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Tim & Neil Finn

Tim and Neil Finn are internationally-renowned musicians, originally from Te Awamutu.

Split Enz was their first successful band, and was in fact the first New Zealand rock band to achieve international success. The band was started by Tim with Phil Judd in 1972, and joined by Neil in 1977.

See Split Enz music videos.

Split Enz played in Te Awamutu as part of the town's 1984 centenary celebrations, the same year the band split up.

Both Tim and Neil went on to enjoy further success as solo artists and in the band Crowded House, formed by Neil with Paul Hester in 1985. The brothers have also collaborated as a duo and worked with many other well-known artists.

The Finn brothers are featured in a permanent display at the Te Awamutu Museum.

In 2003 they were jointly declared the first inductees of the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame (see video).

In 2006 Tim played a concert at the Te Awamutu Events Centre (see video at TATV).

In 2008 they both played a charity concert at Te Awamutu College for the Gracelands Trust (pictured below).

Websites

Photos

2008 Concert
Charity Concert at Te Awamutu College (2008)

True Colours
At the True Colours exhibition (Te Awamutu Museum, 1998)

Neil and Tim Finn at the family piano
At the family piano

Tim and Neil Finn
1993

Split Enz
Crowded House

1984
Te Awamutu 1984

1984
Te Awamutu 1984

Split Enz

  

Albums

  • Mental Notes (1975)
  • Second Thoughts (1976)
  • Dizrythmia (1977)
  • Frenzy (Mushroom version) (1979)
  • The Beginning Of The Enz (Mushroom) (1979)
  • True Colours (1980)
  • Corroboree / Waiata (1981)
  • Frenzy (A&M version) (1981)
  • Time And Tide (1982)
  • Conflicting Emotions (1983)
  • See Ya 'Round (1984)
  • The Living Enz (1985)
  • Anniversary (1994)

Compilation Albums

  • Beginning Of The Enz (Chrysalis) (1980)
  • Enz Of An Era (1982)
  • The Gold Collection (1997)
  • Spellbound (1997)

Limited Edition and Bootleg Albums

  • Rear Enz (1993)
  • Oddz And Enz (1993)

Band Members

  • Miles Golding (1972 - 1973)
  • Michael Howard (1972 - 1973)
  • Mike Chunn (1972 - 1977)
  • Phil Judd (1972 - 1978)
  • Tim Finn (1972 - 1984)
  • Geoffrey Chunn (1973 - 1974)
  • Wally Wilkinson (1973 - 1975)
  • Emlyn Crowther (1974 - 1976)
  • Noel Crombie (1974 - 1984)
  • Robert Gillies (1974 - 1977)
  • Eddie Rayner (1974 - 1984)
  • Malcolm Green (1976 - 1981)
  • Nigel Griggs (1977 - 1984)
  • Neil Finn (1977 - 1984)
  • Paul Hester (1983 - 1984)

Crowded House

  

Albums

  • Crowded House (1986)
  • Temple of Low Men (1988)
  • Woodface (1991)
  • Together Alone (1993)
  • Recurring Dream (1996)
  • Afterglow (1999)
  • Farewell to the World (2006)
  • Time on Earth (2007)

Band Members

  • Neil Finn (1985-1996, 2007-)
  • Paul Hester (1985–1994, 1996)
  • Nick Seymour (1985-1996, 2007-)
  • Craig Hooper (1985, "The Mullanes")
  • Tim Finn (1990–1991)
  • Mark Hart (1989, 1992-1996, 2007-)
  • Matt Sherrod (2007-)

Additional Members

  • Liam Finn
  • Elroy Finn
  • Davey Lane
  • Don McGlashan

Finn Brothers

  

Neil Finn Solo Albums

  • Try Whistling This (1998 )
  • Sessions at West 54th (2000)
  • One Nil (2001)
  • 7 Worlds Collide (2001)

Tim Finn Solo Albums

  • Escapade 1983
  • Big Canoe (1986)
  • Tim Finn (1989)
  • Before & After (1993)
  • Say It Is So (1999)
  • Feeding The Gods (2001)
  • Imaginary Kingdom (2006)
  • The Conversation (2008)

Finn Brothers Albums

  • Finn (1995)
  • Everyone Is Here (2004)
  • Everyone Is Here Special Edition (2005)