Our weekly update brings you a round up of new and exciting tour news and announcements for this week. Featuring who’s heading to Melbourne and where to grab your tickets.
Bands From Back Home
As December Falls
UK band As December Falls are set to return to Australia in April 2027 on a national tour that will take them to stages across the country including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth.
The Nottingham band’s rising popularity across the globe saw them make their headline debut in Australia last February, selling out rooms along the east coast. Now, fans across the country will have the chance to see one of the UK’s most exciting acts tear up the stage. With frontwoman Bethany Hunter’s unmistakable vocals at the centre, As December Falls come armed with huge choruses, emotionally direct songwriting, and powerhouse performances that are sure to turn first-time listeners into returning fans.
Australian Tour Dates
Monday 19 April Brightside Outdoors Brisbane
Tuesday 20 April Crowbar Sydney
Thursday 22 April Max Watts Melbourne
Friday 23 April Jive Bar Adelaide
Saturday 24 April Lynotts Lounge Perth
Presale tickets go on sale from Friday 13 November at 10am AEDT. General tickets on sale Tuesday 17 November at 10am local time.
Sign up for presale and get your tickets HERE
International Artists
DJ Shadow
The pioneering producer DJ Shadow – the alias of producer Josh Davis – returns to Australia next February to celebrate three decades of his groundbreaking debut album Endtroducing, a record that changed the rules of sampling, turntablism and expanded the possibilities of hip-hop production.
With performances at Live at the Gardens in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Roundhouse in Sydney, Perth Festival at East Perth Power Station, The Tivoli in Brisbane and Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide, fans will get to experience the cult classic album’s dusty breaks, obscure jazz, cinematic strings and razor-sharp scratches thirty years after it rewrote the script of what was possible in the genre.
Australian Tour Dates
Friday 19 February East Perth Power Station Perth
Saturday 20 February Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide
Sunday 21 February Roundhouse Sydney
Thursday 25 February The Tivoli Brisbane
Saturday 27 February Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Presale tickets available Wednesday 11 November @ 9am AEDT. General tickets available Thursday 12 November @ 9am AEDT.
Get your tickets HERE.
The East Pointers
Celebrating the release of the deluxe edition of their latest studio album Schoonertown, Canadian folk outfit The East Pointers have announced their return to Australia later this summer.
Following their tour of Australian venues was in 2025, this new journey represents a warm and welcome return for the group who has long maintained a special connection with the music community Down Under. Their upcoming January run of shows will see The East Pointers perform in intimate rooms around the East Coast as well as at this year’s Woodford Folk Festival – providing audiences with multiple opportunities to reconnect and rediscover the chemistry that has brought the group so much enduring success.
Australian Tour Dates
Tuesday 29 December – Friday 1 January Woodford Folk festival Woodford
Saturday 2 January Imperial Hotel Eumundi
Sunday 3 January Soundlounge Gold Coast
Tuesday 5 January Geelong Arts Centre Geelong
Wednesday 6 January Corner Hotel Melbourne
Thursday 7 January The Wheatsheaf Hotel Adelaide
Friday 8 January Vanguard Sydney
Saturday 9 January Tanks Cairns
Sunday 10 January The Triffid Brisbane
Get your tickets HERE
Australian Artists
Ziggy Alberts
Making his return to touring with brand new album Twin Flames, globally adored Australian songwriter and performer Ziggy Alberts kicks off a fresh chapter of live performances with an expansive regional Australian tour, returning to the towns and coastlines where it all began.
Since his early days busking the streets of Byron Bay, Ziggy has become one of Australia’s most prolific and successful international touring artists thanks to the power of connection that his music generates between himself and the audience. This new tour promises to bring fans of every generation together for a night built around the power of community and music.
