High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tea & Sympathy is the debut solo album by Australian musician Bernard Fanning. It was released on 31 October 2005 by Dew Process records while Powderfinger—Fanning`s main band—were on hiatus. Contrary to Powderfinger`s usual alternative style, the album blends alternative and country-folk music. Most of the record was written after the cancer related death of his brother in 2002. His brother`s death coincided with the end of Fanning`s twelve-year relationship with his partner and both events were instrumental in his move away from his typically political and socially lyrical subject matter.