Richard Langston
@rubbasoul.bsky.social
Author of The Clean: in the dreamlife you need a rubber soul (Auckland University Press and Feralhouse.com). Six books of poetry, publisher Cuba Press, Wellington, NZ.
Thanks to Sam Cummins for the interview and for playing some graat Clean tunes www.rrr.org.au/on-demand/se...
Segments: Press Colour: The Clean Special with Author Richard Langston — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
Sam presents a special on one of Aotearoa's finest bands, The Clean. He chats to author Richard Langston, who has written a new book on the The Clean called "The Clean: In The…
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Look at this spectacular Adam Higton poster for The Bats with Lande Hekt in Leeds! 🤩
Hilarious: the Clean’s “Point that thing somewhere else” started life as an attempt to drive out another band from the practice room… (from @rubbasoul.bsky.social’s excellent bio)
Martin Shaw@thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 2mo agoAirfreight from NZ was looking a killer on this, until I remembered there was a northern hemisphere edition from @feralhouse.bsky.social! #incomingbooks #TheClean
Here's something lovely for your Friday, below (thanks to @sarabeee.bsky.social for sharing). You can also read Anthonie Tonnon's AudioCulture profile here, by Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/anth...
Anthonie Tonnon - AudioCulture
Tonnon can’t quite claim to have been born in Dunedin – he moved there from Tauranga in 1986 with his family, when he was three months old. Most of his childhood was spent in the city’s outskirts at F...
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Sarabeee #ToitūTeTiriti@sarabeee.bsky.social · 3mo ago@audioculturenz.bsky.social my contribution to NZ Music Month youtu.be/2C2cJDJAJeg?...
The theme of NZ Music Month Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa 2026 is "Our Sounds, Our Spaces", and here Richard Langston recalls The Oriental. "For a while it seemed everyone played at the “Ori”. In the mid-80s it was often jammed-packed..." 1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/the...
The Oriental - Article | AudioCulture
For a while it seemed everyone played at The Oriental, or the “Ori” as it was known. In the mid-80s it was often jammed-packed, choking on cigarette smoke, soaked in that fuggy pub smell, and alive wi...
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Review of the book in The Wire. Thanks to Byron Coley.
Bob played a lovely set of Clean, Bats, Magick Heads and solo songs at The Bakehouse in Featherston last night. He’s in fine form and voice, and will be playing some more songs during our chat today at Featherston Booktown about The Clean book. Starts 0230 pm at the RSA.
New episode of the Music Book Podcast, talking with @rubbasoul.bsky.social about his great new oral history of The Clean, "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul," out now on @feralhouse.bsky.social themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...
That time The Clean made the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/6d51...
The Clean, Cake Shop, New York
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the new bio of the clean by @rubbasoul.bsky.social is just tremendous. deepened my love for the clean's music & them as people in every way. soulful & detailed & ecstatic (& sometimes quite sad) oral history of how psychedelic punk happened in new zealand.
Next week on The Music Book Podcast, @rubbasoul.bsky.social on his new book “The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul,” out now on @feralhouse.bsky.social
I had a yak about The Clean book with Spencer on Radio Active www.mixcloud.com/theimage04/t...
The Image Show - 08 April 2026
Hosted by Lily Spencer interviews Richard Langston about his new book "In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul" - https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/the-clean/ Also tunes from The Verlaines Georg...
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In this week's print issue: @taracomics.bsky.social draws a report from @rubbasoul.bsky.social 's The Clean book launch. We quickly interview @amamelia.bsky.social about her new album. There's a cryptic crossword & we spotlight the stellar local gig photography of www.instagram.com/alexshirtcli...
George gets everywhere on the music dial and then he treats us to an appreciation of the often under-appreciated.
@audioculturenz.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew – and so cool! George Henderson (The Puddle, The New Existentialists) picks 10 favourite Aotearoa songs. He says, "I was overjoyed to be asked by Audioculture to write about my top ten kiwi songs, especially as the obvious ones had mostly been taken... www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/son...
