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[Eb] [N] Tim Fitts!
I know, very, very popular TV.
Very nice.
Now, opening night is tonight, right?
Yes, I've done seven of these now, and this is my seventh stage production.
So, you know, the last one that people might remember was Ladies in Black,
but it never gets easier.
Opening nights are terrifying, and you're just sitting in there
with your friends and you've got Simon Phillips, our director,
and you know, you just kind of like tight together, you know,
and then if it goes well, which hopefully it will,
it's the best buzz in the world, and it's worth that terror, you know.
Is it scary not having any power?
You've just got to sit in the crowd?
I would rather probably be backstage doing that
than just sitting, pulling a rope.
Oh, right.
Just checking.
You get off.
That's right.
So what is it about this production, Come [Bb] Rain or Come Shine,
that made you want to get involved?
Well, I read the story.
My wife Marie gave me the little book as a gift.
It's a little [F] short story [Gm] by Katsuo Ishiguro.
He's my favourite author, [Dm] I would say.
[C] And it just [Gm] sort of, [D] I don't know, there were songs everywhere.
[C] He'd even sort of kindly put some of them in [Am] capitals
as if he was kind of [B] suggesting a song title, [E] you know,
calling the characters by a certain name or whatever.
And he is a songwriter himself,
and so there's a lot of music in the [N] story.
It's about three friends who went to uni together,
and then you jump forward 25 years,
and one of them hasn't really done much at all,
hasn't changed his life.
The other two have.
There's a triangle going on, a bit of unrequited love,
a lot of broad farce.
It gets very funny towards the end.
Who knew Ishiguro was funny?
But he is.
Remains of the day is not a funny movie.
Not, no.
But, yeah, it's a great story, and we love these characters,
so we'll see.
You've kept busy during lockdown
with something called the Forensics Project.
Yeah.
This is a [C] fantastic idea.
Can you just take us through it?
Well, Eddie Rayner, who is a keyboard [Bb] player in Split Enz,
and I decided [Bbm] to investigate early Split Enz music
[C] and find little segments that we've always loved
and then pull them out and sort of [Bb] create an entirely new song using [D] that.
So [Bbm] the DNA of the [Db] early Split Enz [C] song is in there,
but it's a new [Ebm] song, and people are loving it.
They [Bb] love the fact that it reminds, there's memories,
[Bbm] and it's very evocative of the past, but it's [C] also fresh and new.
So, yeah, it was a writing project [Ebm] just took off.
You're obviously very familiar with the original works.
LAUGHTER
But when you pull them [N] apart this way
and sort of turn them into something new,
do you learn things about them that you didn't know
when you'd written them?
I don't know about learn,
but it's just very emotional, kind of poignant,
because you're reminded of who you were then.
Of course, you can't quite kind of grasp it
because once you're a few decades past, it's gone, really.
But you can sort of feel it,
and there's an emotion there straight away,
and you're not just playing with
It wasn't just me and Eddie.
It was like there were four or five other guys there with us, in a way,
and it was really easy to write
because I think the emotion was just so accessible.
Yeah.
I'm a massive fan of the classics.
I still have a car that has a CD player in it,
and I've got Split Ends and Crowded House CDs in my car.
Do you get sick of people asking you to play the classics,
or are you still rapt that people love them so much?
Of course, rapt, yeah.
You know, it's amazing after so many years.
And, you know, the thing is, when you're playing live,
you just want it to go off.
You want that feeling in the room,
and whatever you've got that can make that feeling [Gb] happen,
where you and the audience become one,
[N] you're grateful to have that, you use it.
You know, there's no,
you know,
I wish I didn't have to play this song.
I mean, I still love doing Icy Red.
I still love doing, you know, Six Months In A [E] Leaky Boat.
The crowd goes off, and it's just a [D] joyous feeling.
Yeah.
What about for you?
What brings [B] you that much joy?
What [Dm] do you think is the best work that you've ever done?
