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Don McGlashan

This page contains information about Don McGlashan's various projects.

Music

• Songs etc. composed and/or played on.  Where they can be found - albums, singles etc.
• Videos for Mutton Bird songs
• Bands etc.
  • Ethos, age 15
  • Auckland Symphonia, 1978
  • The Plague 1978
  • Whizz Kids 1979-80
  • Blam Blam Blam 1980-82, 1984
  • Don McGlashan & Ivan Zagni 1982
  • From Scratch 1979-86
  • The Front Lawn 1985-90
  • Right Left and Centre 1985
  • The Mutton Birds 1991 - 2002
  • Strike - New Zealand Percussion Music, 2000 (music, not a member)
  • Waitakere City Brass Band, 2000 (music, not a member)
  • Tim Finn - toured with, 2001-02
  • Gone to the Beach with the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, October 2005.
  • Solo - Warm Hand (NZ) album 2006
  • Sessions
  • Produced
  • Arranged
• Movie soundtracks
  • Absent Without Leave (NZ 1992) - music: Don McGlashan, David Long and Mark Austin
  • Angel At My Table, An (NZ 1900) - music
  • Big Steal, The (Aus 1990) - "I'll Never Have Anything More" - The Front Lawn
  • Cinema Of Unease (UK/NZ 1995) - music
  • Cosi (1996) - "Anchor Me" - The Mutton Birds (?)
  • Dean Spanley (NZ/UK) 2008 - composer
  • Frighteners, The (NZ/US 1996) - "Don't Fear The Reaper" - The Mutton Birds
  • Grasscutter, The (1988) - music: Don McGlashan and Wayne Laird
  • Illustrious Energy (NZ 1988) - music: Jan Preston; Don McGlashan: percussion, voices
  • Like It Is (UK 1998) - music
  • Matariki (NZ 2009) - music
  • Mr. Reliable (Aus 1996) - "Nature" - The Mutton Birds
  • No. 2 (NZ 2005) - music
  • Other Halves (NZ 1984) - music: Don McGlashan; lyrics: Sue McCauley; vocals: Jacqui Fitzgerald
  • Out of the Blue (NZ 2006) - "I Will Not Let You Down"
  • Perfect Strangers (NZ 2003)
  • Show Of Hands (NZ 2008) - music
  • Stickmen (NZ 2000) - "Tomorrow Night" - The Front Lawn
  • The Tattooist (NZ/Singapore) 2007 - "I Will Not Let You Down"
• TV
  • Good Guys Bad Guys (Aus 1997) - "Trouble With You" - The Mutton Birds
  • Mortimer's Patch (NZ 1979) - music: Don McGlashan with Wayne Laird and Keith Hunter
  • Orange Roughies (NZ 2006)
  • Street Legal (NZ 2000-) - music
  • Terry and the Gunrunners (1985) - music
  • Commercials - music
• Dance
  • Pieces
    • Arcade, 1981 (Limbs Dance Company) - music: Don McGlashan
    • Decoy, 1984 (Limbs Dance Company) - music: Don McGlashan
    • Now is the Hour, 1988 (Limbs Dance Company) - music: Don McGlashan
    • Processions, 1992 - music: Don McGlashan and Wayne Laird
    • Souvenirs, 1984 (Limbs Dance Company) - music: Don McGlashan
    • This Is A Love Song, 1983 (Limbs Dance Company) - music: Don McGlashan/Limbs Voices/Ivan Zagni
    • Vigil Switch, 1985 (Limbs Dance Company) - music: Don McGlashan/traditional Japanese folk songs
  • Companies
    • Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians
    • Limbs Dance Company
• Other Music
  • Commonwealth Games, Auckland, 1990 - Assistant Musical Director
  • Expo 1992, Seville - "Voyages" Don McGlashan and Wayne Laird
  • This Is It, 1999 - Musical Director
  • Under 17 Soccer World Cup Championship, 1991 - Musical Director and composer of official song
  • World's Wife, The - music

Short films

• Drum/Sing, 1985 - From Scratch
• Footstep Hocket (NZ) 1990 - sound assistant
• Hotel Hawkestone (NZ) 1992
• Jewel's Darl (NZ) 1985
• Linda's Body, 1990 - The Front Lawn
• Lounge Bar, The, 1988 - The Front Lawn
• Painted Lady, The, 2000
• Tick (NZ) 2001
• Trespass (NZ) 2003
• Walkshort, 1987 - The Front Lawn

