The Clean - Compilation

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.

:( wish I hadn't missed it.

My fiance was disappointed in us too.

http://www.offthetracks.co.nz/r-i-p-peter-gutteridge/
:(

I was just about to post something. What wretched, wretched news.

ooof

Inducted into the NZz music hall of fame last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0ST1V8mMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxFuKYt3m8

One, there's a NZ music Hall of Fame? Two, it took the Clean this long to get in?

i think the clean turned it down at least once

The book on the New Zealand scene around Flying Nun by Roger Shepherd, In love With THese Times was a great read.
Finally picked up this compi in the wake of getting it from FOPP last Xmas.

Beatnik, Slug Song and Billy Two deserve better.

― Bored of Canada (S-

otm, all three of these songs rule

no one has ever said this and i don't believe that it's true, but

"you can tell a lot about someone by what their favorite clean song is"

made this dumb gif so they can play infinitely

https://i.imgur.com/GGkYK7h.gif

Well, anything could happen and it could be right now
And the choice is yours to make it worthwhile

that's a lovely gif, thank you karl

Hard agree

Nice clean one, Karl

:D

it blows my mind that 'anything could happen' is a 1981 song. it is so proto-mid-90s slacker anthem, it hurts

getting older too

'why don't you do yourself in?'

is this the main the clean thread?

i've been giving some more time to Getaway lately. i've heard songs from it via the Anthology comp, but the album itself is wonderful. maybe their best full length? i don't really know what i'm talking about. i love the clean

also i'm not sure which songs ira and georgia are on, but it could be any of them/all i guess. yo la tengo always resembled older clean songs in some respects, but by 2001 they seemed to be converging

https://i.imgur.com/GGkYK7h.gif

hell yeah

Have you seen those clips of them live in Auckland from the early 80s? I want to be in that audience so badly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_TUP_d1nIo

Knee-level camerawork is severely underrated.

!!!

That's absolutely awesome footage. Is that their first time playing North Island?

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

notes on the clip say: This was a private show, other bands on the bill included The Chills, Tall Dwarfs, Nocturnal Projections and This Sporting Life. The show was not only was filmed by North Television but was also recorded on a TEAC 4-Track by Chris Knox and Doug Hood; some of the audio subsequently released includes "Flamethrower" by the Chills as one of two B-sides to the Rolling Moon single (1982) and "Two Fat Sisters" and "Happy Birthday John" by The Clean, released on their posthumous 12" E.P. Live Dead Clean (1986).

quickstep live at the rumba bar in 82 followed by anything could happen would be my top votes. Why does NZ have such great music?!

Isolation lends itself to creative freedom?

Musician Hamish Kilgour missing https://t.co/m75sUQibLl

— Dr Stephen Clarke (@StephenClarkeNZ) December 1, 2022

:(

oh no

dude's been going off the rails a bit lately, hope he's ok

oh no

dude's been going off the rails a bit lately, hope he's ok

Jeez. The last time I saw the Clean, several years back, it was David who seemed under duress. Hamish always seemed to have it together, though I can imagine his politics made the last few years unbearable.

really hope he's found safe and sound

So, um, our Tyler, Tyler W., asked William Tyler for any news, and William Tyler apparently responded that Hamish had been found and was OK. But when I looked for the William Tyler tweet to post here, it had been deleted (?). So, Tyler W., any news?

It seems Alley Records responded to the two Tylers that he is still missing:

Hey, William and Tyler, We are not hearing this from our friends in NZ, unfortunately — they are still still very concerned there about Hamish, as are we. Checked in with folks a few minutes ago after reading this thread.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/gKyuPw95E8

— Ally Records (@allyrecordsnc) December 3, 2022

Not good news:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/300757350/iconic-kiwi-musician-hamish-kilgour-found-dead

ahhhh fuck

awful

That’s sad. I’m sure there are people on this board who knew him well, but I’ll just say I met him at a party in Brooklyn circa 1999 and he struck me as a very likeable and unassuming guy. Easy to talk to. I bumped into him a few more times in that general period and then one last time about 20 years later in Williamsburg when he was shopping for clothes. He may not have remembered me but I couldn’t help remember him, he had one of those looks and one of those vibes you don’t forget.

terrible news.

Ughhh god, so awful.