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Donald McGlashan (born 18 July 1959) is a
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composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist who Is best known for membership in the bands
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, The Front Lawn, and
The Mutton Birds The Mutton Birds were a New Zealand rock music group formed in Auckland in 1991 by Ross Burge, David Long and Don McGlashan, with Alan Gregg joining a year later. Four of their albums reached the top 10 on the New Zealand Albums Char ...
, before going solo. He has also composed for cinema and television. Among other instruments, McGlashan has played guitar, drums, euphonium and French horn. McGlashan has played with percussion group From Scratch, and bands The Bellbirds, The Plague, and composed pieces for New Zealand's Limbs Dance Company. His first hits were with band
Blam Blam Blam Blam Blam Blam were a New Zealand pop/rock/alternative band. Tim Mahon (bass) and Mark Bell (guitar, vocals) had been members of The Plague and The Whizz Kids. After losing their drummer Ian Gilroy to The Swingers in 1980, Tim and Mark joine ...
in the early 1980s. He later released four albums as lead singer and writer for
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.


Biography


Early life

McGlashan was born in
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,
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. Both his parents were teachers: his father Bain taught civil engineering at Auckland Technical Institute and his mother Alice was a schoolteacher. McGlashan was actively encouraged to pursue music from a young age by his father, who bought him various musical instruments to learn on. McGlashan wrote "Envy of Angels" as a tribute to his father. At age seven McGlashan began on cello and piano, "then gradually added more instruments to that. went through the tune-a-day for whatever instrument it was, for just about every instrument I think." McGlashan attended
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, on Auckland's North Shore. While at high school he began playing keyboard in local bands. "I carried on sort of following those two strands – of learning how to write songs, learning how to be in a band, learning all the sort of extra musical stuff that you have to learn – and on the other side I was learning the French horn." At the
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, McGlashan studied English and music, and played French horn and percussion in the Auckland Symphonia (later called the Auckland Philharmonia) from 1979 to 1982. McGlashan began working with
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's percussion group From Scratch in 1979, while playing in the Auckland Symphonia. McGlashan played a number of eclectic percussion instruments, such as PVC piping struck with jandals; the name of the group came from the fact that they produced their own instruments 'from scratch'. On ''Standards'', the album he jointly produced with Ivan Zagni for Propeller Records in 1982, he is credited as playing bass guitar, horn, whistle, percussion, marimba and vocals.


1981–1984: Blam Blam Blam

In 1981, McGlashan replaced Ian Gilroy in punk band The Whizz Kids, who rechristened themselves Blam Blam Blam. McGlashan's song "Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us" reached #17 in the New Zealand charts. Local music magazine ''Rip It Up'' deemed it 'best single of the year', and readers voted McGlashan drummer of the year.


1985–1990: The Front Lawn

In March 1985, a group formed for the purpose, Left, Right and Centre, released a single, "Don't Go", a protest against the proposed
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tour of South Africa. The song was written by Don McGlashan, Frank Stark and Geoff Chapple. McGlashan,
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and Rick Bryant were the main vocalists. McGlashan formed multi-media group The Front Lawn with
Harry Sinclair Harry Alan Sinclair (born 1959) is a New Zealand film director, writer and actor. In his early career he was an actor and member of The Front Lawn, a musical theater duo. He went on to write and direct several short films, a TV series and thr ...
. The duo (in their late stages a trio, thanks to the addition of actor
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) won acclaim for theatre shows which combined music with physical comedy. McGlashan's song "Andy", written in memory of his late brother, was later listed among the APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time. McGlashan and Sinclair also made and starred in short films ''Walk Short'' (in which each played multiple roles), ''The Lounge Bar'' and 1990's ''Linda's Body''. By now Sinclair was growing increasingly interested in directing, while McGlashan was keen to return to the live circuit. He had also begun composing for the screen.


1991–2002: The Mutton Birds

David Long moved from Wellington to Auckland to work with McGlashan, and the two began working together and auditioning drummers. After playing their first gig on St Patrick's Day 1991 with a session drummer, Steve Garden, they heard about Ross Burge and convinced him to move back to New Zealand from New York to join The Mutton Birds. The band began to become successful—"Anchor Me" won McGlashan the 1994 Silver Scroll Award—and later moved to the UK. However, while the Mutton Birds received acclaim from UK critics and music magazines, they failed to achieve mainstream success. Eventually they disbanded, and McGlashan returned to New Zealand.


