Powderfinger were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their break-up in 2010, the line-up consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins and drummer Jon Coghill. The group’s third studio album Internationalist peaked at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998. They followed with four more number-one studio albums in a row: Odyssey Number Five, Vulture Street, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence and Golden Rule. In April 2010 Powderfinger announced that they would be breaking up after their Sunsets Farewell Tour, declaring it would be their last ever as they had musically said everything they
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Powderfinger were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their break-up in 2010, the line-up consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins and drummer Jon Coghill. The group’s third studio album Internationalist peaked at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998. They followed with four more number-one studio albums in a row: Odyssey Number Five, Vulture Street, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence and Golden Rule. On 23 May 2020, the band reformed for a one-off livestreamed charity performance, One Night Lonely. Powderfinger earned a total of eighteen ARIA Awards, making them the second-most awarded band behind Silverchair. Ten Powderfinger albums and DVDs were certified multiple-platinum. In April 2010 Powderfinger announced that they would be breaking up after their Sunsets Farewell Tour, declaring it would be their last ever as they had musically said everything they wanted to say. In November the following year, rock music journalist Dino Scatena and Powderfinger published a biography, Footprints: the inside story of Australia’s best loved band. The band’s name comes from Neil Young’s song of the same name, and they started as a cover band playing pub rock classics by the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Rodriguez, and Neil Young.
The Eternal, the Vibrants, and the Fossils were other Brisbane-based outfits. Despite their popularity in Brisbane, when playing a heavy metal gig in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1990, Powderfinger were booed off stage. After completing secondary education, Collins and Haug attended the University of Queensland, where the latter met Fanning in an economics class – and learned that Fanning had similar interests in music and could sing. In August 1992, the group self-funded a seven-track self-titled extended play, also known as the Blue EP, on their own label, the MDS. It was produced and distributed by Leroy Bath Ian Taylor, and recorded at Brisbane’s MDS Studios. At that time, Simon McKenzie of Time Off noted that they were ‘hoping the major label would put a bit of weight behind the disc, but it’s not as though they’ve signed a record deal or anything else.’ In September 1993, their second EP, Transfusion, was issued by Polydor Records and distributed in September 1993. The EP has an early version of a version of \”Save Your Skin, co-written by Coghil, Hghill, Collins, Middleton, and Fanning; it was later expanded and released in July 1994 as a single from their debut album, Wooden Ears Ears. In September 1994, they released an extended extended track, Broken Skin, which was later released as the single for their album, The Parables.
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