Because it is an exhaustive discography that you've amassed.
I mean, I don't know about the best,
but what I like is, you know, the one I wrote yesterday.
I mean, it's that flow, that creative flow that still happens,
and when it happens, it's very joyous,
and that's, you know, what I'm mainly attracted to, I suppose.
And then in playing live, you can draw from the past,
but when you're sitting at home
and there's [N] a piano or guitar or whatever,
you just want to go into something new every time.
I think I heard Billy Joel once say,
all my songs are my kids,
but look at this new one, isn't it cute?
LAUGHTER
Does that sort of sum up how you feel?
Yeah, it's always that new one that you're most excited by.
You can't expect other people to be necessarily, but you are,
and that's a joyous feeling.
So if you had to pick a favourite child, who is it?
I don't know.
Somebody said the other day that I Hope I Never was their favourite song,
so I'll go with that.
Just some bloke said that.
Hairdresser.
He likes electronic music, but he loves I Hope I Never,
so God bless him.
But alternatively, what about the bratty kid?
So what about when it's just not working?
What do you do on those days?
Now I'm very good at just letting go.
Like, in the old days, I might have got a bit angsty.
I haven't written a song for two weeks.
Now it's like it could be two months, doesn't worry me in the slightest.
Well, you've got a fair bit to fall back on.
Yeah, and I go swimming, just stay in the moment.
There's a lot of stuff to enjoy.
We've got kids.
I mean, I never thought I'd be a dad.
I was 45 when our two children were born, or our first was born.
I was nearly 50 when our second child, our daughter, was born.
And that's been an amazing gift in my life.
But which one is your favourite?
Away with the metaphors.
Now we want the actual favourite kid.
Hey, just before we go, I discovered today that you're my favourite Viking.
Really?
Yes.
I thought you don't know any others, do you?
Well, okay, all right.
Sam's either one of them.
I was trying to put it in a nicer way.
Fair enough.
How did you discover you're a Viking?
Because I've got these kind of things in my palm, just on this hand,
these sort of hard, you know, kind of things. Swords?
I don't know what they are, but there's a name for it.
I've got, apparently, and it's absolutely true, apparently, yeah,
I've got Nordic blood in me.
Mum was born in Ireland.
She was a very Irish woman.
And the Vikings were all through Ireland.
You know, they were everywhere.
So definitely the DNA's merged and fused, and I've got a bit of it.
What's your hand thing?
I don't know what it is.
It's got a name, but I don't know the name.
And apparently only Vikings have this.
Vikings deal in mystery, okay, Wally?
I think they were doing a lot of that.
Ropes, ropes.
It's ropes.
We're not sure if I should refer to you as Sir Viking or Lord Musician,
but Tim Finn, thank you so much for joining us.
And all the info for Come Rain or Come Shine with original music
by the one, the only Tim Finn is available on our website.
Tim, thank you so much for stopping by.
Good luck for tonight.
I know, very, very popular TV.
Very nice.
Now, opening night is tonight, right?
Yes, I've done seven of these now, and this is my seventh stage production.
So, you know, the last one that people might remember was Ladies in Black,
but it never gets easier.
Opening nights are terrifying, and you're just sitting in there
with your friends and you've got Simon Phillips, our director,
and you know, you just kind of like tight together, you know,
and then if it goes well, which hopefully it will,
it's the best buzz in the world, and it's worth that terror, you know.
Is it scary not having any power?
You've just got to sit in the crowd?
I would rather probably be backstage doing that
than just sitting, pulling a rope.
Oh, right.
Just checking.
You get off.
That's right.
So what is it about this production, Come [Bb] Rain or Come Shine,
that made you want to get involved?
Well, I read the story.
My wife Marie gave me the little book as a gift.
It's a little [F] short story [Gm] by Katsuo Ishiguro.
He's my favourite author, [Dm] I would say.
[C] And it just [Gm] sort of, [D] I don't know, there were songs everywhere.