Australian Tour Dates
Friday 5 March Thebarton Theatre Adelaide
Friday 12 March Odeon Pub Hobart
Saturday 13 March Forth Pub Forth
Friday 19 March The Powerhouse Toowoomba
Saturday 20 March Blackflag Brewing Sunshine Coast
Thursday 25 March Miami Marketta Gold Coast
Saturday 27 March Hotel Brunswick Brunswick Heads
Monday 29 March Bellingen Memorial Hall Bellingen
Friday 2 April Anita’s Theatre Thirroul
Saturday 3 April Bar on the Hill Newcastle
Wednesday 7 April UC Refectory Canberra
Friday 9 April Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat
Saturday 10 April Pier Bandroom Frankston
Sunday 11 April The Cube Wodonga
Friday 16 April Lorne Theatre Lorne
Saturday 17 April Oak and Anchor Hotel Port Fairy
Presale tickets available now. General tickets available Wednesday 11 November @ 9am local.
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Laneway Sideshows
Florence Road
Florence Road are riding a meteoric wave straight to Australia for two special headline sideshows, alongside their mainstage appearances at Laneway Festival 2027. Hailing from Bray, County Wicklow, their trajectory skyrocketed after early songwriting snippets went viral online.
The band draws on diverse rock influences, with front frontwoman Lily Aron’s haunting and impassioned vocals earning comparisons to The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan. Fresh from a career-defining summer that saw the band instantly sell out tours across the US and Ireland, to Reading & Leeds, and monumental support slots for Olivia Rodrigo and Wolf Alice, Florence Road are set to deliver unforgettable shows at Sydney’s Metro Theatre and Melbourne’s Northcote Theatre.
Sideshow Dates
Thursday 11 February Metro Theatre Sydney
Thursday 18 February Northcote Theatre Melbourne
Get your tickets HERE
Violet Grohl
Violet Grohl is bringing her raw, captivating sound down under for two headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne! The 20-year-old singer-songwriter and producer arrives on the heels of her debut album, Be Sweet To Me.
Grohl has been singing and playing music as long as she can remember, teaching herself ukulele and later guitar while hauling the instruments around on both school and tour buses. In addition to her slot at next year’s Laneway Festival she will be bringing her impressionistic lyrics, expressive vocals and heavy droning guitars with a noise-pop bite to sideshows in both Melbourne and Sydney.
Sideshow Dates
Wednesday 17 February Oxford Art Factory Sydney
Saturday 20 February Night Cat Melbourne
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Kim Petras
Grammy Award-winning pop icon Kim Petras is set to perform two headline shows in Australia this February, alongside her highly anticipated appearances at Laneway 2027!
Rising from a cult underground pop sensation to an international chart-topping superstar, Petras continuously redefines pop music on her own terms, and her critically acclaimed record Detour marks a bold creative pivot, seamlessly fusing club-rooted production and sharp songwriting into an album that signalled the discovery of her true artistic self.
Sideshow Dates
Monday 15 February Enmore Theatre Sydney
Thursday 18 February Forum Melbourne
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Gigs Coming Soon
Alta Falls
Alta Falls are bringing their EP Don’t Make Me Your Number national tour to Northcote Social Club this Friday night. Cinematic, emotional and impossible to sit still, with soaring harmonies and synth-driven hooks that sit somewhere between 80s warmth and something entirely now, Don’t Make Me Your Number is their most focused and fully realised EP to date, and the live show promises to be where it all clicks into place.
Gig Date
Friday 13 November Northcote Social Club Northcote
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Two Door Cinema Club & The Vaccines
Indie darlings Two Door Cinema Club will be hitting Melbourne’s John Cain Arena this November to perform their iconic debut album Tourist History in full, alongside their greatest hits. The album launched the band onto the global stage with electrifying hits like ‘What You Know’, ‘Something Good Can Work’ and ‘Undercover Martyn’, and its catchy guitar hooks, irresistible rhythms and dance floor beats quickly made it a staple of the indie-dance scene.
In what will no doubt be a very special night, Two Door Cinema Club will be joined by special guests The Vaccines who will to perform their breakthrough record What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? An album packed with high-energy classics such as ‘If You Wanna’, ‘Post Break-Up Sex’ and ‘Wetsuit’, its raw, infectious sound helped cement the band as one of the UK’s most exciting guitar acts.
Gig Date
Friday 20 November John Cain Arena Melbourne
Get your tickets HERE