Finn Brings ‘Dizzy Heights’ Home

Neil Finn wraps up a four-month tour through North America and Europe behind his Dizzy Heights album with a run through his home country of New Zealand.

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Of Crowded House at Hard Rock Calling.

Brent Eccles Entertainment confirmed Napier’s Municipal Theatre, Wellington Opera House, Auckland’s Powerstation, Dunedin’s Regent Theatre and Christchurch’s CBS Canterbury Arena Sept. 18-27.

Finn’s band includes his wife, Sharon Finn, Alistair Deverick of The Ruby Suns, prodigious guitarist and songwriter Jesse Sheehan, former member Thursday member Andrew Everding and Lisa Tomlins of drum & bass/dub Rhombus.

The tour opener is acclaimed singer-songwriter Bic Runga, doing her first NZ shows since 2011’s The Acoustic Church tour.