I had it while on hold with Watercare a couple of days ago ... that's why I'm here. 🤣 Edited to say that little man holding the dish was there for so many years ... probably is still there, if not should be in a museum.
What an absolute kiwi classic. I can't help but sing it whenever I'm driving down Dominion Road. Even my ten year old nephew always enthusiastically belts it out whenever it comes on the radio. A timeless classic, a kiwi tune to be proud of.
When this came out we all knew the bar had been raised. I remember the first gig at the old Boardwalk Bar on K Rd and Don walking around the audience beforehand and getting onto the stage directly from the floor. We played there a few weeks later and did the same thing. Suddenly songs about being a Kiwi living in Auckland were not only OK, but desirable. Plus, the band was super tight and not aping the latest NME fashion. Great role models.
In the mid 90's I was new to Auckland a bit down on my luck. I honestly ended up living in a half way house (well to be exact a boarding house) half way down Dominion Road. Great times and thanks to this song never forgotten :-)
Don just gets better and better. Went to Seven Sisters on the weekend (his latest band) and they have some awesome tunes. He is an incredible writer. Captures the essence of being kiwi in just about every phrase he writes.
My friends used to live in a quarter of a house, about a quarter of the way down Dominion Rd. That dang old song still always got stuck in my head whenever I was anywhere near there.
I remember Dominion Road when it was like in the video, before the sky tower, before the supermarket or Motorway. Great to see and remember the way it was. (Yes I remember the song coming out too.)
Some people who were old enough to see it the way you remember it, were probably bitter that it didn't look like how THEY remembered it, with tram tracks all over and little wood/brick shops on an unpaved road. Horses and carts. Like it was intended to be, or something.
MY ALL TIME KIWI FAVE AND I'M A BRIT ....IN MY LATE 60'S!!!: "Dominion road is bending under it's own weight, shining like a strip cut from a sheet metal plate...." ........ exactly as I saw it after a heavy downpour on returning to the old Auckland Star office in town from a photoshoot in Mt. Roskill late one Friday afternoon in the early 80's. I wish I had stopped to take a shot!!
I’m a kiwi living in Germany. But I lived just off dominion road when I was a young apprentice. Some of my fondest memories we’re walking home down dominion road and grabbing a feed and another box after a blues game with my mates. The nostalgia hits hard with this one. I’ll have to go back when I’m next home ❤️
I remember when the band had a van with Mutton Birds painted along the side of their van, and it was always parked on Dominon Road!! Good Old DaYS!! I think they lived opposite Lambeth St then hahaha
been living in Perth for 6 years now, haven't been back since...a kiwi bro I work with played this on his music thingy & it just took me back to the good ol' days in Auckland, driving up Dominion Road to get to a gig in town or mates houses or Eden Park..made me miss those times straight away...great song!
Any Aucklander, or the many Kiwis and other people around the world who have called Auckland home, however briefly, can relate to this song! I loved and hated it with a passion! Dominion Road, just goes for miles right through millions of lives.
always pulls the old memory back to 1993 the albert pub in palmerston north nz, they rocked the pub down and im sure they'd still rock it now....wonder if the 24hr bakery/fish n chip shop is still open
My parents lived on Dominion Road when I was born. Just near Potters Park. Spent a couple of years there before moving to Avondale. Thanks Muttonbirds for such a lovely song about it.
Does anyone remember Charlie Gray's theatre? The best films were shown there. Could even have a drink there too. It was so great. RSA right over the road. Spent many years in this area. Terrific times watching the kiwis win the America's cup. I thought I was going to end up in a halfway house. So much dak and Steinny's.
I was living on Dominion Road at the time this came out. I was on my way to work and saw the camera vehicle filming this video, was hoping I was in it.
From the US - These guys are really good! My wife's a Kiwi and I know from Dominion Road. To bad we didn't get them much here. Thanks for posting this. One of many good songs.
