Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027

Cut Copy will be on stage in Australia in January 2027. The Melbourne band co-headline Foreverafter, a celebration of Australia's early-2000s dance culture conceived and curated by The Presets, alongside The Presets and Ladyhawke. Announced in early July 2026, it plays the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Sunday 17 January 2027, Carriageworks in Sydney on Saturday 23 January 2027 and the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 30 January 2027.

Bag Raiders and Bang Gang DJs add DJ sets and the producer FUKHED completes the bill. Dan Whitford has said that Cut Copy 'came up playing shows with most of these artists', and the three headliners share a past on the Modular label, the same stages and, in December 2007, the same Daft Punk tour of Australia.

No other Cut Copy show has been announced in Australia or New Zealand for 2027 as of 9 October 2026. Their last headline run at home was the Moments Tour of March 2026, which ended at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on 13 March. This page covers Foreverafter, more than a hundred documented Cut Copy concerts in Australia and New Zealand since 2007, their festival record and their recent set lists.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

Foreverafter is three shows in three cities. It starts at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Cut Copy's home town, on Sunday 17 January 2027, continues at Carriageworks in Sydney on Saturday 23 January and finishes at the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 30 January. Cut Copy share the headline billing with The Presets and Ladyhawke; the running order and set times have not been published.

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is a familiar stage for the band: the archive has them there on Saturday 14 March 2020, one of the last big Australian concerts before the pandemic closed venues. The Riverstage hosted them in January 2008, December 2008 and September 2010, so the Brisbane date is also a return.

There are no Foreverafter dates in Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart or New Zealand, and no separate Cut Copy headline tour has been announced for 2027. After the 2025 tour with Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne dates and the Moments Tour of March 2026, the band's next album cycle has not been announced either.

New Zealand fans should note that the band's last Auckland show in the archive was at Studio The Venue on Wednesday 24 January 2018. Nothing has been announced for New Zealand in 2027.

Before the Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Cut Copy began in Melbourne in 2001 as Dan Whitford's home-recording project and played live for the first time at the Livid festival in 2003, in front of 5,000 people. In 2005 they supported international acts including Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and The Presets. In May 2007 they played a small Australian tour around the single 'Hearts on Fire', and the setlist archive begins that November, with the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 15 November 2007 and The Roxy the following night.

December 2007 was a turning point. The band played The Domain in Sydney on 8 December and two days at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre on 14 and 15 December, and toured Australia with Daft Punk on a run that drew tens of thousands to its Sydney show; the archive's Sydney Showground entry on 22 December 2007 falls in that run. In Ghost Colours went to No. 1 in March 2008, and in June the band played three nights at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 June, then Wrest Point in Hobart, Launceston, the HQ Complex in Adelaide, The Tivoli in Brisbane and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 21 June.

The summer of 2008-09 was spent outdoors: Thoroughbred Park in Canberra, The Domain, the Hordern Pavilion, the Riverstage, the Belvoir Amphitheatre in Perth, Mandurah and Phillip Island in December, then the Gold Coast Parklands, Sydney, Flemington Racecourse and Claremont Showground in January and February 2009. In July 2009 they played two nights in Byron Bay, and in 2010 they previewed Zonoscope at the Riverstage on 25 September and Wellington Square in Perth on 26 September.

Zonoscope arrived in February 2011 with a series of shows in unusual spaces: Alexandria Street in Fortitude Valley on 4 February, the Footscray Community Arts Centre on 5 February, Sydney College of the Arts on 6 February, Fowlers Live in Adelaide and the Perth Cultural Centre. In April and May they combined a regional showground festival run, from Bendigo on 30 April to Bunbury on 14 May, with headline shows at the Palace Theatre in Melbourne, the Enmore Theatre, the Metro City Concert Club in Perth, The Tivoli and the HQ Complex. They ended that run in New Zealand and at the Concert Hall in Sydney on 29 May 2011.

In March 2014 the band toured with a five-city festival circuit, from the Brisbane Showgrounds on 1 March and Arena Joondalup in Perth on 2 March to Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on 8 March, Flemington on 9 March and the Adelaide Showground on 10 March, and in May they played Free Your Mind shows at the Metro Theatre, 170 Russell and Eatons Hill. July 2017 brought the Metro Theatre and the Croxton Park Hotel before Splendour, and January 2018 The MET in Brisbane, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Manning Bar in Sydney.

