Dayseeker return to Australia in February 2027 with the Creature in the Black Night Australian Tour, their biggest run here so far. The Californian post-hardcore band open at Metro City in Perth on Sunday 7 February 2027, play the Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide on Tuesday 9 February and then Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Thursday 11 February.
Sydney follows at the Hordern Pavilion on Friday 12 February, and the tour ends at The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Sunday 14 February 2027. Jutes, Silent Planet and sace6 are the special guests. Tickets have been on sale since Thursday 16 July 2026.
This page lists the confirmed dates and venues, a night-by-night view of the tour and every documented Dayseeker show in Australia and New Zealand since their first visit in July 2022, along with their records, recent set lists and practical advice on tickets.
The tour takes its name from Creature in the Black Night, Dayseeker's sixth studio album, released on 24 October 2025. It reached number 43 on the ARIA albums chart, the band's first Australian chart entry, and number 79 on the US Billboard 200. The band had already previewed several of its songs in Australia in December 2025.
Western Australia opens the run. Metro City, the multi-storey concert club in Northbridge, hosts the first show on Sunday 7 February 2027, announced as an 18+ event. The band move to the Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide's city centre on Tuesday 9 February, two days later.
Melbourne and Sydney are the headline nights. Margaret Court Arena on Thursday 11 February and the Hordern Pavilion on Friday 12 February are the largest rooms Dayseeker have headlined in Australia; they played both in July 2023, but as the opening act for Pierce the Veil and Beartooth. The tour ends on Sunday 14 February 2027, Valentine's Day, at The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane.
Three American acts open: Jutes, a genre-blending singer making his first Australian appearance, the metalcore band Silent Planet, who first shared stages with Dayseeker in the United States in 2015, and the duo sace6. As of 9 October 2026 there is no New Zealand date, although the band played Auckland and Wellington in July 2024.
Metro City is a multi-storey concert club in Northbridge, Perth's main nightlife district, about a kilometre north of the city centre. It is one of the area's best-known venues for touring bands and club nights.
The Hindley Street Music Hall is an 1,800-capacity concert venue on Hindley Street in Adelaide's city centre. It was developed with the team behind Brisbane's Fortitude Music Hall to fill the gap between the smaller Gov and the larger Thebarton Theatre.
The second arena of Melbourne Park, opened in 1988 and redeveloped between 2012 and 2015 with a retractable roof. It seats about 7,500 and hosts Australian Open tennis as well as concerts.
The Hordern Pavilion is a concert and events hall at Moore Park in Sydney, built in 1924 for the Royal Agricultural Society as exhibition space for the Royal Easter Show. Named after the Hordern retail family, it holds about 5,500 people.
A large live-music hall in Fortitude Valley, the inner-city district that grew into Brisbane's main live music and nightclub area from the 1990s. It is one of the city's biggest standing venues for touring acts.
Sunday 7 February 2027 — Metro City, Perth. In Perth, the last documented Dayseeker concert was at Magnet House (7 July 2024). This is the opening night of the run.
Tuesday 9 February 2027 — Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide. In Adelaide, the last documented Dayseeker concert was at Lion Arts Factory (9 July 2024).
Thursday 11 February 2027 — Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. Their previous show at this venue was on 26 July 2023.
Friday 12 February 2027 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney. Dayseeker last played Hordern Pavilion on 27 July 2023.
Sunday 14 February 2027 — The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane. In Brisbane, the last documented Dayseeker concert was at Crowbar (9 December 2025). The run finishes here.
Dayseeker's Australian story is recent. The setlist.fm archive has no show here before July 2022, nearly a decade after the band formed in Orange County. That first run, filed as the Heroine Australia Tour, went up the east coast and across to Adelaide: The Factory Theatre in Sydney on 7 July, The Newcastle Hotel on 8 July, the Eleven Dive Bar in Maroochydore on 9 July and The Triffid in Brisbane on 10 July.
The 2022 tour then moved south. Dayseeker played a longer 11-song set at Stay Gold in Melbourne on 13 July, with rarities such as "The Color Black", "Starving to Be Empty", "Crash and Burn", "Vultures" and "Already Numb", followed by 170 Russell on 15 July and the Lion Arts Factory in Adelaide on 16 July. Most of these sets were seven songs long, ending with "Neon Grave", "Drunk" and "Sleeptalk".
A year later, in July 2023, they were special guests on the Pierce the Veil and Beartooth co-headline tour. That put them in front of far bigger crowds: Metropolis Fremantle on 22 July, the AEC Theatre in Adelaide on 24 July, Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on 26 July, the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 27 July and the Riverstage in Brisbane on 29 July. In Brisbane they also squeezed in a 12-song headline show at The Brightside on 28 July, closing with "Afterglow (Hazel's Song)".
