Q+A TIM FINN
THE CO-FOUNDER OF SPLIT ENZ, ONE HALF OF FINN BROTHERS, AND CO-WRITER OF CROWDED HOUSE’S MOST SUCCESSFUL STUDIO ALBUM, DISCUSSES 50 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS AND HIS NEW PROJECT WITH FORENZICS
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Tim Finn (left) with his Forenzics partner Eddie Rayner
Tim Finn rose to fame in the 70s with the fabulously eccentric Split Enz. Later reuniting with younger brother, Neil, in Crowded House, together they conquered pop with the landmark album, Woodface, co-writing totems Weather With You and Four Seasons In One Day. Surely a first, the brothers both picked up an OBE in 1993 for services to music on the same day. Impressively prolific, Tim’s steadily released a string of albums since, whether with Finn Brothers, his umpteen solo records, collaborations and musical theatre projects. Now half a century since Split Enz formed, he’s teamed up with former bandmate Eddie Rayner, using “shades and echoes” of Enz tracks as the impetus to create something entirely fresh.
As Forenzics, they are looking back to look forward.
Shades And Echoes is a cracking album. You must be rather pleased with it? Yeah, we’re both delighted with how it all turned out. It was an exciting way to work.
It’s an interesting approach, taking snippets from classic
Split Enz tracks and using them as the basis for creating something new… People have obviously created songs from samples, but I’m not sure anybody’s written a new song over an old bit of their own, you know? It wasn’t something that I thought about a lot over the years, then suddenly it just seemed the time was right. I was intrigued by this idea of that section of Walking Down A Road which Brian Eno had commented on at the time, when Phil Manzanera was producing us.
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