Hamish Kilgour's open, do-it-yourself approach in The Clean inspired an indie-rock scene in New Zealand — as well as bands like Yo La Tengo and Superchunk.
records. In 1978, he joined with his brother David on guitar and their friend Peter Gutteridge on bass to form The Clean."In Dunedin, you can start and be terrible,"' Hamish told New Zealand magazineThe Clean got better quickly. After Robert Scott replaced Gutteridge, the trio released the frantic"Tally Ho!", the inaugural single for Roger Shepherd's label Flying Nun. The record made it to No.
The Clean's subsequent records — particularly 1988's cracklingspread beyond their homeland to college radio stations and indie record stores across America and Europe.Though The Clean's career was filled with stops and starts, Kilgour was always involved in music. In the early 1980s, he and David formed The Great Unwashed; a few years later, he helped start the heavy-guitar trio Bailter Space.
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