The Clean - Tally Ho @ The Corner Hotel, Richmond (22nd Jan 2014) FILMED BY CARBIE WARBIE! ift.tt/1tP9IoI Prime architects of the Flying Nun sound, The Clean have influenced everyone from Pavement, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Real Estate to the current crop of Australian jangle pop like The Twerps. Named by Pitchfork as the Halley’s comet of indie-rock, The Clean recently toured the USA to celebrate the first ever vinyl edition of their classic Anthology on Merge Records. What can be said about The Clean? In 1978, they were the seeds of New Zealand punk and the reason for the founding of the mighty Flying Nun label. A truly magical band who are as vital as ever, The Clean have carved out a big sandbox for everyone to play in. Their influence resonated not only in their homeland but around the world, and can be heard loud and clear in the new generation of indie bands who have The Clean’s unique blend of homemade garage rock, hook-filled melodies, and psychedelic experimentalism, deeply etched into their DNA. So what’s the sound? It’s completely theirs but draws on everything from the psychedelic paste of Barrett/early Floyd to vintage Velvets propulsiveness to almost everything else under the sun. They created both full studio sound and lo-fi recordings before, during, and after the various waves of the 4-track revolution, making both recording modes work with no loss of the band’s identity. As far as other influences, you can hear Arthur Lee, Shirley Collins, and the Rolling Stones, among others, but it’s never a kind of forced appropriation; while some bands seem to say, “Look at my record collection,” in the case of The Clean, it’s organic, seamless, and inimitable. The Clean’s story is on-again/off-again purely by design. It suits the trio’s creative desires and keeps them clear of the machinery that threatened to interfere with that process from the moment they threatened to get awfully popular awfully quickly over thirty years ago. The Clean’s modern age has seen them splitting time and hemispheres: David Kilgour has a reputable solo catalogue, and recently released End Times Undone with his band The Heavy Eights on Merge Records; Robert Scott has The Bats and a new solo album, The Green House, out on Flying Nun; and Hamish Kilgour has been an endearing and enduring fixture in New York City, playing with assorted combos and recently releasing his solo debut, All Of It And Nothing, via Ba Da Bing Records. Lately The Cleans David Kilgour has been telling interviewers that this will be the bands last ever tour. We certainly hope not because looking around at this gig tonight at the Corner Hotel, there so much joy on the faces on everybody in that sweltering packed out room. Well ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN but I want to scream out on the top of my lungs is TALLY HO! For more information about The Clean: ift.tt/1rYMQhZ _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Classic Radio _______ FB: r-js/1vz7Pcz / TW: r-js/1kHd2Qt / Listen to LIPSapp Classic Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #classicrock #rollingstones #ledzeppelin #santana #eagles #zztop #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan #acdc #michaeljackson #pinkfloyd #madonna #u2
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:18:39 +0000
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