[C] He'd even sort of kindly put some of them in [Am] capitals
as if he was kind of [B] suggesting a song title, [E] you know,
calling the characters by a certain name or whatever.
And he is a songwriter himself,
and so there's a lot of music in the [N] story.
It's about three friends who went to uni together,
and then you jump forward 25 years,
and one of them hasn't really done much at all,
hasn't changed his life.
The other two have.
There's a triangle going on, a bit of unrequited love,
a lot of broad farce.
It gets very funny towards the end.
Who knew Ishiguro was funny?
But he is.
Remains of the day is not a funny movie.
Not, no.
But, yeah, it's a great story, and we love these characters,
so we'll see.
You've kept busy during lockdown
with something called the Forensics Project.
Yeah.
This is a [C] fantastic idea.
Can you just take us through it?
Well, Eddie Rayner, who is a keyboard [Bb] player in Split Enz,
and I decided [Bbm] to investigate early Split Enz music
[C] and find little segments that we've always loved
and then pull them out and sort of [Bb] create an entirely new song using [D] that.
So [Bbm] the DNA of the [Db] early Split Enz [C] song is in there,
but it's a new [Ebm] song, and people are loving it.
They [Bb] love the fact that it reminds, there's memories,
[Bbm] and it's very evocative of the past, but it's [C] also fresh and new.
So, yeah, it was a writing project [Ebm] just took off.
You're obviously very familiar with the original works.
LAUGHTER
But when you pull them [N] apart this way
and sort of turn them into something new,
do you learn things about them that you didn't know
when you'd written them?
I don't know about learn,
but it's just very emotional, kind of poignant,
because you're reminded of who you were then.
Of course, you can't quite kind of grasp it
because once you're a few decades past, it's gone, really.
But you can sort of feel it,
and there's an emotion there straight away,
and you're not just playing with
It wasn't just me and Eddie.
It was like there were four or five other guys there with us, in a way,
and it was really easy to write
because I think the emotion was just so accessible.
Yeah.
I'm a massive fan of the classics.
I still have a car that has a CD player in it,
and I've got Split Ends and Crowded House CDs in my car.
Do you get sick of people asking you to play the classics,
or are you still rapt that people love them so much?
Of course, rapt, yeah.
You know, it's amazing after so many years.
And, you know, the thing is, when you're playing live,
you just want it to go off.
You want that feeling in the room,
and whatever you've got that can make that feeling [Gb] happen,
where you and the audience become one,
[N] you're grateful to have that, you use it.
You know, there's no,
you know,
I wish I didn't have to play this song.
I mean, I still love doing Icy Red.
I still love doing, you know, Six Months In A [E] Leaky Boat.
The crowd goes off, and it's just a [D] joyous feeling.
Yeah.
What about for you?
What brings [B] you that much joy?
What [Dm] do you think is the best work that you've ever done?
Because it is an exhaustive discography that you've amassed.
I mean, I don't know about the best,
but what I like is, you know, the one I wrote yesterday.
I mean, it's that flow, that creative flow that still happens,
and when it happens, it's very joyous,
and that's, you know, what I'm mainly attracted to, I suppose.
And then in playing live, you can draw from the past,
but when you're sitting at home
and there's [N] a piano or guitar or whatever,
you just want to go into something new every time.
I think I heard Billy Joel once say,
all my songs are my kids,
but look at this new one, isn't it cute?
LAUGHTER
Does that sort of sum up how you feel?
Yeah, it's always that new one that you're most excited by.
You can't expect other people to be necessarily, but you are,
and that's a joyous feeling.
So if you had to pick a favourite child, who is it?
I don't know.
Somebody said the other day that I Hope I Never was their favourite song,
so I'll go with that.
Just some bloke said that.
Hairdresser.
He likes electronic music, but he loves I Hope I Never,
so God bless him.
But alternatively, what about the bratty kid?
