New Zealand

Crowded House performing at Hyde Park in 2007. Crowded House is a rock group formed in Melbourne, Australia, and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and...

In this article: Neil Finn, Crowded House, Australia, Tim Finn, Order of the British Empire, Melbourne, Commonwealth, Split Enz, and Eddie Rayner

...I watched it back I was like 'oh my god what an idiot'." Barnes, who says he loves coming to New Zealand, where some of his best friends live, has another New Zealand connection. One of his five children, Eliza-Jane is currently touring...

In this article: Jimmy Barnes, Liam Finn, Cold Chisel, The Footy Show, Bob Dylan, Soul Deep, Cancer, and NRL

...Collide: The Sun Came Out New Zealand's venerable Neil Finn-best known as the frontman for Crowded House-has a history of assembling ad hoc supergroups that dates back to his Rock Party project in the '80s. He's used the 7 Worlds Collide...

In this article: Wilco, Tim Finn, 7 Worlds Collide, The Sun, Oxfam, Ed O'Brien, KT Tunstall, Phil Selway, Johnny Marr, and Neil Finn

...Have Her Way She Will Have Her Way is a compilation album featuring female Australian and New Zealand musicians performing songs written by Neil Finn and Tim Finn (The Finn Brothers), members of Split Enz and Crowded House. The album takes...

In this article: She Will Have Her Way, She Will Have Her Way, Neil Finn, Try Whistling This, Fall at Your Feet, Distant Sun, Better Be Home Soon, Into Temptation, I Hope I Never, and Four Seasons in One Day

...why this band is who it is now." For the new album, Wilco abandoned its Chicago loft studio for a series of impromptu sessions in New Zealand following a charity project with Crowded House singer Neil Finn. The change in location soon became...

In this article: Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, Sky Blue Sky, Chicago, Neil Finn, Crowded House, The Tonight Show, A Ghost Is Born, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

...track for his album Take the Weather with You.) For their next album, Together Alone, Crowded House recruited New Zealand based Martin Glover (known as "Youth ") to produce. The sessions were recorded at Karekare Beach, New Zealand.

In this article: Crowded House, Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Tim Finn, Paul Hester, Crowded House, Split Enz, Mark Hart, Woodface, and Don't Stop Now

...has curated his 7 Worlds Collide project. The first time around, it was a series of concerts in New Zealand, with the resultant CD/DVD benefitting Medecins Sans Frontieres. That was seven years ago, but many of the artists...

In this article: Phil Selway, Finn, 7 Worlds Collide, Neil Finn, Johnny Marr, Jeff Tweedy, Radiohead, Distant Sun, and Medecins Sans Frontieres

...at West 54th (Neil Finn album) Sessions at West 54th is a solo live album released in 2000 by New Zealand singer-songwriter, Neil Finn as part of the US live musical television series Sessions at West 54th. The album was recorded in 1999...

In this article: Sessions at West 54th, Neil Finn, DVD, Try Whistling This, I Got You, Fall at Your Feet, Don't Dream It's Over, Split Enz, Crowded House, and US

...who committed suicide in 2005. Crowded House, which split up in 1996, was formed after the 1984 break-up of Split Enz, a New Zealand pop-rock band that included Hester, Neil Finn and his older brother Tim. Crowded House's best-known hits...

In this article: Crowded House, Neil Finn, Paul Hester, Finn, Suicide, Don't Dream It's Over, Weather with You, Split Enz, and Nick Seymour