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Crowded House Announce First North American Tour in 12 Years

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Crowded House have announced their first North American tour in 12 years.

Founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, along with producer/keyboardist Mitchell Froom , guitarist and singer Liam Finn, and drummer Elroy Finn, will embark on a 21-date outing in September. The itinerary includes shows in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Toronto, Nashville, Denver, and Los Angeles, among other cities, before wrapping in Vancouver on October 3rd.

A ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday, April 28th (using code ROADIE ), with a public on-sale following on Friday, April 29th. Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster .

The tour comes in support of Crowded House’s 2021 comeback album, Dreamers Are Waiting , which marked the band’s first release in 11 years. Prior to touring America, Crowded House will embark on a lengthy tour of the UK and Europe (tickets are available here ).

Last year, Neil Finn appeared on Kyle Meredith With… to discuss the making of Dreamers Are Waiting and how his time in Fleetwood Mac influenced the album. Finn also appeared on The Story Behind the Song to reveal the origins of Crowded House’s iconic sing-along jam, “Don’t Dream It’s Over.”

Crowded House 2022 Tour Dates: 06/04 – London, UK @ Roundhouse 06/05 – London, UK @ Roundhouse 06/07 – London, UK @ Roundhouse 06/08 – London, UK @ Roundhouse 06/10 – Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro 06/11 – Scarborough, UK @ Scarborough Open Air Theatre 06/13 – Cardiff, UK @ Motorpoint Arena 06/14 – Birmingham, UK @ Utilita Arena 06/16 – Antwerp, BE @ Lotto Arena 06/17 – Landgraaf, NL @ Megaland 06/18 – Landgraaf, NL @ Pinkpop Festival 06/19 – Groningen, NL @ Stadspark Live 06/20 – Berlin, DE @ Tempodrome 06/22 – Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall 06/24 – Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury Music Festival 06/25 – Surrey, UK @ Hampton Court Palace 06/27 – Cork, IE @ Live at the Marquee 06/28 – Limerick, IE @ King John’s Castle 06/29 – Dublin, IE @ Trinity College 06/30 – Manchester, UK @ Castlefield Bowl 07/02 – Barcelona, ES @ Festival Jardins Pedralbes 07/03 – Madrid, ES @ Noches del Botanico 09/02 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 09/03 – Selbyville, DE @ Freeman Arts Pavilion 09/04 – Durham, NC @ The Carolina Theatre of Durham-Fletcher Hall 09/06 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall -Rose and Gilt Theatre 09/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 09/10 – Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre – Boch Center 09/11 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem 09/12 – Huber Heights, OH @ Rose Music Center at The Heights 09/14 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage 09/15 – Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre 09/17 – Louisville, KY @ Bourbon & Beyond Festival 09/18 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 09/20 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre 09/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre 09/23 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre 09/24 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Eccles Theater – Delta Hall 09/26 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern 09/28 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 09/30 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 10/01 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 10/03 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum

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Kicking off in Canada at Vancouver’s Orpheum on May 2, 2023 Crowded House will then undertake a further 17 shows throughout the month

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Crowded House have shared details for the rescheduled North American leg of their ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ tour, now set to commence in 2023.

Kicking off in Canada at Vancouver’s Orpheum on May 2, Crowded House will then undertake a further 17 shows throughout the month, including two back-to-back performances at Los Angeles’ Wiltern. You can check out all the date below.

The North American leg was originally due to commence in Philadelphia last month, but was postponed after drummer Elroy Finn sustained a “painful” injury to his lower back.

At the time, frontman Neil Finn said: “We are advised that there may be some risk in the recovery process for him to play shows at this time. The good health and future well-being of the band members has to be our priority.”

Tickets for original show dates remain valid for the new run. Remaining tickets are on sale now for all new shows.

The tour comes in support of (and is named for) Crowded House’s seventh album , last year’s Dreamers Are Waiting . The release marked Crowded House’s first album in 11 years, heralded by its lead single, “To The Island”.

