Arthur Hill comes back to Australia and New Zealand in May 2027 with the Arthway Round The World tour. The run opens at Auckland Town Hall on Friday 14 May 2027, crosses to Wellington and Christchurch over the same weekend, then plays Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth before finishing at the Astor Theatre on Tuesday 25 May. That is eight shows in twelve days, three of them in New Zealand.
It is his second visit to the region. In January 2026 the London-based singer-songwriter brought the Stella Artour to the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney and the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, then made his New Zealand live debut with two nights at The Tuning Fork in Auckland. The 2027 dates add Wellington, Christchurch, Adelaide and Perth to the map, and move him into larger rooms in Auckland and Melbourne.
Tickets for every 2027 date have been on sale since Friday 4 September 2026, the same day he released the single "Orange Wine". This page sets out the confirmed dates and venues, what the January 2026 shows looked like, how the set has been built so far and what to know before buying.
Arthway Round The World is Arthur Hill's 2027 headline tour. As reported by the Official Charts Company in September 2026, it covers 27 dates across the UK, Ireland, North America, Australia and New Zealand, with a show at the Eventim Apollo in London on Friday 19 March 2027. The Australian and New Zealand leg comes after that, in the second half of May.
New Zealand goes first. Auckland Town Hall hosts the opening night on Friday 14 May, Meow Nui in Wellington follows on Saturday 15 May and the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch closes the New Zealand section on Sunday 16 May. After a travel day, the Australian dates begin at The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Tuesday 18 May and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Wednesday 19 May.
Melbourne gets a Friday night at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on 21 May. Adelaide follows on Sunday 23 May at The Gov in Hindmarsh, and the tour ends at the Astor Theatre in Mount Lawley, Perth, on Tuesday 25 May. Every date is a single night; no second shows had been added as of 9 October 2026.
The rooms are theatres and mid-sized music halls rather than arenas, ranging from the 750-seat James Hay Theatre to the Palais, the largest seated theatre in Australia. No support act for the Australian and New Zealand dates had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
Auckland Town Hall opened on 14 December 1911 on Queen Street and is listed as a Category 1 historic place. Its Great Hall, modelled on the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and admired for its acoustics, seats about 1,500 and houses the town hall organ, New Zealand's largest musical instrument.
Meow Nui is a live music venue in central Wellington, New Zealand's capital. It hosts touring and local acts, mostly in a standing-room format.
The James Hay Theatre is the smaller of the two performance spaces inside the Christchurch Town Hall complex, beside the Avon River. It seats about 750 people and reopened in February 2019 with the rest of the complex after the rebuild that followed the 2011 earthquake.
The Fortitude Music Hall opened in July 2019 on the Brunswick Street Mall in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. It holds about 3,000 people standing and was built to fill the gap for a mid-sized concert hall in the city.
The Enmore Theatre on Enmore Road in Newtown, in Sydney's inner west, opened in 1912 and was remodelled in Art Deco style in 1937. It holds about 1,700 seated or 2,500 standing and is the longest-running live theatre in Sydney.
The Palais Theatre on the St Kilda foreshore opened on 12 November 1927 as a picture palace designed by Henry Eli White. With close to 3,000 seats it is the largest seated theatre in Australia; it is on the Victorian Heritage Register and reopened in 2017 after a state-funded restoration.
The Gov is the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, a pub in the inner suburb of Hindmarsh, about 3.5 km north-west of Adelaide's city centre, that dates from 1848. Known as the city's home of live music, it won national and state awards for best live music venue in 2017 and is in the SA Music Hall of Fame.
The Astor Theatre on Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley opened in 1914 as the Lyceum Theatre and was rebuilt in Art Deco style in 1939. Listed on the State Register of Heritage Places, it reopened in 2009 as a venue for live music and comedy.
Friday 14 May 2027 — Auckland Town Hall, Auckland. The artist's most recent documented Auckland show was at The Tuning Fork on 19 January 2026. The tour starts here.
Saturday 15 May 2027 — Meow Nui, Wellington.
Sunday 16 May 2027 — James Hay Theatre, Christchurch.
Tuesday 18 May 2027 — The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane. The artist's previous show at this venue was on 14 January 2026, on the Stella Artour.
Wednesday 19 May 2027 — Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Arthur Hill last played Enmore Theatre on 15 January 2026 (Stella Artour).
