There's always rumours of a new album from SE each time they get together, but I'm just wondering if Tim and Eddie talking about it on 3 News moves it from 'rumour' status to 'possibility, depends on what everyone is doing' status? :-)
Of course we probably all would like it to happen, but does anyone think it will? Maybe not this year, but sometime soon.
Thought I might as well ask. :-)

There is enough interest...... which lineup??
Can't see things fitting in with Neil's immediate plans ... oh well they could replace him with Phil Judd and do a smaller theatre tour of AUS/NZ so they could do all the Mental Notes stuff - that would be fun!!!! - Would Juddsy finish the tour? he he

Tim reckons that although it's hard to concentrate on making any album (let alone an Enz one), they have it in them. Hopefully this make become a reality - it was a strong hint anyway.

We all live in hope! Oh please please please!

i too heard this on the news tonight. i know both finn boys are busy, but it is a rather weird topic to bring up if there's no chance of it happening..

i wonder how it would sound, a modern day enz record. it's been so long

Hi all, I saw the story on NZ3 news last night too... where they speculated about a new Enz album. When Tim was interviewed he said something like "the band had at least one album's worth of material in them".

At the gig, Michael Barker was introduced as the "newest member" of Split Enz, which also made me wonder if they were looking at some kind of future for the Enz.

Speaking of Michael Barker - is he amazing or what? Man, can that boy drum/play percussion/groove...

Cheers

An exhausted Andy

fingers crossed SOMETHING happens, Neil did say during the Australian tour that it's time had passed, but then again at that stage he was saying that Crowded House wasn't reforming either

I'd love the idea of a new Split Enz album, if they can make the chemistry and the timing work for everyone.

Having just one album with Phil AND Tim AND Neil all in the fold, pulling together - that would be a dream! It would be just such a fantastic recapturing of all the missed opportunities. Potentially, such an album could yield a full expression of the band's latent powers from across all eras of its history.

But realistically...chemistry is such a fragile creature. I don't know if it would work, to introduce such a volatile element into the current incarnation without derailing the momentum they have now. Right now, they are a band, musically-cohesive and tight-knit, a force to be reckoned with. Adding Phil back in would turn them back into an experiment.

Wait. I think I just talked myself back into the idea!

Still it's hardly up to me, though.

I can't see Tim and Phil working together anytime soon.

Very jealous of reading all the Enz reports from Downunder. I've been an Enz fan since my Uncle sent me a tape of Six Months in a Leaky Boat (who says taping killed music - it got me into Split Enz). I was lucky enough to see Split Enz on their first ever reunion? gig? - The Rainbow Warrior gig? Auckland 1885?

I can't see a new Split Enz album personally. The irregular Split Enz gigs seem a bit like an occasional school 'old boys' reunion. And that's no critism. I doubt they do it for the money.

There's no doubt there's some interersting creative tensions in Split Enz and a new album would be hugely interesting (perhaps more so than a CH or Tim Finn album?) but everyone has other interests now and committing 12 or so months to a Split Enz project 25 years? after the last real album seems a bit too much. One can only live in hope. I just reckon Neil is on too much of a roll with CH at the moment to commit to a Split Enz reunion.

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Auckland 1885?

Flower Singing Man HOW OLD ARE YOU?

tim, eddie and original enzer miles are planning to make an album...not so much of a stretch to include mr judd, crowther and chunn to get another enz el bum.

Really, Incognito? What's the source on that?

Will the project take the place of the mooted Tim/Phil/Miles album?

I don't particularly want a new Split Enz album but if one had to be created I think it should be a Phil Judd/Tim Finn effort with minimal contributions from Neil. Neil's writing has moved on dramatically from his Enz days but both Phil and Tim, as founding members, have never really lost the Enz sound and look. I say that we should let Neil use his songs from Crowded House albums and let Tim (and if at all possible, Phil) take the reins for a new Enz album.

Wasn't "Edible Flowers" considered for a new Enz album? What kind a Enz song would that have been? Not a very good one, IMHO, and certainly not a song that would justify an entire Enz album. Don't get me wrong, I love EF but I think it found it's proper home on the Finn Brothers album which is as close as I hope Neil ever gets to new Enz material.

Tim talks about this album on his myspace site...i think he is calling the album "echo chamber".

and yes, it seems inappropriate that given that the originally planned "three of a kind" album with tim, phil and miles "couldnt be done" because of tims commitment to make Imaginary Kingdon would not include phil now that its back on

Given the pre-Enz 2006 troubles between Tim and Phil, which this time involved Neil as well, I somehow don't think that Phil would be wanting to work on anything with Tim right now. Besides which he's busy working on his next solo project.

I would love another Enz album, and a tour to go with it.

This is the first I've heard about the possibility, and I have to say that given Neil's commitment to Crowded House at the moment, and Tim's new solo album, which he's apparently supposed to be starting in April, I don't know when they'd do it.

The overwhelming issue for all of them seems to be co-ordination - getting them all together at a particular point in time. Noel did say this to us in Wellington.

Still, if the spirit is there, who knows? I'd wait for it, be happy for other commitments to be fulfilled before looking for it.

I also have to say that I really loved Michael on the drums. I thought he was a powerhouse, and was really into it.

I guess time will tell.

There was an article in the NZ Listener by the excellent Mick Bollinger a couple of weeks ago in which Tim stated that he would like to perform "Mental Notes" live with an earlier line-up. The main reason he gave for preventing it was something like he and Phil are "hopeless at being friends".

Actually, you can read the article here. Forgive me if this has been posted before.

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he and Phil are "hopeless at being friends".

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Tim stated that he would like to perform "Mental Notes" live with an earlier line-up.

He's said that a few times, would be great if it happened (must be a DVD release too though).

Hmmmm 2007

Crowded House recording album /touring
Tim Finn touring
Tim Finn recording album with Miles Golding
Tim Finn & Eddie Rayner heads together for Poor Boy the Musical early March in Sydney.
How many more meetings there??
Split Enz tour
Gryph mentioning he had an idea up his sleeve for pushing Mental Notes sales.
Phudster in the works of another album.

Don't think Neil would want to be left out of an Enz album if they did fit it in. Even in different countries they are now all on email I believe, and therefore can send each other musical attachments. I'm sure old Codge would have fun putting that stuff together, just a bit more tricky than the 8 track.

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Originally posted by David Goldsmith:
There was an article in the NZ Listener by the excellent Mick Bollinger a couple of weeks ago in which Tim stated that he would like to perform "Mental Notes" live with an earlier line-up. The main reason he gave for preventing it was something like he and Phil are "hopeless at being friends".

Actually, you can read the article here. Forgive me if this has been posted before.

Good point, David! I'd quite forgotten about that article.