Neil Finn live from home in Los Feliz

[Brian]

Neil Finn performs "Better Be Home Soon" with sons Liam and Elroy in mid-April.

Soon after escrow closed on Neil and Sharon Finn's new house in the Los Feliz district -- and just one day before the governor issued the stay at home order -- Neil Finn began live audio performances, streaming online.  He played an eclectic mix songs from his 43-year career, along with some covers, every afternoon, seven days a week, for six weeks.  After taking two weeks off to work on new songs, Neil announced yesterday that he will now live stream on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 3 p.m. Pacific time.  Everything is here on his Fangradio webpage, including all of the archived shows and an occasional video:

www.neilfinn.com/fangradio

Neil, Liam and Elroy, with original bass player Nick Seymour and long time producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, were supposed to tour Europe in June as Crowded House, the latest reunion of the band founded in 1985 and last seen in L.A. in 2010. The European concert dates have been postponed for exactly one year at each venue.

[Brian]

The live streams from Neil's house ceased three weeks after I started this thread, although they're still archived at that Fangradio link.

Last month, the five members of Crowded House 2020 gathered online to play "Fall at Your Feet," which first appeared on a 1991 Crowded House album with the original three-man line up plus Neil's brother Tim Finn. As Neil said in a message that accompanied the video’s release, "Some of the sentiment in this song struck me as being resonant now in a different way than I first imagined." Later he wrote:

...We owe a huge debt to the African American artists whose creative expressions have elevated us with magic, passion and beauty while living with prejudice and injustice that we, as white men, can only imagine and have never had to suffer.

We have more to give and other privileges to repay, but right now in support of this groundswell for justice against a racist system, we will direct all of the income for this song for the next year to causes that assist in keeping the momentum for massive and meaningful change, to address this glaring inequity in our society.

Just a beginning, more to follow… with love and respect,
Crowded House

The finger of blame has turned upon itself
And I'm more than willing to offer myself
Do you want my presence
Or need my help
Who knows where that might lead