Robert Scott - Give It A Whirl Interview

The Clean dynamic? The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It's just throw yourself into a song and then come out at the other end. We didn't really work on starts or beginnings you know; the middle was what mattered...

– Musician Robert Scott sums up the singular approach of The Clean, seven minutes into this interview

The music in New Zealand ... the landscape and the physicality of the country has got a huge part on the writer and the people making music. I think the influences from overseas are still as strong as they were, but by the time they get here they're quite diffuse and distilled, and tempered with a good dose of cynicism I think, that Kiwis have: second-guessing things, and also having a belief in themselves...

– Robert Scott analyses what makes Kiwi music unique, 16 minutes into this interview

...t sort of stayed as a relaxed, party band by doing nurses' 21sts and nurses' balls and 21sts and things like that for all of '83 I guess ... it was quite slow because I was very average as a guitarist and as a frontman, a singer, I had quite an out of tune, warbly voice. So it took me a long time to get my confidence up to actually say "right we're gonna do a tour, or we're gonna do a whole lot of shows"...

– Robert Scott on the early days of his band The Bats, five minutes into this interview minutes into this interview