The Clean live (1989) “Point That Thing Somewhere Else“

The Clean live @ The Powerstation, Auckland (1989) “Point That Thing Somewhere Else“ “The Auckland show at The Powerstation was sold out, with fans snaking out and down the footpath outside. I only just made it in the door by cutting the line, something I hadn’t done before and haven’t done since. Writing the concert up for Waikato University student newspaper Nexus, I noted, “From the opening ’Dadadada ... daddada ... da’ of ’Fish’ with its shards of reverbed picking and white noise strum, The Clean took the capacity crowd down a rollercoaster of extreme treble nostalgia. The guy standing next to me collapsed three songs into the fray ... yep, it was that good.“ The set also featured some of the 15 new songs that The Clean had written.“ —Andrew Schmidt. Shot on a Sony V8 camera I think, not sure how the sound was recorded, probably camera mics. (Au