Music
News: Powderfinger & Silverchair Team Up
UPDATED:
JUNE 9th, 2007
At 9.00am this morning
POWDERFINGER and SILVERCHAIR fans were given their opportunity to be a
part of one of the largest Australian tours in decades, and they’ve
come out in force!
The first shows in Brisbane,
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Wollongong all officially SOLD OUT in
approximately 30 minutes, with promoters immediately adding a second
dates to meet the high demand.
Performing in
locations as distant and diverse as Darwin and Hobart, Cairns and
Mildura, Toowoomba and Bendigo, POWDERFINGER and SILVERCHAIR fans in
Brisbane have had a 2nd show added at the Entertainment Centre on
Saturday, 1 September, in Sydney at ACER Arena on Sunday, 9 September,
at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday, 19 September, at the
Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Thursday, 27 September and at
Wollongong’s WIN Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, 24 October.
Powderfinger's
new single, ‘I Don't Remember’ also goes to Australian radio
today. Taken from their brand new double platinum album
‘Dream Days at the Hotel Existence’, ‘I Don't Remember’ is classic
Powderfinger - written during pre-production when the band landed in
Los Angeles to record. Quoted during the making of the song
in January 2007, Bernard Fanning said "It's a song about making
mistakes and trying to reconcile what they were - but then in the end,
in the wash up - it doesn't really matter whose fault it was, as long
as it gets reconciled".
‘Reflections of a Sound’,
the second single from Silverchair's #1 album ‘Young Modern’, will be
released digitally on Saturday July 14. The track is bundled with live
versions of ‘Straight Lines’ and ‘Mind Reader’ from the group's
Carriageworks Album Launch. The iTunes bundle also includes an
exclusive live version of ‘Luv Your Life’. The song’s accompanying
video is very much a talking piece and is currently receiving
significant TV airplay right across the country.
Tickets
for the second shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and
Wollongong on sale now!
________________________________________________ After
weeks of speculation, theorising and a bunch of hearsay, Australia’s
two biggest rock bands – Powderfinger and Silverchair - have
officially announced extensive plans to stage a major (and
unprecedented) co-headline national concert tour.
"Across
The Great Divide" will bridge the gap between the country and the big
smoke with a rock & roll tour on a scale unseen in Australian
music
for decades. The plan is that 'The Finger' and 'The Chair' will roll
into every capital city plus 14 regional centres right across the
nation.
Months in the planning, this monster tour
kicks off at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Silverchair’s
hometown on August 29, and then moves to Powderfinger’s backyard, the
Brisbane Entertainment Centre on August 31.
From
there, the two chart-topping bands will take their show on the road for
over two months, performing in locations as distant and diverse as
Darwin and Hobart, Cairns and Mildura, Toowoomba and
Bendigo...literally, across the Great Divide and beyond.
In
those cities which don’t have sufficiently large indoor venues, the
bands will erect a large custom designed tent in which to stage the
shows.
The humongous Spring tour is an opportunity
for literally
hundreds of thousands of Aussie fans to partake in what will be a huge
event in every location it visits. Most regional centres on the
expansive itinerary won’t have seen a rock & roll show like
this
since tours by the likes of Midnight Oil and INXS in the 1980s.
Tickets
will go on sale to the general public at 9am on July 9. There will also
be special presales for the members of both bands’ fanclubs plus an
exclusive presale for Visa Card holders from 9am on July 2 through 5pm
on July 3 (see below for all the ticketing info).
“Aside
from
our album launches, these will be our first shows for two-and-a-half
years, and the first time we will return to a lot of the regional
areas,” says Bernard Fanning. “We have been threatening to hit the
rural places for ages and now we’re getting around to it we are
grateful to have Silverchair with us to carry our gear!! Two
on
the in and two on the out thanks boys!”
“We haven’t
done a truly
national tour since the end of 1997 and there are actually some places
on this tour where we’ve never even played before,” says Ben Gillies of
Silverchair. “It’ll be great to get right around Australia after all
this time and if the tickets don’t sell, we can always blame
Powderfinger!”
While most events at this level would
have
brought corporate sponsors on board as tour presenters, the bands have
instead chosen to use the shows to draw attention to a cause which is
close to the hearts of the members of both bands – reconcile.org.au
reconcile.org.au
is the website which fronts a campaign aimed at reducing the 17-year
gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children.
reconcile.org.au reaches across the historic divide in respect, trust
and understanding to generate a national conversation about bridging
the gap.
The bands have formed a jointly-owned
company which will act as the promoter for this special tour.
At
each show, the groups will play sets of equal length with their full
concert production. A special guest artist will open proceedings, then
Silverchair will perform followed by Powderfinger.
But
now for the important info - how to get tickets!
Fanclub members for
both bands should keep an eye out for details on exclusive presale
information.
Visa
cardholders can
be amongst the first to get tickets through an exclusive Visa
Entertainment pre-sale. Tickets will go on sale to Visa cardholders at
9.00am (Monday, July 2) to 5.00pm (Tuesday, July 3) and can only be
purchased at www.visaentertainment.com.au.
VISA CARDHOLDER
PRE-SALE
9.00am
(MONDAY, JULY 2) to 5.00pm (TUESDAY, JULY 3)
www.visaentertainment.com.au
LIMIT
6 PER TRANSACTION
GENERAL
PUBLIC ON-SALE
9.00am – MONDAY, JULY 9
LIMIT
6 PER TRANSACTION
NATIONAL
TOUR DATES
For more information on
ticket outlets and various booking charges please visit www.acrossthegreatdivide.com.au
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