Golden Touch
From where he’s sitting, POWDERFINGER guitarist Ian Haug sees clouds on the horizon. “Yeah, I’m watching a massive hailstorm coming in. It’s gonna be a good one.” With their career swiftly approaching the two decade mark, Powderfinger are facing the first serious rumours of going their separate ways. But evidence suggests the exact opposite. The recently released seventh album Golden Rule isn’t a valedictory last lap around for the true believers – it’s the sound of a band re-energised, re-focused and relaxed. And in-between shooting promos amongst 30,000 firecracker-throwing mad Thais in Chiang Mai, headlining Homebake and co-headlining the Big Day Out (their seventh appearance) this coming summer, this is not the sight of a band taking it easy.
Clearly, Powderfinger have settled into their roles as near-elder statesmen of the Australian music scene, happy to do whatever pleases them, as Haug explains “Yeah, it’s good. We’re in the fortunate position where we don’t even give demos to the record company or anything like that. They pretty much trust us doing what we’re doing. We certainly don’t follow fashions and I don’t know that we set fashions – we just do whatever we feel is right ... READ MORE »
