Crash Test Dummies return to Australia in April 2027 with the Greatest Hits Tour, six shows across twelve days. The run opens at The Tivoli in Brisbane on Friday 2 April, crosses the border to Twin Towns at Tweed Heads on Saturday 3 April, then plays the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on Thursday 8 April, Forum Melbourne on Friday 9 April and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 10 April, before closing at the Astor Theatre in Perth on Wednesday 14 April.
It comes only two years after the band's last visit. In March and April 2025 the Winnipeg group toured Australia and New Zealand for the 30th anniversary of God Shuffled His Feet, playing pub and club rooms such as the Rosemount Hotel in Perth, the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Triffid in Brisbane, the Manning Bar and the Metro Theatre in Sydney and the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne. The 2027 venues are a step up in size in most cities.
Australia has a special place in the band's story. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" went to No. 1 on the Australian singles chart, higher than in the United States, the United Kingdom or Canada, and God Shuffled His Feet reached No. 5 on the albums chart. Tickets for the 2027 tour have been on sale since Friday 28 August 2026.
The tour starts in south-east Queensland with two nights on consecutive days. The Tivoli in Fortitude Valley hosts the opener on Friday 2 April 2027, and the band then play Twin Towns at Tweed Heads on Saturday 3 April. Tweed Heads sits on the New South Wales side of the border, next to its twin town of Coolangatta on the Gold Coast, so this show is in practice the Gold Coast date of the tour.
After a few days' break the band head to South Australia for the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on Thursday 8 April. Then come two weekend nights: Forum Melbourne on Friday 9 April and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 10 April. Perth is last, at the Astor Theatre in Mount Lawley on Wednesday 14 April 2027.
No New Zealand dates were announced with the tour, and none had been added as of 9 October 2026. No support act had been listed either. Canberra, Hobart and Newcastle are not on the route, which covers the five mainland state capitals plus Tweed Heads.
The name says what to expect. In 2025 the band played God Shuffled His Feet almost in full; the Greatest Hits Tour points to a set built more widely across their catalogue, from The Ghosts That Haunt Me (1991) to the 2023 single "Sacred Alphabet". The set list itself has not been published.
The Tivoli at 52 Costin Street in Fortitude Valley occupies a 1917 building that was once the Adams Bakery. Converted into a cabaret-style restaurant and theatre, it opened in August 1989, keeps its Art Deco features and holds about 1,560 standing.
Twin Towns Clubs & Resorts is a landmark of Tweed Heads, the New South Wales town on the Queensland border next to its 'twin town' of Coolangatta on the Gold Coast. The club has hosted touring acts from Marcia Hines to Anthony Callea.
The Thebarton Theatre is a concert hall in Torrensville, in Adelaide's inner west. It opened in 1928 as a combined town hall and picture theatre, designed with input from cinema entrepreneur Dan Clifford, and holds about 2,000 people.
The Forum, on the corner of Flinders and Russell streets, opened in 1929 as the State Theatre, an atmospheric theatre designed by John Eberson with a Moorish exterior and a starry ceiling. Heritage-listed, it has operated as a live music venue since 1995 and holds about 2,000 standing.
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 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 2 April 2027 — The Tivoli, Brisbane. In Brisbane, the last documented Crash Test Dummies concert was at The Triffid (3 April 2025). This is the opening night of the run.
Saturday 3 April 2027 — Twin Towns, Tweed Heads.
Thursday 8 April 2027 — Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide. Their most recent documented Adelaide show was at The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel on 30 March 2025.
Friday 9 April 2027 — Forum Melbourne, Melbourne. Their most recent documented Melbourne show was at Northcote Theatre on 6 April 2025.
Saturday 10 April 2027 — Enmore Theatre, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented Crash Test Dummies concert was at Metro Theatre (12 April 2025).
Wednesday 14 April 2027 — Astor Theatre, Perth. In Perth, the last documented Crash Test Dummies concert was at Rosemount Hotel (28 March 2025). The run finishes here.
The setlist.fm archive has a short and early entry for Crash Test Dummies in Australia: three dates in April 1992, at the Central Club Hotel in Melbourne on 3 April, the Royal Derby Hotel in Melbourne on 9 April and the Rose, Shamrock & Thistle Hotel in Sydney on 11 April. No set lists were recorded for those nights. They predate "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm", which was released in 1993, and come from the time when the band were known mainly in Canada for The Ghosts That Haunt Me and "Superman's Song".
