Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027

Courtney Barnett has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there are no 2027 dates, cities, venues or sale details for her in either country, and no headline tour has yet been confirmed for her fourth studio album, Creature of Habit, released on 27 March 2026. Her most recent documented shows at home were two intimate nights in November 2025: the Odeon Theatre in Hobart and the Punter's Club in Melbourne.

Born in Sydney, raised on the Northern Beaches and later in Hobart, and based in Melbourne for most of her career, Barnett is one of the most decorated Australian songwriters of her generation. She won four ARIA Awards in 2015, including Breakthrough Artist and Best Female Artist, and was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys. On stage in Australia and New Zealand she has done almost everything: pub rooms and record-store sets, the Forum and Festival Hall in Melbourne, the Concert Hall in Sydney, Laneway, Splendour in the Grass, Bluesfest, Golden Plains and Meredith, and a small-town tour of New Zealand in 2021.

This page sets out what is and is not known about her 2027 plans, then goes through her concerts in Australia and New Zealand since 2014, venue by venue, with the set lists that the concert archive holds. When she confirms new dates, they will be added here first.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official Courtney Barnett tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027 so far. No dates have been released for Creature of Habit in either country, and nothing appears for her in the 2027 Australian and New Zealand announcements made up to 9 October 2026. Any list of Courtney Barnett 2027 dates, and any 'presale code' attached to one, should be treated as unconfirmed until she announces a tour herself.

The record so far: in October 2025 she released 'Stay in Your Lane', her first new vocal single in two years, and performed it on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In January 2026 came 'Site Unseen', featuring Waxahatchee, and the album followed on 27 March 2026, reaching No. 19 on the ARIA Albums Chart. In mid-November 2025, before the album was out, she tried the new songs on home audiences in Hobart and Melbourne, and both of those sets included 'Stay in Your Lane', 'Site Unseen', 'Mantis' and 'Mostly Patient'.

Her earlier albums were each followed by Australian and New Zealand dates. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015) was toured at home in May 2015 and in New Zealand that November. Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018) reached Adelaide, Fremantle, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington and Melbourne within four months of release. Things Take Time, Take Time (November 2021) was toured in March 2022. That pattern makes a Creature of Habit run in the region plausible, but as of 9 October 2026 no such tour exists in the archive or in any official announcement, and the concert archive holds no Australian or New Zealand show for her in 2026 at all.

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Before the Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Courtney Barnett's earliest touring was on the Melbourne pub circuit, where she played second guitar in the grunge band Rapid Transit from 2010 to 2011, slide guitar in Immigrant Union between 2011 and 2013 and lead guitar in Jen Cloher's band. Her first trips as a headliner in the concert archive are a show at the Kings Arms in Auckland on Wednesday 17 September 2014 and a night at The Zoo in Brisbane on Saturday 11 October 2014, the year that The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas took her name overseas.

The first full home tour came in 2015. It began at The Showroom in Hobart on Friday 24 April, moved to the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide (30 April and 1 May) and The Bakery in Perth (2 and 3 May), then played two nights at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 May, Max Watt's House of Music in Brisbane on Saturday 9 May, and two nights at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May. Sets ran to 16 songs. New Zealand followed in November 2015: Bodega in Wellington on Thursday 5 November, the St James Theatre in Auckland on Friday 6 November and The Foundry in Christchurch the next night. Early in 2016 she played the Astor Theatre in Perth on Thursday 7 January, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 16 January, the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 22 January and the Twilight series at Taronga Zoo in Sydney on Thursday 28 January.

In March 2016 the archive lists a run of small rooms under the name 'Good For You', from the Fat Controller in Adelaide on Thursday 3 March through the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine, Howler in Melbourne, the University of Canberra Refectory, Anita's Theatre in Wollongong, the Vic on the Park Hotel in Sydney and the Bar on the Hill in Newcastle, up to Bangalow, The Triffid in Brisbane, Joe's Waterhole Hotel in Eumundi and the Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast on Sunday 20 March. In 2017 she headlined Festival Hall in Melbourne on Thursday 20 April and played the Coburg RSL in July.

