THE CLEAN. GETTING OLDER

Rights Information
Year
1982
Reference
F105598
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1982
Reference
F105598
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Music Video
Duration
0:04:14
Production company
Flying Nun Records
Credits
Director: Ronnie Van Hout
Musician: Hamish Kilgour
Musician: David Kilgour
Musician: Robert Scott
Band: The Clean

The Clean are a New Zealand band who are closely identified with the “Dunedin Sound” championed and promoted by the Flying Nun records label. The 3 piece band consists (typically) of brothers Hamish and David Kilgour and Robert Scott (The Bats), but has had other band members who are also notable members of the Flying Nun roster of bands. The Clean have released a number of albums, singles and EP’s with “Beatnik”, “Point That Thing Somewhere Else”, “Anything Could Happen” and “Tally Ho!” being their best known songs.

This is the music video for “Getting Older” which was released as a 7” single and also appeared on the “Oddities” compilation album from The Clean.

This video was made by the artist Ronnie Van Hout and features Robert Scott in a hat and coat walking past brick walls and into dilapidated factory and warehouse space. apartment. He then enters a kitchen area where he hangs a curtain across the window and covers pictures hanging on the wall before taking photographs of himself from a suitcase. The video ends with Robert Scott sitting in a chair seeing himself standing on the other side of the room.