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Artist returns to deliver a diverse show

By Amy Shanks
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17 Sep, 2014 01:49 AM3 mins to read

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Neil Finn's Dizzy Heights tour has seen him travel the world for four months, before hitting the road in New Zealand.

Neil Finn's Dizzy Heights tour has seen him travel the world for four months, before hitting the road in New Zealand.

HIS voice is synonymous with some of the best-loved New Zealand music ever made and Neil Finn is still churning out the hits.

The singer/songwriter is on tour with his latest six-piece ensemble featuring wife Sharon, Aistair Deverick (Ruby Suns), Jesse Sheehan, Andrew Everding and Lisa Tomlins (Rhombus).

"I'm really excited about the band we have ended up with, it's almost an all-New Zealand band - we have one American," he said in an earlier interview.

"I'm playing a selection of material from all the different era's of my work - Split Enz, Crowded House, Finn Brothers, solo. That is the nice thing about going under my own name, I feel like I can dip into a song catalogue."

In some instances he remained true to the music as it was recorded, but Hawke's Bay audiences could also expect to hear revamped versions of some songs at Napier's Municipal Theatre from 8pm tomorrow. "It's a very diverse night all round, I'm doing a pretty long show - I went really over the top in Dublin and played for three hours, which I had never done before."

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The tour promotes his recent release, Dizzy Heights which has already seen him perform in Australia, Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Dubai and Amsterdam.

Finn did not set out to make the third solo album with a theme in mind, but it soon became clear his influences were leaning skyward.

"It crept up on me. I started noticing it in lots of places. You start off with a number of different threads and angles and demos, and they dictate the terms of the record. It's only in the course of the process that you maybe get a feeling there's a type of song emerging, or an atmosphere."

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Sir Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest in 1953, was part of that inspiration.

"There's something in the New Zealand DNA about trying to scale impossible heights. It's something that can be very positive, but also has its downside."

Filled with light-hearted melodies, Dizzy Heights contemplates love in Better than TV, loss in Flying in the Face of Love growing older in Recluse and allure, in Lights of New York.

Special guest Bic Runga will open Finn's New Zealand shows - a slot which doubles as her return to the stage after a three-year hiatus.

"It's back to basics with this album," Runga said.

"I've never really tried to make an album fashionable - this one is lightly acoustic."

The Kiwi singer/songwriter and mum-of-two, was currently working on her un-named fifth album, and was "hungry to get back on stage".

• Catch Neil Finn at Napier Municipal Theatre tomorrow night from 8pm, with Bic Runga. For tickets phone 0800 842 538.

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