The years since have mixed festivals and headline runs. The Freeze, Melt shows of late 2022 included the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on 16 December, Serafino Wines in McLaren Vale on 17 December, Victoria Park in Sydney on New Year's Eve and Home Hill Winery in Tasmania on 14 January 2023. The Australia & North America Tour 2025 played the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 11 September, The Barracks Precinct in Sydney on 12 September and Roma Street Parklands in Brisbane on 13 September 2025. The Moments Tour of March 2026 followed, with the Enmore Theatre on Thursday 5 March, the Beach Hotel in Byron Bay on 6 March, Golden Plains at Meredith on 7 March and Live at the Gardens in Melbourne on Friday 13 March.

The table below lists 96 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Cut Copy between 2007 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (20), Melbourne (19), Brisbane (11), Byron Bay (6), Perth (6), Adelaide (5). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Cut Copy 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 (25 January 2018 to 13 March 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Hearts on Fire — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Lights and Music — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Out There on the Ice — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Standing in the Middle of the Field — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Need You Now — played at 13 of 15 shows
6. Meet Me in a House of Love — played at 8 of 15 shows
7. Saturdays — played at 8 of 15 shows
8. Cold Water — played at 7 of 15 shows
9. Sun God — played at 7 of 15 shows
10. Take Me Over — played at 7 of 15 shows
11. Corner of the Sky — played at 6 of 15 shows
12. Feel the Love — played at 6 of 15 shows
13. Belong to You — played at 5 of 15 shows
14. Far Away — played at 5 of 15 shows

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

• Australia & North America Tour 2025 (2025): 3 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
• Zonoscope (2011): 2 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Woodford.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Cut Copy have played most of the big Australian festival sites. The archive shows the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre in December 2007 and December 2011 and, for Golden Plains, on 7 March 2026; Woodfordia on 31 July 2011, the year Splendour in the Grass was held there; and North Byron Parklands on 21 July 2017, for Splendour, and again on New Year's Eve 2018.

The end-of-year season has been a constant: Phillip Island on 30 December 2008, Lardner Park in Warragul and Glenworth Valley in late December 2017, and Lorne on 29 December 2018 and the Falls Festival site at Marion Bay on 30 December 2018. Their first live show of all was at the Livid festival in 2003.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Cut Copy are Dan Whitford (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Tim Hoey (guitars), Ben Browning (bass) and Mitchell Scott (drums). Whitford, a DJ and graphic designer who studied at Monash University, started the project in 2001 and signed with Modular. The debut EP I Thought of Numbers was produced with Robbie Chater of The Avalanches. Hoey and Scott joined in 2003, and the debut album Bright Like Neon Love came out in April 2004.

In Ghost Colours, produced by Tim Goldsworthy in New York, was released in Australia on 22 March 2008 and debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA albums chart. 'Lights & Music' became their best-known song, and 'Hearts on Fire' and 'Far Away' were also singles. Zonoscope, recorded in a Melbourne warehouse, reached No. 3 in February 2011, when Browning joined as a full member.

Free Your Mind (November 2013) reached the top 20 in Australia and was followed by a world tour. Haiku from Zero (September 2017) peaked outside the top 50 but was toured across North America, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Japan. Freeze, Melt, mixed in Gothenburg, came out on 21 August 2020, and in 2022 the band released the box set Collected Works 2001–2011.

Their seventh album, Moments, was announced in June 2025. Its final single, 'Belong to You', featured the American musician Kate Bollinger. The album reached No. 1 on the Australian dance chart, and the band toured Australia, the United States and Mexico in the second half of 2025 before the Moments Tour of March 2026.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: Foreverafter and the Modular family

Foreverafter reunites three acts who grew up together on stage. In November 2004 The Presets made their first interstate appearances on a Modular night that also featured Cut Copy, and in 2005 Cut Copy remixed The Presets' 'Girl and the Sea'. In December 2007 both bands supported Daft Punk around Australia.

