Del Amitri return to Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2027 with the Past to Present – Four Decades tour. The Glasgow band open at the Astor Theatre in Perth on Tuesday 23 February 2027, travel east through Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney, and finish in New Zealand at The Powerstation in Auckland on Sunday 7 March.
It is their second visit in four years. In February 2023 Justin Currie, Iain Harvie and the band played two nights at the Astor, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Auckland Town Hall and the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch. Before that, the only documented tour of the region was a long run of clubs and halls in 1990, the year after Waking Hours reached the Australian top ten.
Hobart and Wellington are new on the 2027 route. Tickets have been on sale since Thursday 23 July 2026. This page lists the confirmed dates and venues, the band's concerts in the region since 1990, what the 2023 shows looked like and how to buy safely.
Past to Present – Four Decades runs west to east. The Astor Theatre in Mount Lawley, Perth, hosts the opening night on Tuesday 23 February 2027. Adelaide follows at The Gov in Hindmarsh on Thursday 25 February and Melbourne at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Friday 26 February.
On Sunday 28 February the band play the Odeon Theatre in Hobart, their first documented concert in Tasmania. After a few days' break the tour resumes at The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 3 March and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 4 March.
The last two dates are in New Zealand: Meow Nui in Wellington on Saturday 6 March and The Powerstation in Auckland on Sunday 7 March. Wellington is new to the band's documented history; Auckland hosted them at the Town Hall in 2023.
Each city gets one night. Unlike 2023, Perth has a single date, and Christchurch is not on the route. No support act had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
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.
The Gov is the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, a pub in the inner suburb of Hindmarsh, about 3.5 km north-west of Adelaide's city centre, that dates from 1848. Known as the city's home of live music, it won national and state awards for best live music venue in 2017 and is in the SA Music Hall of Fame.
The Palais Theatre on the St Kilda foreshore opened on 12 November 1927 as a picture palace designed by Henry Eli White. With close to 3,000 seats it is the largest seated theatre in Australia; it is on the Victorian Heritage Register and reopened in 2017 after a state-funded restoration.
The Odeon Theatre at 167 Liverpool Street in Hobart opened on 21 May 1916 as the Strand Theatre, when the mayor called it the finest building in Tasmania. It holds about 1,690 people and, after years as an ABC studio and home of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, reopened as a live venue in 2011.
The Fortitude Music Hall opened in July 2019 on the Brunswick Street Mall in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. It holds about 3,000 people standing and was built to fill the gap for a mid-sized concert hall in the city.
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.
Meow Nui is a live music venue in central Wellington, New Zealand's capital. It hosts touring and local acts, mostly in a standing-room format.
The Powerstation is a live music venue at 33 Mount Eden Road in Eden Terrace, Auckland, holding about 1,000 people. In 1986 the building housed The Asylum, described as the first house music club in Australasia.
Tuesday 23 February 2027 — Astor Theatre, Perth. Their previous show at this venue was on 16 February 2023. This is the opening night of the run.
Thursday 25 February 2027 — The Gov, Adelaide. In Adelaide, the last documented Del Amitri concert was at Thebarton Theatre (18 February 2023).
Friday 26 February 2027 — Palais Theatre, Melbourne. Del Amitri last played Palais Theatre on 23 February 2023.
Sunday 28 February 2027 — Odeon Theatre, Hobart.
Wednesday 3 March 2027 — The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane. Del Amitri last played Fortitude Music Hall on 21 February 2023.
Thursday 4 March 2027 — Enmore Theatre, Sydney. Their previous show at this venue was on 28 February 2023.
Saturday 6 March 2027 — Meow Nui, Wellington.
Sunday 7 March 2027 — The Powerstation, Auckland. In Auckland, the last documented Del Amitri concert was at Auckland Town Hall (25 February 2023). The run finishes here.
Del Amitri's first documented Australian tour came in September 1990, a year after Waking Hours, which reached No. 8 on the Australian albums chart. It opened at Perth Concert Hall on 10 September and moved through two nights at the Old Lion Hotel in Adelaide and the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on 15 September, before a long run of club dates on the east coast.
In New South Wales the band played Raiders Nightclub in Queanbeyan, the Palais Royale in Newcastle, Temptations Nightclub in Sydney, the Shellharbour Workers Club, Selina's at the Coogee Bay Hotel, the St George and Parramatta leagues clubs and The Venue in Sydney on 6 October. Melbourne added the 21st Century Dance Club, two nights at The Palace Complex and the Manhattan Hotel, while Queensland saw them at Transformers in Brisbane and Seagulls at Tweed Heads. The archive also lists Newcastle City Hall on 11 November 1990.
