With Don McGlashan getting his music heard by a load of CH fans, this is probably as good a time as ever to plug my Mutton Birds site and the wealth of rare audio and video that has been assembled there:

www.areligionofakind.co.uk

Also make sure you check out tunes from his recent solo record:

www.myspace.com/donmcglashan

Enjoy!!

Cheers,
Spence

Thanks for the links Spence. I had heard of The Mutton Birds, but not heard the music. After seeing Don open last night for CH, I'm sure to investigate his music.

Thank you for the links, Spence. It's great to hear the whole of 'Andy' after loving the one minute snippet of Neil playing the tune on a melodica. I've only heard of the Muttonbirds in a 'if you like Crowded House you'll like this band' sort of way before.

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Originally posted by Ellefinn:
It's great to hear the whole of 'Andy' after loving the one minute snippet of Neil playing the tune on a melodica."

It's an incredible song, which Don wrote about his late brother. The original is from The Front Lawn's first album 'Songs From The Front Lawn', which features a load of songs from the group's theatre productions. Well worth seeking out!

Last night at the second Toronto show, we got a peerless version of Andy, with Neil joining Don on melodica and a bit of keyboards (is that thing at the front of stage a Wurlitzer?). Really lovely, moving.

I have to say that his new song, varyingly called I Hope Your Boyfriend Knows or Lucky, hasn't left my head since Wed night. I'll be looking for that release.

Good Idea Spence. Think I'll plug The Mutton Birds Myspace page while I'm hear.

http://www.myspace.com/themuttonbirds

Enjoy: Alan C.

BTW. Don's song Andy is up the page as well.

Hanky's at the ready. It's one of those songs...

http://www.myspace.com/themuttonbirds

I thought Don was outstanding when we saw him play with the guys in Feb. I adore Anchor Me (I first heard that flying over NZ, just before land appeared)and Dominion Road (which we requested and got in Leigh )

and I have a short vid of Neil playing melodica during Andy for anyone who has'nt seen it

Andy

I need to press play/pause twice before it works, but that might be my dodgy computer)

Excellent stuff!! And if it gets people digging out Front Lawn records, all the better!

Don mentioned onstage Weds (Fillmore) that his merchandise had been following them around the country all tour and only just caught up. All I saw of his was a stack of CD's - were their shirts or hats or stuffed animals or anything else that I missed, or was it basically just the CD's?

Somebody PLEASE post an alert when his next album comes out. That song "Just How Lucky" is a killer little bop-bop-bopping along type number!

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Somebody PLEASE post an alert when his next album comes out. That song "Just How Lucky" is a killer little bop-bop-bopping along type number!

I second the request. A week and a bit later, that song is still jangling around in my head.

http://music.owenm.co.uk/muttonbirds/audio.html

Mutton Birds live stuff for those of you who would like to hear more from Don's excellent band, The Mutton Birds.

Really, really bummed out that I couldn't make any of the shows on this tour. I have the worst luck when Neil/CH is coming around with someone I really love as an opener. I couldn't make any of the shows where Dobbyn opened either

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Originally posted by GraceToo:

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Originally posted by Mr. Sadly:
Somebody PLEASE post an alert when his next album comes out. That song "Just How Lucky" is a killer little bop-bop-bopping along type number!

I second the request. A week and a bit later, that song is still jangling around in my head.

I LOVED that song... And you may be interested to know that both nights of Don's opening sets at the Orpheum in L.A. are already available as a bootleg if you know where to look... He played that song each night.

Radio New Zealand's Music 101 is featuring a Don McGlashan interview tomorrow. This was recorded last Saturday before Don left to rejoin Crowded House. He talks about being on the road with Crowded House and a whole heap of other topics. Plus - you'll hear a bit of Neil Finn and Don performing at Womad earlier this year.

Radio New Zealand National: 101 FM and online at www.radionz.co.nz Saturday June 21st at around 2.10pm (NZ time).

From 5pm the entire unedited interview should appear online at http://www.radionz.co.nz/popular/music/talk

While we're talking Don and Radio NZ, we've got archive stuff at http://www.radionz.co.nz/popular/music/talk?551217_result_page=M
and http://www.radionz.co.nz/popular/music/live?473894_result_page=M

Jeremy

I've really connected with the music I've heard so far from Don. It'll be interesting to find out more about him and his background.

Thanks for the notice Jaffaman. I'll definitely be checking it out.

The short Radio 2 session/interview Neil and Don did at Glastonbury is now here:

www.areligionofakind.co.uk

New interview with Don, including a discussion of how he and Neil know each other among other things, is now up here:

www.areligionofakind.co.uk

I'd never taken much notice of the Mutton Birds before I saw CH at the Forest gigs in June (hang my Southern Hemisphere loving head in shame!), but when Don and Neil performed Anchor Me I bawled my eyes out! Three performances - three trips to the nearest available mirror to wipe away rivers of mascara running down my face! I spoke to Don a couple of times after the gigs, and he was so lovely! I bought the Greatest Hits CD (for Anchor Me!) and he said I was a sucker for punishment! Excellent - mascara-streaked face obviously not gone unnoticed then!

I loved Don't Fear The Reaper - really dark and soulful! But when I listened to it at the end of The Frighteners, it sounded completely different. Now, only being a muso-moll and not an actual muso, can someone tell me whether the track was slowed down for the album, sped up for the film, or just completely rearranged!

I'm losing sleep - honest!!!
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Originally posted by dancing girl:
Now, only being a muso-moll and not an actual muso,

I'm afraid I can't much help the actual question, but I love the turn of phrase!

I haven't heard the album version. The version at the end of The Frighteners struck me as a competent, professional, Gin Blossoms sort of take on it.

HEY! ANYBODY KNOW WHETHER OR WHEN, on Don's next album? I needs it. I musts haves it.

I know Don's coming over to UK around Feb 08, so I would imagine the album would be out around Christmas/New Year! My uneducated guess only, of course!

The vocals on the album version of Reaper are a lot deeper and darker! Groovy! The film version is a bit poppier (is that a word?) which makes sense I guess, the film being light-hearted!

And, just so we're clear, a muso-moll is not the same thing as a groupie! I've been a muso-moll with members of Split Enz and Crowded House and not "groupied" any of them!

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!! hee hee!
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