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
The Lottery Winners
Chart-topping UK indie-pop band The Lottery Winners return to Australia and New Zealand for a headline tour in April 2027, on the back of a massive Australian stadium tour supporting Robbie Williams.
With two Number 1 albums and sold-out tours, the band came from nowhere and put themselves everywhere. And thanks to festival appearances at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Latitude, and Kendal Calling, The Lottery Winners have cemented themselves as one of the UK’s most exciting bands and one of Britain’s most sought-after live acts.
Australia and NZ Tour Dates
Sunday 18 April Rosemount Hotel Perth
Tuesday 20 April Lion Arts Factory Adelaide
Thursday 22 April Manning Bar Sydney
Friday 23 April Croxton Bandroom Melbourne
Sunday 25 April The Triffid Brisbane
Tuesday 27 April Tuning Fork Auckland
Wednesday 28 April James Hay Theatre Christchurch
Presale tickets go on sale from 8am local time on Wednesday 4 November. General tickets on sale from 8:30am local time on Friday, 6th November.
Sign up for presale and get your tickets HERE
Festivals & Events
Loud Women Fest
Loud Women Fest Australia 2026 lands in Gadigal/Sydney, Naarm/Melbourne, and Meanjin/Brisbane later this month with lineups that bring together brilliant bands from across Australia with artists travelling from the UK, crossing punk, post-punk, hardcore, grunge, riot grrrl, sludge, indie, noise and alternative rock.
Loud Women started as a little London gig night in 2015 because there simply weren’t enough women and non-binary artists being given space on stages. Eleven years later and it is an international, proudly trans-inclusive and intersectional feminist community that connects DIY scenes, artists and audiences around the world. That connection is at the heart of these international festivals, helping brilliant rising DIY artists find audiences outside their own towns, cities and countries, while giving local scenes the chance to discover bands they might otherwise never cross paths with.
Australian Festival Dates
Saturday 21 November Waywards Ballroom Gadigal/Sydney
Sunday 22 November Bergy Bandroom Naarm/Melbourne
Sunday 29 November The Brightside Meanjin/Brisbane
Get your tickets HERE
The Local
Set to bring a stacked bill of Australian talent to venues in Frankston and Woodport this summer, new live music series The Local is set to become an unmissable event for music fans in regional Victoria and New South Wales.
The Local is built around a core objective: to celebrate our homegrown talent and provide a platform for live music fans to create new core memories and witness some of the country’s best live bands in their natural element. Held on two Saturdays in January, a line up boasting Skegss, Radium Dolls, and Lucky at Frankston’s Pier Hotel and Erina’s Woodport Hotel, with The Buoys and Good Sniff joining the lineup at Frankston, whilst The Tullamarines and Liquid Zoo will be performing at Erina.
The Local will also showcase the sounds of each local scene, selecting a band from each region through a publicly held competition. This will give the opportunity for two locals to share a stage with some legends of the Australian music scene.
Australian Tour Dates
Saturday 23 January Pier Hotel Frankston
Saturday 30 January Woodport Hotel Erina
Get your tickets HERE
Australian Artists
Gretta Ray
Fresh from the release of her new album Heartsong, Gretta Ray has announced she will be returning to Australia for a string of capital city shows in early April next year, hitting Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.
Audiences will get the chance to experience these new songs live, and while they will be performed with a full band, Gretta plans on making the shows deeply intimate affairs that help build a world that serves to honour and celebrate the new album for what it is. With a considered mix of new tunes and older material from the pop albums that came before, these shows promise to be big nights of sonic emotional whiplash.
Australian Tour Dates
Thursday 8 April Metro Theatre Sydney
Friday 9 April The Triffid Brisbane
Saturday 10 April Thornbury Theatre Melbourne
Get your tickets HERE
Riah
With Ashanti’s upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour only a week away there is an additional buzz in the air with the announcement of Riah as national support for the Australian shows.
The R&B singer/songwriter from southwest Sydney has had a massive few years, making her impact on the Australian scene in a short, but prolific period of time. A proud Pasifika and Indigenous Australian woman, Riah’s deep connection to her identity and culture (she is of Tongan, Fijian, Italian and Kamilaroi descent) has informed each step she has taken as an artist to date.
Tickets remain for Ashanti’s long-awaited Australian and NZ return, with a waitlist available for fans in Melbourne who missed the initial opportunity to grab their tickets. As a change to her schedule, the Melbourne show on Saturday 14 November is now taking place at the brand new live music venue, Crown LIVE.
Australia and NZ Tour Dates
Monday 9 November Riverside Theatre Perth
Wednesday 11 November Fortitude Music Hall Brisbane
Friday 13 November TikTok Arena (ICC) Sydney
Saturday 10 November Crown LIVE Melbourne SOLD OUT
Monday 16 November Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre Auckland
Get your tickets HERE
Gigs Coming Soon
The Gay Agenda
The cutest queers from so-called Australia – Worm Girlz, Cry Club, FVNERAL and Sunsick Daisy – have assembled to spread The Gay Agenda across the country with the ultimate party, a five-stop four-way rotating headline tour this November and December. First up is Worm Girlz who will be headlining the Bergy Bandroom stage in Melbourne this Friday to celebrate the release of their debut EP Loving Memory, play a selection of audience favourites, and bask in the magic of queer joy!
Gig Date
Friday 6 November Bergy Bandroom Melbourne
Get your tickets HERE