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Something So Strong: July 2008
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Orry no longer seems to be the hardest word. In. The same week that the Pope congratulated. Australia for its “courageous decision” to apologise for the injustices done to. Aboriginals (and then apologised for the paedophilia scandal). Aboriginal singer has topped. The Australian independent music charts for the first time. This is a significant moment in Australia, where over the years the charts have been a whiter shade of pale. Blind, and grew up in poverty 600km from Darwin. He speaks. Paul Hester on...
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Something So Strong: April 2008
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Not on this Saturday morning. Devon St, New Plymouth, New Zealand,. So it was a nice surprise, if not completely unexpected, when Neil offered to come to the rescue after the lead act at this year’s Womad had to cancel. The “barefoot diva” Cesaria Evora suffered a small stroke in Australia, and in her place Neil performed a solo set. Ll now do a song as I actually wrote it”. Starting slowly, and singing Love can make you weep. The thousands of people perched on the hill, snapping their mobile phone camer...
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Something So Strong: The Wisdom of Youth
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The Wisdom of Youth. An interview with Youth just appeared online. Most of the content is about the recording of Together Alone. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog about Crowded House is written by the author of the definitive biography of the band, Something So Strong. Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997). Meanwhile, visit my website. For more information, articles, and details of how the purchase Something So Strong. View my complete profile. The Wisdom of Youth. Biography of Crowded House.
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Something So Strong: September 2014
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The Wisdom of Youth. An interview with Youth just appeared online. Most of the content is about the recording of Together Alone. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog about Crowded House is written by the author of the definitive biography of the band, Something So Strong. Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997). Meanwhile, visit my website. For more information, articles, and details of how the purchase Something So Strong. View my complete profile. The Wisdom of Youth. Biography of Crowded House.
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Distractions: June 2013
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Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle. It was a rock and roll moment in a country and western temple. At the country music awards in 1975, what possessed Charlie Rich. To burn the envelope after announcing the winner of the big award was … John Denver? Antipathy towards Denver, or the country music industry? Now a video of that notorious TV moment has been unearthed. The incident scandalised Nashville, and did Rich’s career no favours. It’s certainly hard to imagine this happening at an count...Bill Brewster...
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Something So Strong
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Reviewers all miss the boat on occasion, but reviewing Split Enz's classic True Colours. Of 7 August 1980, David Hepworth. Shows he has yet to identify the songwriting skills of Neil Finn. Later involved in startups such as Mojo, Empire. And The Word,. Hepworth would become of the music press's most astute (and sympathetic) reviewer of things Finn. Split Enz, True Colours (A&M). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997). Meanwhile, visit my website. View my complete profile.
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Something So Strong: Taking Woodface to the World, 1991
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Taking Woodface to the World, 1991. A cover story from the New Zealand. In 1991, at the beginning of the worldwide campaign to publicise. At the time, the recruitment of Tim Finn was causing debate. Interesting to see there is no mention of 'Weather With You'. Neil Finn: A New Lease for Crowded House. By Chris Bourke – NZ Listener. Have been ecstatic, but they always are. The critics have been a little more restrained in Britain and America. Neil Finn reads all the reviews, and remembers them. The obviou...
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Something So Strong: May 2008
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Playing Hard to Get. Eddie Rayner interview, 1988. New Zealand) September 1988. In the final concerts of Crowded House’s recent Australian tour, drummer Paul Hester went into a rap: “We’re making records / Ed’s making babies / It’s been fun / But it’s coming to an end.”. 8220;When Split Enz broke up, there were heaps of things I’d wanted to do for years,” says Rayner. “My wife Raewyn [the Enz’s lighting director] wanted a family, and we’ve now got two little boys, one ju...An eight-track, all Midi, studi...
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Something So Strong: Crowded House at Karekare
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Crowded House at Karekare. Seven worlds collide – November 1992. An edited excerpt from Something So Strong. 169; Chris Bourke, 1997. 8220;In a long forgotten place / Who’ll be the first to run? 8221; – ‘Kare Kare’. The band was eager to get started on the follow-up to Woodface. It was time to cut the umbilical cord with Mitchell Froom. When Woodface. Field says Youth was his ‘usual cryptic self’, but whetted the band’s curiosity. Driving away, ‘the conversation in the car was...The guy’s wacky....
