Crowded House Warming!
“Once Neil came home from the studio and I had all these people there,” says Crowded House’s Nick Seymour. “We were sliding down the hallway stairs in cardboard boxes.” Yes, things got very crowded when the Australian-based Crowded House was temporarily displaced to Hollywood last year.
Crowded House Warming!
Vicki Arkoff
“Once Neil came home from the studio and I had all these people there,” says Crowded House’s Nick Seymour. “We were sliding down the hallway stairs in cardboard boxes.”
Yes, things got very crowded when the Australian-based Crowded House was temporarily displaced to Hollywood last year. There, the trio—leader Neil Finn, drummer Paul Hester and bassist Seymour—shared a chaotic household while recording their self-titled debut.
“It had its moments,” grins Firth, the band’s songwriter, guitarist and benevolent dictator. “But we wanted to be committed to the band and to live together. For a band that’s hoping to be around for awhile, it’s important to know each other.”
Crowded House is a new structure for Finn—a new group constructed from the ashes of New Zealand's Split Enz. Finn and his brother Tim put eight years into the Enz—with Paul Hester and Crowded House’s temporary keyboardist, Eddie Raynor, also doing time. But within a week of the Split Enz break-up, Finn was busy recording ^demos that soon became the Crowded House repertoire