Sat 4 Sep – Powderfinger (Sunsets - The Farewell Tour)
The Riverstage is absolutely rammed full for the first of five sold-out shows to take place in Powderfinger’s hometown. Following the April announcement that the alternative rock quintet had “said all that they wanted to say as a musical group” with the release of 2009’s Golden Rule, this audience is among the first of a 34-date national tour to witness the band wilfully burning out, not fading away.
The stage production is impressive. Besides the two video screens that flank the stage, there’s also an enormous, semicircular LCD screen behind John Coghill’s drumkit which exhibits some excellent CGI during key tracks. They open with two love songs: ‘Love Your Way’ and ‘Waiting For The Sun’. So begins an artfully-constructed, near two-hour-long set that fulfills its chief role: a celebratory retrospective of an improbably long-lived and successful Australian band, who rose to prominence when the ‘alternative rock’ descriptor still meant something.
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The Riverstage is absolutely rammed full for the first of five sold-out shows to take place in Powderfinger’s hometown. Following the April announcement that the alternative rock quintet had “said all that they wanted to say as a musical group” with the release of 2009’s Golden Rule, this audience is among the first of a 34-date national tour to witness the band wilfully burning out, not fading away.
The stage production is impressive. Besides the two video screens that flank the stage, there’s also an enormous, semicircular LCD screen behind John Coghill’s drumkit which exhibits some excellent CGI during key tracks. They open with two love songs: ‘Love Your Way’ and ‘Waiting For The Sun’. So begins an artfully-constructed, near two-hour-long set that fulfills its chief role: a celebratory retrospective of an improbably long-lived and successful Australian band, who rose to prominence when the ‘alternative rock’ descriptor still meant something.
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