Budjerah Australia Tour 2027

Budjerah has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no national tour, no arena run and no New Zealand show on the calendar for next year. What is on sale is The Gentleman Tour, a short run of club and beer-garden shows in late 2026 that celebrates his debut album, Gentleman, released on 24 July 2026.

Budjerah Julum Slabb was born on 17 March 2002 and grew up in Fingal Head, a small coastal village in New South Wales about five kilometres south of the Queensland border, in the Gold Coast and Tweed region. He is a Coodjinburra man from the Bundjalung nation. His parents are pastors, and he learned to sing in church, raised on gospel and on Sam Cooke. That upbringing still shapes his shows: a Sam Cooke song has been part of his set for years.

This page follows Budjerah's live career in Australia, from his first headline nights in 2021 to the stadium support slots of 2023 and the theatre and festival dates of 2024 to 2026. It explains what is and is not known about 2027, where he has played most often, what his recent set lists look like, and how to make sure you hear first if an Australian or New Zealand tour for 2027 is confirmed.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about a Budjerah tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No promoter has announced dates, no venues have been named and no presale has been scheduled. Any website that already lists 2027 Budjerah tickets with seat numbers or a presale code is not an official seller.

What has been announced is the late-2026 run behind Gentleman. The Gentleman Tour opens at The Espy in Melbourne on Saturday 31 October 2026, continues at The Sound Doctor in Anglesea on 1 November and Metro Social in Sydney on 7 November, then heads north to Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast on 20 November and closes at the Triffid Beer Garden in Brisbane on Saturday 21 November 2026. Most of those shows are all ages; the Melbourne date is 18+. These are 2026 concerts, not 2027 ones, and they are listed here only so you know where he is playing next.

No New Zealand dates have been announced for 2026 or 2027. The setlist archive used for this page holds only Australian shows for Budjerah, so there is no record of a headline concert in Auckland or Wellington so far.

If a 2027 national tour follows the album cycle, the most likely pattern on past form is the east coast first, with Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, plus Adelaide and Perth as on his 2024 run. That is a reading of his history, not an announcement. This page will be updated as soon as anything is confirmed.

Before the Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Budjerah's live history in Australia starts in 2021, a few months after his debut single 'Missing You' topped the Triple J airplay chart. The setlist archive lists him at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 13 March 2021, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 24 April 2021, at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne on 20 May and at Crooked River Wines in Gerringong on the New South Wales south coast on 13 June 2021. It was a year of support slots and small rooms, while live music in Australia was still affected by restrictions.

In 2022, the year of the Conversations EP and what Wikipedia calls his first global tour, the Australian dates multiplied. The archive has The Night Cat in Melbourne in April, North Byron Parklands in July, the Sandstone Point Hotel near Bribie Island in August and Summa House in Brisbane in September. Late in the year he played the Forecourt in Sydney, the Hordern Pavilion on 24 November 2022 and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl again on 26 November, before ending the year at Barunah Plains, Barunah Park, in western Victoria on 30 December. In September 2022 he also sang at the AFL Grand Final.

The biggest crowds of his career came in February and March 2023, when he supported Ed Sheeran on the Australian leg of his stadium tour. The setlist archive lists three nights at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane from 17 to 19 February, two at Accor Stadium in Sydney on 24 and 25 February, two at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 2 and 3 March, Adelaide Oval on 7 March and Optus Stadium in Perth on 12 March. His opening sets were short, built around 'Higher', 'What Should I Do?', 'Ready for the Sky', 'Talk', 'Missing You' and 'Therapy'. Between stadium nights he squeezed in smaller dates, including Nova's Red Room in Sydney, Thomas Dalton Park in Wollongong, Catani Gardens in St Kilda and Taylor Reserve in Perth.

After a club show at The Studio in Sydney in May 2023, the rest of the year was spent outdoors: Lake Breeze Wines at Langhorne Creek in South Australia in November, the Hordern Pavilion again on 15 November, then a run of open-air dates in Canberra, on the Gold Coast, in Ballarat, at the Claremont Showground in Perth and in Mornington between 25 November and 9 December. In 2024 he played Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast, three Melbourne dates in February, Anita's Theatre in Wollongong on 8 March and Tumbalong Park in Sydney in June.

His most recent headline tour in the archive came in September 2024: The Triffid in Brisbane on 6 September, The Factory Theatre in Sydney on 7 September, Lion Arts Factory in Adelaide on 13 September, the Rosemount Hotel in Perth on 14 September, 170 Russell in Melbourne on 20 September (listed under the name Therapy Sessions) and the Brunswick Picture House in Brunswick Heads on 28 September. It was the first time he took his own show to all five mainland state capitals in one run.

