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'We were weird': Tim Finn on Split Enz's rise
Split Enz's latest line-up features Neil and Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner, Noel Crombie, James Milne and Matt Eccles. (Supplied: Karen Inderbitzen-Waller)
It's 1972 and two shy but gifted 20-year-old New Zealanders have locked themselves away with their guitars and a strong creative impulse.
"We wrote two songs in one night in this little flat we shared in Auckland, and they were gold to us," Tim Finn, one of those young men, tells Double J's Karen Leng.
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Many things can kill you in the music business. For Split Enz, New Zealandâs first internationally successful rock group, the most lethal poison was hairspray â or it should have been. âHow did I not die?â marvels bandleader Tim Finn, whose head â at its vertiginous peak â resembled an upturned paintbrush.
Sitting next to him, percussionist Noel Crombie grins as Finn continues the story. âNoel would lacquer merciless amounts of this toxic spray ⦠the makeup would start to run but the hair would just somehow ⦠sit there.â
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After all these decades, Split Enz still has the magic
Split Enz’s Stuff and Nonsense is among my favourite songs. But it is the song of a young man, a 27-year-old Tim Finn.
“I can give you the present, I don’t know ‘bout the future. That’s all stuff and nonsense.”
The lyrics reveal a man uncertain of himself and of what will happen next. It is a song of nervousness about where things will end up. Listening to the song now on Spotify, and you hear the fear in Tim Finn’s vocals.
Forty-seven years later, and on stage in real life, he has lived that life. Split Enz ended, Tim went solo, his little brother’s band Crowded House went global, and he is now approaching the other end of an illustrious career in music.
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