Despite ominous forecasts the rain stayed away, so the open-air theatre in Regent's Park made an ideal setting for this gathering of the Finn faithful. Appropriately, the second song was Weather With You.

Tim and younger brother Neil can muster 60 years of professional experience between them. The challenge was how to strike a balance between their catalogues. There were songs from new album Everyone Is Here, and from their previous joint effort from 1995.

The audience would probably have loved to hear Crowded House's greatest hits, but this would have been too much Neil's show. Fraternal politics meant upping the Tim factor, most notably with Split Enz's Six Months In a Leaky Boat, banned by the BBC during the Falklands war.

The Finns are too wise to peg their songs too specifically to world events, but a couple of the new ones hint at some disquiet. Neil prefaced Homesick with Michael Moore's line, "Dude, where's my country?", and shadows of doubts crept in between the choruses of Nothing Wrong With You.

It wouldn't have been the Finns without a bit of family psychodrama. Caustic banter ricocheted between the grey-haired Tim and the choirboy-ish Neil, and the new song A Life Between Us depicts the brothers "staring at each other like the banks of a river". They also lobbed in a song about their 82-year-old father, Mood Swinging Man. Great stuff for the aficionados, though the set was crying out for a few more Crowded House classics.