Hear Harper Finn’s Horror Story About Dislocating His Shoulder At An Awards Show
"I tried to keep grooving, just to keep the illusion that I was having a good time...but oh god it was super painful."
Ever had an email change your entire life? Harper Finn has.
The indie pop-inflected singer-songwriter was but a humble American Politics major when he opened up his laptop during a lecture and discovered that he had been signed to one of the biggest labels in Australia.
“It was sort of a whirlwind of thoughts going through my head,” Finn said. “And I just sort of looked around, and everyone was sort of settling down, and I just slowly closed my laptop lid.”
Safe to say, that was the end of Finn’s nascent career in academia, but the start of a staggeringly fruitful turn in music. He’s released two singles since then — ‘Conversations (With The Moon)’ and ‘Teenage Queen’. They’re wormy, beautiful tracks, full of glassy melodies and banging choruses.
He’s also had one helluva wild time touring, as he revealed as part of Music Junkee’s video series, The Artist Alphabet.
The Artist Alphabet invites musicians to share their wildest and most unbelievable stories — and Harper Finn was only too happy to oblige. Particularly galling is Finn’s story about playing a 12-man sharehouse in Dunedin, nicknamed “the slug house”, after a venue cancelled on him.
“We had set up a stage in the living room, and there were probably 350 people in the living room,” Finn revealed. “I mean, probably pretty illegal.
“That one was just…It was probably the most wild show that I’ve ever played at. I think at the end of it there was like, a bra hanging from the chandelier, and there was just like, shoes all over the floor…We left the room in a state that it could probably never recover from.”
From there, Finn’s stories get only wilder. He talks about the time he managed to shatter his shoulder, and the festival he held dedicated to, uh, himself. Watch the whole interview in full here: