May 23, 2024 • 7 mins
Neil Finn joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of their newly-announced Australian tour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda Jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Breaking news Crowded House and returning with the Gravity Scares Tour.
They're playing live at the Sydney Opera House, four Cut
Court on the fourth and fifth December. Tickets go on
sale to the thirtieth of May, the Thursday, the thirty May.
Wins It when that's next week. Info and tickets available
at livenation dot com dot au. And we've got Neil
on the zoom right now.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello Kneel Neil Finn. Hello, look at hello. How we're
doing very well? I love this thirty five years touring again,
new music. How different is life? Well, obviously life's so
different now. But what were some of those early tours,
like thirty five years ago? Did you get a kitcat backstage?
And that was about it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I was fond of the odd kitcat actually, but you know, well,
the first tour that we ever did with Crowded House
was actually we were called the Mulanes and it was
Paul and Nick and I and Craig Hooper and we
all fitted it in won high car and I was
the tour manager and I was having to hit the
promoters up for the money after the show, and we
almost universally lost money at every show. Well they lost money.
(01:06):
We were on guarantees. It was really quite a good
education for me to go and count out the cash
over the ironing board backstage and have the promoter go.
But we only had fifty people make can we negotiate?
And I was quite hard asked about it, I'd said no,
and over.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
All rightly so, because you had all the success of
Split Ends and you almost had to pretty much start
over again with Crowded House.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Well we did under that name. We didn't draw very
big crowds, but as soon as Crowded House turned up,
we actually started to actually I think, you know, your
good stations started playing mean to me before. It was
the first sort of hint of any success that we
got with that. And then the tours started to get
real good. And that pub circuit, as some may remember,
was a really vibrant time in Australian music. People were
(01:50):
turning out big time. There were nos, no health and
safety whatsoever. They were packing a thousand people into four
hundred person rooms, and you know which was memorable and
quite exciting really those days. There was a lot of
a lot of energy in the room.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I remember hearing a story about you guys many years
ago supporting ac DC, and that was like when you
were Split Ends, and that was a really big mix
of crowds because you had you guys with your kooky
faces and your makeup, and then you've got Bond Scott's
bull tearing rock and roll, and you guys were great
with rock and roll as well. But the crowd got
a bit hostile.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The crowd got That was even before I joined Split Ins.
But that is a famous story now in the legacy.
And yeah, they were booed off by a whole bunch
of sharpies at the festival hall, and Sebanski was one
of those sharpies apparently who threw some kind of plastic
item a term. There wasn't really a match made in
(02:47):
heaven ac DC and split Ins, but both yan bands
and their own right, But yeah, it was. You know,
you can get over these things. They make you stronger.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, the sharpies make you stronger. So here are new music.
You've all done your own thing in the meantime. How's
a collaborative has it been? Do you say, here's what
I'm interested in?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
How do you make it work.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well with a band? The great thing about a band
is that nobody does exactly what you would do, so
you get the light is let into your arrangement to
your song, and you get lovely surprises. And I'm very
fortunate to have my two sons, Liam and Elro who
become incredible musicians and writers in their own right, and
Mitchell Frum who was our original producer, and with my
(03:28):
old friend Nick Seymour, who's been there from the beginning,
it feels like a very soulful lineup, and everyone's very
collaborative and rehearsals a fun and hard work. We're determined,
you know. We a lot of endurance built up over
the years and a compulsion to try and make every
record better than the last. And yeah, it was still
a lot of hunger.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Do you remember doing a Simon Tawm's's Wonderworld story with
Amanda Keller a young Amanda color dress in a wedding
dress many years ago?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I was a researcher and I wrote myself into the
story and turned up in a wedding dress. This would
have been about one hundred and fifty eight million years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You're up to team what was a memorable thing because
not many people, In fact, I don't think anybody else
has ever turned up in a wedding dress, Amanda, So
you kudos to me into our history quite well there.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I may not have turned up for the Sharpies, but
I was there at Simon townshend Tunderworld.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So you've got Magda Zebanski throwing plastic items at you're
Amanda Keller and a wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You've covered all options, you really have.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's a very check at history.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Having joined Fleetwood Mac, did you have to when you
came home again? Do you bring that with you or
do you have to put that aside to be crowded
house again?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well? Do you take everything? Every musical experience that I've had,
I've managed to, I think learn and grow from and
the same with Fleetwood Mac. A very different experience and
you know, quite wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They would have had some great backstage stuff though like
Fleetwood Mac two Cats, they would have had some great
backstage stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, more so in the old days. I think there
would have been a lot of reveling and carousing and
canoodling and all of that. But they were relatively well
behaved when I was there, although you know, Mick will
always have a little red wine in hand after a show,
and you know, bless them, but I think things were
a little bit more crazy back in the day. They're
(05:17):
all trying to preserve themselves as the two and they
could play well, you know, and with.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You touring with your two sons, do you ever go
into dad mode and go look at the time, guys,
come on, come on, just.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
To bed halfway through the show? Yeah, And I can't speak. No,
I don't need to do that. You know, we're all
in pretty well, pretty good sync. They stay up on
the two of us a bit later than I do.
