We should have the information on the NZ date on the Forum etc late Sunday.

I think the Fanclub pre sale for NZ will be around Feb 5th....so a VIP email (yeah another one-*PHEW*) will go out a few days before.

and yes NZers there are still vacant spots left in the club if anyone wishes to sign up
Gryph

Will send out a Frenz Twitter too Sunday evening for those who have signed on for that too.
Gryph

I think my heart just fell into my socks


Good luck Frenz, when the time comes go get those tickets and have a magaical time

Aucklaandddd

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Aucklaandddd

Absolutely!!

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Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Aucklaandddd

Absolutely!!

No fair! You get everything!

This will be a pre sale link...but you will need to sign up to THE EDGE so you can log in. When Club VIPers get the email you can click on the link and sign up if you need to from that. VIp emails will be going out over the next few days for NZ show and Europe.

Gryph

I just read a really good article that I wanted to post here, but there's info about the NZ gig in it... I'll bite my tongue. I guess what's on the web is public domain and if people find it, they find it?

I think it's fine to post the link -- it is in the public domain, after all! Plus there's some pretty interesting info in it about possible album titles (which I'll post on another thread).

Man, I wish I could go to that (maybe I should stop doing google searches at unearthly hours)

one thing I tried to register with The Edge (right now there is 0% chance I can go, but things can and do change so I was going to try) but, despite other countries being in the drop down menu. only NZ cities are listed (if you pick 'no city' it tells you to go back and pick a city)

Edit ~ Thankyou dear friend, it worked and I'm registered with them now (I did try at 3am but no go, inspired by your message and tried again and it worked)


okay c'mon last minute win

I wish I could go

Alucidor

no totally fine to post the link to the article. I was giving our media people till 12.00 today to do their thing. So it's past that, so post away
and tanks for checking that is appreciated.

(just no one post the pre sale link-thanks)

Gryph

Lucky NZers
I've promised myself I'll get to NZ one day and see something Finn related live (preferably the Crowdies)... Pity I'm not old enough this time around!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-...wded-House-home-soon


EXOTIC in parts, traditional in origin. Has some drama and intrigue ..."

Is Neil Finn reading from the back of a bottle? It's 11am. The singer puts down his Crowded House bio notes.

"The one thing you won't find me very much doing in here is actually talking about what the record sounds like. That's always hard for an artist."

Friday morning, Roundhead Studios, Auckland. Finn wears jandals, drinks something murky from a giant cup and reflects on "the continuation of the reformation".

A new album. A new tour. And a one-off New Zealand gig at the Auckland Town Hall on April 8.

It's three years since the last Crowded House album. "We had the desire to go out and make a new record. It was partly about rediscovering that we were making really good noise together."

The Auckland concert will come before the album release. When the Sunday Star-Times visited, a title was imminent. Hot contenders? Goodnight Honey or The Intriguer. Either way, the latter will be getting airplay. "The Intriguer" is a song about a character invented by Finn and Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig.

"It's a shadowy character you see at pivotal times ..." Its role, says Finn, "is to provide interest and intrigue and surprise and accident in your life".

It was 2am in a bar in Sydney. Leunig and Finn saw a mysterious figure silhouetted across a top-storey curtained window. Someone dropped a tray of drinks. Blame The Intriguer.

"There are moments when life becomes dull and featureless," says Finn. "And then we wish for The Intriguer."

Sometimes, says Finn, things just line up. Fate? "I would never prescribe fate to any particular situation. But we don't know the half of it, do we? We don't know a quarter of it. A tenth of it... we're like somnambulists. We're just walking in our sleep."

Crowded House, he says, provides the possibility of transformation. Expect some psychedelia – and some straightforward pop songs. This is the band, after all, that the bass player wanted to make the biggest in the world.

Crowded House. It could have been a contender. It's the Australian-Kiwi hybrid that broke through to the American charts. It won awards, garnered fans.

But, says Finn, in those bio notes, "I dyed my hair one too many times and worried about it all far too much. Paul built up a layer of contempt for the whole circus".

Drummer Paul Hester committed suicide in 2005.

Ad Feedback "In the aftermath of losing Paul Hester, it made me think about what bands are," says Finn. "And the good things about being in a band and a desire to put some history on the board after that and not just leave it as this big black fullstop at the end of the story."

He thinks about his friend "all the time".

"And in the audiences I'm sure people are missing him and are reminded of him. But that's just the nature of getting on with your life. You have to take it with you to some degree."

The band – Finn, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and new drummer Matt Sherrod – is now scattered across the world. Australia, Ireland, the United States and New Zealand are among the places they call home. "Our reason for getting back together and becoming a contemporary band was not nostalgia. It was trying to seize the spirit of what we had and push it forward a little more."

Crowded House, Auckland Town Hall, Thursday, April 8. Tickets on sale February 11.

and the details as many of you know:

Auckland Town Hall-April 8th.

Pre-sale Link going out via the clubs VIP email over the next few days.

Presale starts Feb 5th till 8th.

Remaining tickets to the Public on Feb 11th.

Gryph

Do you happen to know how much the tickets will be?

Sadly not a clue. Being a one off show I dont have a work spreadsheet..just a rough email (sorry).
P

Funnily enough, I remember talking with fellow Frenz after the December '08 shows about how The Intriguer sounded like a Michael Leunig character

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Aucklaandddd

Absolutely!!

No fair! You get everything!

One of the advantages of living in "Finnland" eh hehehe . Glad it's going to be at the Townhall rather than the Vector Arena this time around.