The Punk, The Kiwi, and The Kakapo – Flying Nun Records

Remember when you wanted to add that classic indie song to your Myspace, but after a quick search discovered the artist was so old and unpopular with the kids those days that YOU had to create a fan page and then YOU had upload the songs your damn self just to link a single track back to your profile? New Zealand’s the Clean totally needed one of those fan pages. Real bad. Clean guitarist David Kilgour seemed to agree, and eventually sent a request for ownership of the new fan “sight” (that’s how David spells it). This was when the band was planning reunion tour (2007), and they realized that a lot of old friends and new fans were using “the Myspace”. I guess that year the Clean were too busy touring with Yo La Tengo and rocking that band’s turf (Maxwell’s in New Jersey) to show their fans some kind of appreciation by sending anything like a signed poster or a t-shirt.

Postal rates from New Zealand to California are not that expensive guys.

In the late 70′s New Zealand’s Flying Nun Records began to distribute homemade recordings from local artists like the Clean, the Pin Group, and the Tall Dwarfs. Heavenly Pop Hits is a documentary that spans two decades of the label’s existence. The film presents interviews from label founders, artists, and fans (one with ultimate fan-boy Stephen Malkmus, whose own band contributed a song to the Clean tribute album “God Save the Clean”). The interviews are pieced around stunning live footage, especially of the Clean and the Chills, that stands to prove there was more than just fresh attitudes about the recording process in the early years, but also some seriously kinetic shit going down in Dunedin night clubs.

Flying Nun – Heavenly Pop Hits Documentary (Pt. 1)

The Clean – Beatnik

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