And you know, watch some kind of you know, freaky
series on TV, Murder and Mayhem or something like everyone
seems to like these days.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And you're just watching blue and having an early night.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Why wouldn't you'll be watching Blue?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, I have.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Watched Bluey Affair, but actually in the company of children,
and it's pretty damn good entertainment. I actually was in
an episode of Bluey. It was very lovely invitation to be.
I played a doctor and I was assessing Bandit's good health.
It turned into a controversial episode because some people were
(06:15):
saying that it was about fat shaming, which because Bandit
was a little out of shape. But anyway, it got
a write up and you know, I'm glad to be
part of a blue controversy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, I like that. That's what you need. You've got
it all. You've been had objects thrown at you by
magndu Zebanski, wedding dress, a mandickella and now bluey controversy.
You can retire, No, you can't retire because tickets for
Crowded House go and sale Wednesday the twenty ninth from
nine am on Live Nation.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You see, you're back in there, Neil.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You're back in yeah, and with a vengeance. And we'll
have come fresh from a lots of touring in the
Northern Hemisphere, so we'll be really in practice in hot
and hot form and back with our own people. So yeah,
very excited about that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We're looking forward to seeing you mate. Thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Thank you, Neil.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Okay, all the best you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Good on your b
Jersey and Amanda Jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Breaking news Crowded House and returning with the Gravity Scares Tour.
They're playing live at the Sydney Opera House, four Cut
Court on the fourth and fifth December. Tickets go on
sale to the thirtieth of May, the Thursday, the thirty May.
Wins It when that's next week. Info and tickets available
at livenation dot com dot au. And we've got Neil
on the zoom right now.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello Kneel Neil Finn. Hello, look at hello. How we're
doing very well? I love this thirty five years touring again,
new music. How different is life? Well, obviously life's so
different now. But what were some of those early tours,
like thirty five years ago? Did you get a kitcat backstage?
And that was about it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I was fond of the odd kitcat actually, but you know, well,
the first tour that we ever did with Crowded House
was actually we were called the Mulanes and it was
Paul and Nick and I and Craig Hooper and we
all fitted it in won high car and I was
the tour manager and I was having to hit the
promoters up for the money after the show, and we
almost universally lost money at every show. Well they lost money.
(01:06):
We were on guarantees. It was really quite a good
education for me to go and count out the cash
over the ironing board backstage and have the promoter go.
But we only had fifty people make can we negotiate?
And I was quite hard asked about it, I'd said no,
and over.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
All rightly so, because you had all the success of
Split Ends and you almost had to pretty much start
over again with Crowded House.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Well we did under that name. We didn't draw very
big crowds, but as soon as Crowded House turned up,
we actually started to actually I think, you know, your
good stations started playing mean to me before. It was
the first sort of hint of any success that we
got with that. And then the tours started to get
real good. And that pub circuit, as some may remember,
was a really vibrant time in Australian music. People were
(01:50):
turning out big time. There were nos, no health and
safety whatsoever. They were packing a thousand people into four
hundred person rooms, and you know which was memorable and
quite exciting really those days. There was a lot of
a lot of energy in the room.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I remember hearing a story about you guys many years
ago supporting ac DC, and that was like when you
were Split Ends, and that was a really big mix
of crowds because you had you guys with your kooky
faces and your makeup, and then you've got Bond Scott's
bull tearing rock and roll, and you guys were great
with rock and roll as well. But the crowd got
a bit hostile.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The crowd got That was even before I joined Split Ins.
