Finn Brothers
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The Finn Brothers is the name of the musical project of New Zealand brothers Neil and Tim Finn.
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The brothers started off making music together from a very young age, and Neil joined his big brother Tim in Split Enz at the tender age of sixteen. After Split Enz quit, Neil started his own band, Crowded House, and Tim started off a solo-career.
Tim joined Neil in Crowded House for the Woodface album in 1991, after a productive writing session. Half of the album was originally conceived as a Finn Brothers project. Tim left the band while they were touring Europe in support of the Woodface album, but the seed for a brotherly project was sown, and in 1995, a lo-fi album simply called Finn was released (Finn Brothers in the US). After initial pressings of Finn, the duo changed their name to the Finn Brothers to avoid confusion with a band going under the moniker Fin.
In 2004, a second album was released, Everyone Is Here. It was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with famed Bowie producer Tony Visconti, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House stalwart Mitchell Froom. Some of the songs from the first recording session were kept as B sides.
Discography
Singles are in italics.
- 1995 Finn, (Only Talking Sense, Eyes of the World, Mood Swinging Man, Last Day of June, Suffer Never, Angels Heap, Bullets in My Hairdo, Where Is My Soul, Niwhai, Paradise (Wherever You Are), Kiss the Road of Rarotonga).
- 2004 Everyone Is Here, (Won't Give In; Nothing Wrong With You; Anything Can Happen; Luckiest Man Alive; Homesick; Disembodied Voices; A Life Between Us; All God's Children; Edible Flowers; All the Colours; Part of Me, Part of You; Gentle Hum).
- 2005 Everyone Is Here Special Edition, ( Disc 1 - Won't Give In; Nothing Wrong With You; Anything Can Happen; Luckiest Man Alive; Homesick; Disembodied Voices; A Life Between Us; All God's Children; Edible Flowers; All the Colours; Part of Me, Part of You; Gentle Hum).(Disc 2 - Video - I Got You (Live From Wellington); Nothing Wrong With You (Live From Wellington); Anything Can Happen (Live From Bedford Theatre); Weather With You - Featuring Paul Hester (Live From Music Max Australia); Won't Give In (Live From Music Max Australia); Edible Flowers (Video); Audio - Sunset Swim; Way Back Down; Everyday Alright; The Land Torments The Sea; Luckiest Man Alive (Visconti version)).
External links
- Finn Brothers Official Home Page (http://www.finnbros.com/)
- Finn Brothers Official Fan Club Notice Board (http://www.frenz.com/finnbrothers/)
- Frenz Official Fan Forum (http://www.frenzforum.com/)
- Enzology - Radio NZ's Split Enz documentary site (http://www.radionz.co.nz/enzology/)
- Only Talking Sense Unofficial Finn Boards (http://www.onlytalkingsense.org/)
- Seven Worlds Fanpage (http://www.sevenworlds.net/)
- All Music guide Biography (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=SUB040410310841&sql=11:ozklu3qgan5k~T0)
- Nilfun - Neil Finn Official Website (http://www.nilfun.com/)
- Tim Finn Official Website (http://www.timfinn.com/)
- Finnatics - German language fan page (http://www.finnatics.de/)
- Next Exit: ALL Topic Finn Conversation Board (http://nextexit.proboards26.com/)