Powdernger
For the Neil Young song, see Powdernger (song).
Powdernger 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 groups
third studio album Internationalist, peaked through at
No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998.
They followed with four more number-one studio al-
bums in a row, Odyssey Number Five (September 2000),
Vulture Street (July 2003), Dream Days at the Hotel Ex-
istence (June 2007) and Golden Rule (November 2009).
Their Top Ten hit singles are "My Happiness" (2000),
"(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" (2003) and "Lost
and Running" (2007). Powdernger earned a total of
eighteen ARIA Awards making them the second-most
awarded band behind Silverchair. Ten Powdernger al-
bums and DVDs were certied multiple-platinum status,
with Odyssey Number Five their most successful album
achieving eight times platinum certication for ship-
ment of over 560,000 units.
After the release of their rst DVD, These Days: Live
in Concert (September 2004), and a compilation al-
bum, Fingerprints: The Best of Powdernger, 19942000
(November 2004), the group announced a hiatus in 2005.
The June 2007 announcement of a two-month-long na-
tionwide tour with Silverchair, Across the Great Divide
Tour, followed the release of Dream Days at the Hotel
Existence. Powdernger were involved in philanthropic
causes. In 2005, they performed at a WaveAid concert
in Sydney, to help raise funds for areas aected by the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Another performance at
the Sydney Opera House in October 2007 raised funds for
breast cancer victims and their families. One aim of their
Across the Great Divide Tour was to promote the eorts
of Reconciliation Australia, and awareness of the gap in
life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous
children. In April 2010 Powdernger 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. On 13
November 2010, they played their last concert, signifying
their disbandment. In November the following year, Dino
Scatena, a rock music journalist, and the band, published
a biography, Footprints: the inside story of Australias best
loved band.
1
1 History
1.1 Formation and early releases (1989
93)
Powdernger were formed in 1989[1] by Steven Bishop
(ex-The Eternal) on drums, John Collins (The Eternal)
on bass guitar and Ian Haug (The Vibrants, The Fossils)
on guitar and vocals.[2][3][4] The Eternal, The Vibrants
and The Fossils were other Brisbane-based outts.[5]
All three members of Powdernger were students at
Brisbane Grammar School a private school in Spring
Hill and they started as a cover band playing pub rock
classics by The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Led Zep-
pelin, Steppenwolf, Rodriguez and Neil Young.[2][4][6]
The bands name is from Youngs song of the same
name.[2][7][8] Despite their popularity in Brisbane, when
playing a heavy metal gig in Newcastle in 1990, Pow-
dernger were booed o stage.[9]
After completing secondary education, Collins and Haug
attended University of Queensland, where the latter met
Bernard Fanning in an Economics class and learned
that Fanning had similar interests in music and he could
sing.[10] Fanning took over the role of lead vocals from
Haug and also provided guitar and harmonica.[2][6] Late
in 1990, Jon Coghill another university student with
Fanning and Haug replaced Bishop on drums, which
was described as a mutual leaving.[11][12] Bishop later
worked in London-based bands before returning to Bris-
bane where he was a member of Moonjuice and then The
Haymakers. Powderngers nal line-up change was in
1992 with the addition of Darren Middleton (The Pirates)
on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals.[7][13] Powdern-
ger initially performed cover versions of other artists
songs, but gradually developed by writing and performing
their own material.[7]
In August 1992, the group self-funded a seven track self-
titled extended play, also known as the Blue EP, on their
own Finger label and distributed by MDS.[4][6][11] It was
produced by Leroy Bath and Ian Taylor, recorded at Bro-
ken Toys Studios, Brisbane.[14] The EP has an early ver-
sion of "Save Your Skin", co-written by Coghill, Collins,
Haug, Middleton and Fanning;[15] it was later expanded
and released in July 1994 as a single from their debut
album, Parables for Wooden Ears.[14] Their second EP,
Transfusion, was issued in September 1993, it was dis-
tributed by Polydor Records.[2][6] At that time, Simon
McKenzie of Time O noted they were hoping the ma-
jor label will put a bit of weight behind the disc, but its
