actual hostility to the crowd

Yeah i saw them in 2010 too, they were great but their songs do fall apart instead of end properly so I thought that was just their thing. On that point alone (referenced on the other thread).

fine if they don't feel compelled to make another record, but i guess I'd hope they at least enjoy playing together from time to time.

oh wait i saw them in 2007 i dunno what i was thinking

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It started off ok, DK had his back to the audience and was pretty far out with the solos, and then each song would just kinda plop at the end, right when I was hoping/expecting it would take off. This happened over and over, there were some comments about the president, drones, riots, and pleas for small talk between songs (Hamish seemed lucid and normal, Bob did too) and then around 10 they stopped playing, disappeared behind the curtain for a while (longer than usual) and then came back sans DK, who was nowhere to be found. An audience member got on stage and asked him to come back "You've inspired so many of us to play music, we want to hear you" and he never came back so that guy's friends sang/played Tally Ho with 2/3 of The Clean.

Hamish and Bob sounded good though! I got to see Hamish's rather weird drumming style.

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Going to the Brooklyn show tomorrow night. I hope it's better. The LPR show a few years back was outstanding.

But now that I recall, DK seemed a bit loopy that night as well. But they sounded great. Where can I see this "Chicago thread?"

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thx mizzell

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the sunglasses and bandanna briefly made me think of mike reno

and sweatband

this is a bummer. they've become one of my favorite bands over the last couple of years and were pretty great in 2007 from what i recall. also strange why David is touring if he doesn't want to. these american shows don't seem to be a great money-maker?

i forgot to mention that there was one point where either bob or hamish said something like "you don't understand us anyway" or something to that effect
that was the only moment that genuinely bummed me out
otherwise it just didn't live up to my (admittedly high) expectations

i also think their first song was PTTSE and the played Fish later but who cares

I went with little/no expectations having not seen 'em before and had a blast. Sloppy and snippy and short as it was, it's impossible to argue with that rhythm section and even a cranky David Kilgour is still fantastic. Loved the encore, too!

Let me just say that both Kilgour brothers' new albums are excellent. Still need to hear the new Robert Scott.

Is that the duets album?

I'm going to the show tonight too, can't wait. I saw another Hamish band in a garage in 2008 or so and it ruled

Looking forward to their Memphis show next week. I need to hear Hamish's album. I love the new (last year's) Mad Scene record. Very satisfying. Repped for it over on the MS thread a while back.

i guess ultimately it's not that the show was bad, just that it could have been so much better
that's the essence of disappointment, no?
hope they get some of their zeal back for these other shows

I'm actually traveling to Memphis from St. Louis for The Clean. Am anxious to see whether it's a repeat of the Chicago show (which I almost went to as well).

Bob Scott said they were great in Columbus.

Of course HE would; he's in the band! Haha

Kidding. Assume you mean another guy.

No, I mean him! Robert Scott! He knew the Chicago show went awry, but said the Columbus show a few days earlier was great. So who knows which David you're going to get these days.

show in brooklyn was good fun. ira and georgia were on stage for a lot of it, there was one extended jam, can't remeber which song it was. a lot of songs did end abruptly, but not sure i would have noticed had i not read this thread.
not sure if it is a sign of great songwriting or that i have been listening to a lot of clean lately, but it's amazing how david plays an opening chord on the guitar and i can instantly hear the entire song in my head. i love this band.