Crowded House’s ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ 2023 US tour dates are as follows:

MAY: Tuesday 2 – Vancouver, BC, Orpheum Wednesday 3 – Seattle, WA, Paramount Theatre Thursday 4 – Portland, OR, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Saturday 6 – Oakland, CA, Fox Theater Monday 8 – Los Angeles, CA, The Wiltern Tuesday 9 – Los Angeles, CA, The Wiltern Wednesday 10 – Mesa, AZ, Mesa Arts Center Friday 12 – Denver, CO, Paramount Theatre Sunday 14 – Minneapolis, MN, State Theatre Monday 15 – Chicago, IL, Chicago Theatre Wednesday 17 – Durham, NC, The Carolina Theatre of Durham-Fletcher Hall Friday 19 – Nashvillle, TN, Ryman Auditorium Sunday 21 – Washington, DC, The Anthem Monday 22 – New York, NY, Beacon Theatre Wednesday 24 – Philadelphia, PA, The Met Friday 26 – Red Bank, NJ, Count Basie Center for the Arts Saturday 27 – Toronto, ON, Budweiser Stage Tuesday 30 – Boston, MA, Wang Theatre at Boch Center.

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Neil Finn on the return of Crowded House: ‘I am ultimately very optimistic about the world’

As the band release their first record in a decade, the New Zealand songwriter reflects on their influences – from Fleetwood Mac to Donald Trump

Neil Finn, New Zealand music’s jovial elder statesman, is remembering his best friend and bandmate Paul Hester.

He recalls the Crowded House drummer holding Finn’s baby son Liam up to the heavens, recreating a scene from the 70s TV show Roots; how Hester taught Liam’s younger brother, Elroy, to play the drums. But Hester’s gone now – he took his own life in 2005.

“Paul is a very constant presence in my life – I think about him all the time,” Finn says over Zoom from his home in Auckland, New Zealand. “A lot of the good memories and good associations with Paul resonate easily as much as the sadness of losing him.”

For Finn, Hester’s spirit lives on in Crowded House’s new lineup, which officially includes Liam and Elroy (now in their 30s, the brothers have played solo, together and with their father for years); founding bass player Nick Seymour; and longtime producer Mitchell Froom, who joined the band after decades of convincing. Together they’ve released Dreamers Are Waiting, the band’s first album in more than a decade.

“I know Paul would be delighted,” Finn says. “It would have made perfect sense to him, because everyone in this [lineup] has got a really strong connection to the whole history of Crowded House, the whole ethos, the humour and the musicality. In some ways it’s a return, as much as it’s a new phase, to a spirit that existed from the very beginning.”

With just one international hit, 1986’s Don’t Dream It’s Over, international readers may not fathom the occasion of a new Crowded House album; how thoroughly the band’s 80s and 90s catalogue is entwined in the cultural fabric of Australia and New Zealand. In 1996 more than 100,000 bereft fans packed the Sydney Opera House’s forecourt steps to farewell the band’s original lineup of Finn, Seymour and Hester. (When told of this assignment, one colleague texted me: “I would crumble. He is a god to me.”)

For antipodeans, those early albums are akin to Graceland or Born in the USA, with the prolific Finn our version of Tom Petty. Since starting in his brother Tim’s beloved new wave band Split Enz (Tim played in Crowded House for a time too), Finn has released seven Crowded House records and at least a dozen others.

Two charity albums corralled lauded admirers including the Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Radiohead’s Phil Selway and Ed O’Brien, Wilco and KT Tunstall. And it was the attention of another famous and longtime fan, Mick Fleetwood, that spurred the creation of Dreamers Are Waiting. When Fleetwood Mac’s longstanding lead guitarist Lindsey Buckingham was ousted, Finn was unexpectedly called to their ranks for a tour of North America, Europe, New Zealand and Australia.

“It was just crazy really – although it’s amazing how things become normal,” says Finn. “[You’re] standing in rehearsal and singing with Stevie [Nicks] and Christine [McVie]; with John McVeigh and Mick Fleetwood, one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time. But within a week or two, you’re just making music with people. It was an unfamiliar role for me … being a part of the machine.”

