S/D: David Kilgour / The Clean

Haven't heard the Frozen Orange LP yet. Who put it out?

Merge. I don't think it's been released yet, though.

And the Stephen CD has some great simple pop songs in a Vehicle-esque vein, though my love for it may just be nostalgia for 1995 on my part.

Didn't like the Heavy Eights CD so much, but thought A Feather in the Engine was "ace." So am excited about the new one. Is it on soleseaq yet?

his old band squirm, solo recordings as michael j. hex, and in the duo the hiss explosion with peter mitchell are all uniformly brilliant, with the hiss explosions last album '66' (which actually included a kilgour cover) is a tasty slice of lo-fi pop and guitar shimmer, simply wonderful stuff.

mike ran 'noseflute' recordings here in christchurch for many years and was an important figure in the scuzz-rock scene of the mid 1990s (ape management, squirm, spacedust, loves ugly children etc), and in moving to dunedin a couple years back, he took over arc life recordings - leading to a real revitalisation of this top-notch label before his untimely death.

Just saw David Kilgour and the 8's at High Dive in Seattle. It was Halloween. David dressed up as an emo rocker, except he just wore an Emo Philips black mop wig and used the phrase "fucking geezers" every other phrase during the banter. Homer Simpson came on stage to dance on the third-to-last song. Excellent show, although could have been more attended. Ah well. David is one of the sweetest and friendliest people I've ever met. Good times.

DON'T MISS THE KILGOUR LIVE

i'll be seeing him in Denver (oddly enough at a place called the Hi-Dive) this Saturday -- can't wait! And uhh, if any of you are in the Front Range area, be sure to make it for the opening band, the Magic Mice. That's my band ... Sorry for the shameless plug, but what the heck. 10pm!

Kilgour was indeed awesome, though the crowd was ridiculously sparse. Great band, beautiful guitar playing, warm vibe. The whole thing makes me want to go on some sort of rant about all the crappy indie rock bands who sell out places four times as big as the hi-dive, but I won't waste your time ... To repeat what Mackro Mackro said above, DON'T MISS THE KILGOUR LIVE. I think he's swinging around to the east coast now ... And the Clean are playing in NYC in a couple of weeks too! Goddamn.

Grrrr, I will have to miss his Wednesday November 14th Washington DC show at DC9.

anyone heard this? http://www.davidkilgour.com/falling.htm not avail. in the states yet, I guess ... also, new Clean album coming soon! Huzzah!

no haven't heard that. but new Clean song available on pfork!

yeahhhh it sounds sweet! latter day Clean should not be overlooked!

New Clean album - "Mister Pop" is at least half utter brilliance and the rest is solid and will likely grow on me.

I pulled out Stephen's "Radar Of Small Dogs" and it's really great, I had completely forgotten it. Pity Flying Nun can't get their act together and reissue more from the vaults.

Good grief does the title track of "Here Come the Cars" act as a perfect destressing balm or what.

ooh, I need that record. Is it available anywhere other than Amazon? Selling for $36 there ...

Looks like you can get it for rather cheaper here:

http://www.newzealandcds.com/products.asp?product_id=1000

Here's his overall 'buy stuff' page for reference:

http://www.davidkilgour.com/buy-stuff.htm

Haha, bless their hearts, they link to a number of my AMG reviews.

oh, nice, thanks Ned!
Just discovered this Kilgour band: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=2171
Dunno if that CD is out of print or what, but you can grab it there.

just pulled out my stephen cd last week! mostly really good. the first tune gets me every time.

oh he'd pack house in chicago, denver just sucks!
it's funny, my band opened that show and my wife and I talked to David a bit -- and to this day we still say "Dinvah" the way he pronounced it.

perhaps we could reroute air traffic through Chicago and abduct him/them from the airport
or force them to perform in the airport

sounds good! btw here's a very nice recording of a recent show: http://crankingamps.blogspot.com/2011/03/2011-03-09-clean-smudge-sonny-and.html

Saw them at Maxwells in Hoboken September 2010 and it was great, especially since I was rocking out next to Ira Kaplan.

Ok, I wasn't going to say anything, but one of the Clean guys is actually sending their kid (grandkid?) to the same music camp as my son this week. I'm still trying to bump into him. At least now I have something to ask about.

