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Matinee Idyll - Neil Finn

Additional information that won't fit in the name index or is off-topic for the individual movie pages.

Name: Neil Mullane Finn
Son: Liam Finn
Brother: Tim Finn

Sharon Finn creates mosaics eg for Dave Dobbyn's album "Twist", the "Try Whistling This" CD and the cover of Neil's book of lyrics Love This Life.

Attended Sacred Heart College
Movies Neil Finn has been involved with.
Neil Finn Photos I took in HMV, Oxford Circus, Oct 1998
I Like To Read - Neil Finn books (also Crowded House, Split Enz)
Production on the Mutton Birds single In My Room, 1995

Links

• Official Sites
• Neil Finn - news (frenz.com)

• Neil Finn (Australian Rock Database)
• Neil Finn (Crowded House site)
• Neil Finn biography (frenz.com)

Bands

• After Hours
• members included Brent Eccles who appears with The Angels in Jane Campion's film Holy Smoke (1999):- PJ Waters (Harvey Keitel) tries to 'deprogram' Ruth (Kate Winslet) from a cult she joined on a visit to India (UK - 18)
• Brent Eccles was also in Citizen Band.
• Brent Eccles son, Matt, was in Betchadupa with Liam Finn.
• Split Enz 1977-84
• The Mullanes 1985
• The Party Boys 1985 - with Dave Dobbyn, Peter Warren and Mike Chunn.
• DD Smash (members included Dave Dobbyn and Peter Warren) had supported The Mullanes on tour.
• Crowded House 1986-96, 2007
• Finn 1995/Finn Brothers 2005
• solo 1998-?

Videos

"She Will Have Her Way" (Neil Finn) video was inspired by the movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958). Remake: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (TV) (1993) - Oddz and Endz

Other people with the same name

An archaeologist: The Origins of a Leicester Suburb Roman, Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval occupation on Bonners Lane Roman, Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval occupation on Bonners Lane, Neil Finn and contributors, ISBN: 1841716146

There is a jazz musician called Neal Finn, whose name has been mispelt as Neil Finn.

Notes

Tim Finn has written original music for soundtracks for many years. Rain (NZ 2001) is the first music Neil Finn has written specifically for a movie.

Sources of information

Neil Finn (Australian Rock Database)

Page compiled by carolyn
Last updated 11th July, 2007.