Neil Finn is a singer and songwriter and one of Te Awamutu, New Zealand's foremost musicians. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now the frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums, recorded two albums with his brother as the Finn Brothers, and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide projects.
Finn is said to have decided to become a musician at the age of 12 and throughout his school years performed in hospitals and prisons
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Neil Finn
Neil Finn is a singer and songwriter and one of Te Awamutu, New Zealand's foremost musicians. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now the frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums, recorded two albums with his brother as the Finn Brothers, and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide projects.
Finn is said to have decided to become a musician at the age of 12 and throughout his school years performed in hospitals and prisons
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Time Is Lite
After I recorded Time Is Right I was happy with the song but thought it was a bit of a vanity project. I was unlikely to have a rock band to play behind me; at best I would be performing at folk clubs or open mics.
I decided to re-record the song in a pared back version - in a different key, at a different tempo and with different instrumentation, modified arrangement and laidback feel.
It now feels like quite a different song.more
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Time Is Right
Even though I had played in lots of bands for maybe forty years, when I tried writing songs in the past they never seemed to work - embarrassing self conscious lyrics and derivative music.
In 2021, in Covid lockdown I decided to give Garageband another go and the songs flowed. Sometimes you just have to wait until the time is right.
This is a song I could see myself playing in Dirranbandi Bushband - rocking out at the end of the night. Pity the band had broken up twenty years earlier.more
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I'm Positive
I first got Covid in January 2022. It inspired this song even though it's about more than just the virus, it's about lots of different ways to be positive.
I thought at the time Covid would pass and my song would quickly become irrelevant. How wrong I was!
This was the first time I played around with Garageband strings.
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