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Welcome to davidkilgour.com, the online home of musician David Kilgour. This site will keep you up to date with what David's doing, as well as offering exclusive downloads and CDs not available elsewhere. More songs can be heard on the David Kilgour Myspace page.
Here's a few free songs to download:
Chord (from new
LP 'Falling Debris')
Everytime It Rains Like This (Demo)
(from new LP 'Falling Debris')
Sun of God
Sept 98
BBC World
For bookings please contact Kathy Crawshaw (NZ) or Satellite Booking (US).
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THE FAR NOW is David's new album, released in New Zealand (Feb 5th, 2007 on Arch Hill Records) & the USA (Jan. 23rd 2007 on Merge Records). Recorded in Dunedin with The Heavy Eights. Mixed by Tex Houston. Engineered by Tom Bell, Tex and the Heavy Eights. Featuring Alan Starrett on viola, violin and cello. Anji Sami on backing vocals. Mastered in Nashville. The Far Now will be released in Australia on Remote Control/Inertia. The album can be purchased from the following: Arch
Hill Recordings Check the Press page for reviews. |
David & the Heavy 8s, with Sam Hunt
will perform at Sammy's, Dunedin, on Thursday
July
the 16th.
Show starts at 9pm sharp when
DK and the Heavy 8s will do a semi acoustic set
playing songs off Falling Debris.
Then at around
9.50 Sam will take the stage till approx.
10.30.
DK and the 8's will return for an electric set
of old and new songs. The night should be all
wrapped up by about 11.30 at the latest. CDs
and books will be on sale. This is the first
Dunedin show for DK & the 8s in almost 2
years and the first time Sam and DK have shared
a stage together.
$20 on the door, $15 for Radio
One card holders.
On Thursday the 16th of July Sam Hunt and David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights will be performing at historic Dunedin venue Sammy’s, promoting their newly released LP Falling Debris. This is a rare chance to witness two of New Zealand’s most enigmatic performers under the same roof. Sam’s live performances in the South are a rare event, and he is a master of the art, being personally selected by Leonard Cohen to open his recent New Zealand shows. Sam has just released a new book of his favourite James K. Baxter poems (James K. Baxter Poems published by the AK University Press). David and the Heavy Eights have not performed in Dunedin for two years. Over that period they have toured the USA, Australia and NZ promoting their previous LP The Far Now. In more recent times David has worked on some music for dance (Flicker) and played a little guitar on Vincent Ward’s movie Children of the Rain. Also the Clean regrouped in NYC after said Heavy Eights USA tour and began writing and recording a new LP called Mister Pop, to be released in the USA, Europe and NZ early September. Most of the LP was recorded in Dunedin with Tex Houston at the board. The Clean also played three sold out shows at the Cakeshop in NYC and one in Philadelphia. If you go online you should be able to download for free the new Clean single called In The Dream life You Need A Rubber Soul featuring Dunedin’s very own Haunted Love. Whilst in Dunedin, Hunt and Kilgour along with the Heavy Eights will be working on new material together for future release. They hope to work this collaboration into the performance at Sammy’s. The doors will open at 8.30pm and David and the Heavy Eights will start at 9pm sharp. Sam will perform between two sets from DK, the first showcasing Falling Debris and the second previewing new material and revisiting some old favourites. Door sales only, $20 or $15 with 2009 Radio One Onecard. Some kind words about Falling Debris… It is as though Kilgour’s music
has grown up around these poems, attaching
itself to the words like they were always
meant
to be together This is the sort of effortless folk-rock
which has made Kilgour an enduring
figure among those who came of age in
the
Flying Nun years For media enquiries please contact: |
Click here to read Nick Bollinger's review in the New Zealand Listener.
Click here for video from the Campbell Live feature on Falling Debris.
New
LP Falling Debris, in collaboration with Sam
Hunt, will be released on Arch Hill Records
in NZ on the 20th of April. David, Sam and
the Heavy 8's will do a handful of shows over
April
/ May. More on that soon. David's next solo
LP is on
hold until he gets this one baked.
See the Falling Debris
page for David's release
notes, two MP3s to download, and the videos
for "Chord" and "River Plateau Song".
The new Clean LP (tentatively entitled Monsieur Pop) is close, very close to completion, expect news on its release early 09, all going well.
The Clean's new Live LP, called Mashed, is out now on Arch Hill - please see the Press page for links to reviews or the Buy Stuff page for links to purchase the album. Also Tex, Robert and DK are finally preparing to mix the new Clean studio LP at the end of May. No release date for that yet.
The Clean's MySpace site has been hacked into and we can't access the site for now and maybe never will! It's a long story!
David is planning to complete recording a new solo LP over the next 4 months. Some tracks have already been recorded.
Also as the days get colder down here DK has been painting. They're cheap and vary in size and price - see the new Paintings page. That's all for now.
Most photos on this site are © Craig McNab / Pufferfish Photography