ENZ WITH A BANG!!!

What a great end to a mega-awesome series! The guys gave candid recollections on ambivalent feelings about the band breaking up, as well as being relieved about it all being over.

The I Walk Away sequence gave a great insight into Neil's much-laboured, much studied creative process.

The Enz With A Bang section showed the boys in high spirits and performing well despite the end to a great band.

All in all, a great finale to Enzology.

*TIM: In A Minor Key
*NEIL: Something So Strong [vocal/mandolin home demo, 1984 - different, slower arrangement to Crowded House version, with some different lyrics]
*Mr. Catalyst [from Rear Enz]
*Walking On The Pier [demo - superb]
*Something So Strong [band demo, 1984 - similar arrangement to home demo]
*The Lost Cat
*Breakin' My Back
*This Is Massive [w/Paul Hester's spoken intro]
*Ninnie Knees Up
*Voices
*NEIL: Love And Success [home demo, 1984]
*Love And Success [band studio demo, 1984 - from Rear Enz]
*Your Inspiration [from Rear Enz]
*I Walk Away [album version]
*I Walk Away [12" mix]
*Shark Attack [live from Melbourne, Nov 1984 - with MC intro]
*I Hope I Never [live from Melbourne, Nov 1984 - heavy version with Neil on vocals & electric guitar]
*Live on-stage banter & improvisations [Melbourne, Nov 1984]
*One Mouth Is Fed [live from Melbourne, Nov 1984]
*Pioneer [live from Melbourne, Nov 1984]
*I Got You [live from Melbourne, 1984 - with a capella start and awesome crowd participation]
*Stranger Than Fiction [live from Wellington, Nov 1984]
*You Send Me [live from Wellington, Nov 1984 - *Tim & Neil duet]
*Years Go By [live from Auckland, Dec 1984 - from Living Enz]
*Time For A Change [live from Auckland, Dec 1984 - from Living Enz]

PLUS:
*Interview with Neil, 1984
*Enz With A Bang Tour Aussie radio promo, 1984
*Enz With A Bang Tour NZ radio promo, 1984
*2ZM Wellington radio interview with Tim & Neil, 1984

THANK YOU TO MR ENZOLOGY, JEREMY ANSELL!!! Bravo, good sir, bravo! We are forever in your debt.

Thanks, Gav.
I felt a bit shakey at the end of the final episode's broadcast. A project I began working on in 1997 had just finished. As I said to Peter Green in an email at the time, it felt like my children had all just left home. Plus, I'd been listening to the radio broadcast in our bombsite of a radio building which we're currently dismantling and shifting elsewhere. So it was all very odd. Thank goodness my partner came by with my daughter just then to pick me up. Saved me from getting too mournful!
Still, there's the repeat broadcast on Tuesday night. And it'll be broadcast again later in the year. No word yet on overseas broadcasts or a CD set.

I'll post the official track list for Episode 10 later this week. Gav's list is almost identical, though.

Fully agree with Semi, it was/is a great series. It compliments the Stranger Than Fiction book quite nicely with added insight from all the interviews.

Must admit it was hard on some Saturday afternoons to go inside and listen to it, instead of basking in the sun with whiskey in hand, but it was well worth it.

As you said 'No word yet on overseas broadcasts or a CD set', but hopefully something will happen to allow the non-resident Split Enz fans to hear it.

Anyway, when do they start taking nominations for the New Years Honours list. We need to to get Jaffaman on the list for 'Services to Split Enz'!!! :-)

Might be time to get a portable radio, Zuf.

Here's the awefishall music list for Enzology 10:

IN A MINOR KEY - Tim Finn #
SOMETHING SO STRONG (Neil�s home 4-track demo 1984)
MR CATALYST (with synth drone intro)
WALKING ON THE PIER (Split Enz demo 1984)
SOMETHING SO STRONG (Split Enz demo 1984)
THE LOST CAT *
BREAKIN� MY BACK *
THIS IS MASSIVE *
NINNIE KNEES UP *
VOICES **
LOVE & SUCCESS (Neil�s home songwriting demo)
LOVE & SUCCESS +
YOUR INSPIRATION +
I WALK AWAY **
I WALK AWAY (extended 12� vinyl mix)
SHARK ATTACK (live, Melbourne 11/84)
I HOPE I NEVER (fast version with Neil vocal, live, Melbourne 11/84)
DIRTY CREATURE (false start, live, Melbourne 11/84)
ONE MOUTH IS FED (live, Melbourne 11/84)
I GOT YOU (live, Melbourne 11/84 � edited from two nights)
STRANGER THAN FICTION (piano riff only, Wellington 11/84)
YOU SEND ME (live, Wellington and Melbourne 11/84)
YEARS GO BY (live, Auckland 1984) ++
TIME FOR A CHANGE (live, Auckland 1984) ++

