the punk and the godfather: street chant & the clean 2011

Street Chant and The Clean playing the Arch Hill / Muzai Records Label Sound Off, at the Kings Arms, in Auckland. Sunday March 6 2011.


Street Chant

Billie Rogers


Alex Brown


Emily Littler

Street Chant - 'Stoned Again'

There were some familiar faces in the Kings Arms garden bar. Full Moon Fiasco played a set, including a cover of 'Buddy' by Snapper. Thanks to Jackson Perry for the links to both photos.


The sun was setting, Gil Scott-Heron's 'Me and the Devil' was playing through the PA, and the bar was packed. Time for The Clean.

Hamish Kilgour


Robert Scott


David Kilgour


Highlights for me included 'At the bottom', 'Hold onto the rail', 'You need a rubber soul', 'Beatnik' (with guitar), and 'Point that thing somewhere else' (with keyboards).






"... his Fender Jazzmaster kept going out of tune. A chronic problem. “I’m very physical with the guitar,” he says to me later. “It’s one of the reasons why I’m always tuning up. Everything I hit, I hit it really hard. I press down on the strings really, really hard and it gives me a slightly dissonant sound because I’ve worked out that I’m pulling so hard, and I’m torturing the guitar so much that I’m bending the whole guitar out of tune. For years I couldn’t work out why I couldn’t get really right in tune. I just blamed the guitars, but now I think it is a product of the struggle, of my physicality with the guitar …” That night, Kilgour’s increasingly ironic banter between songs only underlined his sense of unease. Yet once he shifted to his customised 12 string – a strange, Bo Diddley square guitar built from the neck of an acoustic 12 string that Hamish Kilgour had smashed back in the 80s – the night suddenly came blazingly alive ..."
From an interview with David Kilgour by Gordon Campbell, Listener, March 26 2005.