David Kilgour

aka David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights


Songs with effortless, melodic flow and words in all the right places. David Kilgour has written hundreds of them.

There’s barely been a time in the last 30 years when his music wasn’t being heard. He tours regularly, solo and with the Heavy Eights or The Clean, and every few years, a new album drops with a brilliant song or two out front to point the way: ‘You Forget’ on Here Come The Cars, ‘No No No’ from Sugarmouth, ‘Diamond Mine’ from Left By Soft, ‘Christopher Columbus’ and ‘Comin’ On’ from End Times Undone.

Natural Selections #1: David Kilgour
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights, 2014
Photo credit: Photo by Thomas Bell
Anything Could Happen (live 20 August, 2011 at The Triple Door, Seattle, WA)
Sam Hunt with David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights, Auckland's Montecristo Room, Nelson Street, 22 August, 2009
Photo credit: Photo by Jackson Perry
David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - Bobbie's A Girl (Merge, 2019)
Christopher Columbus
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - Diamond Mine
Stephen - Radar of Small Dogs vinyl reissue, Joyful Noise, 2020
David Kilgour
No No No
You Forget
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - A Break in the Weather
David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights, 2014
Beached
Interview with David Kilgour, 7 July 1994. Directed by Ross Cunningham.
David Kilgour & Tony De Raad - Steel Arrow/Pop Song
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights - Some Things You Don't Get Back (2014)
David Kilgour & Sam Hunt - Chord
David Kilgour at Auckland's Montecristo Room, Nelson Street, 22 August, 2009
Photo credit: Photo by Jackson Perry
End Times Undone, from August 2014. Cover artwork by David Kilgour.
David Kilgour at the Kings Arms, Auckland, March 2011
Photo credit: Photo by Jackson Perry
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights - Maybe (live)
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights, 1997
David Kilgour at WFMU, Jersey City, USA, 2004
David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - Left By Soft
The 1991 album Here Come The Cars was David Kilgour's solo debut (although some tracks featured his earlier band Stephen). Widely hailed as a classic on release, it was reissued in 2004 with bonus tracks and in 2012 reissued on vinyl for the first time by Flying Nun and De Stijl Records.
David Kilgour at Auckland's Montecristo Room, Nelson Street, 22 August, 2009
Photo credit: Photo by Jackson Perry
David Kilgour, Geoff Hoani, Alf Danielson
Photo credit: Photo by Craig McNab
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights - Comin' On
Jon Toogood and David Kilgour, Kings Arms, Auckland, March 2011
Photo credit: Photo by Jackson Perry
Trivia:

David Kilgour dipped back into rock’s rich catalogue covering songs by Love (Message To Pretty with Martin Phillipps, 1994), and The Who, The Squires and The (New Zealand) Avengers for an EP as Pop Art Toasters (1994).

Outside of The Clean and The Great Unwashed, David Kilgour's bands and solo career includes recording and/or performances under the following names: Chums, Seedcake, Spiritual Gas Station, Stephen, David Kilgour and The Strange, Cloth, David Kilgour and The Zub, David Kilgour and The Best Minds, David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights.

End Times Undone was pressed on random coloured vinyl. There was no way of finding out what colour you had until the seal was broken.

Labels:

Flying Nun


Arch Hill Recordings


Merge Records


Arclife

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