Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Hothouse Flowers in New Zealand
Celtic soul performers Hothouse Flowers are famous for two things in New Zealand; one is, well, the thing they're famous for everywhere - Don't Go - and the other is ALT, says Scott Cara of the New Zealand Herald.
ALT was the 1995 Liam Ó Maonlaí collaboration with Tim Finn and Andy White that resulted in the album Altitude:
I had been to great places in music with the band and I found that with Tim and Andy we were hitting similar places and I felt that we had done our share of records - polished and otherwise - and it felt like a good time to hop on an atmosphere. And lo and behold when we went into the studio to make music we just had a soundNote that the Herald article calls Andy White, Andy Rourke. White is a former Irish Songwriter of the Year award winner in a year when nominations included Bono and Christy Moore, and a folk superstar in his own right, making ALT truly a folk supergroup. New Zealand's Tim Finn is hugely popular in Ireland, and his little brother Neil was in a band of some popularity also.
The A of ALT, Andy lives in Australia these days, where he recently performed at the Commonwealth Games, and has continued to collaborate with the L (Liam) and T (Tim) through the years, as well as people like Sinéad O'Connor and Peter Gabriel. You can listen to a few samples from Altitude here on Amazon.
posted by Eolaí @ 4/25/2006 08:44:00 AM :: Link to this Post ::
1 Comments:
I thought there was even less chance of Split Enz reforming than of Crowded House, but shows you what I know - the classic lineup is about to tour Oz - but not NZ. I don't know why but I guess sometimes they still get frightened.
So naturally, before the tour begins in June, Tim Finn is reminiscing about the beginning of the Enz.
The NZ govt should've done what the Brazilian govt did with Pelé when they declared him a National Treasure so he couldn't be sold to a foreign football club, but 10% is a start.
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