www.stuff.co.nz/national/130639132/police-searching-for-awardwinning-kiwi-musician-last-seen-four-days-ago

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwi-hall-of-fame-musician-hamish-kilgour-found-dead-after-going-missing/CX7N22WYWBCSFOO6X2UI7P4AD4/

RIP

Quite a shock hearing this. He, his brother, Peter Gutteridge, Robert Scott et al were a musical awakening for me.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Roger Shepherd's obituary to Hamish.

www.flyingnun.co.nz/blogs/features/hamish-kilgour-the-last-beatnik?mc_cid=3b52559a52&mc_eid=b2a85a840e

"He had strong anti-establishment sentiments and non-status quo views, sentiments and views that were usually spot on. I will fondly remember him as a kind of New Zealand beatnik, a confident and colourful personality whose life revolved around music and art."

"Hamish will be sorely missed by family and close friends, as well as all in the larger Flying Nun community. He holds a special place within that community as a member of The Clean and as a representative of all that spirals around them, and in his own right as an artist, musician and free thinker. He was a mixture of the 1960s and a post-punk kind full of possibility. He had strong anti-establishment sentiments and non-status quo views, sentiments and views that were usually spot on. He was smart and friendly, with a keen sense of humour and alert to the absurd. Hamish was hard to categorise or pigeonhole; those are places to put the dull and uniform. I will fondly remember him as a kind of New Zealand beatnik, a confident and colourful personality whose life revolved around music and art. He does not feel diminished by death but made larger, stronger and more significant. I can see him striding across that plain wearing his battered hat with his swag of assorted percussion over his shoulder. Confidently walking towards and looking up and into that void."