Dominion Road is bending Under its own weight Shining like a strip Cut from a sheet metal plate 'Cause it's just been raining Jane even reached the point where she knew What he meant before he opened his mouth He couldn't say the same Or he'd have guessed she was moving south With one of his friends But he's getting better now He found it in him to forgive He walked the city And he found a place to live In a halfway house Halfway down Dominion Road And he watched Jane's brother sell the house - He felt no sense of loss More like a mountain climber Looking back having made it across The steepest phase Oh, but he's still climbing See him trying to cross the street He tests his footing Like he was up ten thousand feet Above the the clouds Halfway down Dominion Road But he's getting better now He rests his head on the window sill He watches the city See the antennas in the hills From a halfway house Halfway down Dominion Road Halfway Down Halfway Down Halfway Down Dominion Road Halfway Down Halfway Down Halfway Down Dominion Road
Never heard of this band, until Tom Morton played on his radio show, 'Morton Through Midnight'. BBC Radio Scotland. Show worth a listen. He plays a real mixed bag of music. Anyway, 'DOMINION ROAD' is a goody.
love this song just cause it mentions sheet metal as me, my brother, my dad and cousin all work in the sheet metal trade and my cousin works in a shop just off Dominion rd
i grew up in mt roskill and Dominion road was the way to the big lights of the city ,i can remember driving back from the city in my holden 1980s at night and running every red light all the way to Roskill with my girlfriend on Domimion road ,great song that brings back them old memories
Robber's Dog plays this in a tiny pub in the middle of nowhere on the West Coast and everybody sings along and it's fucking awesome and so much fun so thankyou cousin Don McGlashan . . .
The way I interpret it is that the song is primarily about the rebuilding of a life after the breakdown of a marrige. However, in this case it's even deeper as it touches on the guy climbing out of depression and coming to terms with living again.
I think it's largely metaphorical. NZ in the early 90s was circling the drain with 12% unemployment - a lot of people were backsliding. The thing with Dominion rd in those days is that there very much was a 'halfway down' where greater Mt Eden (kinda nice) changed to greater Mt Roskill (kinda dystopian). The central city wasn't that fancy then, it was full of uni students, musicians, artists, and other Bohemian types - it had a real vibe; clubs, restaurants, boutiques, parks, novel shops (records.antiques/comics, etc), light industry ... But the western half Dominion rd? It's like somebody turned off the lights, shit was downright spooky after dark. So, ideally nobody wants to live in a crummy old house somewhere between Valley and Mt Albert rd, but if you step out of the door of an evening and turn east you could walk 20-30 minutes down to the Kings Arms and catch a Muttonbirds gig, and there's nothing for anyone out west, except maybe a mugging or some drugs. It's all bygone now.
Just another bloody awesome Kiwi band, who kicked a lot of arse and sounded friggin wicked. Thanks heeeeeeeaps you Legends from across the ditch. Your Aussie brother 🙏🙏🤙🤙🤙🤙🍺🍺🍺🍺❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺
"He tests his footing Like he was up 10, 000 feet." The years I lived there crossing that strip over and over. Geesh! Maybe for the first time in 1990. Maybe the last in 2018. I remember hearing a loud Faaaark as a guy crashed his motorbike and died, the deluxe cheeseburgers from Wendy's, having two bikes stolen...arson...intimidation...a pokie jackpot win... choosing a video with my girlfriend...a meteorite exploding into the atmosphere...video games...many memories living on Dominion Road.
I used to deliver too all the liquor stores up that road years back. Awesome people on this road back then and very diverse culture...cool song makes me miss home after 9 yrs in brisbane
frequented dominion rd in the 90's for crap chinese food and weird movies. The mutton birds might be the best of the auckland bands. "In your sleep" is such an amazing song.
What the fuck are you talking about? Balmoral, Sandringham, and Mt Albert been primarily Asian for over thirty years - before fucking KFC and Wendy's there were nasty-looking roast ducks skewered in the windows, I've got teenage kids and lived 'round the way most of my life and I never seen a 'kiwi' (aka 'white') dairy here EVER. The shops they show in the video? Chinese. Or maybe you're referring to (the former) Segedin's? Croatian. Who do you think owns half of the commercial/industrial property on the periphery (Gt North rd, Ponsonby rd, Dominion rd) here? Go snap on your hillbilly parents for being too fucking lazy, pinky - immigrants built this 'hood, and you wont talk that shit 'round here, 'cause it will cost you teeth. Either deal with it, or 'move down south' (did you catch that line?). You don't know shit about us, or this area.