2 1 HISTORY
not as though they've signed a record deal or anything.[16]
McKenzie felt the EP showed they were wanting to get
heavier and louder for a long time, but is it also a reaction
against the sixties tags they've been stuck with?".[16] The
ve tracks include Reap What You Sow, which reached
the No. 1 spot on the ARIA Alternative Singles Chart,[17]
replacing Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box".[18] The group
recorded their rst music video, for Reap What You
Sow, which was directed by David Barker, who subse-
quently directed their next seven videos.[3][19][20] After
the EPs success the group were signed by Polydor.[6]
1.2 Early albums (199498)
John Collins is one of the founders of Powdernger. The bass
guitarist is shown at the Rock and Soul Revue, Brisbane in Jan-
uary 2005.
In January 1994 Powdernger performed on the Big
Day Out Tour (see 1994 line-up).[2][21] On 18 July that
year they released their debut studio album, Parables for
Wooden Ears under Polydor. According to Australian
rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, it featured com-
plex, meticulously crafted rock but was somewhat pon-
derous and sombre, which did little to full the promise
displayed on Transfusion".[2] The album was produced by
Tony Cohen (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cruel
Sea),[2][11] which Fanning later described as the bands
dark dark days, received limited radio coverage.[4][18]
Supporting the albums release, the band toured heavily
appearing at the Livid and Homebake music festivals.[22]
Powdernger supported United States visitors Pantera on
that groups Driven Downunder Tour '94.[2] Another Aus-
tralian support act on the tour was Newcastle-formed
band, Silverchair.[23] Three singles were released from
Powderngers debut album "Tail", "Grave Concern"
and Save Your Skin but none appeared on the ARIA
Singles Chart Top 50.[2][24] Following the albums re-
lease, and lukewarm reception, in April 1995 the band
recorded at Melbournes Metropolis Studio with Lachlan
Magoo Goold (Regurgitator) and in July released a ve-
track EP, Mr Kneebone.[2][11][25]
The bands second studio album, Double Allergic, was is-
sued on 2 September 1996, which peaked at No. 4 on the
ARIA Albums Chart and was certied triple platinum by
ARIA for shipment of 210,000 units by 2007.[24][26][27] It
was co-produced by Tim Whitten and the group.[2][11][28]
McFarlane felt this album was more self-assured and
textured [it] consolidated the bands position at the fore-
front of the alternative rock scene, alongside the likes
of You Am I, Spiderbait, Silverchair, Regurgitator and
Tumbleweed. [The album] was full of accessible, spirited
rock.[2] Australian rock music journalist, Ed Nimmer-
voll, noted "[it] revealed a signicant shift towards acces-
sible rock songs rooted in melodic grooves. Powdern-
gers reason to be is to create songs strong enough for the
band and audience to play and hear months or years down
the line.[6] Four singles were released from the album
"Pick You Up", "D.A.F.", "Living Type" and "Take Me
In". Take Me In was released as a video single featuring
several other music videos by the group. FasterLouder,
a music review web site, recalled that when Double Al-
lergic was released in 1996, it showed the band were here
for the long haul to become arguably one of the best of
the decade.[29] In 1997 the album was issued in Canada
and the group toured North America to promote it.[2]
1.3 Critical acclaim and chart success
(19982003)
On 7 September 1998, Powdernger released their third
studio album, Internationalist, which peaked at No. 1
and spent 101 weeks in the Top 50 of the ARIA Albums
Chart, it was produced by Nick DiDia (Rage Against
the Machine, Pearl Jam).[11][24][30] AllMusic's Jonathan
Lewis had mixed feelings about the album, he was en-
chanted by its lead single, "The Day You Come", how-
ever the rest of the album didn't measure up except for
some ne tracks in Don't Wanna Be Left Out and
Already Gone.[31] Nevertheless, by 2007 the album had
shipped over 350,000 copies and was certied ve times
platinum domestically,[3][26] and had reached European
audiences.[32] Internationalist was the rst Powdernger
album to win any ARIA Music Awards.[33] At the 1999
ceremony it won Album of the Year, Best Rock Al-
bum and Best Cover Art (by Kevin Wilkins); and
The Day You Come won Single of the Year.[33][34]
"Passenger", another single from Internationalist, was
nominated for three additional categories in the following
year.[33] The band was both praised and criticised for their
1.4 Rock resurgence (200305) 3