Friday 21 May 2027 — Palais Theatre, Melbourne. In Melbourne, the last documented Arthur Hill concert was at Forum Theatre (16 January 2026).
Sunday 23 May 2027 — The Gov, Adelaide.
Tuesday 25 May 2027 — Astor Theatre, Perth. This venue closes the tour.
Arthur Hill's documented concert history in Australia and New Zealand is short and recent: five shows in January 2026, all on the Stella Artour. Before that there is no record of him playing in either country.
The Australian leg opened at the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 14 January 2026. He moved to the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 15 January and to the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 16 January. Three cities on three consecutive nights is a tight schedule, and the setlists show the same core show every night.
From Melbourne he flew to Auckland for his first concerts in New Zealand. Auckland's live listings presented the dates at The Tuning Fork, the room beside Spark Arena, as his New Zealand live debut. He played there on Sunday 18 January and again on Monday 19 January, a sign that demand had outgrown a single night.
Two of the January 2026 rooms return in 2027. The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney are on both tours, while Melbourne moves from the Forum to the larger Palais Theatre and Auckland moves from The Tuning Fork to Auckland Town Hall. Adelaide, Perth, Wellington and Christchurch were not on the 2026 route and will see him for the first time.
The table below lists the January 2026 shows documented on setlist.fm. It is short, but it gives a fair picture of where his Australian and New Zealand audience started.
The table below lists 5 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Arthur Hill between 2026 and 2026, with the most shows in Auckland (2), Melbourne (1), Sydney (1), Brisbane (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 January 2026 | Auckland | The Tuning Fork | Stella Artour |
| 18 January 2026 | Auckland | The Tuning Fork | Stella Artour |
| 16 January 2026 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | Stella Artour |
| 15 January 2026 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | Stella Artour |
| 14 January 2026 | Brisbane | Fortitude Music Hall | Stella Artour |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 5 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (14 January 2026 to 19 January 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
No Australian or New Zealand festival appearances by Arthur Hill are documented. His festival experience so far is in the UK, where he has played Reading and Leeds and Glastonbury.
All eight 2027 Australian and New Zealand dates are his own headline shows; no festival bookings in the region had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
Arthur Hill is a singer-songwriter based in London. His music, built around a strong voice and conversational, often funny lyrics, found its first big audience online: "Iced Coffee", released in 2022, became a viral hit and was used in more than three million videos on social media, and he has built a following of well over a million on TikTok.
His early releases include "Tiny Room", which passed six million streams, and "Hey Arthur!" in 2024, which drew 160,000 streams in its first 24 hours and has since passed six million. His debut EP, In The Middle Of Somewhere, was followed by his first headline UK tour; several dates were moved to larger venues after selling out, and he went on to headline the O2 Academy Brixton in London.
In 2026 his live career moved up again. On 14 March 2026 he headlined OVO Arena Wembley, and the Official Charts Company described him as the first artist to play the arena before releasing a debut album. His summer single "Hot Sprite" reached No. 3 on the Official Singles Sales Chart and No. 2 on the Official Physical Singles Chart in the UK.
"Orange Wine" followed on 4 September 2026, the same day the Australian and New Zealand dates went on sale. It is one of the first songs written once work on his debut album began properly. As of 9 October 2026 the album had no announced title or release date, so the 2027 tour may be the first to feature songs from it.
Auckland is where Arthur Hill's New Zealand story starts and where the 2027 tour opens. In January 2026 he played two nights at The Tuning Fork, a compact room in the Spark Arena precinct. Sixteen months later he is booked into Auckland Town Hall on Queen Street, a 1911 building whose Great Hall seats about 1,500.
The Town Hall is a seated, formal room with famously clear acoustics, very different from a standing club. For a set that mixes singalong choruses with quieter songs, that change will be noticeable. Opening the whole leg there on a Friday also means Auckland gets the first night of the tour in the region.
Fans who missed the 2026 shows should note that only one Auckland date is scheduled this time. Last time a second night was needed; whether that happens again will depend on demand, and nothing had been added as of 9 October 2026.
Two of the three New Zealand dates are in cities he has never played. Meow Nui in central Wellington hosts him on Saturday 15 May 2027, and the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch follows the next evening, Sunday 16 May.
