Sunset Tour then quits
April 9th 2010 20:12
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Powderfinger Disbanding
Powderfinger giving the band a rest after this next tour - made the following statement.
BAND STATEMENT
Good morning everybody and thank you for coming out to see us this morning. I am going to read a statement on behalf of the band which will include a few announcements with regard to what we have coming up.
Firstly, we are preparing to embark on the most extensive Powderfinger tour of Australia that we have undertaken in our career. It will include at least 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 - from Perth to Brisbane, Darwin to Hobart.
We will be supported on all but 3 of those shows by JET and on the first three dates will be The Vines. The opening spots are to be taken by various other local Australian bands. The tour is titled Sunsets and will be one on which we play songs from each of our 7 albums, spanning our whole career.
Secondly, on this tour we will be partnered by an organisation called Yalari which sponsors Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from regional, rural and remote communities to attend boarding schools all around the country, so they can receive the highest levels of education available. There are presently 180 kids attending 34 schools and these numbers, with the help of both private and public monies, are growing every day. It's an organisation that looks to the improvement of the standard of living of Aboriginal people all around Australia by lifting education standards and creating inspirational incentives to children that would not ordinarily be afforded these types of opportunities. Waverley Stanley from Yalari is here and will be happy to answer your questions with regard the organisation following this press conference.
Our third, final and biggest announcement today is 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.
After a career that has lasted for over 20 years, 7 studio albums, a live album, two DVD's, 30 odd video clips, around 1,000 shows, 16 ARIA Awards and hundreds of thousands of kilometres travelled around the globe on local, national and world tours, we believe that the time has come to call an end to what we think has been an extremely privileged and rewarding run.
We have always maintained that the important factor for us as a group is that our music remains relevant and that we continue to have fresh ideas that inform our new songs. 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.
Following the release of our last few albums there has been speculation in the press that we were 'breaking up'. We have only come to this decision to disband following our run of Festival shows this last summer and even toyed with the idea of delaying this announcement until our tour was over. Finally we decided that it was much better mannered, and made a lot more sense, to give people the opportunity to come and celebrate with us as we make our way around the country one last time.
There will be further releases made by Powderfinger in the future as there are obligations to fulfil with the great folks over at Universal who have essentially been our label from the beginning of our recording career.
There will be more news to follow over the coming weeks re fundraising initiatives, support band announcements and fanclub pre-sale.
At this point we would like to say thanks to everyone that helped us organise today. If anyone has any questions we'll be happy to try to answer them!
BAND STATEMENT
Good morning everybody and thank you for coming out to see us this morning. I am going to read a statement on behalf of the band which will include a few announcements with regard to what we have coming up.
Firstly, we are preparing to embark on the most extensive Powderfinger tour of Australia that we have undertaken in our career. It will include at least 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 - from Perth to Brisbane, Darwin to Hobart.
We will be supported on all but 3 of those shows by JET and on the first three dates will be The Vines. The opening spots are to be taken by various other local Australian bands. The tour is titled Sunsets and will be one on which we play songs from each of our 7 albums, spanning our whole career.
Secondly, on this tour we will be partnered by an organisation called Yalari which sponsors Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from regional, rural and remote communities to attend boarding schools all around the country, so they can receive the highest levels of education available. There are presently 180 kids attending 34 schools and these numbers, with the help of both private and public monies, are growing every day. It's an organisation that looks to the improvement of the standard of living of Aboriginal people all around Australia by lifting education standards and creating inspirational incentives to children that would not ordinarily be afforded these types of opportunities. Waverley Stanley from Yalari is here and will be happy to answer your questions with regard the organisation following this press conference.
Our third, final and biggest announcement today is 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.
After a career that has lasted for over 20 years, 7 studio albums, a live album, two DVD's, 30 odd video clips, around 1,000 shows, 16 ARIA Awards and hundreds of thousands of kilometres travelled around the globe on local, national and world tours, we believe that the time has come to call an end to what we think has been an extremely privileged and rewarding run.
We have always maintained that the important factor for us as a group is that our music remains relevant and that we continue to have fresh ideas that inform our new songs. 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.
Following the release of our last few albums there has been speculation in the press that we were 'breaking up'. We have only come to this decision to disband following our run of Festival shows this last summer and even toyed with the idea of delaying this announcement until our tour was over. Finally we decided that it was much better mannered, and made a lot more sense, to give people the opportunity to come and celebrate with us as we make our way around the country one last time.
There will be further releases made by Powderfinger in the future as there are obligations to fulfil with the great folks over at Universal who have essentially been our label from the beginning of our recording career.
There will be more news to follow over the coming weeks re fundraising initiatives, support band announcements and fanclub pre-sale.
At this point we would like to say thanks to everyone that helped us organise today. If anyone has any questions we'll be happy to try to answer them!
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