Since then the archive shows a steady flow of single dates: Manning House in Sydney on 26 January 2025, The Factory Theatre again in March, two Byron Bay stages in April 2025, Burleigh Beach on the Gold Coast in May, Triffid Gardens in Brisbane in October, The Domain in Sydney in December and the Amphi-Grande at Woodford on 27 December 2025. In 2026 he played Victoria Park in Sydney on 26 January, Celebrity Tree Park in Kununurra, in the far north of Western Australia, in May, and the George Hogg Auditorium in Ipswich on 10 July 2026, his last listed show before the album came out.

The table below lists 54 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Budjerah between 2021 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (12), Melbourne (11), Brisbane (7), Perth (4), Gold Coast (3), Byron Bay (3). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 11 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (23 July 2022 to 10 July 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Higher — played at 10 of 11 shows
2. Therapy — played at 10 of 11 shows
3. Ready for the Sky — played at 9 of 11 shows
4. Talk — played at 9 of 11 shows
5. 2step — played at 8 of 11 shows
6. What Should I Do? — played at 8 of 11 shows
7. My Name — played at 7 of 11 shows
8. Missing You — played at 6 of 11 shows
9. Proud Mary — played at 6 of 11 shows
10. Video Game — played at 5 of 11 shows
11. A Change Is Gonna Come — played at 4 of 11 shows
12. Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense — played at 3 of 11 shows
13. Shoulda Coulda — played at 3 of 11 shows
14. Stranger Love — played at 3 of 11 shows

Before the Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Therapy Sessions (2024): 1 Australia/NZ show — Melbourne.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Much of Budjerah's Australian live work has been outdoors, at events listed in the archive by site rather than by festival name: North Byron Parklands in July 2022, Barunah Plains on 30 December 2022, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, the Domain and Tumbalong Park in Sydney, and the Amphi-Grande at Woodford on 27 December 2025. In April 2025 he played two stages in Byron Bay on consecutive days, the Crossroads stage on 17 April and the Delta stage on 18 April.

The late-2023 dates follow a clear touring-festival pattern, moving across Canberra (Exhibition Park, 25 November), the Gold Coast (26 November), Ballarat (Victoria Park, 2 December), Perth (Claremont Showground, 3 December) and Mornington (9 December) in successive weekends. On 26 January 2026 he played Victoria Park in Sydney, and on 9 January 2025 Wikipedia notes a set at AJ2025, the Australian Scout Jamboree, which closed with 'Therapy'.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Budjerah auditioned for the eighth season of The Voice Australia in 2019, singing 'Climb Every Mountain', but did not get past the blind auditions. Later that year he uploaded 'River Dry' to Triple J Unearthed. In 2020 he met Matt Corby, who became a mentor and produced his first EP. 'Missing You' came out in October 2020 and went to No. 1 on the Triple J airplay chart, and in December he performed it on the television programme The Sound.

In March 2021 Apple Music named him one of its Up Next artists for Australia and New Zealand, and his self-titled EP followed on 26 March 2021, with guests including Corby, Ngaiire, Ainslie Wills, JK-47 and Stevan. A live version recorded at Rainbow Valley came out two months later. At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards he won the Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist award. The single 'Wash My Sorrows Away' followed in November 2021.

The Conversations EP was released on 8 April 2022, together with his first world tour. In 2023 he supported Ed Sheeran in Australia, released 'Therapy' and 'Video Game' (co-written with Meg Mac, Matt Corby and Chris Collins), recorded a cover of Crowded House's 'Better Be Home Soon' with WILSN for Mushroom Records' 50th anniversary, and won Artist of the Year at the National Indigenous Music Awards.

His debut album took longer than expected. Many songs written with Corby were set aside, and in 2026 he explained that he never had the time to sit in one place and develop them. Gentleman was announced in March 2026 and released on 24 July 2026, peaking at No. 14 on the Australian albums chart. In his personal life, he proposed to his long-time partner Sophie Moore in Sydney on 22 April 2026, after a Chaka Khan concert at the Sydney Opera House, and they married on 4 June at Tweed Heads South.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: from Fingal Head to the stadiums

Few Australian singers have gone from local stages to the country's biggest stadiums as quickly as Budjerah. Before he released any music, he was already singing in front of large crowds on the Gold Coast, including at Carrara Stadium during a Gold Coast Suns home game, an audience of more than 18,000 people.

Less than three years after his first single, he was opening for Ed Sheeran at the MCG, Accor Stadium and Suncorp Stadium. The jump from rooms like the Northcote Social Club to the MCG in two years explains why his sets of 2023 were short and tightly built: no more than seven or eight songs, chosen to introduce him to people who had come for someone else.

Fingal Head remains part of the story. The Northern Rivers and the Tweed show up again and again in the archive, from Byron Bay to Brunswick Heads, and the album's wedding venue at Tweed Heads South is a few minutes from where he grew up.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: the Sydney nights

Sydney is the city Budjerah has played most often, according to the archive: the Enmore Theatre in 2021, the Forecourt and the Hordern Pavilion in 2022, Accor Stadium, Nova's Red Room and The Studio in 2023, Tumbalong Park and The Factory Theatre in 2024, Manning House, The Factory Theatre and the Domain in 2025, and Victoria Park in January 2026.

