The Clean 1608727 223934252 2008-07-06T16:14:57Z 81.98.8.249 /* Discography */ {{Infobox Musical artist |Name = The Clean |Img = Boodleboodleboodle.jpg |Img_capt = |Background = group_or_band |Birth_name = |Alias = |Born = |Died = |Origin = [[Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]] |Instrument = |Genre = |Occupation = |Years_active = 1978-the present |Label = [[Flying Nun Records]] |Associated_acts = |URL = |Current_members = |Past_members = [[Hamish Kilgour]]<br>[[David Kilgour (musician)]]<br>[[Robert Scott (musician)|Robert Scott]]<br>[[Peter Gutteridge]]<br>[[Doug Hood]] }} '''The Clean''' were an influential first-wave [[Punk rock|punk]] band that formed in [[Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]] in 1978. Led through a number of early rotating line-ups by brothers [[Hamish Kilgour|Hamish]] and [[David Kilgour (musician)|David Kilgour]], the band settled down to the well-known line-up with bassist [[Robert Scott (musician)|Robert Scott]]. Early incarnations of the Clean included Peter Gutteridge on bass (who wrote "Point That Thing"), Doug Hood on vocals (who later worked with [[Toy Love]] and founded the "Looney Tours" touring company). The Clean soon forged a distinctive and quirky sound that relied heavily on organ melodies and simple, [[Ramones]]-style chord progressions. In 1981, a fan of the Clean founded the [[Flying Nun Records|Flying Nun]] label to release their first single, "Tally Ho." A follow-up track off one of their early EPs, "Beatnik", also achieved success, as did the second single, "Getting Older". The Flying Nun label went on to be New Zealand's biggest independent record company, championing the [[Dunedin Sound]], a loosely-connected style of music largely produced by bands from this southern city. Others artists on the label included [[The Chills]], [[The Verlaines]], [[The Bats]], and [[Sneaky Feelings]]. The line-ups of these bands were often interrelated, with Peter Gutteridge being a founding member of the Chills, David Kilgour briefly in the Chills off-shoot band Time Flies, and Robert Scott being the founder of [[The Bats]]. During much of the 1980s, the Clean disbanded, and during this time the Kilgour brothers worked together on an experimental album and ep using the deliberately punning titles "The Great Unwashed" and "Clean Out Of Our Minds". Reforming in the late 1980s, the band explored a slightly poppier vein of music while still retaining their experimental edge. Although they released several chart-topping singles in their native country, the Clean are a little-known cult band outside of New Zealand, although their influence is surprisingly far-reaching. They became a staple of college radio in the 1980s, [[Stephen Malkmus]] of [[Pavement (band)|Pavement]] cites them as a major influence, and the band's droney 80s output is a direct forerunner of bands such as [[Yo La Tengo]] and [[Camper Van Beethoven]]. The Clean continue to produce music, with Flying Nun recently issuing a comprehensive collection of their previously hard-to-find singles. Output from the band has been sporadic over the years, with members involved in other projects and Hamish Kilgour living in [[New York]]. Other projects involving members of the band include The Bats and [[The Magick Heads]] (Scott), [[Stephen (band)|Stephen]], [[The Heavy Eights]] (David Kilgour), and [[The Mad Scene]] (Hamish Kilgour). In early 2007, the Clean toured New Zealand on the 'Bangers and Mash' tour, during which they celebrated Hamish Kilgour's 50th birthday while playing at 'The Studio' in Auckland on Saturday 17 March 2007. Later that same year, the band's best-known incarnation (Kilgour/Scott/Kilgour) reunited for a short East Coast tour of the United States. The tour began in Manhattan, NYC with four shows: an in-store performance at Other Music and a three night stand at the Cake Shop on the Lower East Side. Although the tour officially concluded with a performance at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, the following week the band played an extra show at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ, opening for Yo la Tengo at one of the group's annual [[Hannukah]] concerts. In June 2008 a live album recorded during the 2007 New Zealand tour, was released in New Zealand on Arch Hill Records, entitled 'Mashed'. The Clean are now putting the finishing touches to their new studio album, to be released later this year, also on Arch Hill. ==Discography== {| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" !align="center" valign="top"|Date !align="center" valign="top"|Title !align="center" valign="top"|Label !align="center" valign="top"|Charted !align="center" valign="top"|Country !align="center" valign="top"|Catalog Number |- |- bgcolor="#DDDDDD" | colspan=7 align=center | '''Albums''' |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1982 in music|1982]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Oddities (The Clean album)|Oddities]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|[[Flying Nun Records]] |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| FNMC ODD1 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1987 in music|1987]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Compilation (The Clean album)|Compilation]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|[[Flying Nun Records]] |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| FNCD154 