For a good chunk of 1979 The Clean were resident in Auckland; part of a wider influx of groups and punks into the city that year. It’s a part of their music history which strikes me as significant. Like their friends’ The Enemy, who re-emerged in 1979 as Toy Love, they skipped Christchurch and Wellington for the big smoke and its vibrant punk scene.
It was to prove a fitful time for the group. They were still in need of a bass player. With Peter Gutteridge having been left at home The Clean rump of the Kilgour brothers’ David and Hamish, and drummer Lindsay Hooke added Debbie Shadbolt, who played six shows with the band before heading to Australia. She was replaced by Jessica Walker who was in the group when Auckland Star’s Scene caught up with them in September 1979. The vigilant Scene included a photo of the quartet and a short history. That month they’d play new wave club, Squeeze, and The Windsor Castle in Parnell; punk haunts both. Jessica Walker would soon be an integral part of Wellington’s Shoes This High.
Despite that The Clean never really got going and David Kilgour returned to Dunedin. Hamish stayed put. In January 1980 he was singing in The SOBs, who included former Terrorways’ Pete Mesmer and Gary Hunt, and Michael Lawry (future Headless Chicken) who’d played guitar in The Normals, a pioneer Wellington punk group. Here was living evidence of the intermingling of the country’s punk scenes. The one major beef I had with Wade’s New Zealand punk history, Have You Checked The Children? was its overt regional focus. The interaction and flow of information between the various scenes and the emergence of punk hotspots is never fully examined. The punk community was a community in constant flux.
The SOBs debuted at Island of Real on January the thirteenth (with The Features), and played regularly around Auckland in the early months of 1980 chopping out a set which included originals and covers of ATV’s Action Time Vision and The Archies.
In Dunedin David Kilgour was playing out with The Stains, a schoolboy punk group entered in the 4XO Battle of the Bands. He’d be replaced by Terry Moore in March.
The SOBs (with The Features) are listed for Christchurch’s Hillsborough Tavern in mid-April,but it’s uncertain whether they played the show. By mid-May Hamish Kilgour would be back in The Clean in Dunedin - drumming this time with Robert Scott installed on bass - playing with Bored Games at the Coronation Hall. The classic Clean line-up.
Dates:
March ‘80
The Androidss. The Spelling Mistakes. The SOBs. Squeeze. 6. 7. 8. The SOBs. The Respectables. Liberty Stage. 21. 22.
April ‘80
The SOBs. The Sloth Creatures. Liberty Stage. 17. 18. 19.
It was to prove a fitful time for the group. They were still in need of a bass player. With Peter Gutteridge having been left at home The Clean rump of the Kilgour brothers’ David and Hamish, and drummer Lindsay Hooke added Debbie Shadbolt, who played six shows with the band before heading to Australia. She was replaced by Jessica Walker who was in the group when Auckland Star’s Scene caught up with them in September 1979. The vigilant Scene included a photo of the quartet and a short history. That month they’d play new wave club, Squeeze, and The Windsor Castle in Parnell; punk haunts both. Jessica Walker would soon be an integral part of Wellington’s Shoes This High.
Despite that The Clean never really got going and David Kilgour returned to Dunedin. Hamish stayed put. In January 1980 he was singing in The SOBs, who included former Terrorways’ Pete Mesmer and Gary Hunt, and Michael Lawry (future Headless Chicken) who’d played guitar in The Normals, a pioneer Wellington punk group. Here was living evidence of the intermingling of the country’s punk scenes. The one major beef I had with Wade’s New Zealand punk history, Have You Checked The Children? was its overt regional focus. The interaction and flow of information between the various scenes and the emergence of punk hotspots is never fully examined. The punk community was a community in constant flux.
The SOBs debuted at Island of Real on January the thirteenth (with The Features), and played regularly around Auckland in the early months of 1980 chopping out a set which included originals and covers of ATV’s Action Time Vision and The Archies.
In Dunedin David Kilgour was playing out with The Stains, a schoolboy punk group entered in the 4XO Battle of the Bands. He’d be replaced by Terry Moore in March.
The SOBs (with The Features) are listed for Christchurch’s Hillsborough Tavern in mid-April,but it’s uncertain whether they played the show. By mid-May Hamish Kilgour would be back in The Clean in Dunedin - drumming this time with Robert Scott installed on bass - playing with Bored Games at the Coronation Hall. The classic Clean line-up.
Dates:
March ‘80
The Androidss. The Spelling Mistakes. The SOBs. Squeeze. 6. 7. 8. The SOBs. The Respectables. Liberty Stage. 21. 22.
April ‘80
The SOBs. The Sloth Creatures. Liberty Stage. 17. 18. 19.
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