Powderfinger: Iconic Australian band announce first tour in 17 years
Powderfinger, certainly one of Australia’s greatest beloved rock bands, has unveiled particulars of a comeback tour – to happen 17 years after they broke up.
The Brisbane-based group, who confirmed their reunion final week, will kick off with 4 nights of their residence metropolis subsequent September.
They will then play one other 14 exhibits throughout Cairns, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne, with all gigs to be staged in a “stadium sized big-top” tent.
In a press release on Monday the band mentioned they had been “completely ecstatic” to be getting collectively and enjoying once more.
“Over the years there have been tons of options for us to return on the street however, till now, it by no means felt fairly proper or lined up for all of us,” they mentioned.
“We have at all times been so grateful for the continued help from our long-term followers and over time we have picked up quite a lot of new ones who’ve by no means seen us play.”
“People usually inform us that our music is related to their most treasured and joyous reminiscences,” they added. “We hope to unfold a bit extra of that pleasure once we make our approach across the nation with a few of Australia’s greatest established and upcoming expertise, and to make some new reminiscences for us all.”
The tour schedule of solely enjoying on Friday and Saturday nights is much like that adopted by Oasis in their world tour final 12 months. No gigs exterior of Australia have but been introduced.
Powderfinger launched seven studio albums throughout their profession together with 2000’s Odyssey Number Five which was voted greatest Australian album of all time by listeners of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) music station Triple J in 2011.
That included the only My Happiness, which was voted sixth greatest Australian track of all time by the identical station in 2025. The group’s different hits embrace On My Mind and These Days and Sunsets.
Since the band break up, frontman Bernard Fanning has maintained a solo profession whereas bassist John Collins has gone on to open two of Brisbane’s largest stay music venues.
