Over Christmas 2008 and New Year 2009, Neil Finn has invited the core band from his 2001 Seven Worlds Collide project, plus some other special guests, to create a new album at Roundhead studios in Auckland, New Zealand.

Guests confirmed so far are Radiohead’s Phil Selway and Ed O’Brien, legendary guitarist Johnny Marr, founder member of The Smiths and current member of US alternate rock innovators Modest Mouse, Soul Coughing’s Sebastian Steinberg, multi-instrumentalist Lisa Germano, Wilco members Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone, Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, along with NZ musicians Liam Finn, Don McGlashan and Bic Runga. All proceeds from this very special recording will go to support the continuing great work of Oxfam International.

The original Seven Worlds Collide captures the best of a series of live performances that Finn and special guest vocalists Eddie Vedder, Lisa Germano, and Tim Finn staged in Auckland, New Zealand during April 2001. With an all-star band made up of The Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr and Radiohead drummer Phil Selway and guitarist Ed O’Brien, the singers perform a set of music which includes a moving performance of the Smiths’ classic lament, “There is a Light That Never Goes Out.”

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