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The Mutton Birds
Posted by McLongWhiteCloud on 29 October 2011 - 1:16am.
are getting back together.
** Raises glass and books tickets.
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Would also raise glass if it wasn't 7.30am
and any excuse to post this gem.
The Mutton Who?
I suspect there's a few people who missed the mid-nineties majesty of NZ's finest. The one above and the one below will help. Honestly. Proper, proper band.
Great news
So long as you live somewhere near a New Zealand winery, according to the tour dates. So please, NZ Massive, give plenty of applause and encourage them to Come Around to the UK some time soon. A fine band.
this is the one you want ...
Their best song. Other opinions are available, of course.
Good news
Can I put in a vote for Dominion Road
I thought this was going to be their hit....
She's Been Talking
I always found it strange that they didn't "happen"
I saw them live 3 times in as many years in the 90's, each time in a bigger & more packed venue, to better and better receptions, and then... pffft! All gone. My guess is that they expected "Rain, Steam, and Speed" to be the breakthrough, and when it didn't take off, they figured nothing else was going to happen to get them any bigger, so that was it.
As an aside, they were the first band I ever saw to have their own own-label CDs for sale at their gigs - "Angle of Entry" and "Too Hard Basket" include some of my favourite songs of theirs... hope they make it to the UK!!
It was odd.
Come Around had tons of airplay but never quite cracked it. I saw them a lot in the 90s (including those mad acoustic shows they did for fans at the 12 Bar in London). A band I worked with opened for them at the Shepherds Bush Empire and it was a big sell out so I was under the impression that it'd be all sweetness and light but one of the label's grown-ups was moaning that it was full of ex-pat Kiwis and that - in his words - "normal punters" could never get tickets as their homegrown fans always snapped them up. Who knows?
What I do know is that Don McGlashan's recent solo work is well worth looking at.