Leena Tailor “We made it!” Crowded House frontman Neil Finn jubilantly told 12,000 fans at the sold-out Auckland, New Zealand stop of the group’s “To the Island” tour.
A COVID-19 outbreak may have caused chaos and postponements for the nationwide jaunt, but there were few signs of a pandemic as the reformed band belatedly reached that homeland stage.Yet it was hard to shake pandemic thoughts while ecstatically rocking up to my first concert in over a year, feeling like a kid in a candy store after 12 months deprived of sweets. “DO dream it’s over,” I thought, my COVID-consumed mind inadvertently translating “it” to the pandemic.
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