2003–present: Solo work

McGlashan's first solo album, '' Warm Hand'', was released in May 2006. It was nominated for an NZ Music Award for album of the year, and debut single "Miracle Sun" was a nominee for New Zealand's supreme songwriting award, the
APRA Silver Scroll The APRA Music Awards are several annual and two-yearly award ceremonies run in New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members. APRA hold the annual Silver ...
. In March 2009, the album '' Marvellous Year'' was released through Arch Hill Records. The album is credited to Don McGlashan & the Seven Sisters, a band which had begun when he toured ''Warm Hand''. The album included a new version of McGlashan-penned hit "Bathe in the River", with McGlashan on lead vocals. In 2005, "Anchor Me" was re-recorded by an ensemble of NZ artists to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing. McGlashan allowed the song to be used but did not perform on it, out of the concern it would turn the attention to him instead of the event the charity song was to represent. In 2012 McGlashan was one of a select number of artists given permission to visit
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. The following year he was awarded the two-month Michael King residency. McGlashan played euphonium on album ''
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'', by Crowded House. He played live with the band at Glastonbury 2008 and was a regular member of the touring line-up throughout their 2008 world tour. Later he played euphonium on track 'Hole In My Head' by Melbourne singer/songwriter Marjorie Cardwell, for her 2012 album ''In Another World''. In 2012, McGlashan and
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partnered for the Acoustic Church Tour. In 2015 he released his third solo album ''
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'', which he described as "his most personal album yet". In 2022 he released his fourth solo album ''Bright November Morning'' which includes songs from his early days playing gigs with The Mutton Birds to his song about the 1881 invasion of Parihaka, titled John Bryce. McGlashan said it was hard to poinpoint where the album fits in his career. "It'd be like looking at a whole photo album of the last few years and saying this is exactly where I am, these are all the things that sort of make up who I am and who I am right now." Soon after its release the album reached the top of the New Zealand Record Album Music Charts


Soundtrack work

McGlashan began contributing to soundtracks as early as 1980, when he was one of the trio who composed the music for New Zealand police series '' Mortimer's Patch''. McGlashan composed occasionally for the screen over the next two and a half decades, including work on Jane Campion's film ''
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''; '' Cinema of Unease'', a documentary about the history of New Zealand cinema; and long-running detective series '' Street Legal''. From 2005 onwards, McGlashan began to devote a lot more energy to soundtrack work. Since then he has composed the music for more than a dozen screen projects – predominantly feature films (including ''
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'' and the orchestral soundtrack for ''
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'') – as well as short films (''Tick'') and television (
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telemovie ''Bliss'', TV series '' Orange Roughies''). Song " Bathe In the River" featured on McGlashan's soundtrack to acclaimed
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film '' No. 2'' (2006, also known as ''Naming Number Two''). Sung by
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, it reached number 2 on the New Zealand music charts and went platinum. The song also won him the 2006 APRA Silver Scroll Award, his second win. In 2011 McGlashan provided the score to the fireworks during the opening ceremony of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.


Musical style

McGlashan is noted for writing lyrics that feature New Zealand imagery and vernacular, many involving his hometown of Auckland. Examples include Dominion Road in Auckland ("Dominion Road"), the Auckland Harbour Bridge ("Harbour Bridge"), Takapuna Beach ("Andy"), and the Coromandel ("Passenger 26"). The Valiant in "White Valiant" was a commonly seen car in 1970s-era New Zealand: McGlashan never owned one, though fellow musician
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did. McGlashan is also known for writing about real-life events and people, including: * The 1990
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("A Thing Well Made") * the 1993
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in Thailand ("Toy Factory Fire") *
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("Miracle Sun") * John Bryce and his invasion of
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("John Bryce") * Polar explorer
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("Shackleton") McGlashan noted that while living in England as a member of the Mutton Birds, he still wrote "letters to home" to New Zealand in his songs, as he struggled to find a connection with English imagery. In 1998 McGlashan explained his writing process as "trying to write about people that I know. I suppose 'write letters' to people, or try to unpick a moment that I’ve lived through and either tell the story in the first person or make up some characters who then tell the story in their own words – and by using what they don’t say as much as what they do say, try and paint their world in a song." He has also played a number of different instruments throughout his musical career: asked what instruments he plays, he answered, "Well I don't play violin". However, he is noted for playing the euphonium and French horn. With Blam Blam Blam, McGlashan played drums and euphonium. He later picked up guitar duties for his work with The Front Lawn and The Mutton Birds.


