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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    MeddleDeal wrote:
    OMG B! that is TOO cool! I am SO excited!! Neil is SO funny!! Even his notes are funny! I can't wait to hear the new album and see the man live again!! :D

    btw, I listened to Try Whistling This...:eek: OMG! That album is SO prettiful!! Especially, Try Whistling This! It has been stuck in my head ALL day long!!
    haha yeah he's quite a character! i can't wait till there's more news about the release and tour dates!

    that album is gorgeous, ain't it!? and try whistling this....wow - especially the last few lines, love it. sinner is another great track

    now you've reminded me it's been a while since i've listened to that album, i'm gonna have to give it a spin now :)
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    haha yeah he's quite a character! i can't wait till there's more news about the release and tour dates!

    that album is gorgeous, ain't it!? and try whistling this....wow - especially the last few lines, love it. sinner is another great track

    now you've reminded me it's been a while since i've listened to that album, i'm gonna have to give it a spin now :)

    SWEET B!! :D

    Right now, I just finished listening to a San Francisco Finn Brothers' show (not our show, still looking for that boot :() and now listening to some of the The Finn Brothers songs that I have downloaded :) Man, I can't get enough of them!! :)

    I am also getting my unborn daughter to become a PJ/Finn Brothers fan;)
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    ~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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    "For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    As chiquimonkey gave us Neil news, I have MORE Neil news courtsey of Billboard.com! :D

    http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003408035

    FINN REGROUPS WITH CROWDED HOUSE BASSIST

    by Gary Graff

    Neil Finn has reunited with Crowded House bandmate Nick Seymour for his next solo album, which he plans to release next year.

    Finn tells Billboard.com that bassist Seymour "has been with me the whole time" on the album, and that "working together again feels really good. It felt natural and right. We've been good company for each other." Finn says that Crowded House drummer Paul Hester's death in 2005 helped bring the two musicians together again.

    "You do seek each other out," he says. "The day we heard what happened with Paul, we were about to play a show at Albert Hall, my brother [Tim] and I. We decided we had to continue. And I rang Nick; he was the one I wanted to have there. There's some kind of strong bond still, as you would expect, I suppose."

    Finn says he's "just about done" with the album, which will be his first solo set of new material since "One Nil" in 2001 (he released the live "Seven Worlds Collide in 2002 and an album with his brother, "Everyone is Here," in 2004.) His wife and two sons appear on the set, which features strings on three tracks. It's being produced by Ethan Johns and recorded mostly at Finn's studio in Auckland and mixed at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios in England.

    "It's a pretty emotional record, I think," says Finn, who recently moved to England full-time. "It's hard for me to evaluate, 'cause I'm so close to it now. But I think it's fairly simple, which I'm really happy about. There's a lot of heart in the record, which I'm happy about, too."


    Finn plans to tour in support of the album and expects Seymour to be part of the band. As previously reported, the two will revisit their Crowded House past with the Jan. 16 release of "Farewell to the World," separate CD and DVD packages chronicling the band's Nov. 24, 1996 farewell concerts in Sydney.
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    ~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
    ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
    "For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    MeddleDeal wrote:
    SWEET B!! :D

    Right now, I just finished listening to a San Francisco Finn Brothers' show (not our show, still looking for that boot :() and now listening to some of the The Finn Brothers songs that I have downloaded :) Man, I can't get enough of them!! :)

    I am also getting my unborn daughter to become a PJ/Finn Brothers fan;)
    oh awesome about the SF boot! i would *love* to get my paws on the show we went to. and yes, they're just the best. and good job on getting the wee one started on the finn path :) heehee

    and THANK YOU for that billboard article.....new neil? with STRINGS? oh my. *thud* lol eeeeeeeeeeee can't wait, yay!
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    Wee-hee! I just got a package containing the Farewell to the World DVD, CD and Tim Finn's latest album :D Someone will get a huge X-Mas present this year. Now I only have to wait for about 8 hours until I can go home and pop it into the DVD player...
    You can tell a man from what he has to say - Neil & Tim Finn
    They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    Sonja_S wrote:
    Wee-hee! I just got a package containing the Farewell to the World DVD, CD and Tim Finn's latest album :D Someone will get a huge X-Mas present this year. Now I only have to wait for about 8 hours until I can go home and pop it into the DVD player...

    ooo lucky you! Let us know how Tim's album is!! :) Enjoy watching the Farewell to the World dvd at home :D
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    ~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
    ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
    "For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    MeddleDeal wrote:
    ooo lucky you! Let us know how Tim's album is!! :) Enjoy watching the Farewell to the World dvd at home :D

