The Clean: In their own words

Author Richard Langston
Rights Available World excl. NZ

Formed in Dunedin in 1978 by Hamish Kilgour, David Kilgour and Robert Scott, The Clean profoundly changed alternative music – hitting the New Zealand charts for months with a single made for $50, ‘Tally Ho!’, helping establish Flying Nun and a music scene independent of the big labels, pioneering a low-fi, do-it-yourself approach to rock music, and touring internationally to shape in important ways the development of indie rock overseas through their influence on bands like Pavement and Yo La Tengo.

This book is a history of one of New Zealand’s most influential bands through their own words – the band members, their collaborators including Chris Knox and Martin Phillipps of The Chills, the producers, the pub owners and much more.

About the Author
Richard Langston is a journalist, poet, and television director who has written about the Dunedin music scene since the 1980s. The fanzine he edited, Garage, from 1984-86 was issued as the book Pull Down the Shades: Garage Fanzine 1984-1986 (Hozac, 2022) and received rave reviews in the USA and the UK with an excerpt published in The Wire.

Richard has personally know the Kilgour brothers and Robert Scott since the late 1970s.