The Tell Me How You Really Feel tour is her most complete documented run across both countries. After a warm-up at the Coburg RSL on Wednesday 27 June 2018, it opened at the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on Friday 17 August 2018, played Metropolis Fremantle the next night, The Tivoli in Brisbane on Wednesday 22 August and the Concert Hall in Sydney on Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 August. It then crossed the Tasman for two nights at the Powerstation in Auckland on Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 August and The Opera House in Wellington on Thursday 30 August, before finishing at Festival Hall in Melbourne on Saturday 1 September 2018 with a 21-song set. A Christmas show at the Northcote Social Club followed on 22 December.

In December 2019 she was on the bill of the Making Gravy shows, playing Stadium Park in Perth on Saturday 7 December, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Thursday 12 December, The Domain in Sydney on Saturday 14 December and the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 21 December. In January 2020 she played two nights at the Corner Hotel in Richmond, Melbourne, on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 January, and The Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine. When international touring stopped, New Zealand became the outlet: in July 2021 she played thirteen shows in ten towns, from The Cabana in Napier on Thursday 8 July and three nights at San Fran in Wellington to The Boathouse in Nelson, Blue Smoke in Christchurch, the Glenroy Auditorium in Dunedin, The Sherwood in Queenstown, the Leigh Sawmill Cafe, Totara Street in Mount Maunganui, the Clarence St Theatre in Hamilton and the Raglan Club, ending at Auckland Town Hall on Sunday 25 July 2021. That is still her most recent New Zealand concert in the archive.

The Things Take Time, Take Time tour played an open-air show in Botanic Park, Adelaide, on Saturday 12 March 2022, two nights at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 March, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Friday 25 March and The Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday 26 March, with a fixed 18-song set. Late 2022 brought club shows at the Oxford Art Factory and Phoenix Central Park in Sydney and two Christmas nights at the Northcote Social Club. In early 2024 she played seated concert halls: City Recital Hall Angel Place in Sydney on Saturday 20 January, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Friday 2 February, two nights at The Rechabite in Perth on 10 and 11 February, and the Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Saturday 17 February 2024.

The table below lists 110 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Courtney Barnett between 2014 and 2025, with the most shows in Melbourne (25), Sydney (13), Adelaide (8), Brisbane (8), Auckland (8), Perth (6). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

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

Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (18 March 2022 to 16 November 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Avant Gardener — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Depreston — played at 14 of 15 shows
3. Rae Street — played at 13 of 15 shows
4. Before You Gotta Go — played at 10 of 15 shows
5. Oh the Night — played at 10 of 15 shows
6. Pedestrian at Best — played at 9 of 15 shows
7. Need a Little Time — played at 8 of 15 shows
8. Small Poppies — played at 8 of 15 shows
9. Walkin' on Eggshells — played at 8 of 15 shows
10. Write a List of Things to Look Forward To — played at 8 of 15 shows
11. City Looks Pretty — played at 7 of 15 shows
12. History Eraser — played at 6 of 15 shows
13. Sunday Roast — played at 6 of 15 shows
14. (Electricity) — played at 5 of 15 shows

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

• Things Take Time, Take Time. (2022): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
• Making Gravy (2019): 1 Australia/NZ show — Melbourne.
• Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018–2019): 21 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Queenscliff, Berry, Invermay, Byron Bay.
• Good For You (2016): 11 Australia/NZ shows — Adelaide, Castlemaine, Melbourne, Canberra, Wollongong, Sydney, Newcastle, Bangalow, Brisbane, Eumundi, Gold Coast.
• Sometimes I Sit (2015): 1 Australia/NZ show — Melbourne.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Australian and New Zealand festivals have been a large part of Barnett's touring life. The archive places her on the Laneway circuit twice: in 2015 at Silo Park in Auckland on Monday 26 January, then Brisbane Showgrounds, Sydney College of the Arts, Harts Mill in Adelaide, the Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne and the Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle on Sunday 8 February; and again in 2019, from Albert Park in Auckland on Monday 28 January to the same Australian sites in early February. She also played Silo Park in Auckland on Monday 1 February 2016.