So what about when it's just not working?
What do you do on those days?
Now I'm very good at just letting go.
Like, in the old days, I might have got a bit angsty.
I haven't written a song for two weeks.
Now it's like it could be two months, doesn't worry me in the slightest.
Well, you've got a fair bit to fall back on.
Yeah, and I go swimming, just stay in the moment.
There's a lot of stuff to enjoy.
We've got kids.
I mean, I never thought I'd be a dad.
I was 45 when our two children were born, or our first was born.
I was nearly 50 when our second child, our daughter, was born.
And that's been an amazing gift in my life.
But which one is your favourite?
Away with the metaphors.
Now we want the actual favourite kid.
Hey, just before we go, I discovered today that you're my favourite Viking.
Really?
Yes.
I thought you don't know any others, do you?
Well, okay, all right.
Sam's either one of them.
I was trying to put it in a nicer way.
Fair enough.
How did you discover you're a Viking?
Because I've got these kind of things in my palm, just on this hand,
these sort of hard, you know, kind of things. Swords?
I don't know what they are, but there's a name for it.
I've got, apparently, and it's absolutely true, apparently, yeah,
I've got Nordic blood in me.
Mum was born in Ireland.
She was a very Irish woman.
And the Vikings were all through Ireland.
You know, they were everywhere.
So definitely the DNA's merged and fused, and I've got a bit of it.
What's your hand thing?
I don't know what it is.
It's got a name, but I don't know the name.
And apparently only Vikings have this.
Vikings deal in mystery, okay, Wally?
I think they were doing a lot of that.
Ropes, ropes.
It's ropes.
We're not sure if I should refer to you as Sir Viking or Lord Musician,
but Tim Finn, thank you so much for joining us.
And all the info for Come Rain or Come Shine with original music
by the one, the only Tim Finn is available on our website.
Tim, thank you so much for stopping by.
Good luck for tonight.
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[Eb] _ _ _ [N] _ _ Tim Fitts! _
_ _ I know, very, very popular TV.
Very nice.
Now, opening night is tonight, right?
Yes, I've done seven of these now, and this is my seventh stage production.
So, you know, the last one that people might remember was Ladies in Black,
but it never gets easier.
Opening nights are terrifying, and you're just sitting in there
with your friends and you've got Simon Phillips, our director,
and you know, you just kind of like tight together, you know,
and then if it goes well, which hopefully it will,
it's the best buzz in the world, and it's worth that terror, you know.
Is it scary not having any power?
You've just got to sit in the crowd?
I would rather probably be backstage doing that
than just sitting, pulling a rope.
Oh, right.
_ Just checking.
_ You get off.
_ That's right.
So what is it about this production, Come [Bb] Rain or Come Shine,
that made you want to get involved?
Well, I read the story.
My wife Marie gave me the little book as a gift.
It's a little [F] short story [Gm] by Katsuo Ishiguro.
He's my favourite author, [Dm] I would say.
[C] And it just [Gm] sort of, [D] I don't know, there were songs everywhere.
[C] He'd even sort of kindly put some of them in [Am] capitals
as if he was kind of [B] suggesting a song title, [E] you know,
calling the characters by a certain name or whatever.
And he is a songwriter himself,
and so there's a lot of music in the [N] story.
It's about three friends who went to uni together,
and then you jump forward 25 years,
and one of them hasn't really done much at all,
hasn't changed his life.
The other two have.
There's a triangle going on, a bit of unrequited love,
_ a lot of broad farce.
It gets very funny towards the end.
Who knew Ishiguro was funny?
But he is.
Remains of the day is not a funny movie.
Not, no.
But, yeah, it's a great story, and we love these characters,
so we'll see. _ _
You've kept busy during lockdown
with something called the Forensics Project.
Yeah.
This is a [C] fantastic idea.
Can you just take us through it?
