Musician Fink, drummer Tim Thornton to play in Bengaluru

British artiste Fink aka Fin Greenall and his band’s drummer Tim Thornton will be playing in Bengaluru on April 4

In 2012, British artiste Fink aka Fin Greenall made his way to India for the first time as a performer, playing every where — from a theatre in Mumbai and the NH7 Weekender festival in Bengaluru, to the erstwhile Blue Frog club in New Delhi.

That is quite a range of spaces for the often-acoustic, intimate folk and indie rock that Fink performs. Plus, Greenall and his band also got to collaborate with the likes of music duo Salim-Sulaiman for the series The Dewarists, for a song titled ‘Let Go’. That explains why Fink says he has “two sets of memories” from India.

Over video call from his current home in Berlin, Fink talks about his first impression, “I got to see real life in India for just a week. But it wasn’t about staying at a fancy hotel and playing a gig. It was just wonderful. I fell in love so hard.”

Since then, Fink and his band have, by his own admission, “been dying to get back” to perform in India, a country he feels not many artistes get to perform in. To that end, Fink and his band’s drummer/guitarist Tim Thornton will be back in India for a tour.

Fink’s Acoustic Tour’s India leg includes stops in Mumbai on April 3, Bengaluru on April 4 and New Delhi on April 6. In Bengaluru, singer-songwriter L’nee Golay will provide support. Fink says, “I can’t wait to get back now. I feel I’m better and could do a much better job this time.”

He laments that he cannot exactly venture out to try street food in India since he does not want it to affect his performances in any way. He says with a laugh, “You walk around the streets, and you smell that stuff, and you say to yourself, ‘That’s going to be delicious.’”

Fink has been touring North America and Europe from last year and as an acoustic act, bringing the various moods of their albums, including the 2014 breakout album Hard Believer, Resurgam from 2017 and most recently, the 2024 album Beauty In Your Wake.