Drax Project Australia Tour 2027

Drax Project have one confirmed show for 2027, and it is a big one for their home city: Drax Project and Friends at Te Whare Whakarauika Wellington Town Hall on Saturday 20 February 2027. The concert marks the grand reopening of the Town Hall, closed since the 2013 Seddon earthquake and rebuilt over more than a decade. Tickets have been on sale since Friday 19 June 2026.

The band formed in Wellington in 2014, busking pop covers on Courtenay Place while studying jazz at the New Zealand School of Music, and became one of New Zealand's most successful pop acts with Woke Up Late, Catching Feelings with Six60 and All This Time. Their self-titled debut album reached No. 2 in New Zealand in 2019.

As of 9 October 2026 there is no Australian date for 2027. This page covers the Wellington show, how tickets were sold, and the band's concerts in New Zealand and Australia, from a Wellington bar in 2014 to stadium support slots, summer festival circuits and their own club and theatre tours across the Tasman.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: confirmed dates

Drax Project and Friends is a single headline show rather than a tour. It takes place on Saturday 20 February 2027 in the main auditorium of the Wellington Town Hall, the 1904 Neo-Renaissance building on which the city has spent years of earthquake strengthening. The hall is internationally known for its acoustics; engineers from Abbey Road Studios who recorded the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra there in 2012 called it one of the best acoustic spaces they had worked in.

The billing suggests guests on stage with the band. No guest artist had been named as of 9 October 2026, and this page will not guess. The band has a long history of collaborations, from Six60 on Catching Feelings to Hailee Steinfeld on the 2019 version of Woke Up Late and Fetty Wap and AACACIA on Firefly.

For the four members, Wellington is where everything began. Shaan Singh and Matt Beachen met in a youth jazz programme in the city and busked together in their first year at university; Sam Thomson and Ben O'Leary joined from Wellington music schools. The setlist archive's earliest show is at San Fran on Cuba Street on Saturday 26 July 2014, and they have since played the Hunter Lounge at Union Hall, the Wellington Waterfront, Sky Stadium and the Hutt Recreation Ground.

No other 2027 date in New Zealand or Australia has been announced. The band toured Australia in September 2025 and played New Zealand summer shows into April 2026, so further dates are possible, but none is confirmed.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: venue guide

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027 at Te Whare Whakarauika Wellington Town Hall, Wellington

Wellington's Neo-Renaissance town hall, designed by Joshua Charlesworth and opened in December 1904, whose main auditorium is internationally praised for its acoustics. It closed after the 2013 Seddon earthquake for strengthening work whose cost rose to $329 million because of the reclaimed land beneath it, with reopening planned for 2027.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: night by night

Saturday 20 February 2027 — Te Whare Whakarauika Wellington Town Hall, Wellington. Their most recent documented Wellington show was at Wellington Waterfront on 15 March 2025. It is the one Australia/NZ show on the calendar for now.

Before the Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

After their first EP in August 2014, Drax Project were booked onto New Zealand's summer festival circuit for 2014-15. The archive shows the Hunter Lounge at Union Hall and the Wellington Waterfront in early 2017 and Hagley Park in Christchurch in December 2017. In November 2017 they opened for Lorde's Auckland concert on the Melodrama World Tour, and in March 2018 they opened all three of Ed Sheeran's shows at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, from Saturday 24 March, then the largest concert series held in New Zealand. Two headline nights at the Powerstation in Auckland followed on 11 and 12 May 2018.

2019 was the year of their debut album. They played Waihi Beach Hotel in January, Lake Tikitapu near Rotorua in February, Western Springs Stadium in Auckland and Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin as openers on larger bills, and headlined Auckland Town Hall on Saturday 27 July 2019 with a 20-song set and the Christchurch Town Hall on 2 August. That summer they worked the New Year circuit: Cooks Reserve in Riwaka, the Coroglen Tavern in the Coromandel, Waiohika Estate in Gisborne on New Year's Eve, Butlers Reef in New Plymouth, Soper Reserve in Mount Maunganui, the Black Barn Amphitheatre in Hastings and the Hutt Recreation Ground in Lower Hutt.

