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PAGE 28 ' WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. MWEMBER 30, 1994 O O O O O O O ByDetxxottCrtartdall us? we Canadian rock MUSICIOns have to ompress bug brother south of the border to firity reasonable success m the ertterti:vrirr1erot nausfrv mU$|COGDS m New Zea‘and are hard-pressed to mWe a go of n playmg on home mm Don MCGlostu:a1 nontrnGn for New 290!an bond me Mutton Buds knows that all too well ?e=<:ognmon respect and cm Ca) JCC'OIm m mew own country are mInge, We Muttorn Birds have oen‘v of The bond s self-Med 719: .‘ mourn. veleosed m 1992 .16 523' "he Vat'Ct irrds urge .53 'Ct one for Besr .c",e, c.C" 3ey Album and Best San‘ Je cr' me New Zecrcmc: Vrdeo Awri3r:35 and We band s vwdeo 'or “he argue Nature was named 3es' /:CiPC) at me New Zeolond LIN GPO 'eleVISIon Awards Vow months otter the reteose it tts second album Salty the . an": scontmumg ITS run of New I domest-c success. and deservedty so The oIDum is o ' wonderfully bold mIX, with just north ll e'qut‘ DOD to be listener "it0N and sat enough eclechc15m - IncorpOrot- mg rztrurrheryts like the euphonuum and the Demo - to been It left of centre It went gold wimin two pic2EYK5 at ’3 teieose aw “mono! atternhoro m a small market like New £90an Cr Canada tot he? mtytter, doesn’t pay Me Ms So wasncmns like McGIashan find other w ark Mme wamng for the bug break abroad. £9319 up McGIoshcn has spent his time writing and oerformnng With several tt1etatre/tyarnctir/per- ‘ormonce art groups (The Front Lawn and From but unlike quite a lot of my compatriots tttere, " done other JODS In muse. working with music 'cr ‘va and TV Most of that has been able to (990 'ood on me table Whlle I who songs." n me eany 805. McGIoshon was drummer and smger n a band called iyam, Blom. Bltam, which "a: o strung of tor) 20 Ms m 1992 off its Luxury .959"? otbum In the 10 years since that bond we a lot of Summons Tn New Zeolond. you :3n , make a Ilvung Out of playirng musnc and 'ecordmg >n New Zeclcnd. so most people do .Wer ,oos . McGIoshon says World of Dreams, 'or' Old fashioned craftsmanship giving yocqrestfulsl-epatSAV/NGS OF OVER 40%! star revvews. moved from Open Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs. 9:00-5:00. Fri. 12:00-8:30, Sat. 9:30-5:00 NI Weber Street, Waterloo (corner of Weber and Union) 742-0783 ng gate at No a on grand charts ONES (a 'o react, C - 0.0...00.00.000.000...OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... :ndall qulte o blt of thlnklng about It," McGlcshm says. "l thlnk the two Grntatyar1 rock thlngs are very different. When Wave to lmpress you're writing a song - trying to " south of the catch on experlence, something ‘lnd reasonable you’ve seen or a moment that entertcrrtrToernt "MII. T you've lived through - and ClOF‘S tn New . . “Hm youve trylng to get It Into lyrics aid-D'essed to " " ' , - q " .__' and melody ln such a way that yr ploylng on ' F..2 , y _ a,” It'll communicate that experi- A T, - y t ence to o listenef. that's a really Ir' 'ror)ttT1art, tor . , " . ' _ different craft than worklng with and The Mutton y" _ __. . . my 3‘2} ilitc on existlng Idea. Ilka a piece of A.“ N. ' ' ’ 9 a. A film orcplece otdoncey' oct, o‘chnum Def‘d More Leaving the nest New Zeolond’s Mutton Birds head north in search of fame and fortune Scratch In New Zeatand, the Laura Dean Dancers in New York), bidlng his time until he could tpe a group of musicians to form a band around himself, He did that in 1991 ,recruittng David Long on gui- tars (who worked with McGlashan on the Front Lawn album rn 1989), Ross Burge on drums. and Alan Gregg on Dos. But when was to have been a vehicle for McGIashan‘s writing has turned out to be more ctykatyoratNty than McGIoshan had envi- sioned. And he's happy with the result. "It's taken more of a Collective direction, but I think That's woy bonds tend to go as people son of work together,“ McGIoshon says. ‘Thor's why I think bands are stronger than singer/songwriters. You need that emu input and you need people to put that energy in when your energy starts to fog _ After years of composing for dance. perfor- mance art and film - in the interim between Blom. Slam, 810m and the Mutton Birds - McGloshon |eorned a lot about writing, "But I’m not sure If it's been on additive process or if ts because I'm a bit older and I've done 'iilll,l,"il"l,l,"ll'il"i"li' . if. \Vatrtrloo kldizu?: ft-i. Perhaps it's not so much the subject that's slmple. but the lead manner in which McGlashan pre- sents it. And maybe "slmple" isn’t the best choice of words, yrtur1e "uncluttered" sults better, He uses his real voice. "l like the idea of singing the way I speak so most of it comes from everyday speech," McGloshah says "I get pegged back home as a writer who works with quite mundane detail. " not really an intentional thing, it's a process of subtraction. It's what I think I can do well. Some people can write psychedelic songs about space travel, but it doesn‘tseem to bewhatlcan doverywell 'F' I've tried a couple times.” The Mutton Birds debut album was Indepen- dently released but It, and some touting In Aus- tralia. earned the group a tNe-record deal with EMI which has released Salty In Canada, Germany and Sweden And the release in those countries had led tttht! band's first tour on foreign (excluding Australian) ground - V - In Canada, the bond will play gig In Quebec] Toronto, London and Waterloo, mdthen the Nhut- top Buds will head off to Europe. - ., ' The Mutton Birds wh tji, h" Wmenoo Nov, 15 to perform at UW's Bomtyshetter, Admbsion is a buck, Showtime is ttrNth. Much of the writing McGIoshon has done in the post has been COlltaborgttVe work. " only been since the formation of the Mutton Birds that he's had the conf|~ dance to stand behind his Own ideas " think a good song is the km of song that you remember where you were the fitst time you heard It," McGloshon says “There are still songs that send a shiver up my spine, and if I could write one of them at some stage it would be great," In terms of lyrics. McGIoshon writes slmpl'tstiCaty, If you can can a song about a guy who loves hrs heater (not slang for a gun, but 0 real heater - the klnd that heats your room) simple subject matter