# from Escapade CD
* from See Ya �Round CD
** from Spellbound CD
+ from Rear Enz CD
++ from The Living Enz vinyl LP

Plus:
Noel interview from See Ya �Round promo i/v LP 1984
Neil interview from See Ya �Round promo i/v LP 1984
TV advertisement for Enz With a Bang tour
Pre-recorded MC intro to Wellington and Melbourne concerts 1984 (mixed together)
2ZM radio interview. Peter McIllwaine with Tim & Neil, pre Wellington concert 13/11/84

"Time For A Change" live from Auckland? My liner notes for "The Living Enz" say it was recorded in Melbourne. Are there any other mistakes in the Living Enz track information?

Who wrote "You Send Me"?

Interesting that "Something So Strong" dates from pre Crowded House days - would have strengthened See Ya 'Round - but then what would have been the follow-up hit to Don't Dream It's Over!

Isn't "You Send Me" originally a Sam Cooke song?

Sorry, that was a typo. "Time For a Change" is from Melbourne. Well spotted. I had intended to use the Auckland performance but only had a short section of it.

Yes, "You Send Me" is a cover of the Sam Cooke song. This version actually segues into "Blue Moon", which I also forgot to include in the list.

Sorry to dig this thread up again, but listening through the final Enzology last night there was part that I didn't quiet understand.

About 5 minutes into Neil is talking about the factors that lead to Tim's departure and says "I wouldn't want to cast him has the bad guy at that time, because there were a lot of factors going on and it wasn't all to do with Tim, it was to do with the band not being as strong or as focused and the thing with Noel earlier had, had a pshycological impact..."

I for the life of me can't remember any incident between Noel & Tim being mentioned in Enzology. Did I miss it, or was it left out and I should mind my own business?

Any help will be awesome Jaffa.

"The thing with Noel" refers to Noel having been replaced on some "Conflicting Emotions" tracks by a drum machine and, in the case of "Message to my Girl", by Rikki Fataar. It wasn't as much a thing between Tim and Noel as a general unsettling of the band as a unit. This was covered in Enzology - Episode 9.

And for being so inquisitive, and because you lot won the Melbourne Cup again, here's a stamp on the hand.

*frantically erases the stamp with soap*

I hope you weren't implying that I am Australian Jaffa, if so, that is quite possibly the cruelest thing I have ever been called! Don't get it wrong, I'm here as one of the many "ambassadors" who are currently assisting Australia with it's distribution of its social welfare money (and then spending it on outrageously patriotic bets on Xcellent to place... )

Thanks for answering the question by the by, it all seems oh so clear now. Now is also as good a time as any to say ENZOLOGY IS BRILLIANT! I loved every second of it, and it rewards many listenings (some are up to 10 on the old playcount) with the various layers of comment & music - you pick somthing new up every time, thus the question! More great work, from the hands of an Aucklander!

Thanks, guys. And sorry for not realising your country of origin, T.
Your fellow Australians/NZers/everyone else should all be able to hear Enzology very soon.

Ooohh... more intrigue! Does this mean there are distribution deals in the works? Very exciting!

So Timothious, another NZ on the John Howard scholarship?

You betcha!

Although at the ceasation of the scholarship I wouldn't expect I will have the fortune of trying to find a job in this "new and improved jobs market".

How this directly relates back to Enzology X, I'm not quite sure.

quote:

Originally posted by timothius:
[qb] How this directly relates back to Enzology X, I'm not quite sure. [/qb]

Probably your comment in the first place: "Jaffa, if so, that is quite possibly the cruelest thing I have ever been called! Don't get it wrong, I'm here as one of the many "ambassadors" who are currently assisting Australia with it's distribution of its social welfare money (and then spending it on outrageously patriotic bets on Xcellent to place... " inspired Camus' reply!


Glad our taxes are keeping the bookies in money Timothius. Hope you get that job, mate .

got a couple of questions, the version of shark attack in the episode is great, why wasn't it included on The Living Enz? and also, that MC intro sounds suspciously like paul, was it? or am I just hearing things

Yeah, I thought it might be Paul. It was pre-recorded and played at each show.

By the way, you don't need to credit me in your signature!

i thought radio NZ wouldn't mind another person pluggin enzology!