For those of us who were stuck in the southern hemisphere and missed out on The Clean's live sets at Primavera, All Tomorrow's Parties, Brixton Academy (with Pavement) and/or European tour, here is a small consolation: an article, videos and a live recording by Brian Turner at WFMU of their Primavera in Barcelona

The Clean perform "In The Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul" live at Primavera Sound in Barcelona

The Clean, David Kilgour, Robert Scott, Yo La Tengo and more playing a Chris Knox benefit show in New York on May the 6th

The full line up is The Clean, David Kilgour, Robert Scott, Yo La Tengo, Jeff Mangum , Kyp Malone , Portastatic, Claudia Gonson of the Magnetic Fields , Sharon Van Etten and John Maloney.

The Clean have released their last two albums on Arch Hill, and David Kilgour his last three, as did the Bats (Robert Scott). Yo La Tengo recently toured New Zealand with Mystery Girl Presents

Should be one not to miss! Last time Jeff Mangum played a show was many years ago with Chris Knox at a now legendary Kings Arms (Auckland NZ) show.

Also highly recommended is the Chris Knox double album "Stroke - Songs for Chris Knox" where all kinds of artists cover various songs from Toy Love through to Knox's solo albums

For more info visit (le) Poisson Rouge here

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."