Well, Eddie Rayner, who is a keyboard [Bb] player in Split Enz,
and I decided [Bbm] to investigate early Split Enz music
[C] and find little segments that we've always loved
and then pull them out and sort of [Bb] create an entirely new song using [D] that.
So [Bbm] the DNA of the [Db] early Split Enz [C] song is in there,
but it's a new [Ebm] song, and people are loving it.
They [Bb] love the fact that it reminds, there's memories,
[Bbm] and it's very evocative of the past, but it's [C] also fresh and new.
So, yeah, it was a writing project [Ebm] just took off.
You're obviously very familiar with the original works.
LAUGHTER
But when you pull them [N] apart this way
and sort of turn them into something new,
do you learn things about them that you didn't know
when you'd written them?
I don't know about learn,
but it's just very emotional, kind of poignant,
because you're reminded of who you were then.
Of course, you can't quite kind of grasp it
because once you're a few decades past, it's gone, really.
But you can sort of feel it,
and there's an emotion there straight away,
and you're not just playing with_
It wasn't just me and Eddie.
It was like there were four or five other guys there with us, in a way,
and it was really easy to write
because I think the emotion was just so accessible.
Yeah.
I'm a massive fan of the classics.
I still have a car that has a CD player in it,
and I've got Split Ends and Crowded House CDs in my car.
Do you get sick of people asking you to play the classics,
or are you still rapt that people love them so much?
Of course, rapt, yeah.
You know, it's amazing after so many years.
And, you know, the thing is, when you're playing live,
you just want it to go off.
You want that feeling in the room,
and whatever you've got that can make that feeling [Gb] happen,
where you and the audience become one,
[N] you're grateful to have that, you use it.
You know, there's no,
you know,
I wish _ _ I didn't have to play this song.
I mean, I still love doing Icy Red.
I still love doing, you know, Six Months In A [E] Leaky Boat.
The crowd goes off, and it's just a [D] joyous feeling.
Yeah.
What about for you?
What brings [B] you that much joy?
What [Dm] do you think is the best work that you've ever done?
Because it is an exhaustive discography that you've amassed.
I mean, I don't know about the best,
but what I like is, you know, the one I wrote yesterday.
I mean, it's that flow, that creative flow that still happens,
and when it happens, it's very joyous,
and that's, you know, what I'm mainly attracted to, I suppose.
And then in playing live, you can draw from the past,
but when you're sitting at home
and there's [N] a piano or guitar or whatever,
you just want to go into something new every time.
I think I heard Billy Joel once say,
all my songs are my kids,
but look at this new one, isn't it cute?
LAUGHTER
Does that sort of sum up how you feel?
Yeah, it's always that new one that you're most excited by.
You can't expect other people to be necessarily, but you are,
and that's a joyous feeling.
So if you had to pick a favourite child, who is it?
_ I don't know.
Somebody said the other day that I Hope I Never was their favourite song,
so I'll go with that.
Just some bloke said that.
Hairdresser.
He likes electronic music, but he loves I Hope I Never,
so God bless him.
But alternatively, what about the bratty kid?
So what about when it's just not working?
What do you do on those days?
_ Now I'm very good at just letting go.
Like, in the old days, I might have got a bit angsty.
I haven't written a song for two weeks.
Now it's like it could be two months, doesn't worry me in the slightest.
Well, you've got a fair bit to fall back on.
Yeah, and I go swimming, just stay in the moment.
There's a lot of stuff to enjoy.
We've got kids.
I mean, I never thought I'd be a dad.
I was 45 when our two children were born, or our first was born.
I was nearly 50 when our second child, our daughter, was born.
And that's been an amazing gift in my life. _
But which one is your favourite?
Away with the metaphors.
Now we want the actual favourite kid.
Hey, just before we go, I discovered today that you're my favourite Viking.
Really?
Yes.
I thought you don't know any others, do you?
Well, okay, all right.
Sam's either one of them.
I was trying to put it in a nicer way.
Fair enough.
