Any Powderfinger fans out there?

Pap

Not a fan per se. I only know one song (thanks to a 10C member). I like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZeuWoIBuo8

redraw

Tash made me order the coloured vinyl signed set 

DC29940

Man, haven't thought about these guys in a long time! Odyssey Number Five is one of my all-time favorite albums. Gotta spin some Powderfinger now!

goldrush

https://youtu.be/hEQZ8xHr-bo

JPPJ84

^^ oh that is wonderful! Discovered them when I was living in Australia in 2003 and have loved them ever since. Odyssey Number 5 is my favorite

JPPJ84

Well that was amazing! Of course way too short thank you Powderfinger!

goldrush

JPPJ84 said:

Well that was amazing! Of course way too short thank you Powderfinger!

Yeah I could have listened all night! How good did Bernard sound? We really need more Powderfinger

Not a bad set list at all, but about 2 hours too short!

JPPJ84

goldrush said:

JPPJ84 said:

Well that was amazing! Of course way too short thank you Powderfinger!

Yeah I could have listened all night! How good did Bernard sound? We really need more Powderfinger

Not a bad set list at all, but about 2 hours too short!

Maybe they realize how much they miss this and reunite

redraw

Yeah sounded awesome but waaaaaay too short.... 
Fortitude Music Hall looked pretty cool being empty - such a great venue!!! 

Pap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_V5jNSYjAs

BrainofBGA

Too short to the point of being a big disappointment! I know why they did it, maybe they’re testing the waters, but cmon, 40mins?? 

BrainofBGA

PS what was Haug doing with that hair!? 

Natashapearljamfan

Loved hearing Powderfinger. It's great to see they keep increasing their goal of raising money it started off at a goal of $60,000 and the new goal is $350,000,  they have raised an amazing $325, 000. Well done to Powderfinger and their fans, this money will help so many struggling people in the music industry. 

Bernard is definitely sounding great we saw him last year for a charity benefit in Sydney with Paul Dempsey, Tim Rogers and Phil Jamison. Bernard was awesome I can't recommend enough to see Bernard if he's doing other projects he's very talented. 

BALLBOY

TakeTakes me back to the great days of 90's with nothing but live music a t shirt & ringing ears. 

BrainofBGA

Their one night lonely set is available for purchase on iTunes 

BrainofBGA

I might go revisit a couple of the albums I didn’t give much love back in the day, including Dream Days and Golden Rule. 

goldrush

Powderfinger will release a new album of unreleased songs in 2020

https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/music-news/powderfinger-new-album-2020/12605624

Australian rock icons Powderfinger have revealed that they are set to release an album of unheard material later this year in an interview with Double J.

Speaking to Caz Tran, the band's guitarist Darren Middleton and drummer Jon Coghill confirmed they are opening their vaults and pulling out some of their best shelved material.

"We were in putting together Odyssey Number Five 20th anniversary release and we went back and found like 50 songs that we had never released," Coghill says. "And we've got the 10 best, we think.

"There's gonna be a new album this year at some stage. New songs. No one's heard any of them. And it sounds pretty good to us. It's been put together really well."

The pair confirmed that the first single from the record is called 'Day By Day' and will be out on Friday 18 September.

It was in cobbling together the 20th anniversary reissue of Odyssey Number Five, this week's Classic Album on Double J, that the band realised the quality of the shelved material.

"We trawled through our hard drives and went, 'This is actually a pretty good bunch of songs here,'" Middleton says.

"'Maybe we should do more than just put them out as extras. Maybe we should do something with it. See if anyone's interested in listening'."

The band assure fans that the final product stands up to the rest of their material. The songs just didn't work for the band at the time.

"It's really good!" Middleton says.

"It's probably our best album yet," Coghill laughs.

"Essentially what you're going to hear is the band spanning about 10 years, with songs that for one reason or another just didn't make the cut at the time, or just didn't suit the purposes of whatever we were doing," Middleton says.

Songs from the album stretch back to the era of their acclaimed third album Internationalist.

"I think the earliest one on this album would probably be from 1998. So that's as far back as it goes.

"It's funny, I was telling a friend of mine about it. 'We might have a new album coming out'.

"He's like, 'What? You recorded some stuff now?' I said, 'No, it's from back when we were kind of cutting it, you know, when we were hitting our straps'. He's like, 'This is gonna be great'."

It won't be a scratchy collection of demos, as the band brought in the pros to make sure it all works together cohesively.

"We had Nick DiDia [who produced four of Powderfinger's biggest albums] come on board again," Middleton says.

"It wasn't that much of a mess, but it certainly did need to be looked at with outside ears and with someone who could sort of tie it all together.

"It's really good! Surprisingly good!"

While we won't have to wait long for some unheard Powderfinger tracks, fans shouldn't bank on the chance to see the band live any time soon.

"There's no plans to do any more live lockdown videos or record any new songs or write any new songs together," Middleton says.

"But, things change. Your views, thoughts and feelings and maybe even some of your memories change. Life's short, we'll wait and see what happens. But there's absolutely no plans to record new material."

Natashapearljamfan

Yay thanks for posting. I'm so excited. Only a few weeks away until the first song drops. 

JPPJ84

That’s exciting! Can’t wait 

DC29940

Can't wait for the *new tunes and am ecstatic that I'll finally be able to own Odyssey Number Five on vinyl! (shipping from Australia was not cheap, though)