Radio with Pictures - Split Enz interview

Television (Excerpts) – 1983

In this RWP interview, Karyn Hay gets Split Enz members Neil Finn and Nigel Griggs to explain some of the band's songs before a January 1983 performance at festival Sweetwaters. Both are tired of doing True Colours tracks; the album "has followed us around like a bad smell for a year and a half" says Finn. He also admits 'I Got You' was "probably only about the third lyric I'd ever written", and touches on the BBC banning of 'Six Months in a Leaky Boat'. Griggs admits he has no idea what Finn's 'History Never Repeats' is about; Finn praises Griggs' "incredibly good bass riff" on 'Lost for Words'.

You can't bloody get rid of it you know. Once they're in the set there, and once the crowd wants them, you've just gotta play them.
– Neil Finn on the popularity of Enz song 'Nobody Takes Me Seriously'