The only 1990 setlist on record is from Selina's on 22 September: ten songs, with "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", "Stone Cold Sober", "Hatful of Rain", "Move Away Jimmy Blue" and "Nothing Ever Happens", which they played twice, plus a cover of the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away".
There is then no documented visit for more than three decades. The band went on hiatus after 2002 and did not tour again until their 2014 reunion. In February 2023 they returned for a tour that began with two nights at the Astor Theatre in Perth on 15 and 16 February, followed by the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on 18 February, The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on 21 February and the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on 23 February.
From Melbourne they flew to New Zealand for Auckland Town Hall on Saturday 25 February and the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch on 26 February 2023, then came back to close the tour at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Tuesday 28 February. Four of the 2023 venues, the Astor, the Palais, the Fortitude Music Hall and the Enmore, are on the 2027 route again.
The table below lists 27 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Del Amitri between 1990 and 2023, with the most shows in Sydney (6), Melbourne (6), Adelaide (3), Perth (3), Brisbane (2), Newcastle (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2023 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | |
| 26 February 2023 | Christchurch | James Hay Theatre | |
| 25 February 2023 | Auckland | Auckland Town Hall | |
| 23 February 2023 | Melbourne | Palais Theatre | |
| 21 February 2023 | Brisbane | Fortitude Music Hall | |
| 18 February 2023 | Adelaide | Thebarton Theatre | |
| 16 February 2023 | Perth | Astor Theatre | |
| 15 February 2023 | Perth | Astor Theatre | |
| 11 November 1990 | Newcastle | Newcastle City Hall | |
| 6 October 1990 | Sydney | The Venue | |
| 5 October 1990 | Tweed Heads | Seagulls | |
| 4 October 1990 | Brisbane | Transformers | |
| 2 October 1990 | Sydney | Parramatta Leagues Club | |
| 30 September 1990 | Sydney | St. George Leagues Club | |
| 29 September 1990 | Melbourne | Manhattan Hotel | |
| 28 September 1990 | Melbourne | The Palace Complex | |
| 27 September 1990 | Melbourne | The Palace Complex | |
| 26 September 1990 | Melbourne | 21st Century Dance Club | |
| 22 September 1990 | Sydney | Selina's Coogee Bay Hotel | |
| 21 September 1990 | Shellharbour | Shellharbour Workers Club | |
| 20 September 1990 | Sydney | Temptations Nightclub | |
| 18 September 1990 | Newcastle | Palais Royale | |
| 16 September 1990 | Queanbeyan | Raiders Nightclub | |
| 15 September 1990 | Melbourne | Palais Theatre | |
| 14 September 1990 | Adelaide | Old Lion Hotel | |
| 13 September 1990 | Adelaide | Old Lion Hotel | |
| 10 September 1990 | Perth | Perth Concert Hall |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 8 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (22 September 1990 to 28 February 2023), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Del Amitri formed in Glasgow in 1980 around singer, bassist and songwriter Justin Currie. Guitarist Iain Harvie joined in 1982, and the band signed to Chrysalis, which released their self-titled debut in 1985. Currie has said the name was invented to be meaningless, a garbled version of a film producer's name seen in a film's closing credits.
Waking Hours (1989), with keyboard player Andy Alston now in the line-up, reached No. 6 in the UK and No. 8 in Australia, and gave them their most successful UK single, "Nothing Ever Happens". Change Everything (1992) went to No. 2 in the UK with "Always the Last to Know", and Twisted (1995) produced "Roll to Me", a top ten hit in the United States and Canada.
Some Other Sucker's Parade followed in 1997, along with the Scotland World Cup song "Don't Come Home Too Soon" in 1998 and the compilation Hatful of Rain. After Can You Do Me Good? (2002) the band went on hiatus. Del Amitri have released seven studio albums, five of which reached the UK top ten, and have sold more than six million albums worldwide.
Currie hinted at a reunion in 2013, and the band played to 8,000 people at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow in January 2014. They toured again in 2018 and recorded Fatal Mistakes just before the UK lockdown in March 2020; released in May 2021, it reached No. 5 in the UK. The live film Every Night Has a Dawn, recorded at the Barrowland Ballroom in 2022, followed, and in 2024 they supported Simple Minds in the UK and Europe.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Del Amitri | 1985 | — |
| Waking Hours | 1989 | AUS 8 |
| Change Everything | 1992 | AUS 24 |
| Twisted | 1995 | AUS 44 |
| Some Other Sucker's Parade | 1997 | — |
| Can You Do Me Good? | 2002 | — |
| Fatal Mistakes | 2021 | — |
The most notable addition to the 2027 route is Hobart. On Sunday 28 February 2027 Del Amitri play the Odeon Theatre on Liverpool Street, a 1916 picture palace that reopened as a live venue in 2011 and holds about 1,690 people.