The James Hay Theatre is the smaller hall in the Christchurch Town Hall complex, which reopened in 2019 after the earthquake rebuild. With about 750 seats it is the most intimate room on the whole tour. Meow Nui is a standing music venue, which suits fans who want to be close to the stage.
Three New Zealand shows on three consecutive nights, Friday to Sunday, make it practical for fans to travel between cities on a weekend. Christchurch is also the last date before the tour crosses the Tasman.
Brisbane and Sydney are the two cities where Arthur Hill returns to the same venue as in 2026. The Fortitude Music Hall in Fortitude Valley hosts him on Tuesday 18 May 2027, and the Enmore Theatre in Newtown on Wednesday 19 May. Both rooms hold roughly 2,500 to 3,000 standing, the largest capacities on the leg along with the Palais.
Melbourne changes room. In January 2026 he played the Forum Theatre on Flinders Street; in 2027 he plays the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Friday 21 May. The Palais is seated and holds close to 3,000, which makes it one of the biggest single rooms on the Australian route.
With two midweek nights followed by a Friday in Melbourne, the east coast section runs in a natural order up and down the coast. Fans in regional New South Wales and Queensland will need to travel to Brisbane or Sydney, as no regional dates have been announced.
The tour ends in two cities Arthur Hill has never played. On Sunday 23 May 2027 he is at The Gov, the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Hindmarsh, which has been Adelaide's best-known live music pub for decades. On Tuesday 25 May he closes the leg at the Astor Theatre on Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley.
Both venues are smaller than the east coast halls, which fits a first visit. The Astor is a restored 1939 Art Deco theatre and The Gov a standing room with a bar, so the atmosphere will be closer to a club gig than a concert hall.
For fans in South Australia and Western Australia these shows remove the need to fly east. As the final night of the leg, Perth also closes the Australian and New Zealand section of Arthway Round The World.
The Stella Artour shows in January 2026 ran to sixteen to eighteen songs. In Sydney he played eighteen: "Thunderstruck" headed the list, followed by "She's So Handsome", "Late for the Reservation", "Iced Coffee", "John Wayne", "Man in the Middle" and "Back Here Again". The middle of the set included a medley of "Too Much Ain't Enough", "Tiny Room", "How About Then", "Try A Little Harder" and "Passing Thought", which let him fit several older songs into one section.
The closing run was the same in every city: "You're Not a God", "Right Now", "Lily", "Bride and Gloom", "Miracle", "Hey Arthur!", "Dead in the Disco" and "Appetite" to finish. Sydney also heard "Life Of The Party", which does not appear in the other lists, and the second Auckland night opened directly with "She's So Handsome".
The 2027 set has not been published. With a debut album in progress and two singles released in 2026, "Hot Sprite" and "Orange Wine", some changes are likely, but the songs that went viral online, "Iced Coffee" and "Hey Arthur!" in particular, were fixtures of every 2026 show in the region.
Tickets for all eight Australian and New Zealand dates went on general sale on Friday 4 September 2026 and remain available through the official ticketing agents for each venue and the venues' own box offices, subject to availability. No separate presale details for this leg were published in the data we track.
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When does Arthur Hill's 2027 Australia and New Zealand tour start?
At Auckland Town Hall on Friday 14 May 2027.
Where does the tour end?
At the Astor Theatre in Perth on Tuesday 25 May 2027.
Which New Zealand cities are included?
Auckland (Auckland Town Hall, 14 May), Wellington (Meow Nui, 15 May) and Christchurch (James Hay Theatre, 16 May).
When is the Sydney show?
Wednesday 19 May 2027 at the Enmore Theatre in Newtown, the same venue he played on 15 January 2026.
Where does Arthur Hill play in Melbourne?
At the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Friday 21 May 2027. In January 2026 he played the Forum Theatre.
Has Arthur Hill played in Australia before?
Yes, once: in January 2026 on the Stella Artour, at the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane (14 January), the Enmore Theatre in Sydney (15 January) and the Forum Theatre in Melbourne (16 January).
Is this his first time in Adelaide and Perth?
Yes. The Gov in Adelaide (23 May) and the Astor Theatre in Perth (25 May) are his first documented shows in those cities.
Are tickets on sale?
Yes, since Friday 4 September 2026, through the official outlets and the venues' box offices.
Who is the support act?
No support act had been announced for the Australian and New Zealand dates as of 9 October 2026.
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