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Finn formed a new band called The Mullanes ( Mullane being both his middle name and his mother's maiden name ) with Split Enz drummer Paul Hester, guitarist Craig Hooper of The Reels and bassist Nick Seymour ( younger brother of Hunters & Collectors leader Mark Seymour ), whom Neil had met on the final Split Enz tour.
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Crowded House are a pop rock band formed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985 by lead-vocalist and primary songwriter, New Zealand-born Neil Finn.
The Mullanes formed in Melbourne in early 1985 with Finn, Hester, Seymour and guitarist Craig Hooper ( ex-The Reels ) and first performed on 11 June.
L to R: Paul Hester, Neil Finn, Nick Seymour. Thanks to their Split Enz connection, the newly formed Crowded House had an established Australasian fanbase.
Finn and wife Sharon formed a band of their own titled ' Pajama Club ' after their two sons moved out of the family home and they were left with a lot of free time.
Initially, the new band formed by Hester and Neil Finn was named " The Mullanes " and then underwent a few name changes.
The group formed in 1971 at the University of Auckland with the original lineup of Phil Judd, Tim Finn, Mike Chunn, Robert Gillies and Noel Crombie.
An old Irish story tells how the Lough was formed when Ireland's legendary giant Fionn mac Cumhaill ( Finn McCool ) scooped up a portion of the land and tossed it at a Scottish rival.
Also in 1995, Finn formed band ALT, with Irish musicians Andy White and Liam Ó Maonlaí ( from band Hothouse Flowers ).
The Left Banke was formed in 1965 and consisted of keyboard player / songwriter Michael Brown, guitarist George Cameron, bass guitarist Tom Finn, drummer Warren David-Schierhorst and singer Steve Martin, who also used the name Steve Martin Caro.
They formed local majorities of the population in the Finn and Foyle valleys ( around modern Londonderry and east Donegal ), in north Armagh and in east Tyrone.
The band was formed by Morris, Urlich, Coleman and Dobbyn, students at Sacred Heart College in Auckland, which was the same school that Neil ( Crowded House ) and Tim Finn ( Split Enz ) went to.
They were formed by Frankie Gavin ( fiddle ), Alec Finn ( guitar, bouzouki ), Johnny " Ringo " McDonagh ( bodhrán ) and Charlie Piggott ( banjo ) as a result of sessions in Hughes's Pub in An Spidéal, County Galway, subsequently inviting Dolores Keane ( vocals ) to join the band.
The Mullanes were a New Zealand / Australian rock group which was formed by Neil Finn after the demise of Split Enz in 1984.
Some of the more influential bands in the 1970s were Th ' Dudes ( whose guitarist Dave Dobbyn formed DD Smash in the 1980s ), Dragon, Hello Sailor and Split Enz, fronted by Tim Finn, and later, his brother Neil Finn who went on to form Crowded House.
Finn Harps was formed in 1954 as a junior club.
The Jon Finn Group is a rock band formed and led by the Boston guitarist Jon Finn.
The area is steeped in legend, One of which is the Battle for the Brown bull of Cooley when Cú Chulainn invoked the right for single combat and fought all of Queen Mebhs forces in the narrow gully formed by Glaciers, now christened Mebhs Gap and the profile of the mountain is said to resemble a sleeping giant, thought by some to be Finn MacCumhaill ( Finn McCool ).
Finn and new
Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the Split Enz farewell tour, Enz with a Bang, during November and December 1984.
Seymour approached Finn during the after party for the Melbourne show and asked if he could audition for the new band.
As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.
The DVD featured newly recorded audio commentary by Finn, Hart and Seymour and other new bonus material.
In January 2007, the group publicly announced their reformation and on 23 February, after 20 days of auditions, former Beck drummer Matt Sherrod joined Finn, Seymour and Mark Hart to complete the new line up.
The two-and-a-half hour set included some new tracks, including " Silent House " co-written by Finn with the Dixie Chicks.
The next day, Finn and Seymour were interviewed on Rove Live and the band, with Hart and Sherrod, performed " Don't Stop Now " to promote the new album, which was titled Time on Earth.
The Finn spent his time in the back room, running another new business venture ; construction.