ble II (2000).[42] Singles from the album are My Kind of

Scene, "My Happiness", "Like a Dog", and the double
A-side, "The Metre / Waiting for the Sun". My Hap-
piness which peaked at No. 4 in Australia and No. 7 in
New Zealand is the groups highest charting single in both
countries.[24][39] At the ARIA Awards ceremony My
Happiness won Single of the Year,[43] and other songs
were nominated in various categories.[33] Their tracks
were voted for, by national radio station Triple J's listen-
ers, on annual Hottest 100 lists: These Days, Already
Gone, "Good-Day Ray", and Passenger were ranked
in 1999, and My Happiness and My Kind of Scene
in 2000.[44] In 2009, These Days was voted at No. 21
and My Happiness at No. 27 in the Hottest 100 of all
time, placing them as second- and fourth-highest Aus-
tralian tracks after the Hilltop Hoods' "The Nosebleed
Section" and Hunters & Collectors' "Throw Your Arms
Around Me", respectively.[45]

1.4 Rock resurgence (200305)

Ian Haug, another founding mainstay, is on lead guitar in Sydney

in September 2007.

political views on Internationalist. In a November 1998

interview with Benedict Watts of Juice Magazine, Haug
said that political messages in The Day You Come were
not something they were just preaching about, but rather
were something they saw as a responsibility.[35]
Powderngers fourth studio album, Odyssey Number
Five, was released on 4 September 2000, which also
peaked at No. 1.[24] Entertainment Weekly's Marc Wein-
garten provided a positive review and found the group
prove that theres still terrain left to be explored [in] gui-
tar rock ... melancholy is the default mode ... [they] can
Coghill on drums, in Melbourne, January 2010. He joined in
be as prim as Travis or as mock-grandiose as Oasis".[36]
1990.[2]
However Allmusics Dean Carlson was more negative
seeing the album as little more than a slightly o- Powderngers Vulture Street was released on 4 July 2003,
base perspective into the world of mid-90s American and became their third album to peak at No. 1 in
grunge.[37] Odyssey Number Five is Powderngers most Australia,[24] while in New Zealand it reached No. 17.[39]
commercially successful album, shipping 560,000 copies Recorded in January and February 2003, it was named
and certied eight times platinum by 2004.[38] It also ap-
for the location of the bands rst recording room in
peared on the New Zealand Albums Chart at No. 15.[39] West End, Brisbane. The Sydney Morning Herald's music
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2001 the group won critic, Bernard Zuel approved of a rawer, louder, but by
Album of the Year, Highest Selling Album, Best no means unrened, album with a real energy here that
Rock Album, Best Cover Art (by Wilkins) and Best has some connections to early Powdernger, but bears the
Group.[33][40] mark of a superior intellect, he felt it had Haug and Mid-
Two of Odyssey Number Five's tracks featured on lm dleton dominating in a way they had not since their 1994
soundtracks: "These Days" was written for Two Hands debut album.[46] Simon Evans of musicOMH described
(1999)[41] and "My Kind of Scene" on Mission: Impossi- the group as having opted for a visceral live feel, adding
4 1 HISTORY