She has played Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands in July 2016 and July 2019, Bluesfest at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm near Byron Bay on Thursday 13 April 2017, and the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre twice: in March 2015, the month of Golden Plains, and on Friday 9 December 2022 at the Meredith Music Festival. Over the 2015-16 summer she played Woodfordia on 28 December, Mount Duneed Estate near Geelong on 30 December, the Falls Festival site at Marion Bay in Tasmania on New Year's Eve and North Byron Parklands on 1 January 2016.

Other outdoor dates in the archive include the Queenscliff festival site on Sunday 25 November 2018, Hazelberry Park in Berry on Saturday 1 December 2018, a festival hub at Invermay in Launceston in January 2019 and Rymill and King Rodney Parks in Adelaide on Saturday 19 November 2022.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Courtney Melba Barnett was born in Sydney on 3 November 1987; her middle name comes from the opera singer Nellie Melba. She grew up on the Northern Beaches, and when she was 16 her family moved to Hobart, where she attended St Michael's Collegiate School and the Tasmanian School of Art. Discovering Australian songwriters such as Darren Hanlon and Dan Kelly pushed her to write her own songs, and for a time she paid the bills as a pizza delivery driver.

Her debut EP, I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris, came out in 2012 on her own label, Milk! Records. Combined with a second EP, How to Carve a Carrot into a Rose, it became The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas in 2013, and its lead track 'Avant Gardener' won praise in Britain and the United States. 'History Eraser' was nominated for APRA Song of the Year, and 'Pickles from the Jar' reached No. 51 in triple j's Hottest 100 of 2014.

Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, released on 23 March 2015 and recorded with Burke Reid, reached No. 4 in Australia and won four ARIA Awards from eight nominations. She followed it with Lotta Sea Lice (2017), a duet album with Kurt Vile, and Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018), which reached No. 2, her highest ARIA position. Things Take Time, Take Time (2021) reached No. 5. The documentary Anonymous Club, directed by Danny Cohen, premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2021, and its instrumental score was released as End of the Day in September 2023, the final album on Milk! Records before the label closed at the end of that year.

On 3 July 2022 she supported the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park in London. After a quieter period she returned in 2025 and 2026 with 'Stay in Your Lane', 'Site Unseen' with Waxahatchee and the album Creature of Habit. Barnett plays left-handed, usually on left-handed Fender guitars, and for years played electric guitar without a pick, a style she developed on acoustic. Her long-time rhythm section is Bones Sloane on bass and Dave Mudie on drums, with Stella Mozgawa on drums and Lucy Waldron on cello in more recent line-ups.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: what is known after Creature of Habit

Creature of Habit came out on 27 March 2026. As of 9 October 2026 no Australian or New Zealand concerts have been announced around it, and the concert archive has no home date for her in 2026. The last shows before release, at the Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Saturday 15 November 2025 and the Punter's Club in Melbourne the following night, are the clearest view of how the new material sounds live.

In Hobart she played 14 songs, mixing four new songs with 'Avant Gardener', 'Depreston', 'Small Poppies', 'Before You Gotta Go' and 'Oh the Night'. The Melbourne set was ten songs and ended, like Hobart, with 'Mostly Patient'. Whether those were a prelude to a larger run is not known; nothing beyond them has been confirmed.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: the Melbourne nights

Melbourne is where Barnett's career was built, and the archive reflects it. She has played the Forum Theatre four times (two nights each in 2015 and 2022), Festival Hall in 2017 and 2018, the Palais Theatre in January 2016, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in December 2019, the Corner Hotel twice in January 2020 and Elisabeth Murdoch Hall at the Melbourne Recital Centre in February 2024.

