Powderfinger has just announced details of their most extensive Australian tour to date, together with the news that they will be disbanding following the tour.
This will be Powderfinger’s first major national tour since the hugely successful Across the Great Divide tour with Silverchair almost 3 years ago.
MC, James Mathison, welcomed the media to The Annandale Hotel in Sydney’s inner west, where Powderfinger sat on a same stage they first played on almost twenty years ago, and announced the details of their upcoming Sunsets tour before Bernard Fanning read a Statement on behalf of his fellow band members – Jon Coghill, John Collins, Ian Haug and Darren Middleton.
In that Statement, the band advised details of their most extensive tour of Australia ever – The Sunsets tour will include shows in 21 different cities across every state and territory and be stretched over a seven week period from early September through to late October.
The band’s final announcement today was that they would be disbanding following the completion of the Sunsets tour. In the prepared statement, the band advised that the Sunsets tour will be Powderfinger’s last ever run of shows.
“We have decided, after much deliberation and agonising, that after this final tour we will call it a day as a recording and touring band. With the completion of our last album, Golden Rule, we feel that we have said all that we want to say as a musical group. We firmly believe that it is our most complete and satisfying album and can’t think of a better way to farewell our fans than with music that we all believe in and also with, hopefully, our best tour to date.”
Joining Powderfinger for all but the first three shows on Sunsets will be old friends, JET.
Powderfinger’s extensive career spans nearly two decades with sales in excess of 2.5 million albums in Australia alone. Winner of 16 ARIA Awards, the band holds an unprecedented three successive ARIA Awards for Album of the Year.
Tickets for Sunsets – The Farewell Tour go on sale 9.00am, Friday, 30 April, 2010.