Their first full headline tour of the region, the Dark Sun Worldwide Australian tour, came in July 2024. It opened at Magnet House in Perth on 7 July, then played the Lion Arts Factory in Adelaide on 9 July, The Tivoli in Brisbane on 11 July, Liberty Hall in Sydney on 12 July and the Forum in Melbourne on 13 July. The band then crossed the Tasman for Neck of the Woods in Auckland on 16 July and San Fran in Wellington on 17 July, their only New Zealand shows to date.
Dayseeker were back in December 2025, six weeks after Creature in the Black Night came out. They played the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on 3 December, a five-song set at the Laundry Bar on 4 December, three Good Things Festival sets in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from 5 to 7 December, and a final club show at the Crowbar in Brisbane on 9 December. Both club shows sold out quickly.
In all, the archive lists 24 Australian shows and two in New Zealand, across four visits in four consecutive years. Melbourne has seen them seven times and Brisbane six, while Perth has had two shows (Metropolis Fremantle in 2023 and Magnet House in 2024) and gets a third in February 2027.
The table below lists 26 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Dayseeker between 2022 and 2025, with the most shows in Melbourne (7), Brisbane (6), Sydney (4), Adelaide (3), Wellington (1), Auckland (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 December 2025 | Brisbane | Crowbar | |
| 7 December 2025 | Brisbane | Stage 4 | |
| 6 December 2025 | Sydney | Stage 4 | |
| 5 December 2025 | Melbourne | Stage 4 | |
| 4 December 2025 | Melbourne | Laundry Bar | |
| 3 December 2025 | Melbourne | Corner Hotel | |
| 17 July 2024 | Wellington | San Fran | |
| 16 July 2024 | Auckland | Neck of the Woods | |
| 13 July 2024 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | Dark Sun Worldwide Australian Tour |
| 12 July 2024 | Sydney | Liberty Hall | |
| 11 July 2024 | Brisbane | The Tivoli | |
| 9 July 2024 | Adelaide | Lion Arts Factory | |
| 7 July 2024 | Perth | Magnet House | |
| 29 July 2023 | Brisbane | Riverstage | |
| 28 July 2023 | Brisbane | The Brightside | |
| 27 July 2023 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | |
| 26 July 2023 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | |
| 24 July 2023 | Adelaide | AEC Theatre | |
| 22 July 2023 | Fremantle | Metropolis Fremantle | |
| 16 July 2022 | Adelaide | Lion Arts Factory | Heroine Australia Tour |
| 15 July 2022 | Melbourne | 170 Russell | Heroine Australia Tour |
| 13 July 2022 | Melbourne | Stay Gold | |
| 10 July 2022 | Brisbane | The Triffid | Heroine Australia Tour |
| 9 July 2022 | Maroochydore | Eleven Dive Bar | Heroine Australia Tour |
| 8 July 2022 | Newcastle | The Newcastle Hotel | Heroine Australia Tour |
| 7 July 2022 | Sydney | The Factory Theatre | Heroine Australia Tour |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (27 July 2023 to 9 December 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Dayseeker's Australian festival experience is limited to December 2025, when they played three daytime sets of eight or nine songs in Melbourne on 5 December, Sydney on 6 December and Brisbane on 7 December, on the Good Things Festival weekend. The Corner Hotel and Crowbar club dates around those sets were Good Things sideshows.
The 2027 tour is made up of headline shows only, and no festival appearance in Australia or New Zealand had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
Dayseeker formed in 2012 in Orange, near Anaheim in California, around singer Rory Rodriguez. Several early members came from the bands Arms Like Yours and Southern Lights. The debut album What It Means to Be Defeated came out on InVogue Records on 29 October 2013 and was reissued in 2014 with acoustic tracks; Origin followed on 21 April 2015.
After a move to Spinefarm Records in December 2016, the band released Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising on 14 July 2017 and then Sleeptalk on 27 September 2019. The title track "Sleeptalk" became their best-known song and has been certified gold in the United States; it still closes most Dayseeker shows.
Dark Sun, released on 4 November 2022, was shaped by grief: Rodriguez wrote much of it after the death of his father, shortly after the unexpected birth of his daughter. In April 2024 the band released Replica, acoustic versions of songs from Sleeptalk and Dark Sun plus a cover of Evanescence's "My Immortal"; its first single, a new "Burial Plot", featured Caleb Shomo of Beartooth.
