Tim Finn

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Tim Finn lights up the room. There’s a momentum in his stride. New music is pouring from him at a rate of knots. Powerful songs, songs that ignite the senses, are appearing out of the ether and Finn has grappled them to earth.

Finn is a classicist, more interested in recurrence than eclecticism. At the heart of his writing there is always an acoustic guitar or an upright piano.

“I see the three minute song as a Chinese vase, a classic form,” he explains. “There is so much variety to be found within its seemingly simple structure. Also, above all, there are the words. I carry them around in my head for weeks, if only in the end to change an ‘a’ for a ‘the’ … it’s pure pleasure. That’s my ‘imaginary kingdom’, the place where I work. Only I’m not sure if it’s me or the song that rules!”

In the past Finn led Split Enz, had been a member of Crowded House and enjoyed a successful solo career. His catalogue is rich. ‘Poor Boy’, ‘I Hope I Never’, ‘I See Red’, ’6 Mths in a Leaky Boat’ were hits for Split Enz. As a member of Crowded House, Tim co-wrote ‘Weather With You’, ‘It’s Only Natural’ and ‘Four Seasons In One Day’. As a solo artist there’s ‘How’m I Gonna Sleep’, ‘Not Even Close’, ‘Persuasion’, ‘Fraction Too Much Friction’ and ‘Many’s The Time’.

In the here and now, the artistic re-birth comes back to the momentum Tim has managed to harness in recent times; and how concentrating that energy has led to the recording of the remarkable new album ‘Imaginary Kingdom.’