The ultimate 'on the phone to IRD or Kiwibank' hold song! 😂🇳🇿
Yep ahaha always hearing this while my parents are on hold to IRD 😂😂
WINZ too
Damn your so right.
My oldest son is 21 now
I had it while on hold with Watercare a couple of days ago ... that's why I'm here. 🤣 Edited to say that little man holding the dish was there for so many years ... probably is still there, if not should be in a museum.
What an absolute kiwi classic. I can't help but sing it whenever I'm driving down Dominion Road. Even my ten year old nephew always enthusiastically belts it out whenever it comes on the radio. A timeless classic, a kiwi tune to be proud of.
Dominion road is bending under it's own weight, shining like a strip cut from a sheet metal plate. Don, you are a genius.
I have to assume this is sarcasm
Used to live on View Rd, just off Dominion. Halfway down you've missed the shops. The Warehouse at the end though.
these are very average lyrics tbh
@@achintobe5410 Well if you say so then it must be true.
@@achintobe5410 Everything is average to a Jazzman.
The greatest "Auckland" song of all time and Top 10 NZ track of all time.
God yes
Still a stone cold kiwi classic. Im a kiwi living in Japan for the last 20 years for work. Miss home every day. This song takes me there.
One of the great NZ bands. They should have been bigger than big.
Don't you worry bro. They are. 🤙
@Hater Sensei Grand Master Chosen One I love Dave dobbyn but he ain't no Don Mcglashan 😁😁😁
They were :) for us anyway 🥳🙏🍾💚
Love this track it makes me smile and tap my fingers to the great tune it is ..makes me homesick too
From Ireland and Don n muttonbirds the greatest aye
When this came out we all knew the bar had been raised. I remember the first gig at the old Boardwalk Bar on K Rd and Don walking around the audience beforehand and getting onto the stage directly from the floor. We played there a few weeks later and did the same thing. Suddenly songs about being a Kiwi living in Auckland were not only OK, but desirable. Plus, the band was super tight and not aping the latest NME fashion. Great role models.
In the mid 90's I was new to Auckland a bit down on my luck. I honestly ended up living in a half way house (well to be exact a boarding house) half way down Dominion Road. Great times and thanks to this song never forgotten :-)
"down on your luck" ? you mean you couldn't keep a job long enough to buy drugs.
@@magicmike6961 You again - fucking loser
Lived in Telford AVE for 18 years
Good on ya, mate!
@@magicmike6961 nope, that's not what I meant
Don just gets better and better. Went to Seven Sisters on the weekend (his latest band) and they have some awesome tunes. He is an incredible writer. Captures the essence of being kiwi in just about every phrase he writes.
I am welsh so practically on the other side on the world but this is honestly my favourite son
I fuckin' love this song. Fires up my kiwi blood
Fuck yeah
Yeah. Your Kiwi blood as you call it is probably Scots, Irish, Welsh or British. More like conquerors / settlers blood.
doesnt everyone in new zealand have settler/conquerer blood in them?
No, just normal O+ blood, nothing conquerable.
Brad Allan My grandpa and his siblings are full māori
You absolutely legendary Kiwi bastards!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks heeeeeeeepas for all your wicked tunes boyz. Much love from Oz 🙏❤️🤙🇦🇺
Auckland born & bred (not far from Dominion Rd)... even after 32 years living overseas this song never fails to make me homesick.
I actually LIVE half way down Dominion Rd..........love this song; reminds me of home...!!!!
thanks for this bit of paraphenalia stephen
My friends used to live in a quarter of a house, about a quarter of the way down Dominion Rd.
That dang old song still always got stuck in my head whenever I was anywhere near there.
The very peak of Kiwi music......legendary!
Sounds just as good in 2019 as I when I first heard it.
I remember Dominion Road when it was like in the video, before the sky tower, before the supermarket or Motorway. Great to see and remember the way it was. (Yes I remember the song coming out too.)