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1990 in music|1990]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Vehicle (The Clean album)|Vehicle]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|[[Flying Nun Records]] |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| FNCD147 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1994 in music|1994]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Modern Rock (The Clean album)|Modern Rock]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|[[Flying Nun Records]] |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| FNCD292 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1996 in music|1996]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Unknown Country]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|[[Flying Nun Records]] |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| FNCD349 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[2001 in music|2001]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Getaway (The Clean album)|Getaway]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|[[Flying Nun Records]]/[[Merge Records]] |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| FNCD459/MRG188 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[2001 in music|2001]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Slush Fund (The Clean album)|Slush Fund]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Arc |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| NZ |align="left" valign="center"| Arc Cafe #1 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[2002 in music|2002]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Anthology (The Clean album)|Anthology]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|[[Flying Nun Records]]/[[Merge Records]] |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| FNCD468/MRG220 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[2003 in music|2003]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Syd's Pink Wiring System: Live in New Zealand 2000]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Cleano |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| NZ |align="left" valign="center"| Cleano 0001 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[2008 in music|2008]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''Mashed (live in New Zealand 2007) |align="left" valign="center"|Arch Hill |align="left" valign="center"|- |align="left" valign="center"|- |align="left" valign="center"|AHR033 |- |- bgcolor="#DDDDDD" | colspan=7 align=center | '''EPs''' |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1981 in music|1981]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Boodle Boodle Boodle]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Flying Nun Records |align="left" valign="center"| 4 |align="left" valign="center"| NZ |align="left" valign="center"| FN003 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1982 in music|1982]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-so Sounds So-so, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Flying Nun Records |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| NZ |align="left" valign="center"| FNGOOD001 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1986 in music|1986]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Live Dead Clean]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Flying Nun Records |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| NZ |align="left" valign="center"| FNLDC01 |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1990 in music|1990]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[In a Live]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Flying Nun Records |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| NZ/Europe |align="left" valign="center"| FN145/FNE29 |- |- bgcolor="#DDDDDD" | colspan=7 align=center | '''7"s''' |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1981 in music|1981]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Tally Ho/Platypus]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Flying Nun Records |align="left" valign="center"| 19 |align="left" valign="center"| NZ |align="left" valign="center"| FN002 |- |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1982 in music|1982]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Getting Older/Whatever I do/Scrape Music]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Flying Nun Records |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| NZ |align="left" valign="center"| FNLAST1 |- |- |align="left" valign="center"|[[1994 in music|1994]] |align="left" valign="center"|'''[[Late Last Night/Psychedelic Clown]]''' |align="left" valign="center"|Dark Beloved Cloud |align="left" valign="center"| - |align="left" valign="center"| US |align="left" valign="center"| dbc020 |- |} ==Film appearance== The Clean appear as themselves in the 1999 film ''[[Scarfies]]'', in which they are seen performing the song ''Tally Ho!'' in a performance at the Empire Tavern, Dunedin (the line-up for this performance was David Kilgour, Robert Scott, Robbie Yates, and Thomas Bell). ==External links== *The Clean and David Kilgour [http://www.theclean.org.uk discography] *[http://www.myspace.com/theclean MySpace page] *[http://www.acetonemagazine.org/summer2004/body/clean1.htm Interview at Acetone Magazine] {{DEFAULTSORT:Clean, The}} [[Category:New Zealand rock music groups]] [[Category:Flying Nun artists]]