240 gigabytes of Neil Finn podcast

Wim dials in from Ghent to share his take on a stellar soundboard recording of Crowded House live at the Capitol Records Carpark 1991. Tracks featured in full include Weather With You, Tall Trees, Fall At Your Feet, Spellbound, All I Ask & Italian Plastic.

Wim gives further insight into learning the Crowdies catalogue with his tribute band 'Woodface' who are working up to a series of special shows to celebrate the Woodface album's 35th anniversary.

Check out Woodface's links over here:
https://linktr.ee/woodfaceCHtribute

Episode Cover: Four Seasons In One Day by Woodface

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The ENZ TO END podcasting trio assembles to rate and review the Rootin Tootin Luton Tapes. Recorded in 1978 and finally released in full to the public in 2007.  Does the album live up to the lore of being a lost masterpiece? Or is it merely a mess mess messy pile of demos? Adam, Dave & Chris give you the straight talk for your information!

Tracks for reference

• Miss Haps
 • Home Comforts
 • Animal Lover
 • Carried Away
 • Semi-Detached
 • Holy Smoke
 • Message Boy
 • Hypnotised
 • Late In Rome 
 • Straight Talk
 • Hollow Victory
 • Evelyn
 • Best Friend
 • Creature Comforts
 • Remember When

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Serena dials in from Sydney to revel amongst  the merits of Time On Earth era Crowded House. We apply our ears to a spirited performance from that time; Saratoga, 29 August 2007. Performances include There Goes God, Silent House, You're The One To Make Me Cry, Nails In My Feet, Pinapple Head, People Are Like Suns, She Called Up
Four Seasons In One Day (partial; PA got shut down!)

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Roll up, roll up! The ENZ TO END boys Dave, Chris & Adam take Split Enz's 1977's DIZRYTHMIA to task. Scores given for each and every song; we're still friends but we're still fighting about how it all went.

Dizrythmia tracklist for reference:
1 Bold as Brass 
 2 My Mistake 
 3 Parrot Fashion Love 
 4 Sugar and Spice 
 5 Without a Doubt 
 6 Crosswords 
 7 Charlie 
 8 Nice to Know 
 9 Jamboree 

Cowboy Dan bandcamp:
 https://cowboydanmusic.bandcamp.com/ 

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Chris crosses the Tasman into the mighty city of Melbourne for multiple nights of Crowded House at the Palais Theatre. Melbourne local Darryl put his audiance mics to work at the show and a few weeks later we put our heads together to listen back to first night (29/10/25). Lots of new material to digest! 

Performances include: Too Good For This World, In My Own Shell, It Was A Small Detail, At The Station, Pearly Shells, The Howl, New York Mining Disaster, Sweet Dreams, Last Summer. Plus a bonus performance of Dusty from night 2, 30/10/25.

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Greg Cooper joins us from Melbourne to reconnect with the Try Whistling This era and to go deep diving with Neil Finn & his band live at Festival Hall Dec 12 1998. Performances include: King Tide, Sinner Faster Than Light, Four Seasons In One Day, Fingers of Love, Loose Tounge, Try Whistling This Astro, When You Come, Suffer Never.

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Time to drop your lovers noose and swing! The next episode in the ENZ TO END series is upon us. The mighty Second Thoughts from 1976 is up for discussion. Dave, Chris & Adam give you all their thoughts on the album including a rating for every song. Hopefully all this enthusiasm and excitement spurs you on to go buy the remixed/remastered boxset of Mental Notes/Second Thoughts/Beginning Of The Enz out Nov 14th. 

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Darryl returns to finish the job in the second part of Crowded House in Melbourne 2 December 2008. Performances include: Lucky Lola, Cars Collide, Private Universe, Throw Your Arms Around Me.

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Darryl dials in from Melbourne to discuss his #1 Crowded House show; 2 December 2008 at The Forum in Melbourne. The audio is stellar from this show, in part due to Darryl's labour of love remastering a bunch of underappreciated Finn shows. This episode is part 1 of 2. Performances include World where you live, Isolation, Pineapple head, Amsterdam, Bernards magic shop & Chocolate cake. 

Your humble host's band Cowboy Dan also just dropped their debut album Dreams That Feel Like Falling last week. Streaming on the usual platforms or available to purchase on vinyl or digital over here: 

https://cowboydanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-that-feel-like-falling

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Amongst word of the Split Enz 2026 reunion excitement, Chris revisits the most recent Enz appearance, Sound Relief Melbourne 14 March 2009. Performances include Shark Attack, Message To My Girl, Dirty Creature, Pioneer/Six Months In A Leaky Boat, History Never Repeats, I See Red.

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