How did you discover you're a Viking?
Because I've got these kind of things in my palm, just on this hand,
these sort of hard, you know, kind of things. Swords?
I don't know what they are, but there's a name for it.
I've got, apparently, and it's absolutely true, apparently, yeah,
I've got Nordic blood in me.
Mum was born in Ireland.
She was a very Irish woman.
And the Vikings were all through Ireland.
You know, they were everywhere.
So definitely the DNA's merged and fused, and I've got a bit of it.
What's your hand thing?
I don't know what it is.
It's got a name, but I don't know the name.
And apparently only Vikings have this.
Vikings deal in mystery, okay, Wally?
I think they were doing a lot of that.
_ _ Ropes, ropes.
It's ropes.
We're not sure if I should refer to you as Sir Viking or Lord Musician,
but Tim Finn, thank you so much for joining us.
And all the info for Come Rain or Come Shine with original music
by the one, the only Tim Finn is available on our website.
Tim, thank you so much for stopping by.
Good luck for tonight. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I know, very, very popular TV.
Very nice.
Now, opening night is tonight, right?
Yes, I've done seven of these now, and this is my seventh stage production.
So, you know, the last one that people might remember was Ladies in Black,
but it never gets easier.
Opening nights are terrifying, and you're just sitting in there
with your friends and you've got Simon Phillips, our director,
and you know, you just kind of like tight together, you know,
and then if it goes well, which hopefully it will,
it's the best buzz in the world, and it's worth that terror, you know.
Is it scary not having any power?
You've just got to sit in the crowd?
I would rather probably be backstage doing that
than just sitting, pulling a rope.
Oh, right.
_ Just checking.
_ You get off.
_ That's right.
So what is it about this production, Come [Bb] Rain or Come Shine,
that made you want to get involved?
Well, I read the story.
My wife Marie gave me the little book as a gift.
It's a little [F] short story [Gm] by Katsuo Ishiguro.
He's my favourite author, [Dm] I would say.
[C] And it just [Gm] sort of, [D] I don't know, there were songs everywhere.
[C] He'd even sort of kindly put some of them in [Am] capitals
as if he was kind of [B] suggesting a song title, [E] you know,
calling the characters by a certain name or whatever.
And he is a songwriter himself,
and so there's a lot of music in the [N] story.
It's about three friends who went to uni together,
and then you jump forward 25 years,
and one of them hasn't really done much at all,
hasn't changed his life.
The other two have.
There's a triangle going on, a bit of unrequited love,
_ a lot of broad farce.
It gets very funny towards the end.
Who knew Ishiguro was funny?
But he is.
Remains of the day is not a funny movie.
Not, no.
But, yeah, it's a great story, and we love these characters,
so we'll see. _ _
You've kept busy during lockdown
with something called the Forensics Project.
Yeah.
This is a [C] fantastic idea.
Can you just take us through it?
Well, Eddie Rayner, who is a keyboard [Bb] player in Split Enz,
and I decided [Bbm] to investigate early Split Enz music
[C] and find little segments that we've always loved
and then pull them out and sort of [Bb] create an entirely new song using [D] that.
So [Bbm] the DNA of the [Db] early Split Enz [C] song is in there,
but it's a new [Ebm] song, and people are loving it.
They [Bb] love the fact that it reminds, there's memories,
[Bbm] and it's very evocative of the past, but it's [C] also fresh and new.
So, yeah, it was a writing project [Ebm] just took off.
You're obviously very familiar with the original works.
LAUGHTER
But when you pull them [N] apart this way
and sort of turn them into something new,
do you learn things about them that you didn't know
when you'd written them?
I don't know about learn,
but it's just very emotional, kind of poignant,
because you're reminded of who you were then.
Of course, you can't quite kind of grasp it
because once you're a few decades past, it's gone, really.
But you can sort of feel it,
and there's an emotion there straight away,
and you're not just playing with_
It wasn't just me and Eddie.
