Always one step ahead, the new wave innovators are not done yet – and their hair is bigger than ever
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any things can kill you in the music business. For Split Enz, New Zealand’s first internationally successful rock group, the most lethal poison was hairspray – or it should have been. “How did I not die?” marvels bandleader Tim Finn, whose head – at its vertiginous peak – resembled an upturned paintbrush.
Sitting next to him, percussionist Noel Crombie grins as Finn continues the story. “Noel would lacquer merciless amounts of this toxic spray … the makeup would start to run but the hair would just somehow … sit there.”
Crombie, for his part, flapped about on stage with what looked like a pair of bat’s wings sprouting from his head.
