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Since relocating from Australia to London with his band Betchadupa in 2005, Liam Finn has been very busy indeed.
And the heir apparent to the Finn family's musical talent has just put the finishing touches on his solo album 'I'll Be Lightning' which was released in July 2007.
Liam spent two months at the beginning of this year in a central Auckland studio, Roundhead, playing, recording, engineering and producing his own album 'I'll Be Lightning'. "I didn't want to compromise or collaborate," he acknowledges. "I wanted to record these songs the way I heard them in my head. And I had a very clear idea of how I wanted them."
Part of this had to do with what Finn describes as the sort of passion and raw enthusiasm musicians get when they're recording demo tracks - that is, when they're recording a new song - for the first time. "It's a pretty special feeling. But usually you don't record them well enough to convince anyone to release them. So I wanted to get myself into a situation where I could translate that special mood into a recording."
To do this, Finn also stayed away from anything digital or computerized, instead opting for old fashioned analog gear, including a vintage Neve recording desk that The Who had once owned and a bunch of two inch tape. "It's like the difference between digital video and film", Finn explains. "There's just something you can't capture on computers."
The results of all of the above are released in July, with the first taste of the album coming via its first single 'Second Chance' in May.
Liam has recently given live audiences in London a bit of a thrill by singing, playing guitar lines, bass lines and the drums onstage at his solo gigs, with only a looping effects pedal for company and has also been on the road in the US opening for the reformed Crowded House, joining them on stage at the famous Coachella festival.
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