It’s official, one of Australia’s greatest ever rock groups are breaking up.

Powderfinger have officially decided to called it quits on a decorated career, but not before one final tour of their homeland.

The band, led by Bernard Fanning, told a crowd of media in Sydney that they would hit the road on their biggest tour ever, before splitting.

A prepared statement made by Fanning read:

“The Sunsets tour will be Powderfinger’s last ever run of shows.

“We have decided, after much deliberation and agonizing, that after this final tour we will call it a day as a recording and touring band.

“With the completion of our last album, Golden Rule, we feel that we have said all that we want to say as a musical group.

“We firmly believe that it is our most complete and satisfying album and can’t think of a better way to farewell our fans than with music that we all believe in and also with, hopefully, our best tour to date.”

Their final ever tour will see them venture to 21 locations, covering each state and territory and will include hits form all of their seven feature albums.

The tour will begin September, and if it hasn’t already all bee sold out, we predict it probably will.

The bad has sold more than 2.5 million albums around Australia and have worked together for more than 20 years.

Fanning summed it up well with his final words.

“We have only come to this decision to disband following our run of festival shows this last summer and even toyed with the idea of delaying this announcement until our tour was over,” Fanning said.

“Finally we decided that it was much better mannered, and made a lot more sense, to give people the opportunity to come and celebrate with us as we make our way around the country one last time.”