BILL DIREEN & THE HAT - "The Flavour of the Meat" LP the band's bar is undoubtedly

the band's bar is undoubtedly raised over the course of these ten tracks

and Bob Malloy's trademark sense of melody & arrangement

“Andy got into music school in Boston around the same time I got into law school

and experimental de-constructions of "pop

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BILL DIREEN & THE HAT - "The Flavour of the Meat" LP the band's bar is undoubtedlyBill Direen & The HAT The Flavour of the Meat LP (Grapefruit, 2013) "Bill Direen and Hamish Kilgour go back to the early days of NZs Flying Nun label and even earlier, when the members of bands like The Clean and Vacuum would skulk to each others shows in small bars or run down church halls in the suburbs of Christchurch. In 1983, Direen and Kilgour were working within a cats call of each other, Hamish at Flying Nun Records and Bill at his Blue Ladder