The Mutton Birds “Giant Friend”
With all the missing music videos, it’s nice to find a band whose singles are consistently on YouTube. The Mutton Birds third single is noteworthy for several reasons: 1. Throughout the song, there are...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “Your Window”
“Your Window” starts off sounding like a pleasant slice of suburban New Zealand, but then the chorus comes along and – ahoy! – it’s about sex. It’s about sneaking in to root your sweetie. The Mutton...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “Heater”
This is the genius of the Mutton Birds – their lone number one single was a song about a heater. Not in a “baby, my love will keep u warm like a heater”, but literally about a heater, an electric...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “In My Room”
Two Mutton Birds videos in one funding round! This is outrageous! “Heater” was released in February, the same month as this funding round, where as “In My Room” wasn’t released until a couple of months...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “Ngaire”
A man, played by actor and comedian Alan Brough, is stood up at an airport when his Ngaire doesn’t make her flight. The airport footage captures the simultaneous tedium and excitement of airports. But...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “Anchor Me”
“Anchor Me” was released two months after “Ngaire” but they were funding-round buddies. And like “Dominion Road”, there was also a UK version of “Anchor Me”. The UK video sees a leather jacketed Don...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “Come Around”
This video comes from the Mutton Birds attempt to take over the world. They were based in the UK and their record company was putting some effort behind them. The band play the song sitting around in a...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “April”
Another video from the Mutton Birds’ London years. Don is dressed like a 1960s sex therapist (probably ready to treat “Come Around” era Don after all the love-triangle trauma going on there) and he and...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “Pulled Along By Love”
It’s the Mutton Birds penultimate single, but before I leap into “Pulled Along by Love”, I should jump back to ’96 and ’97. That’s when the group released their single “She’s Been Talking”, first in...
View ArticleThe Mutton Birds “As Close As This”
Dog poo. Rounding out the Mutton Birds’ dozen NZ On Air-funded videos, “As Close As This” opens with dog poo. It makes a bit more sense when it’s revealed that the video is partly shot from a dog’s...
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