We’ve resurrected a few items from Neil’s original Nilfun website from the turn of the millennium. Designed by Rakai Karaitiana with Neil, the site featured ”Musical games, art pieces, curious bits of nostalgia and flights of fancy…”

Instructions:

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Please note that some features are incomplete and that the elevator is hosted on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine external website. In most cases, you can find your way back to this page by clicking your browser’s back arrow.

Have fun exploring. We’re adding more Nilfun items every now and then.
(Latest update: 31st May 2020.)

Descend into the id.

The id is a place where insight and nonsense are both embraced. Fleeting impressions, half baked notions, vanities, paranoias, inspiration and anxieties. It’s all here.
think
bathe
fish
lady
ray
texacana
travel

sew pohutukawa hands m10 graffiti egmond plane vogel basix more mad symbol lapsed

Selections from Neil Finn's Nilfun webcasts in the former Roundhead basement, 17th January, 10th April and 13th November 2001. Flash not required. First video starts 9 seconds in.

ELROY’S MONSTERS

THA NINEEZ

four in one (Copy)

mr cake (Copy)

dixie (Copy)

umop apisdn (Copy)

lawn mower (Copy)

feedback (Copy)

The official music video for "Rest Of The Day Off" by Neil Finn. From the album One Nil. aka One All. Video directed by Grant Gee.

Neil’s diary post on nilfun.com, Sunday, April 08, 2001:

phew.....what a week, one of the most memorable musical experiences of my life...it was such a joy to play music with Lisa, Sebastian, Phil, Ed, Johnny, Tim, Eddie, Liam, Matt, Joe Paul and Chris ... aside from the music, they are all such wonderful, open and generous people... it felt like a very special thing unfolded through the week ... We became a band in a very short period of time, a band with character and heart and then had the good sense to break up before it all turned to shit... we take away nothing but good memories and a stronger desire to play music for the sheer joy of it.

thank you to all of the weeks audiences.. there was some intense moments between us, some beautiful singing, some memorable heckling, you willed us on to some great heights.. I hear that the webcast was difficult for some of you to tune into.. its still a young technology and there will be trainwrecks but we are trying... hopefully most of you got to see and hear something of Friday nights show... I'm having a permanent setup installed in my studio so that by midyear I can do webcasts at the drop of a hat...watch this space