Theatre

• The Front Lawn Shows (with Harry Sinclair, Jennifer Ward Lealand (for all?))
  • Front Lawn Monster World Tour, 1988
  • One That Got Away, The, 1989
  • Reason For Breakfast, The, 1986
  • Story Of Robert, The, 1987
  • Washing Machine, The, 1987

• Watershed Theatre, Auckland 1990 - co-founder
• Play 2, 2econd Unit, Auckland Theatre Company, October, 2002
• Ship Songs, Auckland, August-September 2008

Books/articles written by Don McGlashan

• The From Scratch Rhythm Workbook
• How You Doing? - A Selection of New Zealand Comic and Satiric Verse
  • The title comes from the Front Lawn song, the lyrics are in the book.
• Mutton Birds UK tour, 2000, series of articles in the New Zealand Herald.

Other work

Attended Westlake Boys High School, Auckland.
Studied at University of Auckland, graduated with a BA in Music and English.

Teaching - school; music in a prison; at UNITEC, Auckland.
Auckland University Literary Fellowship 2001 - resident in the English Department.

Sources of information

These pages have been compiled from various sources: web sites, articles in the press, posts to the Mutton Bird mailing lists and a pile of CD's, including Mutton Birds and The Front Lawn (and thanks to the person who lent me the Blam Blam Blam CD!).

Books/articles

	Bannister, Matthew, Don McGlashan - Touching The Green, Green Grass of Home, Music In New Zealand, Summer(?), 2000.
	Bell, Mark, Loneliness of the Long Distance Strummer, NZ Musician, Vol 12, No 8, April/May 2006
	Chunn, Mike and Jeremy, The Mechanics of Popular Music - A New Zealand Perspective, GP Publications, 10, Mulgrave St., Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand, 1995. ISBN 1-86956-130-9 Includes an account of Blam Blam Blam's origins, up to "There Is No Depression In New Zealand".
	Dennis, Jonathan and Bieringa, Ian, editors, Film In Aotearoa New Zealand, Victoria University Press. ISBN 0-86473-309-7
	Dix, John, Stranded In Paradise, New Zealand Rock 'N' Roll 1955-1988, Paradise Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-473-00638-3 (limpback), ISBN 0-473-00639-1 (Limited Edition Casebound) Whizz Kids, Blam Blam Blam
	Dix, John, Stranded In Paradise, New Zealand Rock 'N' Roll 1955 To The Modern Era, Penguin, 2005. (revised edition of 1988 publication) ISBN 0-14-301953
	Eggleton, David, Ready To Fly - The Story Of New Zealand Rock Music, Craig Potton Publishing, 2003 ISBN 1-877333-06-9
	Martin, Helen, and Edwards,Sam, New Zealand Film 1912-1996, Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-558336-1
		Rabid, Jack, The Mutton Birds' Don McGlashan, The Big Takeover: Part 1, No. 61, p76; Part 2, No 61, p110
	Ricketts, Harry and Roberts, Hugh, editors, How You Doing? - A Selection of New Zealand Comic and Satiric Verse, Lincoln University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-909049-26-2 The title comes from the Front Lawn song.
	Spittle, Gordon, Counting The Beat, A History of New Zealand Song, GP Publications, 1997. ISBN 1-86956-213-5 Don McGlashan on songwriting

Links

Don McGlashan pages

• On this site - Timeline - many of the projects on this page in approx chronological order. This was my original Don McGlashan page, but it's got long and a bit unwieldy.

• Don McGlashan Official Site
• Don McGlashan (Internet Movie Database)
• New Zealand Film Archive simple search - "Don McGlashan" gave 92 results, 20th June, 2006.
• Don McGlashan (Mana Music)
• Don McGlashan (Wikipedia)
• Don McGlashan | Laureate Artist 2002 (Arts Foundation of New Zealand)
• The Mutton Birds.... a religion of a kind - includes rare audio
• Don McGlashan (MySpace)
• Don McGlashan (Arch Hill Recordings)

Mutton Bird pages

• Dominion Road name index

Page compiled by carolyn
Last updated 27th January, 2009.