a real punch to songs.[47] Middleton described the bands

aim was to get a sound in the songs that was reminiscent
of things we grew up loving, which was Bowie, Zeppelin,
Kiss ... that sort of thing; all based in the 70s. We wanted
to sonically have that as well, so its a very old-school-
sounding record. Its all the old amps, we used old gui-
tars and recorded to tape, of course. Its fairly organic in
that sense.[30] Vulture Street won four ARIA Awards in
2003: Album of the Year, Best Group, Best Rock
Album and Best Cover Art (by Steven Gorrow, Rev-
olution Design).[33] Singles issued from the album are:
"(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind", "Since You've Been
Gone", "Love Your Way", and "Sunsets". Tracks were
also nominated for awards in 2003 and 2004.[33]
In September 2004 the group issued their rst live al-
bum, These Days: Live in Concert, initially as a CD and
followed in October with a two-disc DVD. One single,
"Stumblin'", which had appeared on Vulture Street, was
issued as a live version. In late October they released a
compilation album, Fingerprints: The Best of Powdern-
ger, 19942000, which included many of their singles
from the rst four albums as well as non-singles: Thril-
loilogy and Belter, and a re-release of These Days.
These Days, although never ocially released as a sin-
gle, was ranked at No. 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100
poll of 1999.[44] The album also included two new songs: Darren Middleton on guitar in January 2010 at Big Day Out,
Melbourne. He joined in 1992 and formed a side-project,
"Bless My Soul" and Process This, although only Bless
Drag, in 2001. During Powderngers 2005-07 hiatus, Drag re-
My Soul was released as a single. Following the 2004
grouped.
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Powdernger ap-
peared at the WaveAid fund raising concert in January
2005 in Sydney, to raise funds for aid organisations work- In October 2005 Fanning issued his debut solo album,
ing in the disaster aected areas.[48] Fanning, as a mem- Tea & Sympathy,[57][58] which reached No. 1 in Aus-
ber of The Wrights, sang lead vocals on "Evie, part 2" tralia and No. 11 in New Zealand.[59] At the ARIA Music
at the concert.[49] The Wrights released a studio version Awards of 2006, Fanning won in four categories includ-
in March as a single with some of the proceeds going to ing Album of the Year for Tea & Sympathy and Best
tsunami relief eorts.[49] Video for its lead single, "Wish You Well".[60] Wish
You Well was ranked at No. 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100
poll in 2005.[61] At the end of 2006, Fanning toured in
1.5 Era of side projects (200507) support of the albums release in the United Kingdom and
North America; at its conclusion Powdernger resumed
After the WaveAid concert, from early 2005, Powdern- from their hiatus.[62][63] Fanning compared his solo work
ger had a period of hiatus. During the separation, most to Powdernger recordings when a problem came up in
band members pursued other musical projects; on the the studio, especially guitar-wise, I've always had Dar-
personal front: Haug and Middleton each had children, ren and Ian to call on. They could usually come up with
and Fanning met his future wife.[50][51] Middletons side something good. But I played all the guitar on it, and my
project, Drag, had issued an EP, Gas Food Lodging, in abilities are fairly limited and that Powdernger is my
2002.[52] Zombos Reviews found the EP was full of well- real job and I'm looking forward to doing it again.[63]
written jangly pop, and has some rather nice ballads.[53]
Their debut album, The Way Out, was recorded in March
2005 and released on 10 July,[54][55] which was a tad 1.6 Return from hiatus (200709)
disappointing [compared with the EP] ... mostly mid-
tempo pop-rock songs, mixed with some slower, pretty Powdernger started recording their sixth studio album,
ballads. Everythings tastefully arranged, and theres al- Dream Days at the Hotel Existence, in January 2007,
ways nice melodies and harmonies.[53] Collins and Haug which was released on 2 June. Debuting at No. 1
formed The Predators with Powderngers former drum- on the ARIA Albums Chart their fourth to do so
mer, Steven Bishop, now on drums and lead vocals. The consecutively[24] it broke the Australian digital sales
group released a six-track EP, Pick Up the Pace, in July record with over 3000 copies sold online.[64] Generally
2006 and undertook a short tour around Australia.[56] reviewers did not rate it as highly as its predecessor, Vul-