Creature in the Black Night, produced with Dan Braunstein, was released on 24 October 2025 and became the band's first album to chart in Australia, at number 43. The current core of the band is Rodriguez, bassist Ramone Valerio and drummer Zac Mayfield. Their sound has moved from post-hardcore and metalcore towards a darker, synth-heavy style that also draws on emo, alternative rock and synthwave.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| What It Means to Be Defeated | 2013 | — |
| Origin | 2015 | — |
| Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising | 2017 | — |
| Sleeptalk | 2019 | — |
| Dark Sun | 2022 | — |
| Creature in the Black Night | 2025 | AUS 43 |
In July 2023 Dayseeker opened for Pierce the Veil and Beartooth at Margaret Court Arena on 26 July and the Hordern Pavilion on 27 July, with sets of eight or nine songs. In February 2027 they return to the same two venues as headliners, on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 February.
Between those two tours they built their own audience here. The 2024 headline shows at The Tivoli, Liberty Hall and the Forum were the band's biggest Australian rooms of their own until now, and the December 2025 club shows at the Corner Hotel and the Crowbar sold out quickly. The jump to Margaret Court Arena, which seats about 7,500, is the largest step yet.
Melbourne has seen more Dayseeker concerts than anywhere else in Australia: Stay Gold and 170 Russell in 2022, Margaret Court Arena in 2023, the Forum in 2024, and the Corner Hotel, the Laundry Bar and a festival set in December 2025.
That history explains the choice of Margaret Court Arena for Thursday 11 February 2027, the largest venue of the tour. It is the band's eighth Melbourne show in the archive and their second at Melbourne Park.
Perth opens the tour on Sunday 7 February 2027 at Metro City in Northbridge. Dayseeker's previous Western Australian shows were at Metropolis Fremantle in 2023 and Magnet House in 2024.
Adelaide has had a Dayseeker show on every tour except the December 2025 festival trip: the Lion Arts Factory in 2022 and 2024 and the AEC Theatre in 2023. In 2027 they move to the Hindley Street Music Hall on Tuesday 9 February. Newcastle and Maroochydore, both visited in July 2022, are not on the 2027 route.
New Zealand has had two Dayseeker concerts, both in July 2024: Neck of the Woods in Auckland on 16 July and San Fran in Wellington on 17 July, each with the full 13-song Dark Sun set that opened with "Gates of Ivory" and closed with "Neon Grave".
There is no New Zealand date on the 2027 tour as of 9 October 2026. If shows across the Tasman are added, they will appear on this page.
The headline sets have grown with each tour. In July 2024 Dayseeker played 13 songs a night, from "Gates of Ivory" and "Dreamstate" through "Crooked Soul", "Burial Plot", "Homesick", "Dark Sun", "Without Me" and "Crying While You're Dancing" to "Paper Heart", "Drunk", "Sleeptalk", "Parallel" and "Neon Grave".
By December 2025 the set had turned towards the new album. At the Corner Hotel and the Crowbar the band played 15 songs, opening with "Pale Moonlight" and "Shapeshift", adding "Crawl Back to My Coffin", "Midnight Eternal", "Bloodlust", "The Living Dead" and the title track "Creature in the Black Night", and still ending on "Sleeptalk" and "Neon Grave". The festival sets were trimmed to eight or nine songs.
The 2027 running order has not been published, but the tour carries the new album's name and the recent shows give a good idea of its shape. "Burial Plot", "Sleeptalk" and "Neon Grave" appear in almost every documented Australian set since 2022.
Tickets for all five shows have been on sale since Thursday 16 July 2026 through the official outlets and the venues' own box offices. Margaret Court Arena has seated and floor areas, while the other venues are mainly standing rooms; Perth was announced as 18+, so check the age rule for your city before you buy.
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When does Dayseeker's 2027 Australian tour start?
At Metro City in Perth on Sunday 7 February 2027.
What are all the dates?
Perth 7 February, Adelaide (Hindley Street Music Hall) 9 February, Melbourne (Margaret Court Arena) 11 February, Sydney (Hordern Pavilion) 12 February and Brisbane (The Fortitude Music Hall) 14 February 2027.
Who are the support acts?
Jutes, Silent Planet and sace6.
Is Dayseeker playing New Zealand in 2027?
No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. Their only New Zealand shows so far were in Auckland and Wellington in July 2024.
When were Dayseeker last in Australia?
In December 2025, with festival sets in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and club shows at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne and the Crowbar in Brisbane, the last on 9 December 2025.
Have they played Margaret Court Arena before?
Yes, once, as special guests of Pierce the Veil and Beartooth on 26 July 2023. February 2027 is their first time there as headliners.
When did tickets go on sale?
Tickets have been on sale since Thursday 16 July 2026.
Is the Perth show all ages?
No, the Perth show at Metro City was announced as 18+.
What is their latest album?
Creature in the Black Night, released on 24 October 2025, which reached number 43 in Australia.
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