After that, the archive is silent on Australia and New Zealand until 2025. Wikipedia describes the late 1990s and 2000s as a period of label changes, side projects and long breaks, with Brad Roberts at one point the only active member and the full band only reuniting in 2017, which helps explain the long gap.
The 2025 tour, billed as the God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour, started in Western Australia with three nights at the Rosemount Hotel in North Perth on 26, 27 and 28 March. The band then played the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide on 30 March, two nights at the Triffid in Brisbane on 2 and 3 April, the Manning Bar at the University of Sydney on 4 April and two nights at the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on 5 and 6 April.
New Zealand followed: the Powerstation in Auckland on 9 April and San Fran in Wellington on 10 April 2025. The tour then came back to Sydney for a final Australian show at the Metro Theatre on 12 April, the band's second Sydney date of the trip. That makes 15 Australian and New Zealand concerts in the archive, twelve of them from 2025.
The 2025 shows were remarkably consistent. Almost every recorded night ran to 17 songs, opening with "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" and moving through "In the Days of the Caveman", "Flying Feeling", "I Think I'll Disappear Now", "How Does a Duck Know?", "God Shuffled His Feet" and "Swimming in Your Ocean". The only change in the archive is at the Triffid on 2 April, where "Here I Stand Before Me" replaced "The Psychic".
The second half of those sets brought out "Androgynous", "Two Knights and Maidens", the band's cover of XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead", "Superman's Song", "Sacred Alphabet", "Afternoons & Coffeespoons", "Heart of Stone" and "He Liked to Feel It", with "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" closing every night.
The table below lists 15 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Crash Test Dummies between 1992 and 2025, with the most shows in Melbourne (4), Sydney (3), Perth (3), Brisbane (2), Wellington (1), Auckland (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2025 | Sydney | Metro Theatre | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 10 April 2025 | Wellington | San Fran | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 9 April 2025 | Auckland | Powerstation | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 6 April 2025 | Melbourne | Northcote Theatre | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 5 April 2025 | Melbourne | Northcote Theatre | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 4 April 2025 | Sydney | Manning Bar | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 3 April 2025 | Brisbane | The Triffid | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 2 April 2025 | Brisbane | The Triffid | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 30 March 2025 | Adelaide | The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 28 March 2025 | Perth | Rosemount Hotel | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 27 March 2025 | Perth | Rosemount Hotel | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 26 March 2025 | Perth | Rosemount Hotel | God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour |
| 11 April 1992 | Sydney | Rose, Shamrock & Thistle Hotel | |
| 9 April 1992 | Melbourne | Royal Derby Hotel | |
| 3 April 1992 | Melbourne | The Central Club Hotel |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 9 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (28 March 2025 to 12 April 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Crash Test Dummies come from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The band grew out of a bar band, Bad Brad Roberts and the St. James Rhythm Pigs, in the city's Spectrum Cabaret and Blue Note Cafe scene in the late 1980s. Brad Roberts's bass-baritone voice has always been the band's signature, and the best-known line-up added Ellen Reid on vocals and keyboards, Brad's brother Dan Roberts on bass, Benjamin Darvill on harmonica and mandolin and Mitch Dorge on drums.
Signed to BMG in 1991, they broke through at home with The Ghosts That Haunt Me, which sold 400,000 copies in Canada on the strength of "Superman's Song" and won them the 1992 Juno Award for Group of the Year. God Shuffled His Feet (1993) made them international: "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" reached No. 4 in the US, No. 2 in the UK and No. 1 in Australia, and the album has sold more than five and a half million copies worldwide and earned three Grammy nominations.
In 1995 the band's version of XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead", with Ellen Reid, appeared on the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack. A Worm's Life (1996) gave them their biggest Canadian hit, "He Liked to Feel It", and Give Yourself a Hand (1999) moved towards a more electronic sound. After leaving BMG, Roberts released I Don't Care That You Don't Mind (2001), Puss 'n' Boots (2003) and Songs of the Unforgiven (2004) under the band name on his own label, and Oooh La La! followed in 2010.
