Neil Finn has announced plans to record a follow-up to his 2002 live album Seven Worlds Collide, including some of the the same faces. These include Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway of Radiohead, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirrat, Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone from Wilco and Johnny Marr from, well, whatever indie band he happens to be involved with that week.

Now, this follow-up will be a studio project, unnamed, which will recorded “over the next few months” in Auckland and will be released next year. Many of the guest artists will also join Finn for a concert series the first week of January at Auckland’s Powerstation.

Save for the Wilco members, the other guests all participated in “Seven Worlds Collide,” alongside Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. All proceeds from the new endeavor will benefit international development organization Oxfam.

I honestly cannot wait for this - two of my favourite songwriters in Finn and Tweedy together in studio. 2009 is shaping up nicely…