Discography


Albums


With From Scratch

* ''From Scratch Perform Rhythm Works'' (1979) self-released * ''3 Pieces From Gung Ho 1,2,3D'' (1983) Hit Singles * ''Pacific 3,2,1,zero (Part 1) – Drum/Sing'' (1985)
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* ''Gung Ho 1,2,3D'' (1988)
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With Blam Blam Blam

* ''Luxury Length'' (1982) Propeller Records/Festival Records


With The Front Lawn

* '' Songs from The Front Lawn'' (1989) Front Lawn Records * ''More Songs from The Front Lawn'' (1993) Virgin Records


With The Mutton Birds

* ''
The Mutton Birds The Mutton Birds were a New Zealand rock music group formed in Auckland in 1991 by Ross Burge, David Long and Don McGlashan, with Alan Gregg joining a year later. Four of their albums reached the top 10 on the New Zealand Albums Char ...
'' (1992) Bag Records * '' Salty'' (1993) EMI Records * '' Envy of Angels'' (1996) EMI Records * '' Rain, Steam and Speed'' (1999) Shhh! Records * ''Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds'' (2002) EMI Records


Soundtracks


Movies

* ''Other Halves'' (NZ 1984) * '' The Grasscutter'' (NZ/UK 1988) (with Wayne Laird) * ''
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'' (NZ 1990) * '' Cinema of Unease'' (UK/NZ 1995) * '' Like It Is'' (UK 1998) * '' No. 2'' (NZ 2005) * '' Out of the Blue'' (Song: "I Will Not Let You Down") (NZ 2006) * ''
The Tattooist ''The Tattooist'' is a 2007 New Zealand horror film directed by Peter Burger and starring Jason Behr, Nathaniel Lees, Michael Hurst and Robbie Magasiva among others. The film is the first in a series of official co-productions between New Zeala ...
'' (Song: "I Will Not Let You Down") (NZ 2007) * ''
Dean Spanley ''Dean Spanley'' is a 2008 British comedy drama film, with fantastic elements, directed by Fijian New Zealander Toa Fraser. Set in Edwardian England, the film is based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany's 1936 novella ''My T ...
'' (UK/NZ 2008) * ''
Show Of Hands Show of Hands is an English acoustic roots/ folk duo formed in 1986 by singer-songwriter Steve Knightley (guitars, mandolin, mandocello, cuatro) and composer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer (vocals, guitars, violin, viola, mandolin, mando ...
'' (NZ 2008) * ''
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'' – (NZ 2010) * ''Kiwi Flyer'' (NZ 2012) * ''
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'' (NZ/UK 2014)


Short films

* "The Lounge Bar" (1989) (as The Front Lawn) * "Linda's Body" (1990) (as The Front Lawn) * "The Painted Lady" (2000) * "Tick" (2002)


TV

* '' Mortimer's Patch'' (NZ 1979) (with Wayne Laird and Keith Hunter) * '' Terry and the Gunrunners'' (NZ 1985) * '' Street Legal'' (NZ 2000–) * '' Orange Roughies'' (NZ 2006) * ''
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'' (NZ 2010) * '' RocKwiz'' contestant and guest ( episode 94), along with Jenny Morris * ''Kiri and Lou'' (2019– ) (NZ/Canada)


Acting in film


Shorts

The Front Lawn: * "Walkshort" (NZ 1987)all the characters were played by Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair. * "The Lounge Bar" (NZ 1989) Don McGlashan – Mike * "Linda's Body" (NZ 1990) Don McGlashan – Ben


Feature film

* ''Perfect Strangers'' (NZ 2003): singing "Anchor Me" with band in bar.


Theatre

*Co-founder of Watershed Theatre, Auckland 1990 (disbanded 1995) *''Play 2'', Maidment Studio Theatre, October 2002: Don McGlashan played a choirmaster.


Dance


Music for Limbs Dance Company

New Zealand * "Arcade" (1981) * "This Is A Love Song" (1983) * "Decoy" (1984) * "Souvenirs" (1984) * "Vigil Switch" (1985) * " Now Is The Hour" (1988)


Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians

New York, 1983 * He co-composed the scores to two new Dean pieces * Later appointed music rehearsal director. * Toured with the company on US and European tours, playing drums and synthesiser.