It was very strange looking at the camp sign-in sheet this past Tuesday, recognizing the name, and then realizing that nobody there had the slightest idea who he was.

those seem to be . . . curiously small venues? i probably have no idea what's what, but i figured they'd at least be in the cat's cradle/black cat rather than local 506/r&r hotel

506 is a super small venue! I held the door for Michelle Williams there once. Like 100 years ago.

I welcome The Clean to play at the bar across the street from my apt. It's a really small venue...

new song! <3 ive been listening to this dude so much lately... http://www.archhill.co.nz/profiles/blogs/new-david-kilgour-the-heavy-eights-single-free-download?xg_source=activity

Holy shit, just saw them play live where they were joined by Peter Gutteridge for "Point That Thing..." and two others! Plus great versions of "Too Much Violence", "I Wait Around", "At The Bottom", "Fish" ...

didn't go, but last week they played chicks hotel (along with bill direen) with gutteridge & martin phillips sitting in on a few numbers. sort of regretting not going now cause sounds like it was an excellent show...

That does sound great

Been revisiting the DK & Heavy Eights recently. So much confidence. I think one big change for me, now, is that I don't enjoy the second, long half of "Diggin for Gold," the big heavy Les Paul workout that takes it to the end. I never minded back then, but now I could listen to the first part of the song on repeat at length and be happy. But it is a big heavy guitar workout album. In the day, I kind of overlooked "Waveboarder," but now it's the thing I replay most often.

Also the Barbara Manning duet Locked in Blue. How good is this?! So fun to play on guitar too

"duet" lol

I always imagine him stompin around in moccasin boots with his jeans tucked in on that part. xp

http://youtu.be/7uHHVQnd7vM
http://youtu.be/rOhcfCw4vTE

^^the aforementioned peter gutteridge guest spot, plus a VU cover. both killer.

pretty sure there's a clean performance going on in the park just across the valley from me right now!

You near Port Chalmers? IIRC they're playing at the final night of Chicks Hotel tonight ...

nah, i'm up the top end of n.e.v. seems they were taking part in a community event for spreading knowledge about lindsay's creek & environs :-D

when i first heard the guitar i initially thought it was coming from a practicing neighbour copping kilgour's sound... then the rest of the band came in

& yes, closing of chicks tonight but tickets were $$$ + i imagine it's gonna be seriously packed in there, so :-/

The Clean are playing SF Oct 1. No other US dates at this point.

2 more dates announced, looks strictly california at this point:
https://www.mergerecords.com/tours?artists[]=1644

Show in SF cancelled due to family illness, Stephen Malkmus playing (Spiral Stairs 50th bday) instead.

The entire tour has been cancelled. I mean...I feel for ya, family illness and all, but it is tremendously disappointing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7LXlYxFlfg

That's pretty faithful!

met h4m1sh tonight! nice guy and quite a raconteur.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2019/07/kilgour-bobbies-a-girl.jpg

David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights – Bobbie’s a girl

Entrances 2:51
Smoke you right out of heres 2:50
Crawlers 2:26
Threadss 4:06
Coming in from nowhere nows 3:12
Spotlights 2:59
Swan loops 4:09
If you were here and I was theres 3:30
Looks like I’m running outs 2:56
Ngaparas 5:57

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=168&v=ye-XH78aUvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye-XH78aUvE

excellent cover art

excellent song

yeah, i like that ...

It sounded perfect yesterday, still does today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ygLV4pBOI

that makes me want to try surfin'. great song, kilgour is really one of the largely unrecognized greats.

new record is really nice, no surprise.

new record is really nice, no surprise.

― tylerw, Monday, September 9, 2019 5:15 PM (one week ago)

^^

I'm actually quite taken with the two departures from his usual sound - the piano/Cloudboy vibes in "Swan Loop", and the Billy TK scorch of "Ngapara".

He's never made a bad record. Or even come close to one.

^^ seriously. just so consistent. and consistently underrated.

"I’m so glad to have completed this piano piece, it’s been hanging around in raw form for about 7 years and I always forget about it. .....and just like that it’s completed and out! Woo hoo!.....it's possibly my last statement on my obsession with minor chords and maj 7th chords."

https://www.projectsunrise.work/artists/david-kilgour

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/130639132/police-searching-for-awardwinning-kiwi-musician-last-seen-four-days-ago?fbclid=IwAR2z64QdKt1bo8xQ32JkxPHv86ino-LA7qIVKksEXUqeRqwTsfBXlVffW9Q&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Not good. Hamish Kilgour missing for 4 days