Brian
Administrator
Posts: 3,802
Member is Online
|
Post by Brian on Jan 22, 2012 2:12:02 GMT -8
Less than two months remain before we see him at the Largo in L.A. Two days after I wrote that, I got three e-mails simultaneously: one from the Largo and the second from the online ticket agency announcing that Tim's show was canceled and another confirming that my $53.50 has been refunded to my credit card. All three said that the cancellation was "due to personal matters." Thanks to the fans still posting on Frenz Forum, I know that the Cambridge announcement was worded the same. However, the City Winery in New York said that its two dates were being refunded "due to a health issue that is preventing him from travel." The official Tim Finn website, for more than a decade the worst place for news, still has links selling tickets to the four concerts. The Frenz Forum's Tim Finn news board, maintained by his last publicist Peter Green in Melbourne, is mum so far. The My Space page remains moribund. Instead, we have You Tube. I already embeded a clip from his show early this month in Western Australia on the previous page of this thread -- ten days before the cancellations were announced -- doing the Tim dance during "I See Red." Here's my favorite song from the new album, "People Like Us," closing his set at the Metro in Sydney last November in a decent audience video:
|
|
Brian
Administrator
Posts: 3,802
Member is Online
|
Post by Brian on Feb 5, 2012 1:29:24 GMT -8
Rubbing in the U.S. tour cancellation: this Australian TV spot advertising Tim's February 25 concert.Tim Finn can make a good living just by hopping over to Australia occasionally from his happy home in New Zealand, where people have less disposable income and they take him and brother Neil for granted anyway, to play short tours in theaters and arenas plus stray gigs at festivals and wineries. While trolling You Tube tonight, I ran into another clip somebody posted recently with only 25 views -- a segment from a 1977 radio interview in Manchester, England, months after I first saw him onstage here -- reminding me how ambitious he is. He moved to England to break into the music business. And after his last friend at EMI Records lost his job, he couldn't get an album released in the U.S. Yet he flew to the remaining capitals of the music business -- Los Angeles, New York and London -- in 2010 just for three club shows. Nobody has navigated the whirlpools and ill winds of the music industry better than Tim over the past two decades. His albums from 1989 to 2008 -- major and indie releases, recorded around the world -- are more consistently brilliant and tuneful than other artists of his stature over the same period of time, including Ray Davies, Ian Hunter and Neil Finn. But he lacks their marketing savvy and connections in the U.S. and U.K. Peter Green, Tim's long-time champion in Melbourne, wrote on Frenz Forum two weeks ago that an explanation for the cancellation of the four U.S. dates in March would be forthcoming in the next few days, but I've seen nothing since. The last Tweet on Tim's My Space page from him is a week old, recommending a movie he enjoyed on DVD. I visited the timfinn.com website looking for something new and settled instead to register for e-mail updates. The site was sharp enough to remind me that I already had done so a long time ago, but not good enough to ever send me any.
|
|