The Factory Theatre in Marrickville has become a regular headline room, with shows on 7 September 2024 and 28 March 2025. The 2024 show there had one of his longest recorded set lists, sixteen songs including covers of 'Sweet Disposition' and 'A Change Is Gonna Come'.

For the 2026 Gentleman Tour the Sydney date is Metro Social on 7 November. If a larger 2027 run is announced, Sydney is likely to be one of the first cities on it, but nothing has been confirmed.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: Melbourne, Brisbane and the regions

Melbourne has seen him at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl twice (2021 and 2022), at small rooms such as the Northcote Social Club, The Night Cat and 170 Russell, at the MCG in 2023 and at Federation Square and the St Kilda Foreshore in February 2024. The Gentleman Tour opens there, at The Espy in St Kilda, on 31 October 2026.

Brisbane is the nearest capital to his home and appears from 2022 onwards: Summa House, The Triffid (2024), Triffid Gardens (2025), Suncorp Stadium and, to close the 2026 tour, the Triffid Beer Garden on 21 November.

He is also one of the few artists of his generation whose archive includes towns such as Halls Gap, Kununurra, Gerringong, Anglesea and Langhorne Creek. Regional Australia has been a constant in his touring, not an afterthought.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: New Zealand

Budjerah has not yet played a headline show in New Zealand according to the setlist archive, and no New Zealand dates have been announced for 2026 or 2027. Apple Music did include him in its Up Next programme for Australia and New Zealand in 2021, so his music has had support across the Tasman.

Fans in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch should treat any 2027 New Zealand listing with caution until it is confirmed by the venue or a recognised promoter.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

The most complete recent set list in the archive comes from the George Hogg Auditorium in Ipswich on 10 July 2026, just before Gentleman was released. He opened with 'Gentleman' and 'Could I Be', ran 'Missing You' into a cover of 'No Scrubs', played '2step', 'Competition' and 'Sinner', then sang Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' and Randy Travis's 'Forever and Ever, Amen'. 'Talk', 'Ready for the Sky', 'Let Me Know' and 'Even At My Worst' followed, and he closed with 'Therapy' and 'Proud Mary'.

His 2024 headline show at The Factory Theatre in Sydney had sixteen songs, from 'Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense' and 'Higher' through 'Hero', 'Video Game' and 'Remember Your Name' to 'Sweet Disposition', 'Therapy' and 'Proud Mary'. 'Therapy' and 'Proud Mary' have closed nearly every full set since 2023, and 'A Change Is Gonna Come' is the clearest link to the gospel and soul he grew up on.

Expect a headline show of 75 to 90 minutes with a band, a few covers and the new album at the centre. Festival sets are much shorter, often under 40 minutes.

Budjerah Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Budjerah tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Tickets for the late-2026 Gentleman Tour went on general sale on 23 July 2026 after a presale, through the venues' official ticketing.

If 2027 dates are announced, buy only through the official seller named by the venue, the venue box office or the artist's mailing list. When 2027 dates are confirmed, they will appear first on the artist's official channels and the venues' own websites.

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Budjerah Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Budjerah touring Australia in 2027?

No 2027 dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026. His next shows are The Gentleman Tour in October and November 2026.

What are the Gentleman Tour dates?

The Espy, Melbourne (31 October 2026), The Sound Doctor, Anglesea (1 November), Metro Social, Sydney (7 November), Miami Marketta, Gold Coast (20 November) and the Triffid Beer Garden, Brisbane (21 November 2026).

Will Budjerah play New Zealand?

No New Zealand dates have been announced, and the setlist archive does not list a New Zealand headline show so far.

When did Budjerah last play Sydney?

The archive lists Victoria Park in Sydney on 26 January 2026. The Gentleman Tour returns to Sydney at Metro Social on 7 November 2026.

Did Budjerah support Ed Sheeran?

Yes, on Ed Sheeran's 2023 Australian stadium tour, including Suncorp Stadium, Accor Stadium, the MCG, Adelaide Oval and Optus Stadium.

What is Budjerah's debut album?

Gentleman, released on 24 July 2026. It reached No. 14 on the Australian albums chart.

Where is Budjerah from?

Fingal Head in New South Wales, near the Queensland border. He is a Coodjinburra man from the Bundjalung nation.

What songs does Budjerah play live?

Recent sets include 'Gentleman', 'Missing You', '2step', 'Talk', 'Ready for the Sky', 'Therapy' and covers such as 'A Change Is Gonna Come' and 'Proud Mary'.

Is there a Budjerah presale code for 2027?

No. There is no 2027 tour yet, so any code offered online is not official. Sign up for the alert to hear when dates are announced.