Crowded House
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Crowded House: In With The In-Crowd
Interview by Julian Henry, Music Week, 6 July 1987
THE ARRIVAL of Crowded House in the UK charts with their debut single, 'Don't Dream It's Over' (Capitol), comes three years after the demise of ...
Crowded House: Whisky, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Bud Scoppa, L.A. Weekly, 22 September 1988
GOOD TUNES, good singin', good playin'. These are the seemingly modest virtues presented by Crowded House. But, as they amply demonstrated throughout their superb 16-song ...
Meet Mr. Hip, Mitchell Froom, the Man of a Thousand Mixes
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, November 1988
"WITH ALBUMS, you can't just play it straight on every track. If a song wants to be a hit, if it seems like — done ...
Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1992
Last year, Crowded House played Britain and hardly anyone noticed. This time they've had to book Wembley Arena. Maybe the turnaround came just in time ...
Crowded House: Crowded House OBE
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1993
WHAT A QUEER old month it's been for past and present members of Crowded House. In June they visited the UK to sequence their album ...
Crowded House: The Fine Art of Surfacing
Report and Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, February 1994
SATURDAY NIGHT in Glasgow, traditionally the comic's most difficult audience, and it's time to give a big hand to two young fellows with a bright ...
Crowded House, The Cranberries, et al: Fleadh '94, Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 18 June 1994
BLARNEY ARMY! ...
My Second Life Has Just Begun – April 1994
Book Excerpt by Chris Bourke, 'Something So Strong' (Pan Macmillan Australia), 1997
NOTE: In this excerpt from Chris Bourke's Crowded House biography Something So Strong (Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997), drummer Paul Hester has been brooding for months ...
Neil Finn: Former Crowded House Frontman
Interview by Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, August 1998
THERE'S A lush, green exotic-ness to Neil Finn's songs, as if they were created in some kind of hothouse rain forest where only the most ...
Obituary by Chris Bourke, Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand), 3 April 2005
PAUL HESTER was known as "Hester the Jester," the clown prince of Crowded House. He was the one who gave the band its personality on ...
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, August 2007
Pure, quiet quality from the reunited Kiwi Beatles ...
Pajama Club: No more Crowded House
Interview by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 25 August 2011
Once their children had left home, Crowded House songwriter Neil Finn and his wife found themselves with too much time on their hands — and ...
Retrospective and Interview by Graeme Thomson, The Word, October 2011
Crowded House's recording career was becalmed in 1990 until an unplanned injection of sibling rivalry sparked off the masterpiece that was Woodface. It couldn't last ...
Crowded House: Dreamers Are Waiting
Review by Andrew Stafford, The Guardian, 3 June 2021
The band's first album since 2010 is full of beautiful details and deceptive tonal shifts – a slow burn but worth the effort ...
Running Down a Dream: the making of Together Alone
Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, 'Don't Dream It's Over' (Jawbone), February 2024
This is an edited extract from Don't Dream It's Over: The Remarkable Life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter, published in the UK by Jawbone ...
see also Finn Brothers
see also Neil Finn
see also Split Enz
see also Pajama Club
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