Neither the 1990 tour nor the 2023 tour included Tasmania, so this is the band's first documented concert on the island. It falls between Melbourne on the Friday and Brisbane the following Wednesday, which gives Tasmanian fans their own date rather than a trip across Bass Strait.
The Odeon has an unusual history: after decades as a cinema it served as an ABC radio studio and the home of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra before its return to concerts.
Perth has been the first stop on all three documented Del Amitri tours of Australia. In 1990 they began at Perth Concert Hall on 10 September; in 2023 they played two nights at the Astor Theatre on 15 and 16 February; in 2027 they return to the Astor on Tuesday 23 February.
The Astor, on Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley, is a restored 1939 Art Deco theatre. The two 2023 nights there were not identical: the first included "It Might as Well Be You" and "Before the Evening Steals the Afternoon", the second "Surface of the Moon", "Tell Her This" and "Lonely".
This time Perth has a single date, so fans who want to attend should not count on a second night being added.
The Palais Theatre in St Kilda links all three eras. Del Amitri played it on 15 September 1990, again on 23 February 2023, and return on Friday 26 February 2027. In between, the theatre was restored and reopened in 2017.
Brisbane and Sydney repeat the 2023 venues. The Fortitude Music Hall in Fortitude Valley hosts them on Wednesday 3 March 2027, and the Enmore Theatre in Newtown, which closed the 2023 tour, follows on Thursday 4 March.
The 1990 tour had taken them to much smaller rooms in both cities, from Transformers in Brisbane to the leagues clubs of western and southern Sydney. In Adelaide, the 2027 date moves from the Thebarton Theatre of 2023 to The Gov in Hindmarsh on Thursday 25 February.
New Zealand closes the 2027 tour. Meow Nui in Wellington hosts the band on Saturday 6 March, their first documented concert in the capital, and The Powerstation on Mount Eden Road in Auckland follows on Sunday 7 March.
In 2023 the New Zealand dates were Auckland Town Hall and the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch. The 2027 venues are standing rooms, smaller and closer to the stage than the seated halls of 2023, and Christchurch is not on the route this time.
There is no record of Del Amitri in New Zealand before 2023, so the 2027 shows are only their second visit to the country.
The 2023 shows in Australia and New Zealand ran to 23 songs. They opened with "When You Were Young", "Musicians and Beer", "All Hail Blind Love" and "Always the Last to Know", and the middle of the set included "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", "Driving With the Brakes On", "Move Away Jimmy Blue", "Roll to Me" and "You Can't Go Back", a song first played on the 2018 reunion dates.
The closing section was the same every night: "Spit in the Rain", "Stone Cold Sober", "Empty", "Gone in a Second" and "Nothing Ever Happens", followed by "I'm So Scared of Dying" and "Be My Downfall" to end. A few songs rotated from one city to the next, which gave fans who went to two shows a slightly different evening.
The 2027 set has not been published. The tour's title, Past to Present – Four Decades, suggests a programme drawing on the whole catalogue, but the running order will only be known once the shows begin.
Tickets for all eight Australian and New Zealand dates went on general sale on Thursday 23 July 2026 and are available through the official ticketing agents for each venue and the venues' own box offices, subject to availability. No presale details for this tour were published in the data we track.
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When does Del Amitri's 2027 tour start?
At the Astor Theatre in Perth on Tuesday 23 February 2027.
Is there a Hobart show?
Yes, at the Odeon Theatre on Sunday 28 February 2027, the band's first documented concert in Tasmania.
When is the Sydney concert?
Thursday 4 March 2027 at the Enmore Theatre in Newtown.
Where do Del Amitri play in Melbourne?
At the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Friday 26 February 2027, the venue they also played in 1990 and 2023.
Which New Zealand cities are included?
Wellington (Meow Nui, 6 March) and Auckland (The Powerstation, 7 March 2027).
When were Del Amitri last in Australia?
In February 2023, a tour that ended at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 28 February 2023.
Is Christchurch on the 2027 tour?
No. They played the James Hay Theatre there on 26 February 2023, but the 2027 New Zealand dates are Wellington and Auckland.
When did tickets go on sale?
On Thursday 23 July 2026.
Who is the support act?
No support act had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
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