Powderfinger Brisbane 2027

Powderfinger are back. On 9 October 2026 the Brisbane band confirmed their reunion in a video featuring all five members, and announced a national Australian tour starting in September 2027. As of today, no city, venue, date, price or presale has been released: the full details are due on Monday 12 October 2026 at 6am AEDT (5am in Brisbane). This page tracks what it means for their hometown, and will be updated as soon as the official information lands.

Powderfinger Brisbane 2027: the reunion news and what we actually know

On Friday 9 October 2026, Powderfinger ended almost sixteen years of silence as a touring band. A video posted by the group shows the classic line-up together again: Bernard Fanning (vocals), Ian Haug and Darren Middleton (guitars), John Collins (bass) and Jon Coghill (drums). The message is simple: the band is reforming, and a national tour of Australia will start in September 2027.

Here is the honest status for Brisbane fans:

• Confirmed: the reunion, the five members, a national Australian tour from September 2027, and an announcement on Monday 12 October 2026 at 6am AEDT.
• Not announced: the list of cities, any Brisbane date, the venue, ticket prices, support acts, presale windows and the general on-sale date.

It would be very surprising for a Powderfinger tour to skip the city where the band was born, but until Monday nothing is official, and we will not publish a date or venue that the band has not confirmed. Any website already quoting a Brisbane date, a stadium or a ticket price for 2027 is guessing. We will update this page with the official Brisbane details as soon as they are released, and clearly mark anything that remains to be confirmed.

Powderfinger Brisbane 2027: the Monday 12 October announcement and how to be ready

The tour details are scheduled for Monday 12 October 2026 at 6am AEDT. Watch the time zone: Queensland does not use daylight saving, so in Brisbane that is 5am AEST. In Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart it is 6am, in Adelaide 5:30am, in Darwin 4:30am and in Perth 3am.

The announcement should cover cities, venues, dates and on-sale details. For a reunion of this size, Australian tours usually open in stages, but none of the following has been confirmed for Powderfinger yet:

• Artist or fan presale, generally reserved for people registered with the band.
• Promoter presale, for members of the tour promoter mailing list.
• Partner presales linked to a bank, credit card or telco loyalty program.
• General public on-sale, often a few days after the first presale.

To be ready, create or update your account with the major Australian ticketing agencies now, check your payment details, and decide in advance which Brisbane show and ticket category you want. The 2010 farewell sold its last Brisbane date in about a minute, so speed matters. The easiest way to hear about the Brisbane date, presale times and on-sale the moment they are public is to sign up for the alert below.

Powderfinger Brisbane: the hometown story

Powderfinger are a Brisbane band through and through. The group formed in the city in 1989: John Collins and Ian Haug had been at Brisbane Grammar School, and Haug met Bernard Fanning in an economics class at the University of Queensland. Jon Coghill joined on drums in late 1990 and Darren Middleton completed the classic line-up in 1992. That same year the band self-funded its first EP, recorded at Broken Toys Studios in Brisbane and released on its own Finger label.

From cover sets in local pubs, Powderfinger grew into one of the biggest acts in Australian rock: five consecutive number-one studio albums with Internationalist (1998), Odyssey Number Five (2000), Vulture Street (2003), Dream Days at the Hotel Existence (2007) and Golden Rule (2009), and 18 ARIA Awards. Even an album title points home: Vulture Street runs through inner-south Brisbane.

Big Brisbane nights followed. In 2007 the band co-headlined the Across the Great Divide tour with Silverchair, in support of Reconciliation Australia, and played three nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre (31 August, 1 and 2 September) after the first show sold out within half an hour. In May 2020, for the One Night Lonely charity livestream, John Collins played from the empty Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane.

Powderfinger Brisbane: the Sunsets 2010 nights and the Riverstage farewell

In April 2010 Powderfinger announced they would split after the Sunsets Farewell Tour. Demand was enormous: the tour moved about 250,000 tickets, with 22 of its 34 dates sold out, and support slots shared between Jet, The Vines and You Am I. In Sydney, two sold-out nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre led to a third show at Acer Arena.

Brisbane got the longest goodbye. The band played five farewell shows in its hometown, all at the open-air Riverstage in the City Botanic Gardens. The run opened on 4 September 2010, the day after the Gold Coast show, and continued on 5 September. The tour then closed with three more Riverstage nights in November, and the very last Brisbane date sold out in around 60 seconds.

On Saturday 13 November 2010, Powderfinger played their final concert at the Riverstage in front of about 10,000 fans. The 20-song set mixed early favourites and recent material, with songs such as "Sunsets", "D.A.F.", "My Kind of Scene", "Already Gone" and "Like a Dog", and it ended, fittingly, with "These Days". For many Brisbane fans that night was the full stop on the story. The 2027 reunion means the Riverstage farewell may no longer be the last word, but whether the band returns to the same stage is not yet known.

Powderfinger in Brisbane: which venues could fit? (speculation, not announced)

Important: no Brisbane venue has been announced. What follows is our own speculation, based on the size of Brisbane venues and on the band history in the city. Treat it as a guide to the options, not as information.

• Riverstage (City Botanic Gardens): the emotional choice. It hosted all five 2010 farewell shows, including the final concert for around 10,000 people. An outdoor show in September or later would suit the Brisbane spring weather.
• Brisbane Entertainment Centre (Boondall): the city main indoor arena, where the band played three nights with Silverchair in 2007. A multi-night arena run would be a classic Australian touring model.
• Suncorp Stadium (Milton): the big-scale scenario. A single stadium show would only make sense if demand far exceeds what the band drew in 2010, which is possible after a long break but entirely unconfirmed.
• Fortitude Music Hall (Fortitude Valley): far too small for a public tour stop, but linked to John Collins and used for the 2020 livestream, so a special or warm-up event there would not be absurd.

The real answer arrives on Monday 12 October. Until then, be wary of any listing that already names a Brisbane venue for Powderfinger in 2027: it is not based on official information.

Powderfinger Brisbane: what fans can expect on the night

No setlist, show length or production details have been announced for 2027, so everything here is based on the band catalogue and its past concerts rather than on any official plan.

A Powderfinger reunion show would be expected to lean on the songs that made them a fixture of Australian radio for more than a decade. The obvious candidates include:

• "My Happiness", from Odyssey Number Five (2000);
• "These Days", the song that closed the final Riverstage show in 2010;
• "Passenger" and "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind", from Internationalist (1998);
• later favourites such as "Sunsets", "Like a Dog" or "Already Gone", which featured in the 2010 farewell set.

Whether the band will release new music before the tour has not been said. In Brisbane, expect a hometown atmosphere: many fans in the crowd will have seen the band in pubs, at the Entertainment Centre or at the Riverstage over the years, and a new generation will be seeing them for the first time. Practical details such as age restrictions, set times, support acts and accessible seating will depend on the venue and will only be known once the Brisbane date is confirmed.