Buffy eventually finds a new love interest in the form of Riley Finn ( Marc Blucas ), a soldier in the demon-hunting government task force known as the Initiative.
He gets depressed, especially when the Scoobies fail to keep him in the loop regarding Buffy's new boyfriend Riley Finn and his membership in the Initiative.
The additional material included new liner notes, demos, b-sides, The Story So Far DVD and a remix of debut single " Hit or Miss " by the late Jerry Finn.
When Split Enz disbanded in December, Hester and Neil Finn decided to start a new group.
When new elections are called, Finn is in a dilemma.
At a political meeting in Dublin, Finn argues that a new tenant-right bill should be presented to the Westminster Parliament during the next session.
Welcoming a new team-mate for the year in Australian Chris Atkinson, who replaced the disappointing Finn who had been the former Champion's SWRT team-mate throughout 2004, Mikko Hirvonen, Solberg started his 2005 season brightly as he sought an immediate answer to Loeb, the Norwegian winning two of the first three events, in Sweden and Mexico.
It consisted of " Late Last Night ", four re-arranged and re-recorded tracks from the New Zealand / Australian Mental Notes LP, three new songs, and a new version of one of the earliest Judd – Finn compositions, " 129 ", retitled " Matinee Idyll ( 129 )".
His first publication was Feature Funnies, which cannily mixed color reprints of hit strips ( including Joe Palooka, Mickey Finn, and Dixie Dugan ) with a smattering of new features.
This chance find offers a new clue to the case, and Tommy concludes that the Jane Finn they found was planted by their enemies, in order to convince them that the game was over.
On 13 July 1854, James Finn of the British consulate in Jerusalem wrote to the British ambassador in Constantinople describing the wishes of the 2, 000 strong Ashkenazic community to build a new synagogue.
A new arrival is Rhonda LeBeck ( Finn Carter ), a graduate student conducting seismology tests.
After the surgery, Finn experienced a year of humbled serenity and constantly felt like he had a " new brain.
The MTL is an annual summer lab where emerging musical theatre artists are supported and new musical works are created, fine-tuned and produced under the curatorship of Finn and Boyd.
Finn and band
Neil Finn had decided to end the band to concentrate on his solo career and the Finn Brothers project with Tim.
Neil Finn ( vocals, guitar, piano ) and drummer Paul Hester ( ex-The Cheks, Deckchairs Overboard ) were former members of New Zealand band Split Enz, which spent part of 1975-6 in Australia and several years in England.
After the tour, Finn fired Seymour from the band.
Seymour said that after a month he contacted Finn and they agreed that he would return to the band.
As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.
For these shows the band were augmented by multi-instrumentalist Don McGlashan and Neil's younger son, Elroy Finn, on guitar.
On 14 March 2009 the band joined Neil's older son, Liam Finn, on stage for three songs at the Sound Relief concert in Melbourne.
As the primary songwriter for the band, Neil Finn has always set the tone for the band's sound.
" Shortly after settling on their name, Ballew and Dederer added drummer Jason Finn ; the band played their first show as a trio at Seattle's Romper Room in early December 1993.
At the time, Finn was also the drummer in the band Love Battery, who had recently changed record labels from Sub Pop to Atlas Records, an A & M subsidiary.
The band broke up because Sir Mix-A-Lot wanted to take the band in a harder, more electronic direction, but Finn and Dederer were not interested.
Finn played drums for several bands, including Nevada Bachelors, The Fastbacks and Love Battery, his original band.
The inspiration for the classic rock-influenced band The Hold Steady came while members Craig Finn and Tad Kubler were watching The Last Waltz.
Minneapolis native Craig Finn of the Brooklyn band The Hold Steady claimed that The Replacements ' music, along with distaste towards the New York City music scene, was the impetus to form The Hold Steady.
That character is celebrated in " The Legend of Finn MacCumhail ", a song by the Boston-based band Dropkick Murphys featured on their album Sing Loud Sing Proud!
Dana Cochrane, formerly of the band Mickey Finn, played bass with the band on live gigs in 1996 and 1997.
Finn rose to prominence in the late 1970s after replacing singer songwriter Phil Judd in his brother Tim Finn's band Split Enz.
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