Neil Finn, centre, flanked by John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Mike Campbell

Playing Fleetwood Mac’s propulsive songs kickstarted Finn’s desire to record an “outgoing”, rather than introspective, album; and a move to Los Angeles for his new gig aligned a nexus of collaborators. Liam was living in LA with his wife and young sons, and Elroy and Froom had moved there too – with Seymour travelling from his home in Ireland. Rehearsals began in mid-November 2019, the very day after the 13-month Evening With Fleetwood Mac tour finished.

“There is momentum when you come off the road … there’s a good energy for music. You’ve taken a lot in, absorbed a lot. Somehow there’s this willingness to express yourself and aspirations are set high, because you’re fresh from the sound of applause,” says Finn, poking fun at his profession’s desire for adulation.

Dreamers Are Waiting is a richly textured record about treasuring loved ones and securing their future, the myths we indulge to make it all seem OK. “Our generation being in control has really fucked things up,” Finn says. Recording it in the US, in the final year of the Trump presidency, has woven threads of anxiety and portent through it.

The gossamer Show Me the Way, for instance, is filled with vivid imagery Finn says crept in subconsciously: handguns under pillows, red and blue, sugarcane plantations and burning crosses. The album is bombastic, absurd and hilarious at points too, with Finn playing the exasperated town crier, bewildered at society’s ambivalence to its impending doom. And on Whatever You Want (the video for which stars Mac DeMarco) he tears down charlatans and their enablers:

‘This is not right; this man is a fake!’ But they will follow him down to the edge of the cliff And if he tells them to jump They will jump right in.

“It’s not just the obvious big orange one in America,” Finn says. “It’s not new. People who achieve power through dubious means are usually surrounded by a coterie of arse lickers who love their little piece of the power structure, who hang on to it and do anything they can to be in that mix.

“I don’t normally venture into those areas [lyrically] because far better minds than me are able to express it … but I was compelled, and that song just found its way out.”

Nine-tenths of the rhythm tracks were recorded in those LA sessions, at Valentine Recording Studios – a treasure trove of analogue vintage equipment and perfectly preserved 70s interiors. Eventually though, surging Covid-19 cases forced the band to retreat to their corners of the world.

For Finn, that meant finishing the album remotely in New Zealand, affording him “the time to ruminate and dream away with [the songs]”, dismantle and reassemble them, before adding in contributions from the band ­– flourishes of lockdown-induced tinkering – like French horn samples sent in by Seymour that Finn says may not have materialised under a recording studio’s time constraints.

Dreamers is not a “pandemic album” but its songs have an uncanny relevance to today’s cataclysms, particularly in relation to New Zealand – a place its people (including Finn) once clamoured to leave for opportunities abroad, it’s now perceived as a progressive, Covid-free, island-sanctuary of Hobbit holes and billionaire apocalypse bunkers.

But like anywhere, New Zealand has its dualities. The Indigenous Māori culture is resurgent but wildly overrepresented in prisons and poverty statistics; it has a low population and a crippling housing crisis; agriculture is poisoning its waterways; and Finn sees growing isolationism and a fear of immigration.

“Come to the island / Where we can save our souls / It’s just the right size / The world is beyond us / It’s too enormous / But oh the island is just right,” sings Finn on To the Island, an uneasy reverie of shimmering fantasias.

“I’m not downplaying what is important in ordinary people’s lives, but some of the bigger picture items – you would expect New Zealand to be doing much better at,” Finn says. “Like the environment, poverty and mental health, and acknowledging the incredibly important role of teachers and nurses.

Neil Finn

“All the right noises are being made here now, but I think there’s a really big readjustment that needs to take place for New Zealanders to really feel proud, in a holistic sense, of where we are in our development.”

Which isn’t to say Finn doesn’t love the country, even if he rejects its conservatism and jingoistic flag waving.

“It’s my home, and I feel it when I’m in the presence of nature – there is something elemental and essential about it, that’s not imagined,” he says. Having grandchildren gives him resolve.

“The great thing about having these two beautiful boys to consider is that you have to be optimistic. You can’t just overindulge the morbid thoughts. I am ultimately very optimistic about the world, because I know so many amazing young people and there are just so many good brains out there.”

