{"id":29280,"date":"2022-12-05T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/the-clean-drummer-hamish-kilgour-has-died-aged-65\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:06:25","slug":"the-clean-drummer-hamish-kilgour-has-died-aged-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/the-clean-drummer-hamish-kilgour-has-died-aged-65\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clean drummer Hamish Kilgour has died, aged 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hamish Kilgour, the longstanding drummer for New Zealand indie rock band The Clean, has been discovered lifeless after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/en_au\/news\/music\/the-clean-drummer-hamish-kilgour-is-missing-3359440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported lacking late final month<\/a>. He was 65 years outdated.<\/p>\n<p>According to New Zealand information web site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/music\/300757350\/the-cleans-hamish-kilgour-found-dead-in-christchurch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Stuff<\/em><\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1957, Kilgour co-founded The Clean within the late Seventies alongside his brother, David Kilgour, and a handful of various bassists \u2013 first Peter Gutteridge, then Robert Scott. The band\u2019s 1981 debut single, \u2018Tally Ho!\u2019, was the second launch on Roger Shepherd\u2019s Flying Nun Records, serving to to ascertain what would go on to be an iconic indie rock and pop label.<\/p>\n<p>The band launched two EPs \u2013 1981\u2019s \u2018Boodle Boodle Boodle\u2019 and 1982\u2019s \u2018Great Sounds Great\u2019 \u2013 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 \u2018Compilation\u2019, in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7tf1wzg4rdE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Clean - Anything Could Happen\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tf1wzg4rdE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the late \u201980s, The Clean reformed and started touring, with reside report \u2018In-a-Live\u2019, captured in London, arriving in 1989. The following 12 months, the band\u2019s debut album, \u2018Vehicle\u2019, was launched by each Flying Nun and Rough Trade.<\/p>\n<p>Over the following years, the band moved out and in of exercise. Second album \u2018Modern Rock\u2019 arrived in 1994, with \u2018Unknown Country\u2019 following in 1996 and \u2018Getaway\u2019 in 2001. In 2002, one other compilation of The Clean\u2019s early releases, \u2018Anthology\u2019, was launched collectively by Flying Nun and Merge. The band\u2019s last studio album, \u2018Mister Pop\u2019, was launched in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>With The Clean, Kilgour was a pioneering affect on the \u201cDunedin sound\u201d that got here to be related to lots of the bands on Flying Nun. His distinctive drumming method \u2013 without delay free and muscular, anchoring the jangly guitars and melodic basslines of his bandmates \u2013 might be heard all through The Clean\u2019s discography.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018A Trip Thru Monsterland\u2019 arrived in 1993, with follow-up \u2018Sealight\u2019 launched in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Kilgour launched his first solo album, \u2018All Of It And Nothing\u2019, on American label Ba Da Bing. His second solo album, \u2018Finklestein\u2019, was launched 4 years later. Kilgour, as a part of The Clean, was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 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\u00a0Stuff, Kilgour was present in Christchurch. A police spokesperson stated the dying has been referred to the coroner. 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