Bilbo's of Bag End was the place to cruise to for late night burgers, up the top, near Valley rd intersection
Some people who were old enough to see it the way you remember it, were probably bitter that it didn't look like how THEY remembered it, with tram tracks all over and little wood/brick shops on an unpaved road. Horses and carts. Like it was intended to be, or something.
i want to go home. no other words can express this feeling.
MY ALL TIME KIWI FAVE AND I'M A BRIT ....IN MY LATE 60'S!!!:
"Dominion road is bending under it's own weight, shining like a strip cut from a sheet metal plate...." ........ exactly as I saw it after a heavy downpour on returning to the old Auckland Star office in town from a photoshoot in Mt. Roskill late one Friday afternoon in the early 80's. I wish I had stopped to take a shot!!
I live just off Dominion Road and never want to leave.
I’m a kiwi living in Germany. But I lived just off dominion road when I was a young apprentice. Some of my fondest memories we’re walking home down dominion road and grabbing a feed and another box after a blues game with my mates. The nostalgia hits hard with this one. I’ll have to go back when I’m next home ❤️
I listened to this 25 times in a row, and was as awesome as the first time.
I was 30.
Like listening to The Byrds.
When I was 8.
A song of pure genius. Essential kiwiana and absolutely great music.
Living in Spain. This is a great song that reminds me of home... Love this band!
Love this song/band too! And also living in Spain, in Barcelona. Whereabouts are you bro?
Living in Santander. Nearly 15 years now. How's Barcelona
still in spain?
Cool song, I feel it..... From South Africa
Cool!
Lots of amazing kiwi bands
And artists
Chris knox
The chills
Graham brazier
Etc
💛
I remember when the band had a van with Mutton Birds painted along the side of their van, and it was always parked on Dominon Road!! Good Old DaYS!! I think they lived opposite Lambeth St then hahaha
I grew up in this neighbourhood, Its a classic.
I love Mutton Birds. This is their best song. It’s full of good vibes. I really love it. Specially the backing vocals and the solo.
Absolute ripper, one of the greats
Saw Don open for (and play with) Crowded House in 2008 and became a fan.
One of my favourite Kiwi songs ever! Take a bow Don Mcglashin!
Masterpiece of a song
I miss seeing The Mutton Birds play live, Don McGlashan a New Zealand national treasure
been living in Perth for 6 years now, haven't been back since...a kiwi bro I work with played this on his music thingy & it just took me back to the good ol' days in Auckland, driving up Dominion Road to get to a gig in town or mates houses or Eden Park..made me miss those times straight away...great song!
take care in the work place in oz with all those back stabbing wankers
Any Aucklander, or the many Kiwis and other people around the world who have called Auckland home, however briefly, can relate to this song!
I loved and hated it with a passion!
Dominion Road, just goes for miles right through millions of lives.
Timeless.. cool Kiwi song! 👍🇳🇿
always pulls the old memory back to 1993 the albert pub in palmerston north nz, they rocked the pub down and im sure they'd still rock it now....wonder if the 24hr bakery/fish n chip shop is still open
This is an Auckland song mate, not intended for you lot.
Still legendary 30 years on
I love this song. I have had this album for 20+ years.
My parents lived on Dominion Road when I was born. Just near Potters Park. Spent a couple of years there before moving to Avondale. Thanks Muttonbirds for such a lovely song about it.
Criminally underated song! Absolute kiwi classic
Does anyone remember Charlie Gray's theatre? The best films were shown there. Could even have a drink there too. It was so great. RSA right over the road. Spent many years in this area. Terrific times watching the kiwis win the America's cup. I thought I was going to end up in a halfway house. So much dak and Steinny's.
I was living on Dominion Road at the time this came out. I was on my way to work and saw the camera vehicle filming this video, was hoping I was in it.
Been around the world - proud to be Kiwi - love this song
I drove the big yellow bendys up and down Dom Road for a few years. This song brings back some of those memories. Thanks for the post.
Awsome.............. Kiwianna at its best.....