Finn’s in his 60s now and on Playing with Fire’s first verse you can hear the anxiety of living in a world that feels worse than the one he entered: “ Lately I’ve been lying frozen in my bed / feeling like the end isn’t far away. ” But by its end, it seems his capacity for hope hasn’t been entirely engulfed by flames:

And some may say We’ll turn it round If you believe such a thing I’ll believe such a thing.

Dreamers Are Waiting by Crowded House is out Friday 4 June. Crowded House: Live From the Island – a performance filmed in March in New Zealand – is streaming globally on Saturday 12 June

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Today, iconic multi-platinum selling band CROWDED HOUSE officially announced their highly anticipated North American tour that follows on the heels of both sold-out Australian and European legs of the tour along with their seventh studio album Dreamers Are Waiting. The new music as well as the tour features founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour along with producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, guitarist and singer Liam Finn and drummer Elroy Finn.

“Crowded House are delighted at long last to be able to play shows in North America. We have been picking up the pace recently as the world opens up and can’t wait present the show with this band lineup in absolute top form to the good folk of North America, from sea to shining sea,” said Neil Finn.

Crowded House is a long standing and much-loved vehicle for the song writing talents of Neil Finn. Formed in Melbourne Australia in 1985 out the ashes of New Zealand’s Split Enz by Neil, Paul Hester and Nick Seymour, their eponymous self-titled debut album on Capitol Records went on to global success with the hits “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and “Something So Strong”. Those songs and many that followed are still resonating with audiences today, the former in particular being one of the most covered songs of the last 20 years. The band’s first incarnation lasted from 1985 through 1996 with 4 studio albums and enjoyed much success worldwide, becoming particularly beloved for their freewheeling and interactive live shows. This lineup said Farewell to the World on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996 with a now legendary performance in front of 150,000 people.

In 2007 following the tragic death of Paul Hester, Neil and Nick felt emotionally compelled to bring Crowded House back, to put some more good history, as they described it, into the story of the band. Drafting in new drummer Matt Sherrod and with long time touring member Mark Hart they released the album “Time On Earth” to critical acclaim and toured the world. Another album, ‘Intriguer”, was recorded in 2009 and Crowded House was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2016, at the same time reprising its Farewell shows at the Sydney Opera House with 4 nights of stunning performances.

TOUR ITINERARY Friday, September 2 Philadelphia, PA The Metropolitan Opera House Saturday, September 3 Selbyville, DE Freeman Arts Pavilion Sunday, September 4 Durham, NC The Carolina Theatre of Durham-Fletcher Hall Tuesday, September 6 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland Wednesday, September 7 New York, NY Beacon Theatre Saturday, September 10 Boston, MA Boch Center – Wang Theatre Sunday, September 11 Washington, DC The Anthem Monday, September 12 Huber Heights, OH Rose Music Center at The Heights Wednesday, September 14 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage Thursday, September 15 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre Saturday, September 17 Louisville, KY Bourbon & Beyond Festival Sunday, September 18 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium Tuesday, September 20 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre Wednesday, September 21 Minneapolis, MN State Theatre Friday, September 23 Denver, CO Paramount Theatre Saturday, September 24 Salt Lake City, UT Eccles Theater – Delta Hall Monday, September 26 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern Wednesday, September 28 Oakland, CA Fox Theater Friday, September 30 Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Saturday, October 1 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre Monday, October 3 Vancouver, BC Orpheum

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Crowded House reborn: Neil Finn talks ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’, their most experimental album in decades

How touring the world with Fleetwood Mac and the maelstrom of 2020 led Neil Finn to revitalise the beloved band

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“We’re not going to sit here like dorks,” Neil Finn recently declared to media who’d assembled virtually and in-person in Auckland’s Roundhead studios to hear Crowded House’s first album in over a decade. The band, Finn said, would not adopt what he called “the Nick Hornby model with sad old wankers staring at the floor”.

“We will play along – it’s a good rehearsal for us, really,” he assured the media coterie.

