Hamish Kilgour

Hamish Kilgour 2011

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Hamish Kilgour  —  a New Zealand musician, born in Christchurch on 17 March 1957, who co-founded the indie rock band The Clean with his brother David Kilgour MNZM in 1978.  Hamish (who passed away in November 2022) was also a founder member of The Great Unwashed, Bailter Space in 1987 as well as the band The Mad Scene in the 1990s, later recording as a solo artist.

After the Clean temporarily split up in the early 80s, Kilgour co-founded the Christchurch space rock band Bailter Space in 1987, and recorded the Nelsh Bailter Space EP and Tanker album with that band.  In the late 1980s, while on a promotional tour with Bailter Space in New York City, Kilgour decided to remain in the city and left the band.  While remaining in New York, Kilgour co-founded the band The Mad Scene in the early 1990s with guitarist and bassist Lisa Siegel.  The Mad Scene released an EP, Falling Over, Spilling Over, in 1992 on NYC indie label Homestead Records.  Hamish's former label, New Zealand's Flying Nun, released the band's debut album A Trip Thru Monsterland in 1993, and after some personnel changes, the band signed to Merge Records and their second album Sealight was released in 1996.  Kilgour's debut solo album All of It and Nothing was released on Ba Da Bing Records on 16 September 2014.  The Clean, including Kilgour, were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2017.

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