New Zealand’s music pioneer and co-founder of The Clean band Hamish Kilgour was found dead in Christchurch Monday evening. 

The 65-year-old was last seen at The Palms shopping centre in the city on November 27. A coroner is currently looking into the untimely death of Kilgour, local media reports said.

Kilgour’s friend, Kat Zolita Mason, expressed her sadness over the musician’s death. 

“He was just so funny and lovely,” Mason said, adding: “He was a genius in his own way, really.”

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Who was Hamish Kilgour?

Hamish Kilgour co-founded The Clean band with his brother David Kilgour in 1978. The band released the single Tally Ho in 1981.

The song was number 19 in the charts. The band’s next release, the five-track EP Boodle Boodle Boodle, reached number five in the charts.

Hamish Kilgour, who was born in March 1957, later moved to New York City and formed The Mad Scene in the early 1990s with guitarist/bassist Lisa Siegel.

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His former label, New Zealand’s Flying Nun, released the band’s debut album A Trip Thru Monsterland in 1993. It then signed to Merge Records and their second album Sealight was released in 1996. Hamish Kilgour’s debut solo album All of It and Nothing was released on Ba Da Bing Records on September 16, 2014.