Review: Crowded House provide spiritual uplift to Live at the Marquee

'We’re going to Kilmallock, where my mother’s family are from. On the way there, it’s Clonakilty to get a bit of black pudding into us, and maybe visit Ballydehob,' singer Neill Finn told the audience.

Crowded House frontman Neil Finn playing Live at the Marquee in Cork on Monday night. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Fresh from Glastonbury, this stomping, humming, all-embracing joy fest is exactly the spiritual uplift this Marquee crowd needed to inspire thoughts of better times ahead.

For this tightknit family, the immediate future is a local tour of ancestral haunts: "We’re going to Kilmallock, where my mother’s family are from. On the way there, it’s Clonakilty to get a bit of black pudding into us, and maybe visit Ballydehob," says Neil Finn.