Hamish Kilgour, the longstanding drummer for New Zealand indie rock band The Clean, has been discovered lifeless after he was reported lacking late final month. He was 65 years outdated.
According to New Zealand information web site Stuff, Kilgour was present in Christchurch. A police spokesperson stated the dying has been referred to the coroner. The musician had final been seen on the Palms purchasing centre in Christchurch.
Born in 1957, Kilgour co-founded The Clean within the late Seventies alongside his brother, David Kilgour, and a handful of various bassists – first Peter Gutteridge, then Robert Scott. The band’s 1981 debut single, ‘Tally Ho!’, was the second launch on Roger Shepherd’s Flying Nun Records, serving to to ascertain what would go on to be an iconic indie rock and pop label.
The band launched two EPs – 1981’s ‘Boodle Boodle Boodle’ and 1982’s ‘Great Sounds Great’ – earlier than splitting up. Even whereas the band was inactive all through a lot of the Nineteen Eighties, Flying Nun launched a compilation of their early recordings, titled merely ‘Compilation’, in 1986.
In the late ’80s, The Clean reformed and started touring, with reside report ‘In-a-Live’, captured in London, arriving in 1989. The following 12 months, the band’s debut album, ‘Vehicle’, was launched by each Flying Nun and Rough Trade.
Over the following years, the band moved out and in of exercise. Second album ‘Modern Rock’ arrived in 1994, with ‘Unknown Country’ following in 1996 and ‘Getaway’ in 2001. In 2002, one other compilation of The Clean’s early releases, ‘Anthology’, was launched collectively by Flying Nun and Merge. The band’s last studio album, ‘Mister Pop’, was launched in 2009.
With The Clean, Kilgour was a pioneering affect on the “Dunedin sound” that got here to be related to lots of the bands on Flying Nun. His distinctive drumming method – without delay free and muscular, anchoring the jangly guitars and melodic basslines of his bandmates – might be heard all through The Clean’s discography.
Kilgour was musically energetic outdoors of The Clean for a few years, enjoying with a various vary of initiatives. Most notably, within the early Nineteen Nineties, he moved to New York and fashioned The Mad Scene with Lisa Siegel. Debut album ‘A Trip Thru Monsterland’ arrived in 1993, with follow-up ‘Sealight’ launched in 1995.
In 2014, Kilgour launched his first solo album, ‘All Of It And Nothing’, on American label Ba Da Bing. His second solo album, ‘Finklestein’, was launched 4 years later. Kilgour, as a part of The Clean, was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2017.