But that is a famous story now in the legacy.
And yeah, they were booed off by a whole bunch
of sharpies at the festival hall, and Sebanski was one
of those sharpies apparently who threw some kind of plastic
item a term. There wasn't really a match made in
(02:47):
heaven ac DC and split Ins, but both yan bands
and their own right, But yeah, it was. You know,
you can get over these things. They make you stronger.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, the sharpies make you stronger. So here are new music.
You've all done your own thing in the meantime. How's
a collaborative has it been? Do you say, here's what
I'm interested in?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
How do you make it work.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well with a band? The great thing about a band
is that nobody does exactly what you would do, so
you get the light is let into your arrangement to
your song, and you get lovely surprises. And I'm very
fortunate to have my two sons, Liam and Elro who
become incredible musicians and writers in their own right, and
Mitchell Frum who was our original producer, and with my
(03:28):
old friend Nick Seymour, who's been there from the beginning,
it feels like a very soulful lineup, and everyone's very
collaborative and rehearsals a fun and hard work. We're determined,
you know. We a lot of endurance built up over
the years and a compulsion to try and make every
record better than the last. And yeah, it was still
a lot of hunger.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Do you remember doing a Simon Tawm's's Wonderworld story with
Amanda Keller a young Amanda color dress in a wedding
dress many years ago?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I was a researcher and I wrote myself into the
story and turned up in a wedding dress. This would
have been about one hundred and fifty eight million years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You're up to team what was a memorable thing because
not many people, In fact, I don't think anybody else
has ever turned up in a wedding dress, Amanda, So
you kudos to me into our history quite well there.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I may not have turned up for the Sharpies, but
I was there at Simon townshend Tunderworld.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So you've got Magda Zebanski throwing plastic items at you're
Amanda Keller and a wedding dress.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You've covered all options, you really have.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's a very check at history.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Having joined Fleetwood Mac, did you have to when you
came home again? Do you bring that with you or
do you have to put that aside to be crowded
house again?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well? Do you take everything? Every musical experience that I've had,
I've managed to, I think learn and grow from and
the same with Fleetwood Mac. A very different experience and
you know, quite wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They would have had some great backstage stuff though like
Fleetwood Mac two Cats, they would have had some great
backstage stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, more so in the old days. I think there
would have been a lot of reveling and carousing and
canoodling and all of that. But they were relatively well
behaved when I was there, although you know, Mick will
always have a little red wine in hand after a show,
and you know, bless them, but I think things were
a little bit more crazy back in the day. They're
(05:17):
all trying to preserve themselves as the two and they
could play well, you know, and with.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You touring with your two sons, do you ever go
into dad mode and go look at the time, guys,
come on, come on, just.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
To bed halfway through the show? Yeah, And I can't speak. No,
I don't need to do that. You know, we're all
in pretty well, pretty good sync. They stay up on
the two of us a bit later than I do.
And you know, watch some kind of you know, freaky
series on TV, Murder and Mayhem or something like everyone
seems to like these days.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And you're just watching blue and having an early night.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Why wouldn't you'll be watching Blue?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, I have.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Watched Bluey Affair, but actually in the company of children,
and it's pretty damn good entertainment. I actually was in
an episode of Bluey. It was very lovely invitation to be.
I played a doctor and I was assessing Bandit's good health.
It turned into a controversial episode because some people were
(06:15):
saying that it was about fat shaming, which because Bandit
was a little out of shape. But anyway, it got
a write up and you know, I'm glad to be
part of a blue controversy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, I like that. That's what you need. You've got
it all. You've been had objects thrown at you by
magndu Zebanski, wedding dress, a mandickella and now bluey controversy.
You can retire, No, you can't retire because tickets for
Crowded House go and sale Wednesday the twenty ninth from
nine am on Live Nation.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You see, you're back in there, Neil.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You're back in yeah, and with a vengeance. And we'll
have come fresh from a lots of touring in the
Northern Hemisphere, so we'll be really in practice in hot
and hot form and back with our own people. So yeah,
very excited about that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We're looking forward to seeing you mate. Thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Thank you, Neil.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Okay, all the best you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Good on your b
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