Finn Brothers

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The Finn Brothers

Background information
Origin	New Zealand
Genre(s)	Rock
Years active	1995 - present
Label(s)	Parlophone, Nettwerk Records, Discovery
Members
Neil Finn, Tim Finn

The Finn Brothers is the name of the musical project of New Zealand brothers Neil and Tim Finn.

The brothers started off making music together from a very young age, and Neil joined his big brother Tim in Split Enz at the age of eighteen. After Split Enz finished, Neil started his own band, Crowded House, and Tim started a solo-career.

1 History
- 1.1 Woodface and Finn
- 1.2 Everyone is Here
2 Discography
- 2.1 Singles
3 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Woodface and Finn

Tim joined Neil in Crowded House for the Woodface album after a three week writing spree in 1991. Half of the album was originally conceived as a Finn Brothers project. Tim left the band while they were touring Europe in support of the Woodface album, but the seed for a brotherly collaboration was sown, and in 1995, a lo-fi album simply called Finn was released. After initial pressings of Finn, the duo changed their name to Finn Brothers to avoid confusion with a band going under the moniker Fin.

[edit] Everyone is Here

In 2004, a second album was released, Everyone Is Here. It was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with famed Bowie producer Tony Visconti, bassist Bones Hillman and Ross Burge on drums, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House stalwart Mitchell Froom and different session musicians. Some of the songs from the first recording session were kept as B sides and later appeared on a special edition of the album.

Following the Boxing Day Tsunami, The Finn Brothers appeared at the Wave Aid fundraising concert in Sydney to help raise funds for aid organisations working in disaster affected areas. As well as their own material, they performed a cover of Hunters and Collectors' "Throw Your Arms Around Me."

Both brothers were awarded the OBE in June 1993 for their contribution to New Zealand music.

The Finn Brothers song "Luckiest Man Alive" was the song used for the closing credits for 2005's Indianapolis 500.

[edit] Discography

Date of Release	Title	Charted	Country
1995	Finn	-	-
2004	Everyone Is Here	-	-
2005	Everyone Is Here Special Edition	-	-

[edit] Singles

Year	Single	Album	Charted	Certification
1995	"Suffer Never"	Finn	-	-
	"Angels Heap"	Finn	-	-
	"Won't Give In"	Everyone Is Here	-	-
	"Nothing Wrong With You"	Everyone Is Here	-	-
	"Edible Flowers"	Everyone Is Here	-	-
	"Part of Me, Part of You"	Everyone Is Here	-	-