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Mike Chunn: The Seven Voices of Split Enz - Page 4

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What do you think of all the young music fans of the Enz, many of whom weren't born in the hey day of the band?

"I think with Enz, they kind of avoided any fashion that went down at the time. In the early to mid-eighties there was a lot of Duran Duran and all that kind of stuff, like ABC. The production was the certain thing I remember. People talked about Enz sounding old fashioned, but then you listen to ABC and Duran Duran today and they sound like shite, so with the Enz stuff it just carried through."

Still on the retrospective theme, there was the ENZSO project going on over the past year or so. I know for many younger fans it was great to go along and hear things like Stranger Than Fiction performed for the first time, but what was it like for you to hear the orchestral versions of all the songs?

"I loved them. When we were learning songs like Stranger Than Fiction, and Under The Wheel we actually talked about playing them with an orchestra, so to hear them with a full orchestra was to see them come to full fruition- especially the grand old ones. And up again, Eddie's doing ENZSO 2, so hopefully he'll put out some more hoary old chestnuts."

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