Neil & Liam Finn New Album Lightsleeper

It’s interesting but really does not sound finished. I only prefer perhaps one or two of the Visconti versions; the rest are woefully underdone compared to the released Froom takes.

 

Where can one hear the bonus track?

 

Last night I was at the opening concert of their 2 week European tour to support Lightsleeper at the Epstein in Liverpool, a 380-seat venue that was small enough to feel intimate. I had expected a largely acoustic piano/guitar set from Lightsleeper and Out Of Silence but I was surprised on 2 counts - there was only 1 song from Out Of Silence and most of the set included drums and electric guitar. Elroy was on stage too, alternating drum/guitars with Liam, and Sharon was on bass for a few tracks - Neil announced that this was the first time ever the 4 of them had been on stage together with nobody else. The support act was Pablo Vasquez, Elroy's classical guitar duo with Jolyon Mulholland.

Neil & Liam setlist:

1. Sweet Dreams
2. English Trees
3. Four Seasons In One Day
4. Back To Life
5. Any Other Way
6. Listen
7. Message To My Girl
8. Fire In Your Belly
9. Chameleon Days
10. Meet Me In The Air
11. Pineapple Head
12. We Know What It Means
13. Anger Plays A Part
14. Golden Child
15. Miracle Glance
16. I Got You
17. Better To Be
18. Distant Sun
Encore:
19. Second Chance
20. Where's My Room
21. Don't Dream It's Over
22. Julia (Beatles cover)

It was a wonderful experience, as always, to see Neil performing live, and this time having the whole family on stage really added to the atmosphere. Great banter between them all night, especially when Neil sang the wrong lyrics in English Trees and Liam stopped playing and corrected him, then Neil announced that he had to ask Liam the lyrics in rehearsal and Liam joked that he'd deliberately told Neil the wrong lyrics to see if he would make the mistake he just made.

 

Haha. Love that last bit.

 

I count 2 songs from Out of Silence...

 

No, only Chameleon Days.

Are you perhaps thinking of Second Chance, which was the Liam song, not Second Nature from Out Of Silence ?

 

Geez, they didn't include any Fleetwood Mac tunes???...

 

New song-by-song discussion thread of all things Finn here:

Stranger than Fiction, Larger Than Life: the Finn Brothers song-by-song discussion thread

 

Of course. I knew that

 

Hello ! Was the download issue ever fixed ?

 

Good question. Seems so long ago! I don’t know if the record company added the song to the download album or not but people are welcome to DM me or email the office at [email protected] with their download card details. No trouble to send Troubles.

 

Wanted to add that I did get the vinyl and very pleased. Nice pressing and packaging. I just noticed the vinyl is $22 and change on Amazon US. Recommend this. BTW, the download for Troubles was not on the site, but got it after emailing the office.

Such a great album. Crazy how something like this does not get the recognition it deserves.

 

Sorry Neil, but this album does absolutely nothing for me. I bought all your previous solo albums (all great), your Finn Brothers albums (both great) and I have all of your Crowded House albums - recent deluxe versions (love them all) and all of your Split Enz stuff (mostly excellent) but I'm afraid I have to give you the big 'meh' for this one. Maybe it is because you took more of a back seat/supporting role and allowed your son to dominate or perhaps you were too distracted by the prospect of joining Fleetwood Mac? I gave it a good go. I listened to it at least ten times, but with the exception of a couple of tracks it left me cold.