The smaller rooms are just as much part of the story: the Coburg RSL in 2017 and 2018, Howler in 2016 and 2019, and the Northcote Social Club, where she has played December shows in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2022. The most recent Melbourne date in the archive is the Punter's Club on Sunday 16 November 2025.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

Barnett has played New Zealand regularly since the Kings Arms in Auckland in September 2014. Headline visits followed in November 2015 (Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch) and August 2018 (two nights at the Powerstation and The Opera House in Wellington), alongside Laneway in Auckland in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

The July 2021 tour was unusual: thirteen shows in ten towns at a time when few international acts could reach the country, including small places such as Leigh, Raglan, Nelson and Queenstown as well as Napier, Dunedin, Hamilton and Mount Maunganui. It ended at Auckland Town Hall on Sunday 25 July 2021, her latest New Zealand concert on record. No New Zealand dates have been announced for 2027.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: the concert hall shows of 2024

In January and February 2024 Barnett toured seated halls with a two-part show. Each night opened with the instrumental pieces of End of the Day, the score to Anonymous Club, played in sequence from 'Start Somewhere' and 'Life Balance' through to 'Eternity Repeat'. The second half turned to songs: 'Rae Street', 'City Looks Pretty', 'Avant Gardener', 'Need a Little Time', 'Depreston', 'Walkin' on Eggshells' and 'Sunday Roast', ending with 'Before You Gotta Go' and 'Oh the Night'.

The tour played City Recital Hall Angel Place in Sydney, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in Melbourne, The Rechabite in Perth on two nights and the Odeon Theatre in Hobart, with 26 or 27 titles per night. It remains her longest documented set in Australia.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Courtney Barnett headline set in Australia has usually run to 16-21 songs, played as a trio or four-piece with long-time bandmates Bones Sloane and Dave Mudie. On the 2018 tour the show opened with 'Hopefulessness' and 'City Looks Pretty' and closed with 'Pedestrian at Best'; on the 2022 tour it opened with 'Rae Street' and 'Sunfair Sundown' and ended with 'Write a List of Things to Look Forward To', 'Oh the Night' and 'Before You Gotta Go'.

Across her documented Australian and New Zealand shows, the songs that appear most often are 'Depreston', 'Avant Gardener', 'Pedestrian at Best', 'Elevator Operator' and 'Small Poppies', followed by 'History Eraser', 'Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party' and 'City Looks Pretty'. Christmas shows have brought covers such as 'Last Christmas' in 2018 and 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' in 2022.

Her most recent sets, in November 2025, added the songs that became Creature of Habit. A 2027 show, if one is announced, would be expected to lean on that album, but no set list exists yet for any 2027 Australian or New Zealand date.

Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Courtney Barnett tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any website already listing 2027 seats or selling a 'presale code' is not official.

For past tours, tickets were sold through each venue's official ticket outlet and its box office. When a tour is confirmed, buy only from those official channels, register for any artist presale through her official mailing list, and expect name-locked mobile tickets at many venues. Be wary of anyone offering access codes in exchange for money.

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Courtney Barnett Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Courtney Barnett touring Australia in 2027?

Nothing has been announced. As of 9 October 2026 there are no 2027 Courtney Barnett dates in Australia or New Zealand.

Will there be a Creature of Habit tour in Australia?

No Australian tour for Creature of Habit (released 27 March 2026) had been announced as of 9 October 2026.

When did Courtney Barnett last play in Australia?

The latest shows in the archive are the Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Saturday 15 November 2025 and the Punter's Club in Melbourne on Sunday 16 November 2025.

When did she last play in New Zealand?

Her most recent New Zealand concert on record is Auckland Town Hall on Sunday 25 July 2021, the final night of a thirteen-show tour of the country.

What was her last full Australian tour?

The 2024 concert hall tour, which played Sydney, Melbourne, Perth (two nights) and Hobart between 20 January and 17 February 2024. Before that, the Things Take Time, Take Time tour played Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in March 2022.

Where has she played in Sydney?

Among others: the Metro Theatre (2015), the Enmore Theatre (2016 and 2022), Taronga Zoo (2016), the Concert Hall (2018), The Domain (2019), the Oxford Art Factory and Phoenix Central Park (2022) and City Recital Hall Angel Place (2024).

Which festivals has Courtney Barnett played in Australia?

The archive has her at Laneway (2015 and 2019), Splendour in the Grass (2016 and 2019), Bluesfest (2017), the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre (2015 and 2022) and the Falls Festival site at Marion Bay (New Year's Eve 2015), among others.

What songs does she usually play live?

'Depreston', 'Avant Gardener', 'Pedestrian at Best', 'Elevator Operator' and 'Small Poppies' are the most frequent in her documented Australian and New Zealand set lists.

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