Don McGlashan in the back of the "Milk Wagon", somewhere South of Auckland
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The Adrenal Glandy Memorial Big Band live album from 1986 included performances by Don McGlashan, Rex Reason, Lindsay Marks and Derek Ward, all under pseudonyms
The Front Lawn, Edinburgh 1989. From left: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair.
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Blam Blam Blam: Don McGlashan, Tim Mahon, Mark Bell.
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Don McGlashan, 2021.
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Diane Smithers
Don McGlashan
The Mutton Birds - Anchor Me (1995)
Don McGlashan in New York, 1990.
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The Mutton Birds - The Heater (1994)
Right, Left, and Centre - Don't Go (1984)
Don McGlashan in From Scratch.
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Blam Blam Blam: Tim Mahon, Mark Bell, Don McGlashan.
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The Mutton Birds - Dominion Road (1992)
The Mutton Birds - The Heater (Shepherd's Bush Empire, 27 Oct 2012)
Don McGlashan - Miracle Sun (2006)
Making Music - Don McGlashan, 2005
Don McGlashan - Harbour Bridge (2006)
The Mutton Birds.
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Blam Blam Blam late 1981, back: Mark Bell, Tim Mahon, Don McGlashan. Seated: Dick Driver
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Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair, The Front Lawn.
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Harry Sinclair and Don McGlashan, The Front Lawn.
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Don McGlashan - on composing for film and television, 2009 (NZ On Screen)
Don McGlashan, 2005.
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Mt Raskil Preservation Society - Bathe In The River (2006)
Don McGlashan, 1981
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The Mutton Birds - She's Been Talking (NZ Version)
Don McGlashan
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Don McGlashan and Ivan Zagni - Standards
Don McGlashan, The Mutton Birds.
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Don McGlashan in Antarctica, 2012.
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Don McGlashan - Bright November Morning (2022)
Don McGlashan - Lucky Stars (2015)
The Front Lawn - The Lounge Bar (1988)
Don McGlashan - Song For Sue (RNZ, 7 September 2018)
The Mutton Birds - A Thing Well Made (Shepherd's Bush Empire, 27 Oct 2012)
Don McGlashan - Hold On To Your Loneliness (2015)
The Mutton Birds - Dominion Road (UK Version)
The Mutton Birds: Alan Gregg, Ross Burge, David Long, Don McGlashan.
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Don McGlashan on Sunday, 2003.
The Mutton Birds - Nature (1992)
The Front Lawn - Walkshort (1987)
Don McGlashan, 2005.
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Don McGlashan.
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The Mutton Birds - Pulled Along By Love
Watch: Don McGlashan's speech at the 2011 APRA Silver Scroll Awards, Auckland Town Hall, 13 September 2011.
The Mutton Birds.
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The Mutton Birds.
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The Mutton Birds - Ngaire
Blam Blam Blam: Don McGlashan, Mark Bell, Tim Mahon.
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The Front Lawn: Harry Sinclair, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Don McGlashan.
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Don McGlashan - Bad Blood (2009)
Don McGlashan, 1981.
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The Mutton Birds - In My Room
Mark Bell and Don McGlashan
Blam Blam Blam - There Is No Depression In New Zealand
Don McGlashan and Friends, 2010.
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The Mutton Birds - Your Window
Don McGlashan, 2021.
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Don McGlashan, New York, 1990.
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Don McGlashan in Scotland, 1989.
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Don McGlashan interview and performance on Talk Talk with Finlay MacDonald, 2009
The Mutton Birds - Giant Friend
Don McGlashan, The Mutton Birds.
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The Mutton Birds - Come Around
The Front Lawn "Lawnmobile" checking in to a Dunedin motel, with Jennifer Ward-Lealand at left.
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Don McGlashan, Paul Rose, The Newmatics' Syd Pasley, The Screaming Meemees' Tony Drumm, Syd's partner Angela, Simon Grigg and unknown, 1981. Taken at the NZ Music Awards, Logan Park, 1982, the year Grigg was given a special award for Outstanding Contribution to the New Music Industry.
Harry Sinclair and Don McGlashan goofing off in Dunedin.
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Blam Blam Blam Live at Mainstreet, 1984
Blam Blam Blam - Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both Of Us
Don McGlashan - Lucky Stars (live on RNZ, 2015)
The Front Lawn's promotional touring vehicle.
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The Bellbirds: Sandy Mill, Sean Donnelly, Don McGlashan, Victoria Kelly
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Don McGlashan in Edinburgh, 1989.
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Don McGlashan, Bar Bodega, 7 March 2012
Blam Blam Blam - Luxury Length
Don McGlashan with the 2006 APRA Silver Scroll for 'Bathe In the River'
Songs From The Front Lawn (1989)
Don McGlashan - Lucky Stars (2015)
Don McGlashan interview, Give It A Whirl, 2003 (NZ On Screen, 2023)
First page of a press release for 'Don't Go' by Right, Left and Centre - a 1984 single released to protest against a proposed rugby tour of South Africa that year.
Don McGlashan - I Will Not Let You Down (2006)
Don McGlashan, Blam Blam Blam.
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Front Lawn promotional sticker.
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The Front Lawn.
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Don McGlashan, The Mutton Birds.
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Don McGlashan discusses From Scratch (Philip Dadson: Sonics from Scratch, 2015)
The Mutton Birds.
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All the Goodbyes in the World (2022)
Don McGlashan
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Don McGlashan, The Mutton Birds.
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Watch: Don McGlashan's Writer Director speech at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, TSB Arena, Wellington 2014.
Don McGlashan and Hollie Smith, Womad.
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In 2008 McGlashan stated that he "would rather have sex with a very ugly crayfish" than let the National Party use his music. He was upset that TVNZ used the song 'Anchor Me' by the Mutton Birds when the National Party won the New Zealand election. (The song was however used in accordance with APRA's blanket licence with TVNZ.)
“A bunch of fans in England got together and made a second Mutton Birds B-sides and rarities album, and we were appalled, because we felt that we’d been scraping the very bottom of the barrel and they came up with another whole album full of stuff by bribing second engineers in studios that we’d done demos in to get jams and outtakes. But it’s quite neat, and they called it Out Of The Prying Fans, which I thought was a masterstroke. We have some very cool fans in England.” - Don McGlashan
Don McGlashan was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame | Te Whare Taonga Puoro o Aotearoa in 2023. The Hall of Fame is an initiative of Recorded Music NZ and the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), whose support of AudioCulture enables the site to stream music content.