With New Zealand open to live music while much of the world was closed, 2021 was their busiest home year. They played the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in January, Hagley Park and Sky Stadium in Wellington in February, Coronet Peak in Queenstown in March and Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday 24 April 2021, then a headline tour in June and July: the Powerstation and Auckland Town Hall on 18 and 19 June, the Dunedin Town Hall, the Christchurch Town Hall and Claudelands Arena in Hamilton on 24 July 2021.

Their Australian headline history is more recent. The archive shows Eatons Hill in Brisbane in November 2022, Kings Park in Perth in February 2023, the Sandstone Point Hotel near Moreton Bay in May 2023, then Howler in Melbourne, Oxford Art Factory in Sydney and the Triffid in Brisbane. The Upside Australian Tour of March and April 2024 played the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on Thursday 21 March, Lion Arts Factory in Adelaide, the Indian Ocean Hotel in Perth, the Factory Theatre in Sydney, Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast on 5 April and the Zoo in Brisbane.

Their biggest Australian headline run came in September 2025: Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast on Wednesday 17 September, the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, the Palais Theatre in Melbourne and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Sunday 21 September 2025. In New Zealand the Upside shows of 2024 took in the Factory in Hamilton, the James Hay Theatre in Christchurch and the Powerstation on 6 July 2024, and their most recent concerts were summer shows at Butlers Reef, the Black Barn Amphitheatre, Hagley Park on 27 February 2026 and Cambridge Raceway on Thursday 9 April 2026.

The table below lists 85 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Drax Project between 2014 and 2026, with the most shows in Auckland (15), Christchurch (8), Wellington (7), Sydney (6), Hastings (5), Hamilton (5). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Drax Project 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 (12 May 2018 to 9 April 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. All This Time — played at 14 of 15 shows
2. Toto — played at 14 of 15 shows
3. Catching Feelings — played at 12 of 15 shows
4. Firefly — played at 12 of 15 shows
5. Woke Up Late — played at 11 of 15 shows
6. Pony — played at 10 of 15 shows
7. Prefer — played at 9 of 15 shows
8. Oh My — played at 8 of 15 shows
9. Over It — played at 8 of 15 shows
10. Fashion Sense — played at 7 of 15 shows
11. Luxury — played at 7 of 15 shows
12. Atmosphere — played at 6 of 15 shows
13. Hollywood — played at 5 of 15 shows
14. Savage — played at 5 of 15 shows

Before the Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Upside Australian Tour (2024): 1 Australia/NZ show — Gold Coast.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Drax Project came up through New Zealand's summer festival and New Year circuit, which their first EP opened to them in 2014-15. The archive includes Waiohika Estate in Gisborne on New Year's Eve 2019, the home of Rhythm and Vines, Mystery Creek Events Centre near Hamilton in February 2020, Tapapakanga Regional Park in February 2023, Parrs Park in Auckland in March 2023 and repeated holiday-season shows at Waihi Beach Hotel, close to where Ben O'Leary grew up, and Butlers Reef in New Plymouth, Sam Thomson's home town.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Drax Project began as a busking duo of saxophonist Shaan Singh, from Kapiti, and drummer Matt Beachen, from Upper Hutt; the name is a blend of 'drums' and 'sax'. Double bassist Sam Thomson, from New Plymouth, joined soon after, and guitarist Ben O'Leary, from Waihi Beach, a year later, when they switched from covers to original songs. The band formed in Te Aro, Wellington, in 2014.

Their first EP came out on Bandcamp in August 2014. The second, T/W/OO (2016), produced by Shapeshifter founder Devin Abrams and released through Universal, reached No. 18 in New Zealand, and its single Cold topped Spotify's viral chart. Woke Up Late, released in November 2017, became their breakthrough; the 2019 version with Hailee Steinfeld reached No. 18 in Australia and has been certified six times platinum there and seven times platinum in New Zealand.

The Noon EP (2018) reached No. 10 in New Zealand. In 2018 and 2019 they opened for Ed Sheeran in Auckland, Camila Cabello in Europe and Christina Aguilera on her European tour. Catching Feelings with Six60 reached No. 3 in New Zealand and was certified nine times platinum there, and the self-titled debut album, released on 27 September 2019, reached No. 2 and went double platinum.

