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Australian rock band Powderfinger has announced a national comeback tour with 18 shows scheduled across Brisbane, Cairns, Perth, Sydney, and Adelaide starting from September. The band reunited after 16 years of disbanding, confirming the news through social media videos on Friday and detailed tour dates posted Monday morning. Fans had been speculating about the reunion based on cryptic displays in major cities leading up to the announcement.
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Powderfinger, an Australian rock band that disbanded in 2006, has announced a national comeback tour with 18-shows scheduled across Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns, Perth, and Adelaide, starting from their hometown of Brisbane. The tour kicks off on Friday, September 3rd, 2021, at the Brisbane Showgrounds and continues through October. In the weeks leading up to the announcement, mysterious displays featuring letters, symbols, and numbers appeared in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney, hinting at an Instagram account called "The Return of the Electric Horsemen," which referenced a song from their 1996 album Double Allergic. Band members confirmed their reunion on social media platforms, expressing excitement to perform together again after years of discussions about potentially reuniting for live shows.
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Australian rock band Powderfinger have confirmed their national tour dates just days after announcing their reunion and 16 years after disbanding.
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band → confirm → reunion
The 18-show tour includes dates in Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns, Perth, and Adelaide and kicks off in the band’s hometown, Brisbane.
“We are absolutely ecstatic to be coming together to play again,” the band said in a statement posted to a new website on Monday morning.
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band → include → morning
“Over the years there have been tons of suggestions for us to go back on the road but, until now, it never felt quite right or lined up for all of us.”
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it → go → us
On Friday, the band uploaded videos to various social media platforms confirming their reunion and announcing a national tour after much speculation.
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band → upload → speculation
We’re Powderfinger, and we’ve got a little announcement to make for you today,” guitarist and vocalist Bernard “Bernie” Fanning said in the YouTube video.
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Fanning → ’re → video
“We always said that if we were going to get back together to do some shows, that you guys would be the first to know.
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guys → say → shows
And so now you’re the first to know.
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We’re going to do some shows all around Australia from September next year.
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We → go → September
The tour dates are:
- Friday 3 September – Brisbane, Brisbane Showgrounds
- Saturday 4 September – Brisbane, Brisbane Showgrounds
- Friday 10 September – Brisbane, Brisbane Showgrounds
- Saturday 11 September – Brisbane, Brisbane Showgrounds
- Friday 17 September – Cairns, Cazalys Stadium
- Saturday 18 September – Cairns, Cazalys Stadium
- Friday 24 September – Perth, Wellington Square
- Saturday 25 September – Perth, Wellington Square
- Friday 1 October – Sydney, The Domain
- Saturday 2 October – Sydney, The Domain
- Friday 8 October – Sydney, The Domain
- Saturday 9 October – Sydney, The Domain
- Friday 15 October – Adelaide, Ellis Park
- Saturday 16 October – Adelaide, Ellis Park
- Friday 22 October – Melbourne, Melbourne Park Oval
- Saturday 23 October – Melbourne, Melbourne Park Oval
- Friday 29 October – Melbourne, Melbourne Park Oval
- Saturday 30 October – Melbourne, Melbourne Park Oval
In the days leading up to the announcement, displays in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney featured sprawling letters, symbols and numbers connected to an Instagram account called The Return of the Electric Horsemen.
Fans speculated it referenced Powderfinger’s song (Return of) The Electric Horseman from their 1996 album Double Allergic.
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it → lead → album
Later, the band’s official Instagram posted the same image.
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Instagram → post → image
The last time the band performed was an impromptu reunion in 2017 during Splendour In The Grass.
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band → perform → Grass
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