    Thanks, I will definitely let you know. I had to postpone watching the DVD to tomorrow, but then at least I'll have the tissues ready :D
    You can tell a man from what he has to say - Neil & Tim Finn
    They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    Sonja_S wrote:
    Thanks, I will definitely let you know. I had to postpone watching the DVD to tomorrow, but then at least I'll have the tissues ready :D

    Sweet! :D

    OMG! i've seen clips of that final show on YouTube. It is VERY moving. almost brought me to tears! DAMN YOU Neil for writing such lovely, prettiful songs :)
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    ~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
    ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
    "For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    I watched the show on VHS years ago and let me tell you, if you watch the entire thing and not just clips, there is no 'almost' ;) I never cry at movies, but those things can really get me. When someone posted the youtube link to the Paul Hester tribute here, I was really glad to have my own office :o
    You can tell a man from what he has to say - Neil & Tim Finn
    They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    ah that farewell dvd, that's on my xmas wishlist! i'm sure i'll bawl like a baby :o haha
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    Sonja_S wrote:
    I watched the show on VHS years ago and let me tell you, if you watch the entire thing and not just clips, there is no 'almost' ;) I never cry at movies, but those things can really get me. When someone posted the youtube link to the Paul Hester tribute here, I was really glad to have my own office :o

    yep. I hear ya. The songs themselves are amazing!! I got to watch that whole thing through and MUST get it too! :D

    and the Paul Hester tribute, as B said, it looked like Neil was about to cry. :( Very touching though. I always check out YouTube for anything 'new' w/Neil & Tim :)
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    ~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
    ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
    "For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    I finally managed to listen to Tim Finn's new album. I hardly ever love an album after the first listen, but that's exactly what happened with this one. I got the version with the bonus DVD of the BJB-Sessions with old friends like 'How Will You Go', 'I Hope I Never' and 'Angels Heap' - which I didn't watch at work of course *cough* :D I have no idea why the text on the artwork of the CD is in German though :confused:
    You can tell a man from what he has to say - Neil & Tim Finn
    They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
  • Kushikushun
    Kushikushun Posts: 1,263
    I saw them twice a long time ago over here in Holland. I have been playing their records for ages and some of their songs are really ageless.
    I still have a picture of me and the bassist from Crowded House somewhere. I was so young back than...haha, the good old days.
    Me and my sister walked with him to the hotel after the concert and he was a really sympathetic and relaxed guy. We talked a lot about photography and that he had the same camera as my sister.

    Lovely memory...
    Why not be mediocre and be the best at it that you can be?
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    theres a dutch band called Johann and they sound so much like crowded house
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    Kushikushun wrote:
    I saw them twice a long time ago over here in Holland. I have been playing their records for ages and some of their songs are really ageless.
    I still have a picture of me and the bassist from Crowded House somewhere. I was so young back than...haha, the good old days.
    Me and my sister walked with him to the hotel after the concert and he was a really sympathetic and relaxed guy. We talked a lot about photography and that he had the same camera as my sister.

    Lovely memory...

    that is an awesome story! :D

    I just checked on Neil's website and they said the Crowded House dvd, "Farewell to the World" won't be released in US til Jan. so we just might have to wait a little longer :/
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    ~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
    ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~
    "For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
  • pearl jam = awesome
    pearl jam = awesome Posts: 96
    hard_to_imagine wrote:
    Yeah, and the pride of our nation too. Even though they're not ours i wish they were. Neil is brilliant beyond words.

    sorry mate, australia has claimed the finn brothers.
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    just took a look at frenz.com:

    7-12-06-If all goes well we are still looking at around March for the release of Neils new CD.

    wooohooo, march isn't too far away! :D
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    http://www.fairfax-avenue.com/bootlegs.php?id=B11

    recording of a show neil did in LA on 12/6 - quality isn't that great (especially hearing people yell out song requests lol), but even still...it's neil! couple new songs in the beginning. and listening to 'throw your arms around me' right now....divine.
  • releaseNY
    releaseNY Posts: 153
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    http://www.fairfax-avenue.com/bootlegs.php?id=B11
    thanks so much for posting the link!!!!

    i've just listened to MTMG, my favoritesonginthewholewideworld, about 6 times.

    :)
    you paid to get in, you're free to leave.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    very interesting watching the farewell to the world DVD. i did see the concert back when it was originally broadcast but this was different now with Paul gone etc.

    interesting to watch all the interviews and just see how no one really seemed confortable with it being over, except paul. mark and nick wanted to keep going pretty obviously.

    didn't know about how/why tim joined and left so quickly either until now.

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