Phew, that’s a relief then. Powderfinger, currently doing a massive tour of Australia playing to every bogan that ever listened to Triple M, have promised they’ll never make a comeback. Coming to a realisation after 21 years that Australia doesn’t need any more meat n’ potatoes rock n’ roll, Bernard Fanning has promised not to do a John Farnham and do a series of endless farewell tours.
“That’s certainly not what we’re planning,” he told an interviewer. “Unless Kevin Rudd becomes the leader of the Liberal Party. So, no. It’s not going to happen.” Musing on what will be their final live performance of bogan anthem ‘My Happiness’, Fanning voiced what many of us will be feeling when we know the band is truly finished.
“Probably relief first. Relief that it’s actually all happened and done, and that it’s all come to fruition,” he says. “Then all of us will feel some sadness, eventually. I can see why there’s sadness attached to it, but for me it’s more of a triumph that a band can be together for 20 years and be able to say, you know what we’re stopping. Thanks. Bye. Instead of being told, ‘fuck off’.”
