Cryptic billboards in three of Australia’s main cities have prompted rumours that iconic homegrown band Powderfinger is ready to reunite, 16 years on from their break-up, and virtually a decade from their final efficiency.
Photographs of billboards in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney have been shared to an Instagram account referred to as The Return of the Electrical Horsemen, which could possibly be a reference to the band’s music (Return of) The Electrical Horseman from their 1996 album Double Allergic.
Brisbane’s billboard was positioned on the nook of James and Ann streets in Fortitude Valley.
The account’s most up-to-date submit is a video with “Melbourne, do you see the indicators on the road now?” written over it.
“I’ll watch from the opposite facet of the street,” the caption reads.
The caption could possibly be a reference to the opening line of the music My Happiness: “I see your shadow on the road now.”
The Return of the Electrical Horsemen account doesn’t observe anybody, however the official Powderfinger account does observe them.
Powderfinger, made up of Bernard Fanning, Darren Middleton, Ian Haug, Jon Coghill and John Collins, shaped in 1989 and broke up in 2010.
Fanning went on to have a profitable solo profession, and final launched music in 2024.
Middleton final toured in 2016 for a solo mission; the official Powderfinger Instagram account was spruiking a brand new album by Haug’s band, The Church, simply two weeks in the past; and Coghill studied at Griffith College after the band broke up earlier than working as a journalist for the ABC.
Collins is at the moment Queensland’s first Night time-Life Economic system Commissioner, a job to which he was appointed in 2024.
The final time the band carried out was in 2017.
Within the dying minutes of his solo set at Splendour within the Grass in 2017, former Powderfinger lead singer Bernard Fanning made an announcement that sparked an eruption of pleasure from a whole bunch of unsuspecting pageant goers.
“It’s been 10 years since Powderfinger performed Splendour, so let’s have somewhat anniversary,” Fanning mentioned.
Followers perched above the Amphitheatre leapt to their ft and screamed with approval as Fanning’s former bandmates – Middleton, Haug and Collins – readied their devices. Drummer Coghill was the one absent member.
For about 15 transient however superb minutes, punters have been transported again to the 2000s to relish in two of the Brisbane rockers’ most iconic hits: (Child I’ve Bought You) On My Thoughts and These Days.