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Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey pack a lot into their two hour Fanning Dempsey National Park show. Fans coming to ‘The Deluge 2024’ tour get every song from the Fanning Dempsey National Park album, solo Paul as well as Something for Kate, solo Bernard as well as Powderfinger and some very tasty covers of Tears for Fears and Bowie/Queen.

Powderfinger co-founder and bass player John Collins has received the Member of the Order of Australia for his services to the arts, music and the community.

When Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey were looking for a name for their new project Powderkate or Something For Finger didn’t sound right. So they became Fanning Dempsey National Park.

The fifth album for Powderfinger “Vulture Street” returns to the chart at #1 this week as a deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition.

Melbourne’s iconic Festival Hall is back in the hands of the music industry with Live Nation taking over the management of the historic venue now owned by Hillsong Corp.

ARC, the Australian supergroup featuring Kram of Spiderbait, Darren Middleton of Powderfinger, Davey Lane of You Am I and Mark Wilson of Jet, will perform the entire Pink Floyd classic ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ around Australia from June.

Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning will spend the first half of 2023 out solo and on tour for Red Hot Summer. The big question for Fanning is what does a cut-down setlist look like?

Darren Middleton’s new song ‘The Stars Where You Dwell’ features rock legend Suzi Quatro on bass and Ash Mannix on vocals.

Ex-Powderfinger guitarist Darren Middleton released a new solo track ‘For This’ just before Christmas.

Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese has voted early and voted often for the Triple J Hottest 100.

Neil has uploaded a previously unreleased version of the ‘Rust Never Sleeps’ classic ‘Powderfinger.

Powderfinger will release a new album ‘Unreleased’ comprising 10 songs recorded and unreleased between 1998 and 2010.

Thelma Plum has covered the Powderfinger classic ‘These Days’.

Powderfinger performed their first show in 10 years on Saturday night and over 360,000 fans turned up for the show.

Powderfinger will virtually reunite in a one-off performance this Saturday to benefit Beyond Blue and Support Act.

Byron Bay’s two-night bushfire benefit gig Make It Rain has sold out both nights, but fans can still bid for a piece of memorabilia to help raise money.

Byron Bay will play host to two huge lineups called Make It Rain to raise money for local branches of the Rural Fire Service.

ARC, featuring Kram of Spiderbait, Mark Wilson of Jet, Davey Lane of You Am I, and Darren Middleton of Powderfinger, will perform another round of the Abbey Road album from start to finish across Australia from February.

ARC, featuring members of Jet, Spiderbait, You Am I and Powderfinger will perform the iconic Beatles album ‘Abbey Road’ from start to finish across Australia.

Powderfinger ‘Internationalist’ has been named the top Australian album of the 90s for Double J.

Brisbane has a brand new music venue. Fortitude Music Hall is a labour of love from Powderfinger’s John ‘JC’ Collins, Secret Sounds’ Paul Piticco, Live Nation and Hutchinson Builders.

Former Powderfinger guitarist Darren Middleton has a new song, an album on the way and an East Coast tour coming up.

Former Powderfinger guitarist Darren Middleton will release his third solo album ‘Tides’ in September.

Powderfinger is the latest act to tell Cory Bernardi to stop using their music.

Powderfinger’s reunion at Splendour In The Grass on Saturday was actually 80% of Powerfinger, not the complete band. It turns out drummer Jon Coghill wasn’t invited.

Bernard Fanning’s Instagram tease of a Powderfinger reunion yesterday turned out to actually happened.

Former Powderfinger guitarist Darren Middleton will head back to his old hometown state of Queensland in August to perform at the Gympie Muster.

Bernard Fanning has debuted his new song ‘Isn’t It A Pity’ and it features Clare Bowditch on backing vocals.

Bernard Fanning will perform a one-off showcase in Sydney to launch his new album ‘Civil Dusk.’

Former Powderfinger singer Bernard Fanning is releasing the new song ‘Belly of the Beast’ to make voters think before they vote at the upcoming federal elections both in Australia and the USA.