⛱ POD CATCH UP - Neil Finn
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Have you met Manaya?
Hi, Neil. Neil, Manaya.
I don't know, but my grandson's name is Manaya, so I'm very happy to meet another Manaya.
Powerful, yes. Is that right? I'm happy to hear grandson as well. We're far outnumbered. There's far more female Manayas than males.
Yeah, I know. There's a few, yeah. And the other thing that you would be well used to and unfortunately happens to our grandson, Manaya, too, is that on the page it was written down as mania.
Oh, God, yep.
Yep.
So is that on his birth certificate?
No. No, he's Mania. But he often gets, you know, like if people write his name, they often write Mania.
It's Mania. This happens to me almost daily, Neil. I tell them that Mania is a mental disorder.
My name is Mania. I would assume. And I would sympathize with you. Empathize, actually.
Yeah. It's all of the vowels. It's just I think Europeans get a bit freaked out when they see three vowels together. It just makes us go, ew.
Yeah, and also now I had a connection from a lovely woman in Sydney for this call, and she didn't know how to say haureki either, so it kind of gets quite confusing.
Yeah, often a lot of people think that I work for an iwi station, but I tell people when they struggle with my name, like Manaya Twain, and then it clicks for them.
That's a good one. I'll tell our Manaya about that one.
Yes, Manaya Twain will serve them well.
Hey, Neil, who was it that made the initial call to get the band back together?
I can't even actually remember the moment except that we did a thing last year in my studio where we got together to kind of play for a while and we invited the old members in. We were filming for what potentially will be a Split Ends doco and we just slipped into it so effortlessly and so easily that it became talked about. And then somebody came to us with an offer. It was for Electric Avenue was the offer that came through. um management and uh it just felt like the right time somehow it just clicked with the moment um and so yeah we said yes to that and then of course once we had that was all that one one show is going to be a bit weird maybe we should do do a few more you know just to get get the old girl really up and running what was um what was electric air like
It was amazing. It was the first show in 17th year. It was our 1,000th show. It's hard to say that, actually. Noel reminded us. Somebody had told him. And we played 40,000 people on a stage the size of Coachella with our new costumes, and it really went as well as we possibly could have hoped. All the crowd was singing. They were sort of euphoric, and I'd say a good proportion of them, if not a majority, probably weren't even born when the songs were first written. So it was just an amazing reminder of how songs stay in the air and how they just travel through the years and accompany people in their good times and their bad times, and then we were able to enjoy it all together. It didn't feel different.
It felt like we were on stage just like it had always been, and you look out at the audience and they all look like the same... Some of the people were old, like us, but lots of them were real young, like they always were.
So many hits. How do you decide the set list? Does one person end up, do you have to say, okay, well, in the end, we can all make suggestions, and then I'm going to have the final say? Or does someone have the power of vetoing?
well Tim probably would be the one who um wrangled this set list mostly um but we all you know weighed in for the ones that are the fringe dwellers we knew we only had an uh what was it a an 18 minute set so we were able to do we're banging out all of the and then a few of the sort of songs that became quite well-known, like I think Poor Boy, I doubt that was ever a single, but it became a very well-known song. And, you know, things that were... So we had to decide on the ones that were slightly off to the side. When we do a tour, which we're about to do, we'll be enlarging the setlist to a longer... So we've got five or six more songs to add. So a few deep cuts, maybe a couple of the old songs from the early days...
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:17
2
How did the Split Enz reunion start and who suggested the comeback?
5:17–9:23
3
What was the experience of playing Electric Avenue in front of 40,000 people?
9:23–12:45
4
How did the band decide the short festival setlist and who leads that process?
12:45–15:56