THE CLEAN: IN THE DREAMLIFE - Richard Langston

In The Clean: in the dreamlife you need a rubber soul, Richard Langston records the definitive story of the band that pioneered a low-fi, do-it-yourself approach to rock music and helped establish independent music label, Flying Nun Records. He will be quizzed by one of the band’s biggest fans, music reviewer Grant Smithies, followed by a celebration of their iconic sound. In 1978 in Dunedin the Kilgour brothers, Hamish and David, and their schoolfriend Peter Gutteridge, got together to form a band called The Clean. When Robert Scott joined in 1980 the band found a combination that endured for nearly forty years. 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 influence bands like Pavement and Yo La Tengo. Raw and immediate, this is the story as told by members of The Clean and their inner circle – fellow musicians such as Chris Knox, Martin Phillipps, Graeme Downes and Ira Kaplan, friends and family, pub promoters and sound engineers, and their good friend, Richard Langston. From teenagers in a Dunedin practice room to New York City on 9/11 – this is the band’s history as it unfolds.