The Clean

Sun., Dec. 2, 8 p.m., $10, with King of Siam and Times New Viking, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

by Brian Howard

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Published: Nov 27, 2007

kiwi rock/dunedin sound

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Maybe David Kilgour was just scoping the place out when he and the Heavy 8s played Johnny Brenda's earlier this month. If so, he's given the place a thumbs up, and will return, this time with brother Hamish (of the Mad Scene) and (we assume) bassist Robert Scott, as the Clean, who're tacking a Philly show onto the November's-end NYC reunion shows we'd heard tell of. They're the band the mythical Flying Nun Records started for (the Pin Group beat them to FN001, but FN002 was the band's landmark "Tally Ho" single). In some ways, they're the architects of the gangly/jangly, mossy/glossy Dunedin sound (members went on to form similarly influential the Chills and the Bats). They've got three dates at the Cake Shop in New York, one in Philly, and then who knows when Dunedin-dwelling David and Gothamite Hamish will cross paths again?

Sun., Dec. 2, 8 p.m., $10, with King of Siam and Times New Viking, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

 

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