Two of the three headliners topped the ARIA albums chart in 2008, Cut Copy with In Ghost Colours and The Presets with Apocalypso. Foreverafter is a curated event rather than a Cut Copy headline tour, so expect a festival-length set rather than a full evening.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: the Melbourne nights

Melbourne is home, and the archive shows it: three nights at the Forum Theatre in June 2008, the Palace Theatre in May 2011, 170 Russell in May 2014, the Croxton Park Hotel in July 2017, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March 2020, the Northcote Theatre in December 2022, the Forum again in September 2025 and the Royal Botanic Gardens in March 2026.

The Foreverafter opening night at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday 17 January 2027 will be their first show there in the archive since 14 March 2020.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: Sydney and the Enmore

In Sydney the band have moved between the Metro Theatre (2007, 2014, 2017), the Enmore Theatre (June 2008, May 2011 and March 2026), the Hordern Pavilion (December 2008), the Concert Hall (May 2011), The Domain and Victoria Park.

Carriageworks, the Foreverafter venue on Saturday 23 January 2027, does not appear in Cut Copy's Sydney history in the archive, which makes it a first for the band as far as the record shows.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and Wellington

Cut Copy's New Zealand shows in the archive are the San Francisco Bath House in Wellington on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Studio The Venue in Auckland the next night, and Studio The Venue again on 24 January 2018.

The 2011 Wellington set followed the Zonoscope tour order, opening with 'Visions' and 'Nobody Lost, Nobody Found' and closing with 'Need You Now' and 'Out There on the Ice'. Foreverafter does not include New Zealand, and nothing else is announced there.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Cut Copy play as a four-piece with Whitford on vocals and keyboards. Their 2026 headline sets ran to 16 songs. At the Enmore Theatre on 5 March 2026 the logged set opened with 'A Decade Long Sunset', 'Standing in the Middle of the Field', 'Far Away' and 'Solid', included 'Still See Love', 'That Was Just a Dream', 'Belong to You', 'Strangers in the Wind', 'Saturdays' and 'Time Stands Still' with 'Future', and closed with 'Gravity', 'Out There on the Ice', 'Meet Me in a House of Love', 'Hearts on Fire', 'Need You Now' and 'Lights and Music'.

The 2025 shows at the Forum Theatre and Roma Street Parklands ran to 18 songs, opening with 'Visions' and 'Nobody Lost, Nobody Found' and adding 'Zap Zap' and 'When This Is Over'. The festival set at Golden Plains on 7 March 2026 was shorter, at 11 songs.

'Lights and Music' has closed almost every logged show since 2017, usually after 'Hearts on Fire' and 'Need You Now'. A Foreverafter set is likely to be closer to the festival length than the full headline show, but the band have not said.

Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

Foreverafter tickets have been on sale since July 2026. According to the announcement, a member presale run by the promoter opened at 1pm AEST on Monday 6 July 2026 and the general sale followed at 2pm AEST on Tuesday 7 July 2026.

Buy only from the official seller named in the announcement or the venue's own outlets. Australian mobile tickets are often locked to the buyer's name, so check the transfer rules. Avoid anyone offering a 'presale code': the presale is over.

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Cut Copy Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are Cut Copy playing Australia in 2027?

Yes, as co-headliners of Foreverafter: Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, on Sunday 17 January 2027; Carriageworks, Sydney, on Saturday 23 January; and the Riverstage, Brisbane, on Saturday 30 January.

Who else plays Foreverafter?

The Presets and Ladyhawke share the headline billing, with DJ sets from Bag Raiders and Bang Gang DJs, and the producer FUKHED.

Is this a Cut Copy headline tour?

No. Foreverafter is an event conceived and curated by The Presets, with Cut Copy as one of three co-headliners. No separate Cut Copy tour is announced for 2027.

Are Cut Copy playing New Zealand in 2027?

No New Zealand date has been announced. Their last New Zealand show in the archive was at Studio The Venue in Auckland on 24 January 2018.

When did Cut Copy last play live in Australia?

The latest show in the archive is Live at the Gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on Friday 13 March 2026.

What is Cut Copy's latest album?

Moments, announced in June 2025. It reached No. 1 on the Australian dance chart.

What songs do Cut Copy play live?

Recent sets include 'Lights and Music', 'Hearts on Fire', 'Need You Now', 'Out There on the Ice', 'Saturdays', 'Far Away' and 'Belong to You'.

When did Foreverafter tickets go on sale?

The member presale opened on Monday 6 July 2026 and the general sale on Tuesday 7 July 2026, according to the announcement.