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Album Review
by SashaS
22-12-2001
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| Neil Finn & Friends |
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Neil Finn: '7 Worlds Collide'
(Parlophone)
Neil Finn and Friends’ ‘7 Worlds Collide’ could be right for your voucher and helping charity
In the week that is very thin on releases unless you are waiting for Liberty’s debut ‘To Those Who Wait’ (on 14 January - and, honestly, who isn’t?), we’d like to highlight a DVD and CD ‘7 Worlds Collide’ by Neil Finn and Friends, that came out at the end of November. This is a document of a series of concerts Finn, former Crowded House and Split Enz troubadour, performed at his hometown of Auckland, between the 2nd and 6th April 2001.
The St James’s theatre was the setting for a collection of musician-friends that included Johnny Marr, Eddie Vedder, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway, brother Tim and son Liam’s band Betchadupa. This live album showcases the best performances from the five-day residency that appeared to have had mini-festi atmosphere with tumultuous audience response.
Material featured contains recent ‘The Climber’ from his last album ‘One Nil’, with backing vocal from LA singer/songwriter Lisa Germano, to favourites such as ‘Weather With You’, ‘Four Seasons In One Day’ and ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’. One thing this album assuredly displays, aside the masterful playing, is Finn’s knack for writing sweetly melodious pop-folk anthems during a career that’s lasted over two decades.
This man, who’s never looked nor behaved like a rock star, doesn’t hog the limelight selfishly but allows guests to do some of their own songs, such as Marr performing ‘Down On The Corner’, Germano airs ‘Paper Doll’, Vedder aches in ‘Parting Ways’, the Finn brothers do a couple of songs… Eddie also joins forces with Betchadupa to cover a Split Enz track ‘I See Red’ and there is version of The Smiths’ ‘There Is A Light That Will Never Go Out’… Thoroughly watchable affair of adult-orientated music that is delightfully above banality of the rest of the mature pop-mart.
Neil and the other artists on this album have decided to donate all royalties from the sales of the record and DVD to the charity Medicines sans Frontieres to assist with their work in Afghanistan. (For more information on Medicines sans Frontieres – click on Link.)
8/10
SashaS
22-12-2001
Neil Finn’s album and DVD ‘7 Worlds Collide’ were issued on 26 November 2001 by Parlophone
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