It was like there were four or five other guys there with us, in a way,
and it was really easy to write
because I think the emotion was just so accessible.
Yeah.
I'm a massive fan of the classics.
I still have a car that has a CD player in it,
and I've got Split Ends and Crowded House CDs in my car.
Do you get sick of people asking you to play the classics,
or are you still rapt that people love them so much?
Of course, rapt, yeah.
You know, it's amazing after so many years.
And, you know, the thing is, when you're playing live,
you just want it to go off.
You want that feeling in the room,
and whatever you've got that can make that feeling [Gb] happen,
where you and the audience become one,
[N] you're grateful to have that, you use it.
You know, there's no,
you know,
I wish _ _ I didn't have to play this song.
I mean, I still love doing Icy Red.
I still love doing, you know, Six Months In A [E] Leaky Boat.
The crowd goes off, and it's just a [D] joyous feeling.
Yeah.
What about for you?
What brings [B] you that much joy?
What [Dm] do you think is the best work that you've ever done?
Because it is an exhaustive discography that you've amassed.
I mean, I don't know about the best,
but what I like is, you know, the one I wrote yesterday.
I mean, it's that flow, that creative flow that still happens,
and when it happens, it's very joyous,
and that's, you know, what I'm mainly attracted to, I suppose.
And then in playing live, you can draw from the past,
but when you're sitting at home
and there's [N] a piano or guitar or whatever,
you just want to go into something new every time.
I think I heard Billy Joel once say,
all my songs are my kids,
but look at this new one, isn't it cute?
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Does that sort of sum up how you feel?
Yeah, it's always that new one that you're most excited by.
You can't expect other people to be necessarily, but you are,
and that's a joyous feeling.
So if you had to pick a favourite child, who is it?
_ I don't know.
Somebody said the other day that I Hope I Never was their favourite song,
so I'll go with that.
Just some bloke said that.
Hairdresser.
He likes electronic music, but he loves I Hope I Never,
so God bless him.
But alternatively, what about the bratty kid?
So what about when it's just not working?
What do you do on those days?
_ Now I'm very good at just letting go.
Like, in the old days, I might have got a bit angsty.
I haven't written a song for two weeks.
Now it's like it could be two months, doesn't worry me in the slightest.
Well, you've got a fair bit to fall back on.
Yeah, and I go swimming, just stay in the moment.
There's a lot of stuff to enjoy.
We've got kids.
I mean, I never thought I'd be a dad.
I was 45 when our two children were born, or our first was born.
I was nearly 50 when our second child, our daughter, was born.
And that's been an amazing gift in my life. _
But which one is your favourite?
Away with the metaphors.
Now we want the actual favourite kid.
Hey, just before we go, I discovered today that you're my favourite Viking.
Really?
Yes.
I thought you don't know any others, do you?
Well, okay, all right.
Sam's either one of them.
I was trying to put it in a nicer way.
Fair enough.
How did you discover you're a Viking?
Because I've got these kind of things in my palm, just on this hand,
these sort of hard, you know, kind of things. Swords?
I don't know what they are, but there's a name for it.
I've got, apparently, and it's absolutely true, apparently, yeah,
I've got Nordic blood in me.
Mum was born in Ireland.
She was a very Irish woman.
And the Vikings were all through Ireland.
You know, they were everywhere.
So definitely the DNA's merged and fused, and I've got a bit of it.
What's your hand thing?
I don't know what it is.
It's got a name, but I don't know the name.
And apparently only Vikings have this.
Vikings deal in mystery, okay, Wally?
I think they were doing a lot of that.
_ _ Ropes, ropes.
It's ropes.
We're not sure if I should refer to you as Sir Viking or Lord Musician,
but Tim Finn, thank you so much for joining us.
And all the info for Come Rain or Come Shine with original music
by the one, the only Tim Finn is available on our website.
Tim, thank you so much for stopping by.
Good luck for tonight. _
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