Firefly, with Fetty Wap and AACACIA, followed in October 2020, the Diamond EP in July 2022 and a second album, Upside, on 24 November 2023, which reached No. 33 in New Zealand. Their live shows lean on Singh's saxophone and medleys of R&B and hip-hop classics, and they have become regular visitors to Australian clubs and theatres since 2022.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: reopening Wellington Town Hall

Te Whare Whakarauika Wellington Town Hall opened in December 1904 and closed to the public after the Seddon earthquake of 2013. Strengthening work proved far harder than expected because of the reclaimed, waterlogged land under the building, and the estimated cost rose from $43 million to $329 million by 2023. The Michael Fowler Centre, built in front of it in 1980 when demolition was still being considered, has hosted the city's big concerts in the meantime.

Drax Project and Friends on Saturday 20 February 2027 is billed as the grand reopening. For a band that started on the pavements of Courtenay Place, a few minutes' walk away, it is a homecoming show in the most symbolic room in the city.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: Wellington, start to finish

Almost every stage of the band's story has a Wellington venue attached: San Fran on Cuba Street in 2014, the Hunter Lounge at Union Hall in 2017 and again in November 2024, the Wellington Waterfront in 2017, 2023 and 2025, Sky Stadium in February 2021 and the Hutt Recreation Ground in January 2020. At the Waterfront on 18 March 2023 they played an 11-song set that included a medley ending with Toxic.

The Town Hall show is their first headline date in the city's grand concert halls, after years of outdoor shows and bars.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: Australia so far

Australia has become a second market since Woke Up Late went six times platinum there. Their Australian shows have grown from Howler, the Corner Hotel and the Factory Theatre to the Palais Theatre in Melbourne and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney in September 2025, and they have played Perth three times, at Kings Park, the Indian Ocean Hotel and Jack Rabbit Slim's.

No Australian date has been announced for 2027. Fans in Australia can sign up below for the alert; the September 2025 tour is the most recent guide to the cities and rooms they choose.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: the New Zealand summer

The band's year usually starts with a run of New Zealand summer shows: Waihi Beach Hotel and Mangawhai Tavern over New Year, then Butlers Reef in New Plymouth, the Black Barn Amphitheatre in Hastings (five times in the archive), Brewtown in Upper Hutt and Hagley Park in Christchurch. The 2025-26 summer ran from Waihi Beach on New Year's Eve to Cambridge Raceway on 9 April 2026.

Apart from Wellington, no summer 2027 shows had been announced as of 9 October 2026.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Drax Project's own shows are long and playful. On the Upside tour in 2024 they played about 20 songs: at Miami Marketta on 5 April 2024 they opened with Oh My and Over It, played Woke Up Late, Luxury, Toto, Firefly, Pony, Supernova and Sugar, included a 'blind beat challenge', and finished with a medley of Sock It to Me, Still D.R.E., Jenny from the Block and Crazy, then Catching Feelings and All This Time.

Their 2026 summer sets were around 13 to 19 songs. At Butlers Reef on 3 January 2026 they added How Does It Feel, 24/7, Summer Rain and Savage and closed with covers of Cry Me a River and Higher Ground; at Hagley Park and Cambridge, Woke Up Late was paired with I Moeroa.

The Town Hall set has not been published, and the 'and Friends' billing means it may differ from a standard headline show.

Drax Project Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

Tickets for Drax Project and Friends have been on sale since Friday 19 June 2026 through the official New Zealand ticketing outlet and the venue. There was no separate public pre-sale listed for the show.

This is a single night in a hall reopening after more than a decade, so buy only from the official outlets or their authorised resale service. There is no public Drax Project presale code to buy or share; offers on social media are not genuine.

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Drax Project Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

When and where is Drax Project's 2027 show?

At Te Whare Whakarauika Wellington Town Hall on Saturday 20 February 2027.

Why is this show special?

It marks the grand reopening of the Wellington Town Hall, closed since the 2013 Seddon earthquake.

When did tickets go on sale?

On Friday 19 June 2026.

Who are the 'friends'?

No guest artists had been announced as of 9 October 2026.

Are Drax Project touring Australia in 2027?

No Australian date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. Their last Australian tour was in September 2025, ending at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 21 September.

Are there other New Zealand dates?

Not yet. Their last New Zealand show in the archive was at Cambridge Raceway on 9 April 2026.

Where did Drax Project start?

In Wellington in 2014, busking on Courtenay Place while studying jazz at the New Zealand School of Music.

What is their latest album?

Upside, released on 24 November 2023.