Neil Finn Official Website
We’ll be exploring Together Alone tomorrow, same time, with Mitchell and Nick sharing their thoughts about the songs, the producer, the possibilities, what was, what might have been… mmm… intriguing!!
Neil
TOGETHER ALONE
Thursday 1 April 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
Listen live at Fangradio.com or on Mixlr.
Catch the podcasts here.
Hi all,
Tomorrow* I will be bringing you a Fangradio special featuring the album Intriguer which, although largely overlooked, contained some songs that I am well fond of. I have pre played these songs as, due to rescheduled concerts in NZ, I will be on my way to Palmerston North when Fangradio is scheduled. I will have someone push play here at the studio and I’ll phone in my commentary from the van… could be a new dimension.
The shows in NZ have been joyful and lively, we can’t wait to bring it to you wherever you are.
In the meantime, hope you can join me tomorrow.
Neil
INTRIGUER
Thursday 25 March 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
Listen live at Fangradio.com or on Mixlr.
Catch the podcasts here.
Note that Intriguer is now scheduled on the date originally designated for Together Alone. The Together Alone special will now play on April 1st, NZ time.
A friend of Nick’s, brilliant Irish filmmaker Myles O'Reilly, has made a beautiful short film with our new song To The Island as a soundtrack. It introduces an inspiring couple, lifelong partners Eddie and Elsie, with wise words about love, nature and dreams. It’s so hopeful and tender. We should take their words and their world to heart.
Very sad to hear of Michael Gudinski’s passing. He was a titan of Australian music with an energy and commitment that was exhilarating to watch. So many pivotal and historic moments of Australian music rotated around his passions and strong will to succeed. He was one of a kind, a motivator and a creator.
Our love and sympathy go out to the Gudinski Family, Sue, Kate and Matt.
Hi everyone,
Coming up tomorrow is another Fangradio at the usual time, but it’s far from usual. We are currently rehearsing all together, Crowded House in the same room, and might be able to give you a listen at some point. I do have a radio show prepared for Time On Earth, but I may abandon the script.
Whatever the outcome, it’ll be worth tuning in, I reckon. I’m very happy that you are listening!
Love
Neil
FANGRADIO: TIME ON EARTH
Thursday 25 February 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
"come to the Island, where we can save our souls"
This is a good news day for us in Crowded House. Following a move of alert level 3 to level 2 last night, we are now free to gather in a room here at Roundhead Studios and play music, what a joy! Mitchell Froom and Nick Seymour have been released from 2 weeks’ quarantine this morning (after multiple negative swabs) and both are now present in this very room. We are together again.
In addition, we are excited to be announcing the release date for our new album Dreamers Are Waiting on June 4th, and a new single To The Island is out today with accompanying music video made by my good friend Simon Mark Brown and me, in which I paddle at great risk through a cave with guitar, just one example of the lengths we have had to go to play music together.
To celebrate these events, we did a Fangradio show today featuring live performance. An acoustic live version of To The Island was a highlight!
Neil
Dreamers Are Waiting Tracklist:
1. Bad Times Good
2. Playing With Fire
3. To The Island
4. Sweet Tooth
5. Whatever You Want
6. Show Me The Way
7. Goodnight Everyone
8. Start Of Something
9. Too Good For This World
10. Real Life Woman
11. Love Isn’t Hard At All
12. Deeper Down
Next week’s Fangradio broadcast: Crowded House, Album By Album - Time On Earth. Check the time and date at your place here.
It's 2021 and there’s plenty to be hopeful about, but for now, dreamers are waiting. Given that I have a bit more time than usual to explore threads, and in the interests of keeping my brain active and you entertained, I can confirm I will be doing a special weekly show on Fangradio beginning Thursday 11 February at 11am, NZ time.
Each week we will dive into a different Crowded House album and render intimate acoustic versions, a comprehensive selection of the best tracks in my opinion. There will be discussion about the making of and I shall invite friends and colleagues like Nick Seymour and Mitchell Froom to take part with reminiscence and anecdotes.
Some of the songs I am relearning seem fresh and more attractive in their new guise. Hope you will join me as I gallivant though the repertoire.
Here’s the running order:
TEMPLE OF LOW MEN
Thursday 11 February 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
SINGLE RELEASE SPECIAL
Thursday 18 February 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
TIME ON EARTH
Thursday 25 February 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
WOODFACE
Thursday 4 March 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
TOGETHER ALONE
Thursday 25 March 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
INTRIGUER
Thursday 1 April 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
CROWDED HOUSE (self-titled)
Thursday 8 April 2021 at 11am (NZ time)
Convert to your time zone here.
Neil
Head to fangradio.com for more info, archived episodes, podcasts and videos.
Dear All,
Christmas has crept up on me like a fog over San Francisco, caught me unawares and made it hard to get my bearings but that’s not unusual. I will surrender to the force and am grateful for the gifts and goodwill that have come my way from you good folk.
This short newsletter is to alert you that I am going to present a one hour Christmas Fangradio Special on Mixlr this coming Thursday 10am NZ time, 8 am Aust AEDT. That’s Wednesday 1 pm PST, 4 pm EST, 9 PM GMT. Check the time at your place here.
There’ll be plenty of new music coming next year, but at the end of this strange and troubled year, let me offer my best wishes for good health and happiness to you and yours… may 2021 be the beginning of better times for all.
Please join me, family and friends on Fangradio for some music and mirth from the end of the earth.
Love to all
Neil
Here is a compilation of live songs from a golden period of Crowded House concerts. Lovingly put together in support of the Australian Road Crew Association at a time when live music is on standby and all of these good folk are unable to do their fantastic work with us… happy to be of some assistance.
Neil
Hi Everyone,
It’s Day 3 of Quarantine in Auckland and I’m watching the sun come up over the city. The Finns are in a bubble together so good to have family games and hugs amidst isolation from the outside word. It’s a sunny day looming and I have a chance to walk around the carpark for an hour……. then perhaps some skydiving and a visit to the art gallery… nah! Not today.
dusty sunrise
I did a solo show at the Seymour Centre in Sydney 10 years ago which was one of the most enjoyable shows in memory. The good people at the Australian Road Crew Association asked me if I would make the desk tape recording available to raise money for Support Act, a fund which benefits members of the live crew industry who have fallen on hard times or ill health. It couldn’t be more timely to be thinking of the incredible people who are the backbone of our industry. It's been a tough year for them with no shows.
So it’s a big thank you to them and I hope you decide to download this live recording which is quite special.
Cheers to you all
Neil
