Sun Sets On Powderfinger Post by: Dan The Internut 23 September, 2010 - 10:05 AM

The best Spring day we've had in Perth yet proved the omen we thought it might. Tonight's Powderfinger gig might possibly be the best one ever.



The masses formed on possibly one of the most underrated venues in Perth, Supreme Court Gardens, to witness what could be the best warm up act ever. Jet were awesome and rocked the crowd with their calvacade of hits.

Once lights went down and roadies sprung into action, the punters knew that their time to say goodbye to one of Australia's biggest ever bands was nigh. As as the Queensland boys hit the stage, everyone knew that this would be a night for the ages.

"Where do you hide all the ugly people. The gene pool here in Perth is amazing." says Fanning to the adoring crowd... Oh Bernard, you say that to all the crowds.

The band launched into a fairly low key start, the familiar sounds of Love Your Way punctuating the massive marquee that plays host to their three goodbye shows. Lost And Running proved an early crowd favourite, as well as Sunsets, Already Gone and Like A Dog. Hell, with a band like Powderfinger, every song's a crowd favourite.

The band also gave the punters a very nice surprise half way through the show. Not that I'm going to spoil it for you.



"It's Wednesday night, but you people are on fire!" Fanning calls it how it is... maybe the punters were reacting to the fact that this gig was being recorded for "Powderfinger: The Movie" Maybe it was just because this was our chance to say goodbye to Australian music legends?

Either way, the crowd singalong for "My Happiness" was definitely the high point of the night, the crowd even left to their own devices and managing to keep in tune and in time. Amazing stuff.

Fanning reminisced about the bad old days of playing (and getting booed off) at Planet nightclub, before their graduation to bigger (and far better venues) like The Lookout, Claremont Showgrounds and finally, the Supreme Court Gardens. The Powderfinger boys certainly have a love affair with us in the west. Clearly, the feeling was mutual.

After the obligatory encore, the boys closed out with the very fitting "These Days". Although time may have slipped through their hands, the crowd left ecstatic at getting their chance to see an Aussie favourite one last time.

--Set List--

Love Your Way
Lost And Running
Burn Your Name
Sunsets
Sailed The Wildest Stretch
Thrillology
Already Gone
My Kind Of Scene
Like a dog
Rockin Rocks
Nobody Sees
My happiness
Passenger
Capoicity
Pick You Up
On My Mind
These Days


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• Des Mewett says

  Powderfinger rocked, it was one of the best concerts I have been too.
  After queeing from 5pm it was worth the wait Front Row, slap bang centre, they were having so much fun amongst themsleves and with the Crowd they were AWESOME !!!!!!

  Posted Thursday 23 September, 2010 10:38 AM
• TBone says

  Now that's what I call a f*cking great band.

  Posted Thursday 23 September, 2010 11:06 AM
• The Squid says

  They're just one of those bands that sound so great - thanks Powderfinger.

  Posted Thursday 23 September, 2010 11:07 AM
• Frank says

  Wednesday was great, bands were great, awesome atmospshere, but in a massive tent, what were they thinking.
  All the speakers of which there were not many were in tent and the sound got a bit distorted if you were down the back.

  Posted Friday 24 September, 2010 8:42 AM
• greg says

  went to thursday night gig and it was brilliant , sorry to see these lads call it a day but definetly going out on a high. true aussie legends

  Posted Friday 24 September, 2010 11:45 AM