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Rob Stowell

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:05:32 +1300

Yay! if there’s anything we can do to keep it bubbling …
apologies but presume it's ok to add this –
https://youtu.be/qRWPTy0loC8

Stupid

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:30:32 +1300

Rob, there are things bubbling under... definitely not something to be sneezed at 😉

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:22:23 +1300

it's not The Clean – but viral strands of it exist in their DNA, I'm sure...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6zf7P8eTRI

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 15:58:34 +1300

slap it on the diagramophone...
My long abandoned Billy TK/David Kilgour Venn diagram is now complete.
Sets and drugs and rock and roll
Were huddled together in a bottomless hole
With a hidehi and a foderol
With a hidehi and a foderol

- 'Death Rehearsal' – Toy Love

Ken Double

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 15:33:24 +1300

Thank you Jonathan. My long abandoned Billy TK/David Kilgour Venn diagram is now complete.

Jonathan Ganley

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:59:45 +1300

That song achieves immortality on the riff alone

Astro Children, Lucy Hunter, and Billy TK perform 'Getting Older'

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

Ken Double

Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:10:35 +1300

Giving The Clean an award seems like giving a great racehorse a box of chocolates. And yet here we are. I think it's safe to say that 35 years ago most then APRA members thought they were an unprofessional joke, the antithesis of how to go about "making it". I…

kiwicmc

Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:07:15 +1300

I can highly recommend the Slush Fund version of Point That Thing and the version of Fish off Syd's Pink Wiring System (https://theclean.bandcamp.com/track/fish-syds-pink-wiring-system-version) in a single playlist on repeat during a long overseas flight.

Both versions discovered on these very pages I believe a while ago

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:44:55 +1300

a local village green preservation society?
Announced tonight at The Silver Scrolls
https://flyingnunfoundation.net/
They didn’t use the GIF (above) that I amateurishly cobbled together – but it looks good on the website. the less is more version works as well.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:56:51 +1300

Park life...
It was also confirmation that I should go home and start writing about the music still coming of out Dunedin – the seed of six issues of a fanzine called Garage
– Richard Langston
Step right up
Sit right down
Read all about it
https://issuu.com/flyingnunrecords/docs/garagezine1

Rob Stowell

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:48:48 +1300

Watch out for a great tribute video from Stuart Page, that specially features Peter Gutteridge. There’s a terrific feature documentary waiting to be made, and Stu would be the one. Gawd I wish – anything could happen.

Russell Brown

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:50:21 +1300

If we’re including covers, we should not forget Wingtip Sloat’s cover of “Anything Can Happen” as it’s probably the earliest cover of the Clean from a band outside NZ.

Oh – that’s a pretty cool version!

But Australian comedy cowpunk band The Johnnys were playing the same song as early…

Russell Brown

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:41:20 +1300

Is the top one a Ronnie? Anyway, we have one (Fiona was much better at keeping these things than me) and it’s gorgeous.

so much talent in one ensemble

Absolutely. How many bands are there where every member draws and paints?

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:19:38 +1300

The Clean art book can’t be far away, can it?
..or a set of cards, or colouring book even–
so much talent in one ensemble
(though I don't think they did these above)

Matthew Goody

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:30:18 +1300

Damn time difference! Missed writing something for this. Oh well. I'll cut and paste my two cents.

It's hard to be succinct in describing how goddamn awesome the Clean are, and their importance to New Zealand music, but one of my favourite anecdotes comes from when they briefly postponed their…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:40:00 +1300

pic from 100% Pure NZ site – City Walks’ eclectic Old Town walk.
https://www.newzealand.com/my/article/god-save-the-clean/

..and when you’ve finished pounding the pavements of Dunedin
you can hear Pavement pounding away at ‘Oddity’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBUQ-pyk2EI

Andrew Boak

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:47:09 +1300

Great column Russell (not like your others aren't...)
Best.Kiwi.Band.Ever IMHO

Russell Brown

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:42:29 +1300

Richard Langston also sent through his favourite Clean songs …

1 Getting Older
2 Anything Could Happen
3 Point That Thing Somewhere Else
4 Someone
5 Fish
6 Odditty
7 Too Much Violence
8 Twist Top
9 In The Dream Life U Need a Rubber Soul
10 Chumpy
11 At…

Russell Brown

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:59:26 +1300

Quite rarely, The Clean have changed up the instrumentation on 'Point That Thing'. It's always pretty special.

1999 in Dunedin, with a piano lead, as captured on the Slush Fund EP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07CKXEU8UM

And 22 years later one nice day at the King's Arms, with a funky little keyboard and Hamish…

Public Address

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:59:26 +1300

Discussion from blog post.