At around 9:30pm on the evening of Friday 4 April 2025, Neil Finn strode out on stage at the Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, to join English singer-songwriter Dua Lipa, her two backing singers and her five-piece band. It was Lipa’s second night at the venue and just as she and the band had done at every show on their nine-month Radical Optimism tour, they played a cover of a song by a local artist from the city they were performing in.
At some shows on the tour, the artist who had written and recorded the song would make a surprise appearance, which was precisely how Neil Finn – wearing a blue utilitarian shirt and sporting a rather fetching Fender Jaguar – came to join Lipa on stage that night.