1.7 Golden Rule and disbandment (200910)
A performance of "I Don't Remember" on the Across the Great
Divide tour. Middleton, Fanning, Collins and Haug are visible,
Coghill is obscured.
ture Street, with Cameron Adams of the Herald Sun HiT
describing it as No radical reinvention, no huge change
in direction ... In a word: consistent.[65] Zuel described
it as Powderngers rst dull album but the band as the
biggest rock band in the country.[66] "Lost and Running",
their rst single for three years, had been issued in May,
and reached No. 5.[24] A second single, "I Don't Re-
member", appeared in August. A song from the album,
"Black Tears", was amended following concerns that it
could prejudice a trial over the 2004 Palm Island death in
custody case. Fanning stated that an alternative version
would be on the album as a result of the concerns.[67] On
18 August that year, Powdernger performed a concert
in Karratha, as part of Triple Js AWOL Series.[68] The
band was supported by The Grates and Muph N Plutonic,
and various local acts.[69] While in Karratha, Fanning
and Coghill visited Gumala Mirnuwarni, a local school in Powdernger performing on their Sunsets Farewell Tour, 6
Roebourne that encourages children to stay in school.[70] November 2010, Sydney. They played their nal show at the
In June 2007 Powdernger and Silverchair announced the
nine-week Across the Great Divide Tour to promote rec-
onciliation with Indigenous Australians.[71] From August
to October that year the two groups toured all state capital
cities, fourteen Australian regional centres, and included
four performances in New Zealand.[72] They performed
34 concerts in 26 towns across Australia, with an esti-
mated total of 220,000 people in attendance.[72][73] On 1
December a triple-DVD set was released with the same
title as the tour with the Melbourne performances for
both bands and backstage footage from the tour.[72][73][74]
The schedule consisted of three main parts, beginning
with a supporting artist performing one set, followed by
Silverchair and then Powdernger playing the nal set.
The two bands united on-stage during only three perfor-
mances throughout the tour, including Daniel Johns (Sil-
verchair) and Fanning sharing lead vocals on a cover ver-
sion of The Who's "Substitute" at a Sydney and two Mel-
bourne shows.[72][75]
Dream Days at the Hotel Existence was the recipient of
the ARIA Award for Best Cover Art in 2007.[33][76]
It was also nominated for Album of the Year, Best
5
Rock Album and Best Group, while Lost and Run-
ning received nominations for Single of the Year and
Best Video.[33][77] Powdernger failed to win any of
these awards with tour mates Silverchairs Young Mod-
ern and "Straight Lines obtaining all ve.[33][78][79] On 28
October at the ceremony, Powdernger performed Lost
and Running.[80] The third single from Dream Days at
the Hotel Existence, "Nobody Sees" was released in De-
cember 2007.[81] On 27 September 2008, Powdern-
ger performed "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind and
AC/DC's "Long Way to the Top" at the AFL Grand Fi-
nal.[82] Their song Drifting Further Away featured on
Greys Anatomy's fth season in episode 13, "Stairway to
Heaven", which aired on 21 January 2009.[83][84]
1.7 Golden Rule and disbandment (2009
10)
River Stage in Brisbane one week later in front of 10,000 fans.
The last song was These Days"; the group disbanded after the
tour.[85]
From mid-June 2009 Powdernger worked with DiDia
producing their seventh studio album, Golden Rule, which
was issued on 13 November. The album peaked at No.
1 on the ARIA albums chart becoming their fth stu-
dio album in a row to do so.[24] The albums lead single,
"All of the Dreamers", was released in September.[86][87]
Burn Your Name, the second single followed in De-
cember. That same month the band performed at the
2009 Homebake festival after a 10-year absence.[88] In
late January they toured on the 2010 Big Day Out. The
third single from the album, Sail the Widest Stretch,
appeared in April.[89]
Also in April 2010, Powdernger announced that af-
ter 21 years, the group would disband following their
Sunsets Farewell Tour in September and October that
year:[90][91][92]
With the completion of our last album,
Golden Rule, we feel that we have said all
6 2 MUSICAL STYLE
that we want to say as a musical group. We
rmly believe that it is our most complete and
satisfying album and can't think of a better
way to farewell our fans than with music that