A man ran to the corner of the room to drop the needle on a vinyl copy of ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’, and Crowded House crackled into life. Gone was the orchestral grandiosity of 2010’s ‘Intriguer’ – replaced by the sound of a band simply “playing in a room”, as Finn put it. That’s no doubt in part due to how Crowded House’s new members aren’t all that new, after all: Finn’s two sons Liam and Elroy have joined on guitar and drums, respectively, as well as Mitchell Froom – the producer of the band’s first three albums – on keyboards.

More rehearsal couldn’t have hurt, either, since it was a day before the start of Crowded House’s 12-date New Zealand To The Island tour, their first live shows since 2016’s ‘Encore’ Sydney Opera House concerts – a greatest hits victory lap marking 20 years since they broke up in 1996. The band went on an “indefinite hiatus” after that, and it almost looked like Crowded House would be consigned to history when Finn accepted an offer to replace Lindsay Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac in 2018.

But as it turns out, working the glitzy global tour circuit with Stevie Nicks actually prompted Finn to return to his band from the Land of the Long White Cloud. “I started thinking differently about what classic bands could be: they could be vital and not nostalgia,” he explained.

Vitality is the elemental force behind ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’, easily Crowded House’s most experimental record since ‘Woodface’ in 1993. When the ever-affable Finn calls NME from a “bright-ish” Auckland two months later, the 63-year-old is practically effervescent after their nationwide tour previewing the new material.

“We found out on the tour… that the five of us sound really, really good,” he laughs down a hissing phone line. “There will be a live special that we recorded and filmed, which we’re just mixing now, and it’s blowing me away a little bit to hear it.”

That special is Live From The Island, an upcoming Crowded House livestream of a New Zealand concert they filmed in March. Taking place June 12, it’ll be the first opportunity for most of the world to see the newest iteration for Crowded House – sans former drummer Matt Sherrod and keyboard-guitarist Mark Hart.

Sherrod, who’d played with Crowded House since 2007, and Hart, who’d been a member since 1993, were dismissed without much public explanation. “That was a tough call,” Finn muses. “Mark is a good friend, a great player, and was obviously a big part of Crowded House for a number of years. Probably to some of the fans, that was a great mystery.”

Finn reveals that after the 2016 Opera House shows, the band tried working on some new music “and it just went around in circles a bit. And to be honest, it didn’t feel like we had a new direction. And I don’t mean that to sound harsh about any of the people in the band, but I just wasn’t feeling it… I think there wouldn’t have been another Crowded House record at this point [with the old line-up].”

“There’s some really lovely things that happen only when a band plays all at once”

‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ came about through the collision of traditional record-making with the warped circumstances of 2020. Sessions began in the classical fashion at the ageing Valentine Recording Studios in Los Angeles.

“It looks like a timepiece, it’s got lime green carpet on the walls,” Finn recalls. “It isn’t an easy place to get a great sound. But once you get the room working and everybody set up in the right positions, it really came down to using some old skills about balancing in the room.”

Those old skills, as it turns out, refer to shunning headphones and click tracks in favour of the ad hoc magic of a band counting in and playing live.

“There’s some really lovely things that happen only when a band plays all at once. That just doesn’t seem to happen in another context,” Finn says, with a quick caveat lest he be perceived as a grouchy rockist: “Not to say that modern record-making has anything wrong with it.”

But when the pandemic hit, liveness had to be substituted for strangeness. Finn lived in LA with Liam and Elroy throughout the first wave of lockdowns, and worked out of a single room in their home, interrupted only by hummingbirds fluttering outside his window. The band agreed to push the album’s release past 2020 so Crowded House could return to the stage to introduce it – giving them time to make “radical changes” to the material.

Finn embraced his tinkering spirit during this period – something he says comes through particularly on ‘Show Me The Way’. “I actually had quite a strong inclination to destroy the work I’d been doing for the last few days, in the thrill of watching it float to the ground, grabbing the best bits and making something new out of it,” he explains.

In the March listening session, Finn tried to underline the joy ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ offers amid global sadness – but contemporary paranoia still eats away at its songs. “ Let’s all be quiet / The next generation’s talking / We’re behind the wheel / We’re driving straight to the wall ,” he cries on ‘Playing With Fire’ .

