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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.”
2025 •The Renshaws •Signals•ALBUM LAUNCH•NASHA GALLERY•2026•Phoenix Central Park•Beechworth Biennale•wollongong Art Gallery
2025 •The Renshaws •Signals•ALBUM LAUNCH•NASHA GALLERY•2026•Phoenix Central Park•Beechworth Biennale•wollongong Art Gallery
JULY 5th, 2025 “farewell tour live at the renshaws” - Fortitude Valley
A new exhibition by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier At The Renshaws’.
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.
“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.”
l o v e .•. f r i e n d s h i p.•. g r i e f.•. R E S P I T E
p l a y . s o m e t h i n g . e l s e .•. p l a y . s o m e w h e r e . e l s e
“…an epic love story of a band where every song is their last. A never ending farewell tour.”
(Em)
Lyrics Lose your head
“What, did, they, tell, you, to, do
And what, did, you, decide to do, nothing
Can, you, put, your mind in your hand, mind in your hand
What, did, you, see from there nothing, see from there nothing else,
Lose your head
Can, you, turn, your gaze upon itself,
What, did, you, see from there, nothing, nothing else
Lose your head
What did you see nothing
What did you do nothing
What can you see nothing
Nothing else, nothing
Lose your head”
A G C (A G D A)
Sleep
“Sleep, my love.
Lay down for another day.
It cuts me deep, into my bones.
Soon my love, I will be home.
All this trouble, that we make; the pains, we take.
That tall tower, it awaits; and all the hours never fade.
Sleep, my love.
Lay it down, your burning blade.”