The Clean have made a new video for "Are you Really on Drugs" from their excellent album Mister Pop...

Watch the Clean "Are You Really On Drugs" Video

Video by Theo Angell

They also got into MAGNET MAGAZINE'S top 20 albums of 2009...where they wrote

"A band that releases five albums in 30 years isn’t exactly what you would call prolific. Still, it’s hard to hold anything against the Clean. Between Robert Scott and brothers David and Hamish Kilgour, the three members have released more than 30 albums with other projects. Knowing this almost makes an LP from the Clean even more of an event. They could do this whenever they wanted. Mister Pop is not the easy-to-digest collection of simple pop songs the band could have made. It’s not some grand comeback record, either. Devoid of any pressure, the result is a really great, relaxed and eclectic pop album."

January 5th - Cable Bay Vinyards - Waiheke Island

January 7th - Mangawhai Tavern - Mangawhai

January 8th Ascension Wine Estate - Matakana

January 10th - Wharepai Domain - Taurange

January 16th - Black Barn Vinyards - Hawkes Bay

The Renderers play a very rare show at the Kings Arms with White Swan Black Swan.

Look out for their new album Monsters and Miasmas

Surf City – New York and CMJ Shows October 2009

Tues 20th Oct 12pm KEXP live to air at The Cutting Room Recording and Mastering Studios

Tues 20th NZ@CMJ showcase 6.30pm at Red Bull Space Soho with Motocade, Bang Bang Eche, Kingston, Die! Die! Die! and more

Tues 20th Oct 11.10pm –Pukekos, Subbacultcha, and Viva Radio at The Cake Shop with Male Bonding zZz, Surf City, Best Coast, Hospital Bombers, The Moi Non Plus and Blondes

Wed Oct 21 9.30pm Ground Control Touring Showcase at Bell House Brooklyn with Pete & The Pirates, Let’s Wrestle, The Love Language

Thu Oct 22 11.30pm Advanced Alternative Media Party at The Suffolk Lower East Side with Violens, Male Bonding, Lemondae & Air Waves

Sat 24th Oct 12-6pm Bowery and Brooklyn Vegan Presents party at Pianos Lower East Side

Mon 26th Oct 26th 8pm at Market Hotel at Bushwick, Brooklyn with Railcars?, Heavy Winged?, Antn Hrkwk

The Clean Mister Pop now avalable on tasty Vinyl...check the store section

Yep there is no shortage of good word on Mister Pop by the Clean...including the following

“This is easily one of the year’s best albums, both a dream-fuzzed journey through non-linear states of consciousness and a well-crafted pop album.” ~BLURT Magazine

"The band's first studio album in eight years takes the Farfisa-surf luminescence of 2003's must-own, career-spanning Anthology deeper into psychedelia . . . exotic yet casual." ~Spin

"These guys invented guitar-organ grooves back in the 1980's - lean, propulsive, intense, intoning the mantra."
~ Rolling Stone

"at their most inspired, the Clean have lost none of their ability to leave you with a life-affirming glow." ~PopMatters

"the Clean's periodic resurgences serve as a reminder that, in a world of uncertainty, there are still some things you can rely on." ~Pitchfork

"The most reliably great band that's ever come out of New Zealand" ~eMusic

Check out David Kilgour and Sam Hunt performing live with the Heavy Eights and being interviewed by Finlay McDonald on the TV Show Talk Talk..."...what was your question again?" Two tracks "Talking of the Weather" and a new one with The Heavy Eights backing Sam Hunt.