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Music: Expect a Crowded House for return
Sunday Life, UK - Belfast Telegraph
By John McGurk Don't dream it's over - it's beginning again for fans of one of the finest melodic rock bands of the past 20 years, Crowded House. ...

Crowded House celebrate past
PerthNew, Australia - Nov 16, 2007
In the same way that when Crowded House began he was reluctant to play Split Enz songs, post-Crowded House, who made their famous farewell on the steps of ...

Neil Finn of Crowded House speaks to John Meagher ahead of the ...
Irish Independent, Ireland - Nov 15, 2007
Why did it take Crowded House 14 years to reconvene? "We all wanted to do our own thing, but I think there was a certain inevitability about us getting back ...

Ferry love phenomenon
Advertiser Adelaide, Australia
MY night of passion with Bryan Ferry was everything I could ever have wanted and more. After seeing him play Adelaide Entertainment Centre in the 1990s I ...

ROXY MUSIC - The Thrill Of It All (1972-82 DVD)
The Sun, UK
We had Bryan Ferry’s sleazy good looks, Brian Eno’s synths and sounds, duck-walking sax player Andy Mackay, hairy guitarist Phil Manzanera, ...

Millerton Thanksgiving 2007

More Ferry from Australia

Little Stanley by David Hockney

Bryan Ferry - The Palais Theatre, Melbourne - November 21, 2007
Undercover HD, patrons braved the rain to check out former Roxy Music front man Bryan Ferry and bluesy folkist Joan Armatrading at the beautiful Palais Theatre. ...

Bryan Ferry
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia Luckily, Bryan Ferry always seems to sound like that. He is softly spoken, terribly, terribly polite, with a Geordie accent so slight that possibly only ...

Ferry the unflappable
NEWS.com.au, Australia IT says something about the artistic sensibilities of Bryan Ferry that he's more worried about getting on the wrong side of Bob Dylan than being falsely ...

Bryan Ferry Update from Australia

Reports from Bryan Ferry touring in Australasia.

Bryan Ferry: still cool after three decades TV3 News, New Zealand - Oct 25, 2007 Bryan Ferry would have to be on that list. Born to a poor northern England family, he studied fine art and went on to be a pottery teacher. ...

Bryan Ferry performs at Perth Zoo Sunday Times.au, Australia - Nov 17, 2007 A SELL-OUT crowd of 4000 people packed Perth Zoo last night to see 70s heartthrob Bryan Ferry perform under the stars. The former Roxy Music front man did ...

Return of a smooth operator The Australian, Australia - Nov 15, 2007 THERE'S not a lot that connects Bryan Ferry to Bob Dylan. Where Dylan's voice is whiny and rough-edged, Ferry's is a smooth and sexy croon. ...

More Crowded House

The Crowded House reunion tour continues in Australasia.

Crawdaddy review

Adelaide Advertiser review

Stories about the Split Enz New Zealand reunion tour.

Orange Chair blog with Split Enz YouTube links

Bedazzled blog Split Enz on Fridays “I Got You” and “I Hope I Never”

Split Enz announce a New Zealand tour on Stuff.co.nz

UnderTheRadar website on NZ tour

Crowded House Brisbane concert

Neil Finn and Crowded House are Something So Strong Neil Finn and Crowded House are Something So Strong Courier Mail, Australia - Nov 11, 2007 By Noel Mengel DOES this man never age? Neil Finn never seems to. Nor do his songs – sounding as uplifting as ever in the first Crowded House show in ...

Marriage of Benaud and Finn Telegraph, Australia - Nov 10, 2007 By Tony Squires HATE to drop names, but Neil Finn from Crowded House was chatting to me quite intimately the other night. Just Finny, me and about 13000 ...

Crowded House move on to Sydney

The Australian review of Sydney concert
Nov 5, 2007 WITH the quip "You're in the game now, Sydney", Neil Finn last night introduced the first Crowded House tour singalong in 13 years. ...

Sydney Morning Herald concert review
Nov 6, 2007 As you can tell from that roll call, Crowded House 2007 are a much beefier enterprise than Crowded House 1987. From Sherrod's firmer hand on the kit, ...

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

St.Marks Place New York City

Damage: Linda Thompson's 2002 album, "Fashionably Late" and 2007 DVD compilation of Ramones live appearances on two discs released by Rhino and a 1981 Lene Lovich concert recorded at Studio 54.

Crowded House media links

September 13 Filter Magazine Neil Finn's Guide to New Zealand


September 12 KCRW Live Session on Nic Harcourt's "Sounds Eclectic" radio show

September 10 Link to "She Called Up" video on YouTube

Crowded House Back in Canada

September 7 Edmonton Sun review

September 8 Edmonton Journal review

September 5 Alibi.com blog review of the Vancouver concert

September 8 Winnipeg Sun review

Crowded House media links

IF:MV link to new "She Called Up" video clip.

September 5 Neil Finn interview with Atlantia CreativeLoafing.com

September 3 Neil Finn interview for the AAP

September 2 Billboard review of the Bumbershoot concert with guest appearance by Eddie Vedder.

September 1 Nick Seymour interview in the Vancouver Sun.

September 2 interview with Neil Finn in the Tennessean.

August 31 Edmonton Journal review

The Best Garlic in Columbia County

Millerton, NY

IBR 1975 Page Seven

Ah, a whole lotta Fairport Convention. Becoming more interesting by the year. Liege and Lief set the stage and launched the reputation. Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson’s finest moments. Denny passed on. Thompson, and his ex-wife Linda are still making very powerful, interesting records. Not my area of knowledge, so I won’t bluff it. But I like what I hear. 20 years ago, I would not have thought that!

Here’s a Truveo link to a lot of Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson videos.

Link to MSN Crowded House concert Chicago, House of Blues

Concert from August 18th at the House of Blues, with annoying commercials every two or three songs, but it is nicely shot.






Here are some more links to editorial coverage in the mainstream media.

Orange County Register review

KTVU.com, Oakland review

Seattle Weekly feature

San Jose Mercury News review

Carpets of Great Hotels

Fairmont Hotel, Chicago, IL

Food at Aria Restaurant, Chicago

Carpets of Great Hotels

Hotel 71, Chicago, IL

More Print Edit from the Crowded House US Tour

Grand Rapids Press, MI

Resurrected Crowded House makes connections

August 22, 2007

Tucson Weekly

PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 16, 2007

Chicago Sun-Times, IL

Home sweet House

MUSIC REVIEW Fans welcome renewed partnership

August 20, 2007

BY JEFF ELBEL

Daily Herald, IL

Home Improvement Aug 23, 2007 Rocky Mountain News, CO 7 Questions for Neil Finn

More Crowded House Links

Two Seasons in One Day

One
Here's a smart interview with Neil finn in the Toronto Star.

Two
Here's a link to an ARTISTDirect video podcast about Crowded House reforming.

More Crowded House links

Five Fingers of Love

One NPR XPM concert with Joan as Policewoman and Crowded House. Neil Finn suffering from laryngitis.

Two Crowded House review of Beacon Theatre concert in the Star Ledger.

Three Tim Finn NPR Concert from May.

Four Order legit recordings of the North American shows (audio CDs $20 each) from kufala.com here.

Five Associated Press story on Crowded House reforming.