Powderfinger's Last Concert

Powderfinger announce Sunsets Tour & disbanding

BRISBANE-They were there when you had your stop up, for the big night outand the road travel to the beach, but the lot that helped define thesoundtrack to a multiplication is no longer, with Powderfinger downing theirinstruments and end their era.The five-piece Brisbane band finished 21 days of stone and range in presence of 10,000 fans in their hometown on Saturday night.

heysaid they weren't going to get emotional until Saturday night's show-the death of the Sunsets' Farewell Tour-but there was but one shortbreath where it appeared the world of a breaking band had sunk in,during the final song, These Days.Fanning worked his way slowlythrough some of the final few words: "This spirit is slipping through myhands, These days turned out nothing like I had planned."Powderfinger left fans heartbroken after announcing their retreat in April.Thefive members offered varying reasons for the split, from familycommitments to personal conflicts to a desire to go out on top,admitting inner tensions matched with new ambition have created anunhealable rift.They launched their Sunsets' Farewell Tour inSeptember and went on to play 34 dates across 30,000km, giving everyonein Australia the opportunity to say goodbye.Another fan Jennifer French said: "It looked like they were having so much fun it's difficult to guess why they would stop."Theband-Bernard Fanning, Darren Middleton, Ian Haug, John Collins andJon Coghill-let loose for their final night, and the concert felt like acelebration of two decades of music.Thrilloilogy, theirfavourite to pay live, was epic, with Fanning, Middleton, Haug andCollins huddling within centimetres of each other slashing theirguitars, with Coghill looking down at them smashing his drums.MyHappiness was the crowd favourite, and when the band stopped playingand Fanning stopped singing, fans took over the call and owned it.Pick You Up was particularly a pet for the Brisbanites, a strain that was first played at the inner-city Hotel Orient.Fanning thanked die-hard fans, the "fingernuts", by dedicating Passenger to them."Once every 20 years you get to make a party, and ten thousand people come," he told the crowd."It's exactly wish every other Saturday night, right?"But, Tarnya Lowe said she would always think the night, and yet took her son Jimmy there, making it his first concert."It's release to go down in Australia's rock history-I wouldn't have lost it for anything," Ms Lowe told AAP."You grew up with them, their music evolved."The circle has produced seven albums since forming in 1989, and has sold more than 2.5 million records in Australia alone.They scooped another two ARIAs last week, Most Popular Australian Album for Golden Rule and Most Popular Australian Artist.They now have 18 of the awards.At the end of Saturday night's concert the band downed their instruments and walked towards the fenced-off crowd.They shook hands and took the pats on the backs before they slipped off backstage for the final time.