Marvellous Year

Marvellous Year is an album by New Zealand songwriter Don McGlashan and The Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters are: Chris O'Connor, Maree Thom, John Segovia and Dominic Blaazer. All the songs were written by Don McGlashan.

Label: Arch Hill Recordings. Release date: 2 March, 2009.

It was recorded at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios in Auckland, produced by Don McGlashan and Sean Donnelly aka SJD and mixed by Jordan Stone, except for "Bad Blood", which was mixed by Luke Tomes. Neil Finn sang backing vocals on "18th Day" and "C2006P1 (Make Yourself at Home)". The string arrangements on "Not Ready" were by Don McGlashan and Victoria Kelly, who wrote the music for the film Out of the Blue in 2006.

"Marvellous Year" is from the Allen Curnow poem "The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch" ^[1]:

"Not I, some child, born in a marvellous year,
Will learn the trick of standing upright here."

The album has been well-received by critics.^[2]

Track listing

1. "The Switch"
2. "Bad Blood"
3. "Not Ready"
4. "You're the Song"
5. "Everything's Broken; Life's So Sweet"
6. "18th Day"
7. "Marvellous Year"
8. "Radio Programmer"
9. "C2006P1 (Make Yourself at Home)"
10. "Bathe in the River"
11. "Theme From 'The Colossus of Roadies'"

Songs

• "Bad Blood" is on Kiwi Hit Disc 114, NZ On Air, April 2009.
• "Bathe in the River", sung by Don McGlashan on Marvellous Year, was originally sung by Hollie Smith on the soundtrack to the film No. 2. The song won the APRA Silver Scroll in 2006.
• "The Colossus of Roadies" is from a stage show Don worked on with Toa Fraser, director of No. 2.

References

1. ^ Cowdrey, Alice (7 May 2009). "Don's anchor". The Nelson Mail. http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/entertainment/2391728/Dons-anchor. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
2. ^ http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3595/artsbooks/13078/bathe_in_the_songs.html

External links

• Marvellous Year at Arch Hill Recordings
• Marvellous Year press release [pdf]
• Bad Blood on YouTube