Bon Iver Announces Hiatus

September 23rd, 2009

Val

Provided by Spinner

When Bon Iver took the stage at the famed, original Fillmore in San Francisco on Tuesday night in front of a sold-out crowd, it represented a sort of homecoming. Yes, Justin Vernon is still a Wisconsin cabin boy who is in no danger of turning his back on his home territory. But he did share with the San Franciscan audience the thought that, a year earlier when he played one neighborhood over at the much smaller Independent, it was the first time that he felt like Bon Iver was really at home with an audience.

What a difference a year makes. Now on the other end of a long adventure that started when the album ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ unexpectedly took off, Bon Iver sounds more polished and professional than ever before. “This is the last tour that we’re doing with this thing, and after this we’re going to take a break,” Vernon told the audience. Thanking not just his fellow musicians onstage but also the entire crew and opening band, Megafaun, Vernon said, “I don’t think we could ever do it again with anybody better.”