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F A R E W E L L T O U R

Introducing FAREWELL TOUR, an ambient psych-rock band by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier, centred on themes of love, death, and loss. Their music is a cathartic response to grief arising from Chanelle’s Stage 4 Cancer diagnosis. Incorporating field recordings, guitars and vocals; the band's entire existence is a continuous drawn-out goodbye, bringing a unique urgency and finality to every performance and recording.

“…an epic love story of a band where every song is their last. A never ending farewell tour.”

∞ UpCOMING ∞

Wollongong Art Gallery ∞ 16th AuG

SUNDAY 16th, 1.30pm. FREE RESERVATIONS

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Festival Of Dangerous Ideas ∞ Carriageworks ∞ 23rd Aug

Sunday 23rd, 7pm. General Admission $29

Farewell Tour came from imagining what would have been, if twenty years ago Joe and Chanelle had started a psych band instead of a visual practice, and this then would be their farewell tour; memorialising their love, music and merch.

“Farewell Tour Live At DARK MOFO”, Sex And Death Day Club, MONA

14.06.26

“Farewell Tour Live At BUNDANON”, MAKE GOOD Festival

30.05.26

“FAREWELL TOUR LIVE AT ARCHIVAL LOS ANGELES”

01.04.2026

VIDEO: Performance: Wednesday, April 1st 8pm

Photo by Ben Staley courtesy of Archival in Los Angeles hosted by Colin Jones

A journey 16,000km across the ocean and back. To Boston to see the doctor whose next round of research will involve vaccine trials that could lengthen the effective time of medications for targeted therapy. Unfortunately, trails are still a couple years away. That gives us time to advocate for trials to come here, to australia. We received some tremendous support through our Poster Sale. Because of this, we were able to build into our trip a short stay in Los Angeles. In LA. Our friend and music producer, the beautiful Ollie Brown, secured us 2 days at 64 Sound studio for recording. We stayed with him and his artist partner, our dear friend, Georgia Saxelby, who generously looked after us. We were offered the opportunity to perform and film our set at the community run Archival, a space in Downtown LA. In this exquisite warehouse, surrounded by emergent and established talent, we were generously received with kindness. A radiant experience.

In Los Angeles, getting the incredible opportunity to record at 64 Sound with the beautiful @olliejbrown before playing @archival.la. It's wild to be there in the epicentre of music, within the political pain, amongst the dreamers. Our life is so limited in its future, but here the edge is so close, eyes are fixed forward on possibility. In the wooden fixtures, baffled edges, and the warmth of expectation, our new green leaves were growing amongst hardened gardens. There, the Dream Center demands your confidence, and you meet it with the grit of lost truths. I am humbled by the courage that was around us. Albeit exhausted by the travel, we’re so excited to have recorded and performed in that historic city amongst the kindness of good friends.

VIDEO: Performance: Wednesday, April 1st 8pm
With All Our Love xo
J + C

“FAREWELL TOUR LIVE AT PHOENIX CENTRAL PARK”

10.02.2026

Photos: Bronte Godden, Phoenix Central Park

Phoenix SeaSon XIX

Attendee Survey - Dying To Know

Dying to Know is a national campaign to inspire you to begin to prepare for the inevitable, not with fear, but with purpose, love, and a sense of legacy. Farewell Tour is a project that promotes death literacy and advocates for conversations to prepare for loss and managing gieif.

Every song is a farewell and every concert a culminating event; yet the tour seeks to go on as long as it can, in a perpetual state of epilogue and reinvention. This meta-narrative invites audiences into the transient present of life, into the soft lines between the band's reality and its fateful mythology. 

“farewell tour live at the renshaws” - Fortitude Valley

05.07.2025

exhibition Page: Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier At The Renshaws’ July 5th 2025.

For Curators (NETS): https://netsaustralia.org.au/register/farewell-tour/

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“This sound practice is a refuge. From grief, death, loss, imminent doom etc. It brings us into intimate contact with time because it's a space where each second is noticed, felt and responded to with care, through deep listening, not letting any one of them pass without being valued. This slows time and offers the desired respite by elongating the temporal distance between ourselves here now on the studio floor with our guitars and love and voices; and our eventual heartbreaking demise. A slowing down to go between us and death.”

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“…an epic love story of a band where every song is their last. A never ending farewell tour.”

“Is this understandable?: I feel out of time. Not as in a lack of it, but unstuck. loosed from it. Disconnected. Adrift. Floating in non-linear observation. Like right now, the studio's dim warm lamplight w joe poring over posters at 8pm seems like the film from our documentary shot 50yrs earlier and I'm not sure if I'm in the past making it or in the future watching back. (If I want to know what to do next, maybe all i have to do is remember?) It's somehow like this time has already happened and I'm here again but not actually here. I'm actually in that final eternal moment just before death looking back that everyone talks about where time elongates so much that a moment, that last moment, is always. An ever lasting microsecond created by your brain being flooded by some awesome giant acid trip like hormone. So I am here again and it all seems so real.

Joe often says he feels like he's in slow motion. And that we need to feel slow. Here in the studio, we can go so carefully, having all the days and hours. That sometimes, I can just forget everything so well that I have to remind myself to feel bad that it's already over.” - CC

album launch and live performance

“Farewell Tour Live At Nasha Gallery”

11.12.2025

GO SMALL

I love being a band. It’s not about making it. We'll just keep doing gigs for as long as we can.

Crack The Egg. 

The performance aims to be more than a musical set, but an artwork that can open up, share in, the universal feelings around grief. In this, we don’t want to be the focus of the attention post-performance, but rather the catalyst for conversation and open sharing of personal experiences amongst those attending. We also don’t want to carry those emotions from others, we have enough. This is the area we envision being hosted by doulas, trained to discuss, reveal, and consider the depth of feelings that have risen to the surface through the experience.

Palimpsest

Farewell Tour gives us a strange feeling of time. In a way we feel like the project is a re-writting of our history, and past. We’re fictionally playing into our past lives, chasing dreams that have already come and gone. When I make a recording of a moment, of nature or lay down a rhythm, I play it back and then layer a new moment over it. It doesn’t play forward in time but rather backwards; and that new layer is pushed into the past. I imaging recording every moment from here on out, until Chanelle has passed. Instead of going into that dismal future maybe I can play back those last years; travel into those moments again and layer new memories into those precious hours.

“Farewell Tour Live At Last St Speakeasy” - Beechworth Biennale

07.03.2026

∞ 2025 ∞

The Renshaws

Signals

NASHA GALLERY

∞ 2026 ∞

DE JA

Phoenix Central Park

Beechworth Biennale

64 SOUND - Recording Studio - Los Angeles

Archival LA

MAKE GOOD Festival BUNDANON MUSEUM

DARK MOFO - Sex And Death Day Club - MONA

∞ UpCOMING ∞

Festival Of Dangerous Ideas - Carriageworks

Wollongong Art Gallery