In a final announcement of acts and third release of tickets, Tim Finn has been added to the huge line-up along with other fine acts to complete the program. Tim joins Xavier Rudd plus Sean Taylor (UK), London Klezmer Quartet (UK), Buke & Gase (USA) and also Baby et Lulu, Cactus Channel, The Ramshackle Army and many  more.

The festival is a community celebration of the culture of “people, words and music” – folk, roots and music from beyond and across the borders.

The 37th festival is only five weeks away.   The festival site is the village of Port Fairy, four hours drive west of Melbourne along the Princes Highway.

Get the last tickets available and join the fabulous four day music holiday of surf and music coming up.

See all the details and full line-up here www.portfairyfolkfestival.com

Tim will be performing alongside the Hoodoo Gurus, James Reyne, Troy Cassar-Daley and Combo La Revelacion.

Between the Bays Music Festival is set on a stunning 35 acre rural property in Moorooduc on the Mornington Peninsula (about 1 hr drive from Melbourne).

Now in its 8th year, Between the Bays is firmly established as Mornington Peninsula’s best, annual music festival on the summer calendar. A day not to be missed.

All proceeds raised by Between the Bays go back into our school. Penbank School proudly supports the Wugularr Community School in the Northern Territory.Adult – $59.50

Tickets are available from Ticketmaster.

Ticket prices:
Adult – $59.50
Student (13 & over) – $25
Child (5-12) – $10
Child (under 5) – FREE

Throughout the years, Between the Bays has offered music lovers on the Mornington Peninsula, and wider parts of Melbourne, a festival option that is safe and entertaining for everyone, that has a great range of local gourmet food, wine and beer, is inexpensive and has an all-inclusive community feel.

Head to Between the Bays website for more information.

See you there.

Two of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists, Ken Duncum and Tim Finn, combine their talents to examine the cloudy question of identity, and its powerful relationship with place and people.

New songs written by Tim Finn weave together with stories and observations brought to life by actors to create an immersive music and spoken word experience.

White Cloud draws on both authors’ family histories, letters, journals and photographs going back generations, as well as their own perspectives on the country and culture that bred them.

Salvage something that we need to remember
From the wreck of history
Family images of fading splendor
Where they lead I’m following …

Featuring Dena Kennedy and Stephen Lovatt.

Music performed by Brett Adams, Ben King, Chris O’Connor, Lisa Crawley and Kingsley Melhuish.

Directed by Simon Bennett.

Head to Bats Theatre for more information and bookings.  http://bats.co.nz/shows/white-cloud/

July 2012 Tour Dates

Tue 03 Jul            Lizottes, Kincumber, NSW  booking info

Thu 05 Jul            Artbar – Art Gallery Of Western Australia, WA  booking info

Sat 07 Jul             Lizottes, Dee Why, NSW   booking info

Sun 08 Jul            Lizottes, Newcastle, NSW   booking info

Auckland City Council do this series called Music in the Parks. They are free concerts in some of Auckland’s finest green areas. Supporting will be Brett Adam’s band with his partner Dianne Swann, the Bads. We are going to play an eclectic set with a few obscurities, and a few well known. After that I will concentrate on finishing my work on the soundtrack for Mr Pip. Helping out will be Tony Buchen and we’ll be in Roundhead studios for a while.

Then it’s Dad’s 90th!

Cheers, Tim

Read an excerpt of the interview, jump to the full interview here.

Singer songwriter, Tim Finn, co-founder of Split Enz and ex-member of Crowded House, has just released his ninth solo album, ‘The View is Worth the Climb’.

Finn called on legendary producer, Jacquire King, who has worked with Norah Jones, Kings of Leon and Tom Waits, and a studio band comprised of Joey Waronker (Beck/REM/Thom Yorke), Zac Rae (Beck/ThomYorke/Cold War Kids), Brett Adams (The Mockers/The Bads), Tony Buchen (Andy Bull) and Mara TK (Electric Wire Hustle). He even co-wrote one song with one of Australia’s most well-respected and popular young songwriters, Megan Washington. Suite101 caught up with Tim Finn to talk about ‘The View is Worth the Climb’.

Suite101: What’s the main inspiration behind the new record?

Tim Finn: The main inspiration…I think I said once, friendship, disappointment, encouragement and love. Those are probably the main themes that are on the record. My wife – all my songs are always to do with my relationships with other people, whether it’s a partner or a friend or a child, so I’m still finding endless inspiration in those kinds of areas.

Read the full interview here.

Check them out at their website http://abcdigmusic.net.au/features/5-songs-tim-finn

Speaking from his Auckland home, Finn admits to becoming a big fan of Washington during a brief run of NSW dates.

“She was really good fun and in the van afterwards travelling back to Sydney (from shows) was always full of good stories,” the 59-year-old silver fox of Kiwi pop says. “Occasionally, she would wake up with conversation remorse, she would tell me. She’s a great person. We really clicked and I love her talent.”

Washington later helped Finn finish a song for which he only had the chorus refrain – The View is Worth the Climb. The collaboration is the title track of Finn’s ninth solo album, an 11-track overview of his at-times turbulent career and current contentment.

From his home of the past 11 years on the north side of Auckland, the mellowed musician looks out over a bay filled with boats as we chat. “The weather’s great today, everything looks radiant in the winter sun,” he says.

Click here to read the rest of the interview with Simon Collins at TheWest.com.au

Tim Finn is familiar with recognising the unforseen. His is a life which has stalked curiosity with vigour, taking him places – both real and imagined – previously unimagined. Unlike his pop star brother Neil, Tim Finn has spent his life courting the abstract, creating some of the most delightfully left field records to ever transmit from the Antipodes.

It was at the mercy of this will to ignite the rule book that he decided his eighth solo studio album, 2008’s The Conversation, would be his last solo recording. Having also rounded off Split Enz’ career with eight studio recordings, he felt the ‘Tim Finn’ brand had run its course – capped with a 2009 career retrospective, North, South, East, West – and it was time to find a new vehicle for expression. But, with his guard lowered, the sweet timbre of what would become his ninth solo recording began to take root.

Read the full interview at X-Press Magazine