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.

Virgin JFK to Heathrow morning flight

Rock 'n' Roll Links

Crowded House

Reviews from North American tour

Boston Globe

Boston Herald

Hartford Courant

Elvis Costello

local BBC tv

Why he likes Liverpool.

The Voice of Hudson

Millerton, NY

July 23, 2007 (approx)

To and from Las Vegas

30 JUL 07 - MONDAY
AIR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES FLT:668 FIRST CLASS LUNCH
LV NEWARK 110P EQP: BOEING 737-900
DEPART: TERMINAL C 05HR 21MIN
AR LAS VEGAS 331P NON-STOP
ARRIVE: TERMINAL 1
SEAT 2A

01 AUG 07 - WEDNESDAY
AIR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES FLT:769 FIRST CLASS BREAKFAST
LV LAS VEGAS 825A EQP: BOEING 737-800
DEPART: TERMINAL 1 05HR 00MIN
AR NEWARK 425P NON-STOP
ARRIVE: TERMINAL C
SEAT-3B

More Cool Crowded House

Crowded House on Rove Part One

Crowded House on Rove Part Two

Crowded House on Sunrise One

Crowded House on Sunrise Two

Crowded House on Sunrise Three

Crowded House on Sunrise Four

Crowded House on Sunrise Five

Crowded House at the Masonic Hall, West 23rd Street NYC

Great show from the reformed Crowded House, recorded for a tv broadcast. Very loose. Nice moment when an improv of "Tomorrow Never Knows" popped up in the encore.

The set list:

People are like suns
Locked out
Nobody wants to
Don't stop now
Distant sun
Heaven that I'm making
You're the one to make me cry
Pineapple head (w. "hava nagila" break)
Fall at your feet
She called up
Transit lounge
Silent house
Pour le monde
It's a good room now (improv on Masonic Lodge auditorium)
When you come
Mean to me

Encore 1
Tea for two (really!)
Something so strong
Better be home soon
Don't dream it's over

Encore 2
Fingers of love
Recurring dream
Spill the wine
Four seasons in one day

(Kindly provided by Frenzforum)

Here's a crude video of what the Masonic room looked like. A great venue for this kind of a performance. Opened with Mark Hart playing the organ at the back of the balcony.

Here is coverage of the concert, including photos, on the Hidden Track blog.

Here are some links to videos that were recorded for AOL's Spinner site.

Last Monday, the band appeared on KCRW in Santa Monica on "All Things Eclectic." A video and audio of the performance is available here.

Here is a session and interview they did for Radio New Zealand. Fun to hear the stronger kiwi accents! In the words of the station:

Live from Neil Finn's Roundhead Studio, the band talk to Afternoon host Jim Mora, and perform Pour Le Monde, People Are Like Suns, and Fall At Your Feet. Engineered by Neil Baldock. Thanks to Roundhead and EMI. 13 July 2007. Here is the link.

Bryan Ferry on the streets of London

Daily Telegraph review of a July 3 outdoor concert in London.

Steve James Reuters interview here.

Crowded House speak to The Times of London

Once upon a time newspapers didn't even have pictures. Now they have websites and podcasts and they talk at you. Here's an interview on mp3 to download with the members of Crowded House conducted by The Times (of London) around July 3 of this year.

Here's the VH1 Crowded House site with lots of videos.

Here's the MTV Crowded House site, also with many videos.

More record store developments

The funky and useful FOPP music chain just went bust in the UK. Here's a link to a Billboard story about the stores closing. It was always a good place to pick up Euro catalogue albums at 5 pounds or so -- cheap for London.

Meanwhile Rough Trade is going super-specialist with a mega-store in London's East End. This story from the London Sunday Times sadly went to bed before the news of FOPP folding broke, which is embarrassing because the piece cites FOPP as a model of how to run a record store in the internet age...

French Bulldog Shameless Exploitation

Two of New York's Power Pups, according to the July 8, 2007 New York Post. That's Francesca and Sharky with Martha Stewart.

Bryan Ferry signs CDs in New York

Click here to see video of Bryan Ferry signing CDs at J&R in lower Manhattan yesterday. Passers by thought we were in line to buy iPhones. Fools! Mr. Ferry very gracious and was forgiven for arriving a half-hour late in 90 degree weather.

Last night Ferry appeared on David Letterman for the first time since 1994 when he performed "Love Is the Drug," playing "Just Like Tom Thumb Blues" with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra. This is a YouTube connection, so I don't know how long it will stay up.

Here's a wonderful site with clips of the tribute band Roxy Magic. Lead singer "Kevin" is a dead-ringer for Bryan.

Bryan Ferry, Channeling Bob Dylan -- Teri Gross interview with Ferry on NPR's Fresh Air.

Where Rock Lives Mott and Queen in NYC

Rollingstone.com/rockmaps is a cool idea on the Rolling Stone website. Using Google Maps they have pulled up street level images of famous rock'n' roll landmarks. Here's a special theatrical one. On May 9, 1974 British band Mott the Hoople played at Uris Theatre (at the time Broadway's largest theatre and since then re-named the Gershwin Theatre, home to the perennial "Wicked"), where they recorded half of the "Mott Live" album. What was more significant in rock 'n' roll history is that Queen opened for Mott, marking their US debut.

You will need Adobe Flash Player 9 to make this work.

Here's a great Super 8 movie from the Mott 1974 tour narrated by Morgan Fisher.