“We’ve got the celebratory feeling about having the band back together. But, you know, I’m one of those people… when things are going really well, there’s just a hint of worry about impending doom” Finn admits. “At the moment, I think we’ve all got that feeling a little bit. We’re emerging, possibly, from this pandemic, and a little bit of hope is starting to creep back – but then there’s this sense that there are bigger problems ahead.”

He halts mid-explanation. “Anyway, I don’t want to dwell on that as a message for the song.”

“I’m fully aware of my own limitations and I’ve decided at some point to make the most of it”

But again, it leaks out. In ‘Whatever You Want’, Finn rails against the “ cult of yes men ”, from the music industry to demagogues in the age of misinformation. The singer is never didactic, however, in large part because he can’t affect narrative songwriting, instead exploring big ideas and feelings with free association.

“I’m fully aware of my own limitations and I’ve decided at some point to make the most of it,” he says. “If I allow myself to be a bit free, and not pinned down by having to be linear, then I can come up with some great lines.”

A vivid example is in ‘Sweet Tooth’ – “ There were six of us / Somehow / Now there’s 17 ” is a vignette of bringing a bag of chips to school, and seeing more and more “friends” asking you to share. It’s a comforting callback to the non-sequiturs that riddle some of the band’s old hits (think ‘Chocolate Cake’). Evidently, the chaos of modernity and a personnel shake-up aren’t enough to erase the wry Crowded House DNA.

But will the band fall into another indefinite hiatus? Not if Finn can help it. Unprompted, Finn says another album from the renewed group might be possible next year, declaring they will “move through the next phase much quicker”.

“I think we’ll make some great gains from having done this touring. It really feels like we’re poised with this great energy and a sense of purpose. We are reborn.”

Crowded House’s ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ is out now. On June 12, the band will stage Live From The Island. Get tickets here

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Iconic Band Crowded House Announce Fox Theatre Performance September 15

(DETROIT – April 26, 2022) – Iconic multi-platinum selling band Crowded House has officially announced their highly anticipated North American tour to include a stop at the Fox Theatre on Thursday, September 15 at p.m. Comerica Bank is the exclusive presenting partner of the Fox Theatre.

Tickets (starting at $40) go on sale Friday, April 29 at 10 a.m. at 313Presents.com , LiveNation.com , Ticketmaster.com and the XFINITY Box Office at Little Caesars Arena.

American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets in select markets before the general public beginning Wednesday, April 27 at 10 a.m. local time through Thursday, April 28 at 10 p.m. local time.

The North American tour announcement follows on the heels of sold-out Australian and European legs of the tour along with their seventh studio album Dreamers Are Waiting. Listen to the album  here . The new music as well as the tour features founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour along with producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, guitarist and singer Liam Finn and drummer Elroy Finn. 

“Crowded House are delighted at long last to be able to play shows in North America. We have been picking up the pace recently as the world opens up and can’t wait present the show with this band lineup in absolute top form to the good folk of North America, from sea to shining sea,” said Neil Finn. 

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Crowded House is a long standing and much-loved vehicle for the song writing talents of Neil Finn. Formed in Melbourne Australia in 1985 out the ashes of New Zealand’s Split Enz by Neil, Paul Hester and Nick Seymour, their eponymous self-titled debut album on Capitol Records went on to global success with the hits “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and “Something So Strong”. Those songs and many that followed are still resonating with audiences today, the former being one of the most covered songs of the last 20 years. The band’s first incarnation lasted from 1985 through 1996 with 4 studio albums and enjoyed much success worldwide, becoming particularly beloved for their freewheeling and interactive live shows. This lineup said Farewell to the World on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996 with a now legendary performance in front of 150,000 people. 

In 2007 following the tragic death of Paul Hester, Neil and Nick felt emotionally compelled to bring Crowded House back, to put some more good history, as they described it, into the story of the band.  Drafting in new drummer Matt Sherrod and with long time touring member Mark Hart they released the album Time On Earth to critical acclaim and toured the world. Another album, Intriguer, was recorded in 2009 and Crowded House was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2016, at the same time reprising its Farewell shows at the Sydney Opera House with 4 nights of stunning performances.

