The five bandmembers held a press conference April 8 to announce the “Sunsets” tour, with Jet supporting all dates except for the first three, which will be supported by The Vines.

If the name of the tour wasn’t already a clear allusion to the band’s demise, Powderfinger posted the following on its Web site the next day:

“With the completion of our last album, Golden Rule, we feel that we have said all that we want to say as a musical group. We firmly 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.”

Powderfinger formed in1989 as a Neil Young cover band, taking its name from one of Young’s most notable songs off the Rust Never Sleeps album. The band evolved into a Australian hitmaker, with notable songs like “These Days” and “My Happiness.” Notable, that is, Down Under; the band never broke in the States.

It has maintained its current lineup since 1992: vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins and drummer Jon Coghill.
The tour launches at Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Waratah, New South Wales Sept. 1 and dates currently run to Oct. 16 at North Gardens in the Victoria regional city of Ballarat.

Click here for Powderfinger’s Web site.