From the US - These guys are really good! My wife's a Kiwi and I know from Dominion Road. To bad we didn't get them much here. Thanks for posting this. One of many good songs.
Dominion Road is bending
Under its own weight
Shining like a strip
Cut from a sheet metal plate
'Cause it's just been raining
Jane even reached the point where she knew
What he meant before he opened his mouth
He couldn't say the same
Or he'd have guessed she was moving south
With one of his friends
But he's getting better now
He found it in him to forgive
He walked the city
And he found a place to live
In a halfway house
Halfway down Dominion Road
And he watched Jane's brother sell the house -
He felt no sense of loss
More like a mountain climber
Looking back having made it across
The steepest phase
Oh, but he's still climbing
See him trying to cross the street
He tests his footing
Like he was up ten thousand feet
Above the the clouds
Halfway down Dominion Road
But he's getting better now
He rests his head on the window sill
He watches the city
See the antennas in the hills
From a halfway house
Halfway down Dominion Road
Halfway Down
Halfway Down
Halfway Down Dominion Road
Halfway Down
Halfway Down
Halfway Down Dominion Road
ripper
feels like coming home every time i listen
Lived in places off that road for 18years. Wandered up and down it. Very nostalgic, anthemic song for me and many others.
great tribute to one of our best roads in Auckland!
Greatest song ever!
Great road and great song, you never go hungry living around that road !
Great song, great band! I used to live half way down dominion road in the late '90's and this song brings back lots of good memories!
I worked in Dominion Road when this song was released - happy memories!
I miss New Zealand! this song is so awesome.
My hat is off to all these uncles..love that Maori strum they use.
Coming back to NZ after 7 years in Japan. Running straight to the nearest fish & chip shop...
I just discovered this band. Just blow my mind. Awesome.
Anyone with a Rickenbacker gets obsessed with that headstock haha
Don and his crew cranked this at Nostalgia last weekend , so awesome - a beautiful song!
Never heard of this band, until Tom Morton played on his radio show, 'Morton Through Midnight'. BBC Radio Scotland. Show worth a listen. He plays a real mixed bag of music. Anyway, 'DOMINION ROAD' is a goody.
It does look on certain afternoons look like that ! Gleaming! Camel humps 😊
never heard of them WOW what a great band
A great old favourie of mine having lived off worked on and travelled along Dominion Road regularly the first half of my life
I have had this album since it was new. Great music.
love this song just cause it mentions sheet metal as me, my brother, my dad and cousin all work in the sheet metal trade and my cousin works in a shop just off Dominion rd
This is one of the great popular songs. And about a not fashionable area and a mid-life crisis.
that rhythm guitar strum is so kiwi.. love it
This song makes me sooo happy!! I love it!!!
Very cool song. Nice presentation.
Great music never dies 🎶 🎵 🎼 🎸 🎹 🎤 ❤️ 👏🇳🇿👏🇳🇿👏🇳🇿👏👍
i grew up in mt roskill and Dominion road was the way to the big lights of the city ,i can remember driving back from the city in my holden 1980s at night and running every red light all the way to Roskill with my girlfriend on Domimion road ,great song that brings back them old memories
Robber's Dog plays this in a tiny pub in the middle of nowhere on the West Coast and everybody sings along and it's fucking awesome and so much fun so thankyou cousin Don McGlashan . . .
Awesome.
The most feel-good song ever made
Only bought this cd last January and it is a breath of fresh air to an old R&R guy ! But "Salty" is my fav. :)
The way I interpret it is that the song is primarily about the rebuilding of a life after the breakdown of a marrige. However, in this case it's even deeper as it touches on the guy climbing out of depression and coming to terms with living again.
I think it's largely metaphorical. NZ in the early 90s was circling the drain with 12% unemployment - a lot of people were backsliding. The thing with Dominion rd in those days is that there very much was a 'halfway down' where greater Mt Eden (kinda nice) changed to greater Mt Roskill (kinda dystopian). The central city wasn't that fancy then, it was full of uni students, musicians, artists, and other Bohemian types - it had a real vibe; clubs, restaurants, boutiques, parks, novel shops (records.antiques/comics, etc), light industry ... But the western half Dominion rd? It's like somebody turned off the lights, shit was downright spooky after dark.