My review of @rubbasoul.bsky.social's oral history of The Clean has just been published on Newsroom. newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/16/b...
Book of the Week: The world's greatest band, 1981-82
The exhilarating, celebrated and tragic story of Dunedin legends The Clean
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Cheers Russell. And the music is gonna be great. The goodwill toward The Clean is quite something.
Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 4mo agoTomorrow evening I'll be talking to Richard Langston about his great new book about The Clean. From 6pm at Flying Nun, 202 Karangahape Road. There will also be music – which has been a highlight of the launch tour.
A divine half hour devoted to landmark NZ band The Clean, with their biographer @rubbasoul.bsky.social www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
NZ's DIY music pioneers 'The Clean'
Pioneers of New Zealand's DIY music movement, The Clean - were one of the first bands to be described as "indie rock". Both a fan and friend of the band, Richard Langston, has documented the history o...
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The Clean break into the USA - an extract of the book published on our favourite music site AudioCulture - www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/her...
Here Come The Clean, 1989 - Article | AudioCulture
After reforming in the late 80s, The Clean toured the US and UK for the first time, and found word had already spread among underground influencers, half a world away from Dunedin. An excerpt from Ric...
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It may be a long weekend, but the AudioCulture Quiz is here :) This is a Clean-themed quiz, set by Richard Langston. His book The Clean: in the dreamlife you need a rubber soul, is out this Thursday. So, did you clean up in the quiz? @rubbasoul.bsky.social www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...
AudioCulture Quiz - Article | AudioCulture
Welcome to the weekly AudioCulture Quiz. Clue: answers are on the site or, for those in a hurry, at the link below. AudioCulture Quiz, 6 April 2026 A Clean-themed quiz. On Thursday 9 April, The Clean:...
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Going to be good to talk to Russell. We first chatted about music when we were reporters on the Christchurch Star in 1981. We bought The Clean’s Tally Ho single off a record store guy called Roger Shepherd.
Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm very pleased to say I'll be talking to Richard Langston about his excellent new book about the Clean, from 6pm on Wednesday April 15 at Flying Nun Auckland. I've reviewed it in the new Listener, concluding with the line "It's the right book for the Clean: the book they deserved."
This is very special: letters from 1987 between David Kilgour, Martin Phillipps, and Peter Gutteridge, which show the bond between the musicians as they find their sound and take it to the world. Richard Langston @rubbasoul.bsky.social was given the letters... www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/hol...
Hold on to the Rail: the Dunedin Letters - Article | AudioCulture
There were numerous close friendships within the Dunedin music scene of the late 1970s and 1980s and some significant and lifelong; none more so that between three of its leading performers, David Kil...
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When Dunedin rock’n’roll people wrote letters to each other - a fascinating insight into the thinking and ambitions of David Kilgour, Martin Phillipps and Peter Gutteridge. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/hol...
Hold on to the Rail: the Dunedin Letters - Article | AudioCulture
There were numerous close friendships within the Dunedin music scene of the late 1970s and 1980s and some significant and lifelong; none more so that between three of its leading performers, David Kil...
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Another recent release based on the NLNZ multitrack digitization is this Bailter Space live LP, mixed from 16-track 1" tapes bailterspace.bandcamp.com/album/fused
Fused, by Bailterspace
9 track album
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Michael Brown@jingajik.bsky.social · 9mo agoFlying Nun on Multitrack First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can you listen to and research them? Have a read. 👇👇 natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...
It's release day for Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox, and we're thrilled to share an excerpt. "Songwriting was partly a physical process, he told Russell Baillie..." We're also giving away a copy in next week's newsletter...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...
Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly - Article | AudioCulture
An excerpt from Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly, by Craig Robertson (Auckland University Press, 2025), published with permission. -- In the late 1980s Chris Knox worked out his solo songs at home with h...
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