Crowded House return Home

Here are some links to mainstream press coverage of Crowded House returning to New Zealand after a triumphant North American tour.

TV3 brief feature interview with Neil Finn and the new guy.

Here's a review and pictures from the New Zealand Herald

And here's more fanatical coverage from Stuff.co.nz

Island Book of Records Page 8

Yes, more Fairports. Has Richard Thompson been on more albums than any other English person ever? Is he the British Neil Young? What's with the Muslim schtick? Resisting hyperbole (right!) he will become regarded as one of the most important influences of the popular music in the 20th Century. Just not quite yet.

Georgie Fame. Here's a great website about the Famester. And here's Georgie Fame and the Blue Notes on Ready Steady Go.

Dave Grohl Live in Times Square

Crowded House Melbourne concert

Here is a link to 10 songs from a Crowded House fan club concert recorded at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. For more information go to the Frenz Wire blog. For a direct link to the videos, go here on the Triple M radio website.

Genesis tickets through the years

Genesis concerts. Missing a Peter Gabriel-lead show in 1974 from the "Selling England by the Pound" tour at the New Theatre, Oxford, England, which I guess would have been in the one pound sterling range. The New York Beacon show, Phil Collins's first tour as lead singer on the "Trick of the Tale" tour, was a $6.50 ticket (1976). The Hammersmith Odeon show on the same tour was the equivalent of $4 in exchange rates of the time. The 1977 "Seconds Out" show at Earl's Court could roughly be translated as a $10 ticket. The 1980 tour at Madison Square Garden -- worst seats in the house -- $8.50. 2007 Madison Square Garden best seats, $275. Will post the ticket when I can find it!

Elvis moment

The Hudson Book Store is having a sale of Elvis Presley books.

The Voice of Hudson