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Powderfinger Sunsets The Farewell Tour - 2nd Show
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Performances
Thursday at 6:30 pm on 16-09-2010
Venue Memorial Drive | South Australia | Australia
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General Admission Seating & Standing
**This is a rock show & not recommended for children 10 years & under** Allocation subscribed
Saturday at 6:30 pm on 30-10-2010
Venue Memorial Drive | South Australia | Australia
Note Tickets for the new show go on sale at 9.00am on Monday, 17 May, 2010.
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Due to overwhelming demand, Secret Service and Village Sounds are pleased to announce additional shows have been added to Powderfingers Sunsets Farewell Tour in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Cairns!
With seventeen sell outs on the current twenty six date tour, and over 175,000 tickets already sold, Powderfinger have been floored by the support all across the country and the outpouring from fans since their announcement last month that the Sunsets Tour will indeed be their last outing as a touring band.
We were simply blown away, Paul Piticco, Powderfingers manager said. After a massive response from the on-sale, and with the shows selling out way faster than we could have expected, we started to get emails and calls from fans of the band asking for further dates as theyd missed out on tickets. We convened a quick meeting last weekend and decided to add one final lap of cap city shows that would, hopefully, meet the bands fans needs.
We have placed these shows on weekend nights, wherever possible, to make it easier for anyone in regional areas to make it to these last city shows. We certainly hadnt planned these extra dates but are thrilled to be playing to more fans across the country. These will be the last ever shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with the band ultimately finishing the tour in their hometown of Brisbane.
These additional shows will make it three shows each in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth after the first and second previously unannounced shows all sold out in less than 30 minutes, two in Adelaide, where tickets sold out to the first show by mid afternoon, and two in Cairns.
Tickets go on sale at 9.00am on Monday, 17 May, 2010, and fans are urged to get in quick as these will be the final shows Powderfinger will ever be performing in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Cairns, with the very last show of the entire tour taking place in their home town of Brisbane. Details of the Fan Club pre sale are below.
Perth fans will have a further chance to see the band perform on Wednesday, 22 September, 2010, with a 3rd show added on to the start of their current two date run.
The band have partnered with The Yalari Foundation for the tour. Yalari sponsors Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from regional, rural and remote areas to attend boarding schools all around the country so they can receive the a first class education through full boarding scholarships at the highest achieving secondary schools.
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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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