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Crowded House Reschedule North American Tour to 2023

It had been pushed back due to their drummer's lower back injury

Crowded House Reschedule North American Tour to 2023

Crowded House recently announced they would have to postpone their  first North American tour in 12 years due to their drummer’s lower back injury , and now the band has revealed the trek is being pushed to 2023.

The rescheduled “Dreamers Are Waiting” leg now kicks off May 2nd in Vancouver. It includes shows in New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Nashville, Los Angeles, and more before wrapping in Boston on May 30th.

See the full itinerary below. Previously purchased tickets are valid for the rescheduled dates. Tickets are available now for the majority of the shows via Ticketmaster , with additional seats for dates in Los Angeles and Oakland opening up on Friday, September 23rd at 10:00 a.m. local time.

The upcoming tour is in support of Crowded House’s comeback album, 2021’s Dreamers Are Waiting , which marked the band’s first release in 11 years. Frontman Neil Finn guested on Kyle Meredith With… last year to discuss how his time in Fleetwood Mac influenced the making of the album. He also appeared on  The Story Behind the Song to break down the origins of Crowded House’s signature song, “Don’t Dream It’s Over.”

Crowded House 2023 Tour Dates: 05/02 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum 05/03 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 05/04 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 05/06 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 05/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern 05/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern 05/10 – Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Arts Center 05/12 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre 05/14 – Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre 05/15 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre 05/17 – Durham, NC @ The Carolina Theatre of Durham-Fletcher Hall 05/19 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 05/21 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem 05/22 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 05/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 05/26 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Center for the Arts 05/27 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage 05/30 – Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre at Boch Center

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MELBOURNE, 17 February, 2022: Award winning icons, CROWDED HOUSE , have today announced additional dates and locations for their Australian Dreamers Are Waiting Tour .  These new shows include Hobart’s MyState Bank Arena on Aprll 19, Royal Theatre, Canberra on April 21, and additional A Day On The Green dates on April 23 at Mt. Duneed Estate, Waurn Ponds, and Bimbadgen, Hunter Valley, on April 24.

Crowded House’s first two shows in Perth and original shows Melbourne and Sydney have sold out, with only limited tickets remaining for the final shows in these states. Very limited additional tickets have now been released for the previously sold-out Adelaide show.

The Australian tour follows their 2021 New Zealand tour during which they played to full houses, rapturous audiences and universal critical acclaim, and mark Crowded House’s first national Australian tour since 2010, and only their third Australian tour during the last 15 years.

Crowded House were awarded Best Adult Contemporary Album for Dreamers Are Waiting at the 2021 ARIA Awards in November last year, and have been nominated for Best Record at the Sailor Jerry Rolling Stone Awards 2022 , which will be held in Sydney on March 30.

Crowded House will commence their Australian tour in Perth at Kings Park and Botanic Garden on April 1, 2 and 3, followed by  Adelaide Entertainment Centre on April 5, Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl on April 8 and 9, Aware Super Theatre in Sydney on April 12 and 13, Centennial Vineyards in Bowral on April 16, Bluesfest, Byron Bay on April 17, Mystate Bank Arena, Hobart on Aprll 19, Royal Theatre, Canberra on April 21, Mt. Duneed Estate, Waurn Ponds on April 23, and concluding at Bimbadgen, Hunter Valley, on April 24.

Tickets for the 4 new shows go on sale at 11.00am (local time) on Thursday February 24.

American Express cardholders can secure tickets first during the exclusive pre-sale period beginning at 9am on Monday February 21, concluding at 9am on Wednesday February 23.  My Live Nation members can secure tickets during the pre-sale beginning at 10am on Wednesday February 23, concluding at  10am on Thursday February 24.

For complete tour, ticket and VIP Experience information, visit: livenation.com.au

Special guest for the new shows in Hobart and Canberra is TBC.

