EVERMORE
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Saturday, May 1
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Tickets: 1300 438 849 or www.moshtix.com.au
Evermore have been on the road since April 17, criss-crossing the country, playing 31 shows and performing in "pretty much every major town in Australia" from Fremantle to Ferntree Gully.
The tour comes to an end on Saturday with their show in Wollongong and singer-guitarist Jon Hume says they'll be making a night of it.
"Absolutely. It will be a big night - the last show of the tour - it will be a memorable one," he says.
"It'll be a big farewell to everyone on the tour. It's like a little family you get going after you've played 30 shows on the road with everyone.
"Most of our team always do our concerts for us, but our tour manager, Alex, who has worked for us for many years, it's going to be his last show."
Evermore was formed in 2000 by brothers Jon, Peter and Dann Hume, who grew up in New Zealand but are now based just outside of Melbourne. The band has been a regular on the charts since the release of its debut album Dreams in 2004.
Dann, the band's drummer, contributed to the most recent album, Follow the Sun, released at the end of last year, but has since hung up his drum sticks and isn't on the current tour.
"It's been different without him," Jon says. "Dann played drums for us for more than 10 years and toured all over the world and Australia with us.
"He's working on production and some other projects right now, so we were like, 'yeah man, you've done your dash. If you want to do something else that's fine'."
While the Hume brothers have had plenty of practice as a touring act - Evermore supported Pink! on her Funhouse tour in 2009, playing in Britain and Ireland as well as on the Australian leg of the tour - Jon admits that constant touring makes for "an unusual lifestyle".
"It has become quite normal to us, I suppose, because we have done it since we were quite young and we're pretty well adapted to it.
"The only thing is you forget how to do the simple things that everyone else knows how to do, like buying a car or paying your bills.
"We know how to do all these other difficult things but the normal stuff, we've never done that much of it. So that seems kind of funny.
"But there are heaps of positives about the journey we have been on and being able to do something so creative like making music."
Jon adds that it's sometimes hard to believe they have been on that journey for almost 15 years now.
"It's surprising when you think about it," he says.
"The very first concert we played was 14 years ago, I don't think we were even called Evermore - I think the first concert as Evermore was in 2000.
"It has been quite a journey but here we are still doing it, still loving it and there should be plenty more music to come."