{"id":640723,"date":"2026-10-09T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640723\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:28:08","slug":"powderfinger-confirm-reunion-for-national-tour-16-years-after-saying-farewell-in-last-live-show-powderfinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640723\/","title":{"rendered":"Powderfinger confirm reunion for national tour 16 years after saying farewell in last live show | Powderfinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Powderfinger has confirmed the band is getting back together for a national tour in 2027 after a series of cryptic clues were posted on billboards and social media this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It\u2019s the first time the 18 times Aria-winning Australian rock band has played live since its Sunsets Farewell Tour, which wrapped up in the band members\u2019 home town of Brisbane in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In a video posted to the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/powderfinger_bandofficial\/?hl=en\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram account today<\/a>, Powderfinger\u2019s Bernard Fanning, John \u201cJC\u201d Collins, Ian Haug, Darren Middleton and Jon Coghill announced they\u2019ll be touring Australia from September 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe always said that if we were going to get back together to do some shows that you guys would be the first to know,\u201d said Fanning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to build something pretty special just for you guys,\u201d said Middleton. \u201cWe\u2019ll see you from the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The rumour mill was in overdrive after digital billboards appeared in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne on Tuesday with clues such as \u201cALBUMS: 7\u201d and \u201cARIAS: 18\u201d \u2013 which fans were quick to spot as references to the band.<\/p>\n<p>Powderfinger are going on tour from September 2027. No more details have been announced so far.  Photograph: Universal<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An Instagram account called <a href=\"http:\/\/@thereturnoftheelectrichorsemen\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Return of the Electric Horsemen<\/a> also appeared on Tuesday \u2013 it has since been deleted. The account\u2019s name was a clear nod to Powderfinger\u2019s last track on the 1996 album Double Allergic, (The Return of) the Electric Horseman. Other hints on the social media account included the message \u201cI see your signs on the street now. Do you?\u201d, cribbing from the opening lyrics of hit single from 2000, My Happiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">After forming in 1989, Powderfinger eventually became one of the most awarded rock acts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/australian-music\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian music<\/a> history. The band had five consecutive No 1 albums on the Aria charts in its 21 years, but in April 2010, band members announced their split.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A hugely successful farewell tour followed, which ended on 13 November 2010 \u2013 a number that also appeared in the coordinated marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Although it\u2019s been 16 years since the band last toured live, Powderfinger reunited briefly in 2000 for a live-streamed performance called One Night Lonely, raising more than $500,000 for charities Beyond Blue and Support Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last year the band narrowly missed out on a top five position in Triple J\u2019s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs, with My Happiness coming in at No 6. These Days came in at No 14 and (Baby I\u2019ve Got You) On My Mind at No 70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The band said it would be touring from September 2027, but gave no details about where the performances would be.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powderfinger has confirmed the band is getting back together for a national tour in 2027 after a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-640723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}