Special guests in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney are acclaimed rock band Middle Kids, fresh from picking up the 2021 ARIA Award for Best Rock Album for ‘Today We’re The Greatest’. Championed back in 2016 by Elton John on his Beats 1 radio show for their mesmerising debut single ‘Edge of Town’, the band delivered a cover of ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ for triple j’s Like A Version. Their debut album ‘Lost Friends’won the prestigious J Award for Australian Album of the Year, and they achieved a top 5 ARIA Chart result for ‘Today We’re The Greatest’ earlier this year.

At Centennial Vineyards’ A Day On The Green , Crowded House will be joined by special guests, Teskey Brothers, whilst at Mt. Duneed Estate, Angus and Julia Stone and The Waifs join the lineup and Bimbadgen will welcome Courtney Barnett and The Waifs.

Crowded House unveiled a new lineup last year, featuring founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour, along with producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, guitarist and singer Liam Finn and drummer Elroy Finn.

They released their seventh studio album Dreamers Are Waiting on June 4, 2021, featuring the singles Whatever You Want, Playing With Fire, To The Island, Love Isn’t Hard At All , and latest offering, Sweet Tooth.  

Crowded House is a long standing and much-loved vehicle for the song writing talents of Neil Finn. Formed in Melbourne Australia in 1985 out the ashes of New Zealand’s Split Enz by Neil, Paul Hester and Nick Seymour, their eponymous self-titled debut album on Capitol Records went on to global success with the hits Don’t Dream It’s Over and Something So Strong . Those songs and many that followed are still resonating with audiences today, the former in particular being one of the most covered songs of the last 20 years. The band’s first incarnation lasted from 1985 through 1995, produced 4 studio albums and enjoyed much success worldwide, becoming particularly beloved for their freewheeling and interactive live shows. This lineup said Farewell to the World on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996 with a now legendary performance in front of 150,000 people.  
In 2005 following the tragic death of Paul Hester, Neil and Nick felt emotionally compelled to bring Crowded House back, to put some more good history, as they described it, into the story of the band.  Drafting in new drummer Matt Sherrod and with long time touring member Mark Hart they released the album “Time On Earth” to critical acclaim and toured the world. Another album, ‘Intriguer”, was recorded in 2009 and Crowded House was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2016, at the same time reprising its Farewell shows at the Sydney Opera House with 4 nights of stunning performances, the last of which was broadcast nationally on ABC-TV.

Dreamers Are Waiting heralds a further chapter in the Crowded House story. A new generation has grown up and connected with their songs and will now get to experience the band live as they perform legendary anthems from the band’s 35-year career, along with fresh new music.

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Crowded House Announce Australian 2022 Tour

By Caitlin Medcalf

Last week, Crowded House were awarded the 2021 ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album for their record  Dreamers Are Waiting .

Today, they’re announcing a national tour, with the band expected to hit Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Bowral and Byron Bay in April, 2022 armed with their ARIA Award-winning album.

The tour will be the band’s first in Australia since 2010, marking 12 years since their return to the road right here on their home soil.

Joining the band on tour will be Middle Kids , who also just won an ARIA Award for Best Rock Album with their record  Today We’re The Greatest .

The Teskey Brothers will join them at Bowral’s A Day On The Green show.

Earlier this year, Crowded House unveiled their new live roster, with founding members Neil Finn and Nick Seymour now being joined by producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom, guitarist and singer Liam Finn, and drummer Elroy Finn.

American Express cardholders can gain access to the first special pre-sale, which will begin at 1PM on Tuesday, 7th December. This pre-sale will end at 1PM on Thursday, 9th December.

My Live Nation members can access the final pre-sale, which will kick off at 2PM on Thursday, 9th December, and wrap up at 11AM on Friday, 10th December.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 12PM local time on Friday, 10th December.

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Crowded House  Dreamers Are Waiting 2022 National Tour

Friday, 1st April Kings Park, Perth

Tuesday, 5th April Entertainment Centre, Adelaide

Friday, 8th April Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne

Tuesday, 12th April Aware Super Theatre, Sydney

Saturday, 16th April Centennial Vineyards, Bowral

Sunday, 17th April Bluesfest, Byron Bay

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