Awards


New Zealand Music Awards

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, The Mutton Birds – ''The Mutton Birds'' , Album of the Year , , - , The Mutton Birds – ''Nature'' , Single of the Year , , - , The Mutton Birds , Best Group , , - , Fane Flaws and The Mutton Birds – "Nature" (The Mutton Birds) , Best Video , , - , rowspan="3" ,
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, The Mutton Birds – ''Salty'' , Album of the Year , , - , The Mutton Birds , Best Group , , - , Don McGlashan – "Anchor Me" , Best Songwriter , , - , 1996 , The Mutton Birds , Best Group , , - , rowspan="3" ,
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, The Mutton Birds – ''Envy of Angels'' , Album of the Year , , - , The Mutton Birds – "She's Been Talking" , Single of the Year , , - , The Mutton Birds , Best Group , , - , rowspan="2" ,
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
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, The Mutton Birds – ''Rain, Steam and Speed'' , Album of the Year , , - , The Mutton Birds – "Pulled Along By Love" , Single of the Year , , - , Don McGlashan (The Mutton Birds) , Top Male Vocalist , , - , rowspan="3" , 2006 , Don McGlashan – ''Warm Hand'' , Album of the Year , , - , Don McGlashan – ''Warm Hand'' , Best Male Solo Artist , , - , Don McGlashan, Sean Donnelly, Ed McWilliams – ''Warm Hand'' (Don McGlashan) , Best Producer , , - , rowspan="2" , 2009 , Don McGlashan and the Seven Sisters , Best Male Solo Artist , , - , Don McGlashan, Sean Donnelly – ''Marvellous Year'' , Best Producer ,


Silver Scrolls

McGlashan has won the
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twice. In 2006, McGlashan had two songs nominated for this award – a feat last achieved by
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in 1995. " Bathe in the River", written by McGlashan for the film ''No. 2'', later won the award. In 2001, a vote by members of APRA to find New Zealand's Top 100 songs (what would eventually become the '' Nature's Best'' series) included 5 McGlashan songs. These were: * 23: The Mutton Birds – "
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" * 49: The Mutton Birds – "Anchor Me" * 66: Blam Blam Blam – "Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us" * 69: Blam Blam Blam – "There Is No Depression in New Zealand" * 82: The Front Lawn – "Andy" (co-written with Harry Sinclair)


Other awards

* 2001 –
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Literary Fellowship. * 2002 –
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Laureate Award. * 2003 – New Zealand Television Awards, Best Original Music for '' Street Legal''. * 2007 –
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Living Legend Award. * 2012 –
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Distinguished Alumni Award. * 2012 – Antarctica New Zealand's Writers and Artists residency programme. * 2013 – Michael King Writer's Centre Writer in Residence.


Personal life

McGlashan married dancer and writer Marianne Schultz in 1989. The couple separated in 2012, and divorced in 2017. They have two children, Louie and Moe. McGlashan married Ann McDonell in 2018. In 2008 McGlashan was angered that TVNZ had used a song performed by the Mutton Birds ("Anchor Me") when the election results showed that the National Party had won the New Zealand elections. McGlashan stated that he "would rather have sex with a very ugly crayfish" than let the National Party use his music. The song had been used by TVNZ in terms of the Australasian Performing Right Association's blanket licence with TVNZ. On 28 March 2011 McGlashan suffered three broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a broken collarbone after he hit a car door while cycling down Dominion Road, Auckland. He was hospitalised.


References


Other sources

* Chunn, Mike and Chunn, Jeremy, ''The Mechanics of Popular Music, A New Zealand Perspective'', GP Publications, 1995. * Dennis, Jonathan and Bieringa, Jan (eds), ''Film in Aotearoa New Zealand'', Victoria University Press, 2nd Edition, 1996. * Dix, John, ''Stranded in Paradise'', Penguin, 2005. * Eggleton, David, ''Ready To Fly'', Craig Potton, 2003. * Martin, Helen and Edwards, Sam, ''New Zealand Film 1912–1996'', Oxford, 1997. * Shute, Gareth, ''NZ Rock 1987–2007'', Auckland, Random House, 2008. * Spittle, Gordon, ''Counting The Beat'', GP Publications, 1997.


External links


Don McGlashan – Official Home Page
(2007 archived version)

(2006 archived version)

* * ttps://web.archive.org/web/20091028143500/http://geocities.com/~pete-n-shel/iviewdon.html#List 1998 Radio New Zealand "Musical Chairs" interview (reposted on Geocities)(archived)
"Don't Go", Right, Left and Centre, Music Video – 1985
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