So, ideally nobody wants to live in a crummy old house somewhere between Valley and Mt Albert rd, but if you step out of the door of an evening and turn east you could walk 20-30 minutes down to the Kings Arms and catch a Muttonbirds gig, and there's nothing for anyone out west, except maybe a mugging or some drugs. It's all bygone now.
There's invariably another place like it right now, maybe in Mt Albert (ha!). Things change. I'm 25 years moved on an never been back. Magic song.
+Leon Higgins Shame the Chinese want to change the name.
+TANIWHA B Not going to happen
Just another bloody awesome Kiwi band, who kicked a lot of arse and sounded friggin wicked. Thanks heeeeeeeaps you Legends from across the ditch. Your Aussie brother 🙏🙏🤙🤙🤙🤙🍺🍺🍺🍺❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺
I LOVE this song.
Was living in NZ for the past 6 months down Dominion Rd.
Back in Canada now, but this song makes me think of some good times I had down there.
Never lived there but have visited. But boy feel the connection. Awsome song. sung by the Best
"He tests his footing
Like he was up 10, 000 feet."
The years I lived there crossing that strip over and over. Geesh!
Maybe for the first time in 1990. Maybe the last in 2018.
I remember hearing a loud Faaaark as a guy crashed his motorbike and died, the deluxe cheeseburgers from Wendy's, having two bikes stolen...arson...intimidation...a pokie jackpot win... choosing a video with my girlfriend...a meteorite exploding into the atmosphere...video games...many memories living on Dominion Road.
I used to deliver too all the liquor stores up that road years back. Awesome people on this road back then and very diverse culture...cool song makes me miss home after 9 yrs in brisbane
hell theres some memories...lived off dominion road when this came out...what a random surprise that this came up in a search...love it
This song brings me nostalgia
Listening from Sunshine Coast . Queensland and wishing I was cruising down Dominion road 👍🏼
frequented dominion rd in the 90's for crap chinese food and weird movies. The mutton birds might be the best of the auckland bands. "In your sleep" is such an amazing song.
A half way house halfway down dominion Rd saved my dads life
he must have been a real loser.
@@magicmike6961 Gee Magic Mike, that puts your comment in contender for king Ahole of the year.. Fwit!
@@magicmike6961 You don't have any Shithead!
@@OldbeanO go take some drugs you loooooosssseeeerrr
@@magicmike6961 That's what made the dork your are Ftard!!
I'm here because this song was playing whilst I was put on hold during a call and I had to find out what song it was XD
I love driving the tractor with this song
Amazing song
Never lived there but have visited. But boy feel the connection. Awsome song
2020 still jamming out this classic kiwi jam 🤙RESPECT
balmoral is nothing like it used to be. most of the shops aren't kiwi anymore.
What the fuck are you talking about? Balmoral, Sandringham, and Mt Albert been primarily Asian for over thirty years - before fucking KFC and Wendy's there were nasty-looking roast ducks skewered in the windows, I've got teenage kids and lived 'round the way most of my life and I never seen a 'kiwi' (aka 'white') dairy here EVER. The shops they show in the video? Chinese. Or maybe you're referring to (the former) Segedin's? Croatian. Who do you think owns half of the commercial/industrial property on the periphery (Gt North rd, Ponsonby rd, Dominion rd) here?
Go snap on your hillbilly parents for being too fucking lazy, pinky - immigrants built this 'hood, and you wont talk that shit 'round here, 'cause it will cost you teeth. Either deal with it, or 'move down south' (did you catch that line?). You don't know shit about us, or this area.
Still have a lot of love for the road I grew up on. And yep, still plenty of halfway houses around here.
This tune always plays in the back of my mind when I'm driving down Dominion Road....
I can go one better.. i set up my van for Dominion Road as soon as i'm driving on it. :)
Reminds me of home ❤❤
So 14 people need a transplant for good music taste because this song is legendary
Songs stuck in my head forever everytime i walk down bloody dominion rd 😆
Great kiwi music
Still love this song and Dominion Rd