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Movember: Day 6, Crowded House no crowded mo’

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

My new Nick Sey­mour designed Crowded House t-shirt
And some hair action. Dark­ness is the new light.

11 Years on, Crowded House 2.0 in Sydney

Monday, November 5th, 2007

11 years after the Farewell to the World con­cert, Crowded House 2.0 reformed and has returned to Sydney.
In another 11 years time, all of Sydney would remem­ber that day in Novem­ber 1996 when the band played until Don’t Dream It’s Over. The entire 4+ mil­lion people will say they were there; just like Wood­stock.
Start­ing with […]

MSN thanks to Google">Crowded House Ad for MSN thanks to Google

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

The above blog post obvi­ously shows Neil Finn at a recent LA gig from Crowded House.
“Ads by Google” on the right show a Crowded House advert­ise­ment. From liveearth.msn.com. Why didn’t MSN come to me dir­ectly and rid them­selves of the middle­man? I would, and have, pos­ted about this con­cert for free! Now google are getting […]

Neil Finn’s Favourite Songwriters

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Neil Finn quoted from spinner.com, top 5 song writers:

Bob Mar­ley
John Len­non
Paul McCart­ney
David Bowie
Neil Young
I am not a major Bob Mar­ley fan, and Neil Young is a little too folksy for me. The oth­ers: Lennon/McCartney and Bowie. Yes.

Dave Mustaine, Megadeath, likes Crowded House

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Dave Mus­taine, lead singer of Mega­deth.  In a column called My List, artists share what songs mean a lot of them and Mr. Mus­taine chose Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over” as his #1 pick.
“I hear this wherever I go,” says Mus­taine of the mel­an­choly love song off the Aussie’s band’s 1986 debut.  “I could be having […]

Don’t Stop Now — Crowded House

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

(Photo: Matt Sher­rod, Neil Finn from video clip Don’t Stop Now)
Neil Finn and Crowded House at their best. video: Watch the video now
Gui­tar weird­ness at 2:20 and lyr­ical changes at 3:00 into the song. Love it.

Dates for Crowded House Album, Singles

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Crowded House will be releas­ing their first stu­dio album since 1993’s
Together Alone this sum­mer, which includes two tracks fea­tur­ing Smiths
legend Johnny Marr.
Time On Earth will be released on July 2nd and will be pre­ceded by the
single Don’t Stop Now on June 25th.
Source: Crowded House Album to Fea­ture Johnny Marr
And full album track-list here:
http://www.nme.com/news/crowded-house/27923
‘Nobody Wants To’
’Don’t Stop […]

NineMSN will stream Crowded House for Live Earth

Friday, April 13th, 2007

NineMSN will be stream­ing Crowded House for the Live Earth con­cert later this year.

Crowded House, March 2007 Webcast

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

In the middle ages of the web, Neil Finn hos­ted a web­cast from his stu­dio some­where in Auck­land. Avril and I watched, emailed and listened to Neil do our request and song online. This was in stark con­trast to the very per­sonal con­cert to the massive 1996 Farewell to the World show only 5 years earlier.
[…]

Matt Sherrod is new Crowded House Drummer

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Matt Sher­rod, drum­mer for Beck, is join­ing the reformed Crowded House as the drum­mer.
Know­ing the qual­ity of Beck’s per­cus­sion, this is going to lead into some inter­est­ing directions.

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