Sludge rock yawn of the year

Monday, 26 March 2007

By PJ TAYLOR

Dear Tim and Neil Finn,
Cc: Eddie Rayner, Noel Crombie and Nigel Griggs.

Hi lads. What happened to those Split Enz reformation gigs you promised last year? If you were waiting for a suitable, comfortable and modern indoor venue to become available, Auckland now has, after all these years, a mighty fine auditorium in the Vector Arena. Split Enz would have been a more worthy and appropriate opening act for Vector’s debut last Saturday, not an over-hyped glammed-up group of US covers sluggers. It’s about time you got out again and reminded us what seeing, hearing and feeling Split Enz is all about. You’re a principal string on New Zealand’s cultural guitar and there’s an ideal venue for Split Enz to play again in this country, near the shores of the Waitemata and on treasured Ngati Whatua land. You got me? Respectfully,

Lukas Rossi. Photo Garry Brandon/Vector Arena.

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