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Description: Pop-rock super-group featuring Neil Finn, Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway, Glenn Kotsche and John Stirrat promote their double album.
Phone: 0207428 0010
Website: www.dingwalls.com
Email: info@dingwalls.com
Trains: Tube: Camden Town 
Extra info: Pub
Musical mates: Neil Finn leads a band of pals from Wilco and Radiohead
Charity records often resemble exercises in cramming as many big egos into as small a room as possible. However, away from the Sir Bobs and Bonos of this world, Neil Finn has proved that something far more pleasant is possible.
Trading under the name 7 Worlds Collide, the Crowded House man has teamed up with a host of musical mates to record an excellent double-album, The Sun Came Out, with all the proceeds going to Oxfam.
Last night, he came to a sweltering Dingwalls to delight the 500-strong crowd with highlights from the record and his 30-year career. Joined by members of Radiohead and Wilco, Finn joked: “The great thing about tonight is that we can all go back to our day jobs.”
Phil Selway, who usually sits behind the drums in Radiohead, may have bigger things in mind after revealing a hitherto unsuspected singing voice on the meditative ballad The Ties That Bind Us.
Wilco’s John Stirratt, who resembled an all-singing, all-dancing Richard Hammond, also got a chance to take centre stage for the alt-country of Over & Done.
That just left Finn to sing us home with an encore of old favourites, from Private Universe to Weather With You, via a drum cameo from KT Tunstall’s boyfriend and the appearance of a guy called Garth on ukulele.
Brilliant and bonkers, with not a Bono in sight.
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