Interview: The Rions Talk Debut Album Success and Their Massive 21-Stop Regional Tour
We caught up with The Rions a few weeks before they’re set to head off on their huge 2026 regional Australia tour to talk about the response to their debut album Everything Every Single Day and get a little deep about fan connections and the joys of touring smaller, regional centres.
Suzie: Firstly, congratulations on a huge 2025 with the release of your debut album!
The Rions: Thank you!!
Suzie: How did you feel about the response to Everything Every Single Day? Obviously, you spent a lot of time crafting this, but is there always that moment of nerves to see if your audience will connect with it the way you intend? And were there any specific highlights for you?
The Rions: The response has been really beautiful we’ve found. We were pretty nervous early on in the progress but by the time it was coming out, we had listened to it and lived with it for so long we were just itching to release it, so any nerves were abolished by excitement for sure.
A highlight has been seeing how different fans connect with different songs, for example young men thanking us for writing Cry, as well as men and women of all ages, but being young men ourselves, it really does mean a lot to hear that we have a voice to feelings that some young men don’t feel like that have the courage to say in their own home.
Another highlight is songs like Maybe I’m Just a Freak being so relatable for people, something I really hoped would be the case. A lot of fans feel as though we read through their personal journals to write it, which is mind blowing when for us, it was a deeply personal song to write, it was almost like the more we looked within ourselves, the more we looked within others.
Suzie: And have you found your songwriting process has changed considerably in the journey from your early singles to creating this album? Can you tell me a little more about that? And have you found your musical inspirations have changed over that time too?
The Rions: Absolutely. Writing songs has been a journey in many different ways, it has always had a lot to do with confidence, and believing in ourselves. Over the years we’ve been able to translate our own lives into lyrics and it’s been massively therapeutic as I’m sure you could imagine. Not only that but the evolution of our relationship with “songs that aren’t about anything” has been interesting to continually navigate. Something like whether a song is “real” or not is always an interesting focal point when taking inspiration from our influences (who change a lot). Our consistent influence since starting to write our own music has been The Beatles, the way they could use what made each of them unique to collaborate was always what made them so special to us I think. Other influences we’ve gained over the years are bands like The 1975, Sam Fender, Medium Build, The Japanese House and Role Model.
Suzie: Looking ahead, you’re starting 2026 with a fairly hefty regional tour. In a time when most artists seem to be scaling back, sticking to big cities or smaller localised tours, you’re hitting 21 cities and pretty much going coast to coast, what made you want to buck this trend and head out to such a broad demographic?
The Rions: It’s important to us that our fans further away from the big cities get an opportunity to see us. We try to get to as many communities that listen to our music as we can, both because we love touring, but we also love our fans and they are so grateful and it means so much to them.
Suzie: Do you find playing smaller, regional towns hits differently to playing in city centres like Melbourne and Sydney? And if so, in what ways?
Absolutely, the show dynamics are always so different. There’s an excitement in the air when the rooms are that small, you’re able to address the room and really connect with everyone as a whole. Of course we connect at the bigger shows too but it’s just different when the room is bigger, the crowd becomes more of an entity, which is beautiful to watch as well.
Suzie: It’s also a lot of time on the road. How do you guys find spending all the time together? What are the highlights of touring?
We love spending time together, and not only with each other, but we love our crew so much, they’re literally our closest friends outside of ourselves. So any time we can spend hanging with our crew is a highlight, not to mention the feeling of finishing a great show, to know that the whole touring party pulled it off and created something special with our bare hands, it’s a magical feeling.
Suzie: Obviously, you’ve been friends a long time, but do you embrace that closeness of the time on the road or do you find you have to carve time in there to do your own thing?
Haha not yet! Touring in Australia is different because we can go home between weekends, in Europe it’s a little harder to find time for yourself, but we all naturally respect our social battery limitations, you know. For example if we’ve had a long day, chances are whoever you’re bunking with isn’t going to chat your ear off when it’s time to relax and sleep, we’re just not like that. So it’s generally relaxing at all times which just adds to the long list of reasons to love touring.
Suzie: And finally, beyond the tour, what else can we expect from The Rions in 2026?
The Rions: The more we go the more we want to do, so you can expect whatever you like, chances are we will do it eventually
About The Rions
Since their early beginnings from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, The Rions are an indie-rock four-piece that shot to national fame after winning triple j’s Unearthed High in 2021. Known for their infectious hooks and surf-rock charm, schoolmates Noah, Harley, Asher, and Tom have since dominated airwaves with hits like Night Light and Minivan.
After spending some time honing their songwriting, 2025 was a break-out year for the band with the release of their acclaimed debut album Everything Every Single Day. This was followed by some of their biggest headline shows to date including sold out shows at Melbourne’s Forum and Hobart’s Odeon Theatre. They then headed to Europe for a headline tour before finishing the year with their sets at Spilt Milk.
Their 2026 regional tour will see them perform 18 coast-to-coast regional dates. They’ll be joined by special guests Chloe Parché in NSW, Hey So Hungry in WA, Gordon’s Grandson in VIC, and bella amor in QLD.
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