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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Walter Marsh

Crowded House review – a joyous and long-awaited return to Australia

Crowded House opening the Dreamers Are Waiting tour in Christchurch.
Liam Finn, Neil Finn and Nick Seymour of Crowded House, a band that continues to play with an unspoken, familial fluency – and a lot of love. Photograph: Aaron Lee

Neil Finn has spent much of his life onstage, but he’s the first to admit his between-song “patter” is a little rusty. He stops himself in the middle of an anecdote about spending the previous day cycling around Adelaide, perhaps sensing it’s one dad joke too far – even for the demographic mix of a Crowded House show in the year 2022.

“It’s a great story isn’t it, Liam?” he says, looking to his eldest son on his right.

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