Our weekly update brings you a round up of new tour announcements for this week. Featuring who’s heading to Melbourne and where to grab your tickets.
International Acts
Saint Etienne
One of the UK’s most beloved and enduring pop groups, Saint Etienne are heading to Australia and New Zealand for the very last time. Following the announcement that their 2025 album International would be their final studio release, the iconic trio will take their celebrated catalogue on a farewell tour across the region this November and December to give fans one final chance to experience the band’s shimmering, genre‑blurring sound live.
Formed in 1990 by Croydon natives Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, Saint Etienne struck gold from the outset with their debut single, a transformative cover of Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart, which quickly became a club anthem. The arrival of vocalist Sarah Cracknell in 1991 completed the definitive lineup, her debut on Nothing Can Stop Us and the Mercury Prize‑nominated album Foxbase Alpha cementing the group’s place in UK pop history.
Australian NZ Tour Dates
Friday 20 November Powerstation Auckland
Saturday 21 November Meow Nui Wellington
Monday 23 November The Gov Adelaide
Thursday 26 November Forum Melbourne
Friday 27 November Enmore Theatre Sydney
Sunday 29 November The Tivoli Brisbane
Tuesday 1 December Freo Social Perth
Get your tickets HERE
Australian Acts
Vera Blue
Vera Blue has today announced a string of Australian headline shows for this August to celebrate the release of her upcoming new album Modern Rituals, set for release on August 21st. The forthcoming national tour marks Vera Blue’s first headline tour since 2022, a long-awaited return for an artist who has spent recent years headlining festivals across the country and will soon join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for Vera Blue x MSO Orchestral Veil at Hamer Hall on July 11th.
Vera Blue is an ARIA-nominated and APRA award-winning singer-songwriter with over 500 million artist streams, 12 x Platinum and Gold ARIA accreditations, hit collaborations with Flume, and two standout albums in Perennial (2017) and Mercurial (2022). Her 2020 hit single with Flume, “Rushing Back” scored two ARIA nominations and an APRA award. She’s supported Flume, Matt Corby and Maggie Rogers, sold out five national tours, and played to full houses in the US, UK and Europe. Vera Blue has performed at festivals including Lollapalooza, Splendour in the Grass, Field Day, and Beyond the Valley.
Australian Tour Dates
Saturday 11 July Vera Blue x Melbourne Symphony Orchestra @ Hamer Hall Melbourne
Friday 21 August Princess Theatre Brisbane
Saturday 22 August City Recital Hall Sydney
Sunday 23 August UC Refectory Canberra
Wednesday 26 August Northcote Theatre Melbourne
Thursday 27 August The Gov Adelaide
General tickets on sale Friday 12 June @ 9am local time.
Get your tickets HERE
Fountain Lakes
Naarm / Melbourne based indie-folk dream-pop duo Fountain Lakes will be hitting the road this July with gothic country rock band Badlands for the Buck Moon tour – a run of weekend shows in what will be Fountain Lakes’ first ever tour through regional Victoria.
Comprised of Jac Tonks and Emma Heeney, Fountain Lakes music With playful songwriting and lush harmonies the pair create the romance and foreboding of girl groups of the 1960s; their songs both sweet and dark cautionary tales.
Australian Tour Dates
Saturday 4 July Major Tom’s Kyneton
Sunday 5 July Shedshaker Brewing Castlemaine
Saturday 11 July Tanswells Hotel Beechworth
Sunday 12 July The Shiraz Republic Cornella
Saturday 18 July Young Street Tavern Frankston
Sunday 19 July The Archies Creek Hotel Archie’s Creek
Get your tickets HERE
The Pretty Littles
To celebrate the release of their eighth studio album Mulga Wire, The Pretty Littles will be taking their captivating live show on tour across Australia this winter.
The Pretty Littles are a gritty, Melbourne-based garage-punk and indie-rock band. Formed in the late 2000s they have been a fixture in the Australian rock scene for over a decade, blending indie rock, punk, and garage influences with witty, socially aware lyrics and heartfelt storytelling. The band’s lineup currently includes frontman Jack Parsons, Sam Nathan, JP Nicolacopoulos, and Liam Jenkins.
Australian Tour Dates
Friday 19 June Lion Arts Factory Adelaide
Saturday 11 July Republic Bar Hobart
Saturday 25 July Lansdowne Sydney
Friday 31 July The Brightside Brisbane
Saturday 1 August Corner Hotel Melbourne
Get your tickets HERE
Ecca Vandal
Ecca Vandal has announced her Australian homecoming with a run of headline shows this November. Taking to Brisbane’s The Brightside, Melbourne’s Howler and Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory, the tour caps off a relentless year for Vandal that included her Coachella debut, a national run supporting Deftones and a packed UK/EU season of headline and festival dates in support of her new album Looking For People To Unfollow.
A musical auteur, Ecca Vandal defies categorisation, seamlessly weaving together punk, hip-hop, jazz, soul, trip-hop, and electronic influences into a sound that’s bold, dynamic, and entirely her own. She brings unrelenting energy to the stage with a history of touring alongside global heavyweights, as well as appearances at a host of iconic festivals including Reading and Leeds (UK), AfroPunk (FR), Download (UK), Splendour In The Grass (AU), Falls Festival (AU) and Laneway (AU). Neither her sound nor persona are fixed for easy consumption. Political, rebellious and tenacious, with a voice demanding to be heard — Ecca Vandal is magnetism personified and exactly what we need right now.
Australian Tour Dates
Friday 6 November The Brightside Magadjin / Brisbane
Saturday 7 November Howler Naarm / Melbourne
Friday 13 November Oxford Art Factory Eora / Sydney
Presale starts Wednesday 10 June @ 10am local. General sale starts Friday 12 June @ 11am local.
Get your tickets HERE
Gigs Coming Soon
Ullah
Ullah will be performing at Northcote Social Club for her second headline show in Naarm/Melbourne, after selling out The Old Bar in May 2025. She will joined on the night by Daisypicker and Dog Door! Having recently released her debut EP ‘For Then’, as well as just having moved from Boorloo/Perth to Naarm, this show promises to be a celebration of new beginnings.
With a voice that lays bare fragility and distinct power, Ullah’s delicate lyricism has an honesty that drives home a theme of tender truths. With themes of shifting and changing comforts, moments of accepting solitude and that growing pains are inevitable.
Australian Tour Date
Saturday 20 June Northcote Social Club Melbourne
Get your tickets HERE