we all believe in and also with, hopefully, our
best tour to date.
Bernard Fanning on behalf of Powdern-
ger, Powdernger Ocial Website, April
2010[92]
A Jetstar Airbus A320-200 with Powdernger logo at Newcastle
Williamtown Airport, September 2010. The jet was used on the
Sunsets Farewell Tour.
Coghill told Australian Times that the nal tour is go-
ing to be great fun, but its also going to be sad.[93] He
conrmed that he had no plans to start a new band or for
a solo project. Instead he intended to nish his degree,
"[o]nce I'm done with that, I might put the feelers out
and see whats happening. I don't think I'd be doing any-
thing solo, but I might look to join other bands, just to
have a chance to keep playing. I'm just not keen to be o
touring the world anymore.[93] Powdernger played their
nal show at the River Stage in Brisbane on 13 November
2010 in front of 10,000 fans; the last song they performed
was These Days.[85] On 25 January 2011 the band is-
sued a previously unreleased track, I'm on Your Side,
as a fund raiser for the Premiers Flood Appeal as a re-
sult of major ooding in Queensland from December the
previous year into January. The song was available via
the bands website with all proceeds going towards the
cause. On 8 November 2011, the group released a second
compilation album, Footprints: The Best of Powdern-
ger, 2001-2011, containing two new tracks. There was
also a 2-disc release, Fingerprints & Footprints The Ul-
timate Collection, combining both Fingerprints and Foot-
prints in one set.[94] Also in November, Dino Scatena and
the band, published a biography, Footprints: the inside
story of Australias best loved band.[95] Scatena, a rock
music journalist, had started writing the book in the pre-
vious October during the Sunsets Farewell Tour.[95]
1.8 Afterwards
Former Powdernger member, Fanning worked on his
second solo album Departures during late 2012 in Los
Angeles with Joe Chiccarelli producing.[96] It was re-
leased in June the following year and peaked at No. 1 on
the ARIA Albums Chart.[97] Middleton had relocated to
Melbourne and worked with Red Door Sounds Paul An-
nison producer of Children Collide's album, Monument
(April 2012). In December that year Middleton revealed
that Im halfway through a new record.[98] Middle-
tons album, Translations, was released independently in
November 2013.[99] Around the same time Coghill was
working as a journalist on the Gold Coast, while Collins
was developing business projects in Queensland.[100]
In January 2013 Haug produced the second album, Sins
of a Li'l Later Kiss, by Brisbane-based folk duo Cole
and Van Dijk.[101] He then joined The Church, replacing
Marty Willson-Piper, and featured on their 2014 album
Further/Deeper.
2 Musical style
Powderngers derivative musical style includes hard rock
and alternative music and, according to McFarlane, the
band made its mark with an earthy, blues-based sound
that combined soaring, 1970s-inuenced ri-rock with
1990s studio technology. With the added textures of
folk, country and a soulful groove, the band was able
to head in any direction.[2] Nimmervoll acclaimed them
as one of Australias most popular radio-friendly rock
bands which produced music the rest of Australia
embraced.[6] McFarlane was partially disappointed with
their debut 1994 album Parables for Wooden Ears com-
pared to their earlier EP Transfusion.[2] Their 1996 al-
bum, Double Allergic, was more self-assured and tex-
tured and consolidated the bands position at the fore-
front of the alternative rock scene.[2] It revealed a sig-
nicant shift towards accessible rock songs rooted in
melodic grooves according to Nimmervoll.[6]
In a November 2007 interview with Paul Cashmere of
Undercover website, Middleton stated that a couple of
songs they had initially written for Vulture Street were
just too Odyssey Number Five based, and that the rst
track, Rockin' Rocks, was probably the start of where
we were heading with the album.[102] Cashmere stated
that the album was the toughest [he has] heard Pow-
dernger sound.[102] Zuel reviewed two of Powdern-
gers more recent albums, he described Vulture Street as
a rawer, louder album in comparison to Odyssey Num-
ber Five; it highlighted Fannings talent as a lyricist
and stated that it featured guitarists Haug and Middle-
ton dominating in a way they haven't since their 1994
debut.[46] Zuel stated that there is a real energy here
that has some connections to early Powdernger, and de-
scribed On My Mind as having "AC/DC meatiness,
 7

