BBC GLR: 9th October 1998
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Publication   BBC GLR, London, UK
Date   9th October 1998
Interviewer   
Interviewee   Neil Finn

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DJ: Welcome back to GLR.
NF: Thank-you.
DJ: Erm, is it a festival on Monday night?
NF: It is a festival hall on Monday night. A festive festival hall.
DJ: It's going to be particularly festive this festival.
NF: It will be yes. We have all sorts of karaoke moments and lots of theatrical things suitable for such a fine arts complex.
DJ: I should hope so too. But we're not going to have none of that business today; it's just going to be straight ahead music.
NF: Oh, we're all nude down here.
DJ: Ohhh. What did you tell them for?!? We're going to get in trouble now. The BBC outlawed nude broadcasting some time in the late 70s.
NF: Really? You see well that's the thing - England's going backwards, isn't it really?
DJ: It's against our charter.
NF: You're supposed to be into nudity over here!
DJ: Just put some underpants on and sing us a song, will ya?!
NF: Alright.
DJ: What's the first one?
NF: The first one's called "Sinner".
DJ: Go on then.
NF: And it goes a little bit like this.

* Neil plays a wrong chord *

NF: Ha, fooled ya!
DJ: Although not a lot!

SINNER (live)

DJ: Sounded absolutely brilliant. Let's have another one before we go to travel.
NF: Alright. this one's called "Last One Standing". It's a New Zealand drinking song.

LAST ONE STANDING (live)

DJ: That's Neil Finn live and we shall have two more live numbers after this.

(...)

DJ: This is a special extended live session from Neil Finn down in the basement. Shall we continue?
NF: Yes we shall.
DJ: With?
NF: Er, "King Tide". Or "Kingy" as we call it, affectionately within the band.

KING TIDE (live)

DJ: We're gonna have one more live number. Quick guitar change downstairs. Right that's it. Oh, no, it's not a guitar change, it's a piano change. Pianist leaves...
NF: Just lifting my piano on now!
DJ: Don't you do your back in!
NF: It's alright. It's already well gone.
DJ: What song's this?
NF: This is a song called... er the title song of the album: "Try Whistling This".
DJ: Have a brilliant, brilliant evening on Monday will you?
NF: Thank-you very much.
DJ: And let's have a brilliant last number now.
NF: You can put your clothes back on now!

TRY WHISTLING THIS (live)

DJ: Brilliant as ever. Thank-you very much.
NF: Thank-you.