After a second hiatus in which Roberts toured solo, the full band, without Darvill, reunited in Winnipeg in 2017, toured North America for the 25th anniversary of God Shuffled His Feet and released "Sacred Alphabet" in 2023, their first new full-band song in over a decade. The current line-up is Brad Roberts, Ellen Reid, Mitch Dorge and Dan Roberts, with touring musicians Stuart Cameron on guitar and Leith Fleming-Smith on keyboards.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| The Ghosts That Haunt Me | 1991 | AUS 110 |
| God Shuffled His Feet | 1993 | AUS 5 |
| A Worm's Life | 1996 | AUS 61 |
| Give Yourself a Hand | 1999 | — |
| I Don't Care That You Don't Mind | 2001 | — |
| Puss 'n' Boots | 2003 | — |
| Songs of the Unforgiven | 2004 | — |
| Oooh La La! | 2010 | — |
Crash Test Dummies' biggest single did better in Australia than anywhere else. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" topped the Australian chart and reached No. 4 in New Zealand, while in Canada, the band's home country, it peaked only at No. 14. The follow-up "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" was also a top-40 hit in Australia, reaching No. 40.
That success carried the album too: God Shuffled His Feet went to No. 5 in Australia. It is the reason so many Australian fans know the record from start to finish, and the reason the 2025 anniversary tour played it almost track by track.
The 2027 Greatest Hits Tour is a chance to hear the singles from the other albums as well, from "Superman's Song" on the debut to "He Liked to Feel It" from A Worm's Life.
In 2025 the band played compact rooms, several of them more than once: three nights at the Rosemount Hotel in Perth, two at the Triffid in Brisbane and two at the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne. In 2027 each city gets a single show, in larger theatres in most places.
The Enmore Theatre in Sydney holds about 2,500 standing, the Forum in Melbourne about 2,000 and the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide about 2,000. Perth moves from the Rosemount to the heritage Astor Theatre, and Brisbane from the Triffid to The Tivoli, which holds about 1,560 standing.
Twin Towns on Saturday 3 April 2027 is the only regional stop on the tour. Like all six 2027 venues, it does not appear in the band's Australian record so far. The club sits at Tweed Heads, on the New South Wales side of the border, next to Coolangatta on the Gold Coast, and it has hosted many touring acts over the years.
Coming the night after the Brisbane opener, it gives fans on the Gold Coast and in the Northern Rivers a date close to home rather than a drive into Fortitude Valley.
In 2025 the band played two New Zealand shows, at the Powerstation in Auckland on 9 April and at San Fran in Wellington on 10 April. The 2027 tour, as announced, has no New Zealand leg.
That could change, but as of 9 October 2026 nothing had been added. New Zealand fans who do not want to wait can travel to the Perth, Sydney or Melbourne shows, or sign up for the alert below to hear about any additions.
The 2025 Australian shows ran to 17 songs and were close to identical from night to night, with the God Shuffled His Feet songs at the core, "Superman's Song" and "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" in the middle and "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" as the last song. The only variation in the archive is "Here I Stand Before Me" in place of "The Psychic" in Brisbane.
The on-stage line-up in recent years has been the original core of Brad Roberts, Ellen Reid, Dan Roberts and Mitch Dorge, with Stuart Cameron on guitar and Leith Fleming-Smith on keyboards. The contrast between Roberts's deep lead vocal and Reid's higher harmonies is the sound fans come for.
For 2027 the title suggests a broader selection across the band's albums. No set list had been published as of 9 October 2026, so the exact songs are not known.
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When does the Crash Test Dummies Greatest Hits Tour start in Australia?
At The Tivoli in Brisbane on Friday 2 April 2027.
What are all the 2027 dates?
Brisbane 2 April, Tweed Heads 3 April, Adelaide 8 April, Melbourne 9 April, Sydney 10 April and Perth 14 April 2027.
Is there a Gold Coast show?
The nearest is Twin Towns at Tweed Heads on Saturday 3 April 2027, just across the border from Coolangatta.
Are Crash Test Dummies playing New Zealand in 2027?
No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. Their last New Zealand shows were in Auckland and Wellington in April 2025.
When did they last tour Australia?
In March and April 2025, on the God Shuffled His Feet 30th Anniversary World Tour, ending at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 12 April 2025.
Will they play Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm?
It closed every recorded Australian show in 2025, and it was a No. 1 hit in Australia. The 2027 set list has not been published.
When did tickets go on sale?
On Friday 28 August 2026.
Who is in the band now?
Brad Roberts, Ellen Reid, Dan Roberts and Mitch Dorge, with Stuart Cameron and Leith Fleming-Smith as touring musicians.
Is there a support act?
None had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
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