and Love Your Way as acoustic tumbling into weav-

ing Zeppelin lines.[46] In his review of Dream Days at the
Hotel Existence, Zuel described it as "[having] high-gloss
and muscular framework, and stated that that was what
American radio considers serious rock.[66]

Compared with the relatively lean, agile

sound they've perfected up to now, this is
Powdernger as the footballer who in the
o-season spends his time in the gym and
emerges bu and beefy. The problem is he
has bulk but has traded in his nimbleness.
Bernard Zuel, The Sydney Morning Herald,
1 June 2007.[66]

Clayton Bolger of AllMusic stated in his review of Dream

Days at the Hotel Existence that Powdernger largely re-
visit the sound of their Internationalist album, leaving
behind much of the glam and swagger of 2003s Vul-
ture Street".[103] He commented on Fannings command-
ing and distinctive vocals, the twin-guitar attack of
Middleton and Haug, Collins innovative basslines, and
the powerhouse drum work of Coghill.[103] Nimmer-
voll described Golden Rule as Powdernger back to its
essence. Theyd experimented with the sound, tried dif-
ferent things with the songwriting process and recorded
in America with dierent producers. [It] was recorded at
home, the band reunited with American Nick DiDia, who
had previously worked with the band during the classic
era, producing Internationalist, Odyssey Number 5 and
Vulture Street. They also wrote the songs as a team, with
Bernard responsible for the bulk of the lyrics. The album
was recorded in the same spirit, as close to the live sound
as a studio album could be.[6]
3 Philanthropy
Powdernger were active in supporting causes or oppos-
ing actions taken in charitable, philanthropic, disaster,
and political circumstances. In 1996, when Crowded
House decided to break up, they organised a farewell con-
cert as a charity event for the Sydney Childrens Hospital,
on 24 November.[104] They approached Powdernger and
fellow Australian acts Custard and You Am I to also ap-
pear on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.[105] The
charity event, which was recorded and later released as
a live album titled Farewell to the World, was claimed to
have the largest Australian live concert audience, with es-
timates of between 100,000 and 250,000 people.[106][107]
In the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and
tsunami, Powdernger performed at the WaveAid fund-
raising concert in Sydney in January 2005.[48] The disas-
ter killed more than 225,000 people from 11 countries
in the area.[108] The total prot from the funds raised
from ticket sales and donations was A$2,300,000, how-
The Across the Great Divide Tour by Powdernger and
Silverchair promoted Reconciliation Australia's eorts in the
Indigenous community. Bernard Fanning, Powderngers lead
singer, is at front left, pointing into the audience. Collins and
Haug are beyond him.
ever most of this money was spent in the administrative
stream with little reaching those aected.[109]
The song "Black Tears" from the album Dream Days at
the Hotel Existence originally had the lyric An island
watchhouse bed, a black mans lying dead,[110] which
sparked fears that it might prejudice the trial of the for-
mer Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley over the 2004 Palm Is-
land death in custody case.[111] The band claimed that the
songs lyrics primarily dealt with the climbing of Uluru
by tourists despite requests from the Indigenous people
of the area to respect their sacred sites and not climb.[112]
The original version of the song was retracted from the
album, and replaced with an alternative version with the
criticised material removed.[113] The legal team for Hur-
ley, who was charged with manslaughter over the death of
Mulrunji in 2004, had referred the song to the Attorney-
General of Queensland, Kerry Shine, in their attempt
at altering the track.[114] One of Hurleys lawyers, Glen
Cranny, stated that the content and proposed timing of
the songs release raises some serious concerns regard-
ing Mr Hurleys trial.[111] Powderngers band manager,
Paul Piticco, stated that Fanning had conrmed that a line
in the song was related to the case. However, he added
that the lyric in question could refer to a watchhouse in
8 6 AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

The Bahamas or something.[114] in November 2010. Steven Bishop had been the groups
[3]
In June 2007, Powdernger and Silverchair announced original drummer, but had left to focus on his studies.
their combined Across the Great Divide Tour,[71] which The band refers to one another by nicknames,[102]
including
promoted Reconciliation Australia, a foundation helping Collins as JC and Coghill as Cogsy.
to improve the welfare of the Indigenous people of Aus- Powdernger have collaborated with some artists, they
tralia, and to show [that] both bands are behind the idea had pianist Benmont Tench play on Dream Days at the
of reconciliation.[71] Reconciliation Australia increased Hotel Existence.[122] For touring or session work aux-
the awareness of the 17-year dierence in life expectancy iliary musicians used include Alex Pertout on percus-
between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous children of sion, Duane Billings on percussion, and Lachlan Doley
Australia.[115] In October that year, during Breast Cancer on keyboards. For their second album, Double Aller-
Awareness Month, Powdernger performed another con- gic, the group enlisted Tim Whitten as producer. The
cert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.[116] This group approached American expatriate Nick DiDia as
concert was for invitees only breast cancer patients, sur- their producer for Internationalist, and recorded with him
vivors and their families were eligible to attend.[117] Pow- at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne.[123] DiDia also pro-
dernger performed alongside Silverchair, Missy Hig- duced the following two albums. In 2007 Rob Schnapf,
gins, and other artists to an audience of 700.[118] The con- producer for Beck, was asked to produce Dream Days at
cert was lmed and later broadcast as a MAX Session on the Hotel Existence in Los Angeles.[124] DiDia returned
Foxtel channel MAX on 3 November.[119] for Golden Rule. Powderngers rst music video, for
For the Sunsets Farewell Tour in September 2010, the the song Reap What You Sow in 1993, was [20]
directed by
band promoted another indigenous cause, the Yalari David Barker, an award-winning director. Film com-
organisation. [120]
The organisation provides indigenous panies who directed other videos of the group include
[125] [126]
children with opportunities to get a proper education. In Fifty Fifty Films, and Head Pictures.
January 2011, following the Queensland ood disaster,
[undercover.fm] reported that Powdernger would not re-
form for a benet concert but instead donated a never 5 Discography
before released track, I'm on Your Side, to help raise
money for the victims.[121] Main article: Powdernger discography

Parables for Wooden Ears (1994)

4 Personnel
Double Allergic (1996)
Internationalist (1998)
Odyssey Number Five (2000)
Vulture Street (2003)
Dream Days at the Hotel Existence (2007)
Golden Rule (2009)

6 Awards and accolades

Powdernger performing on the Across the Great Divide Tour
in September 2007. Left to right: Middleton, Fanning, Collins,
Haug.
Throughout their recording career Powdernger con-
sisted of ve members: Bernard Fanning- vocalist, gui-
tarist, keyboardist and harmonicist and contributed lyrics;
John Collins was their bass guitarist; Ian Haug was their
rst lead vocalist but mostly provided backing vocals and
guitar; Darren Middleton was their co-lead guitarist, key-
boardist, backing vocalist and sometime lead vocalist; Jon
Coghill was their drummer and percussionist.[2][6][11] The
lineup remained stable from 1992 to their disbandment
Main article: List of awards and nominations received
by Powdernger
Powdernger was highly successful in the Australian
recording industry, being a recipient of the industrys
agship awards, the ARIA Music Awards, 18 times from
47 nominations second-highest band behind Silver-
chairs 21 wins from 49 nominations.[33][78] Powdern-
gers most successful year was 2001 they won six awards
from eight nominations for Odyssey Number Five and its
related singles.[33][40][43] These Days and My Happi-
ness were ranked at No. 1 on the Triple J Hottest 100
lists in 1999 and 2000 respectively, and 21 other Pow-
dernger tracks have ranked on lists in other years.[44]

7 See also
Music of Australia
Popular entertainment in Brisbane
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