Ellie Goulding has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival booking or one-off show on the calendar in either country. Her sixth studio album, I Know Too Much, was announced for release in September 2026, and a new album has often been followed by touring, but no dates in the region have been published.
Australia and New Zealand know her well. Between 2012 and 2016 she visited almost every year: a promotional trip for Halcyon in late 2012, the Future Music Festival in March 2013, the Halcyon Days Tour in May and June 2014, the AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in October 2015, and the Delirium World Tour in September and October 2016, which took her to arenas in Sydney and Melbourne for the first time as a headliner.
This page explains what is and is not known about a return, sets out her documented Australian and New Zealand concerts city by city, looks at what she played, and gives practical advice on buying tickets safely if a tour is confirmed.
There is no official information about Ellie Goulding concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No promoter has announced dates, no arena or theatre has listed a show, and no festival line-up released so far includes her. Any 'confirmed' list of 2027 dates for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch should be treated as unverified until it appears through official channels.
What is known is the recording side. Wikipedia lists I Know Too Much as her sixth studio album, led by the single 'Black Prada Dress' in June 2025 and including a collaboration with Muse. In 2026 she was also part of Halsey's Back to Badlands Tour. Neither fact tells us anything about a visit to the southern hemisphere.
Her pattern in the past was to reach Australia and New Zealand some months after an album cycle had begun: Halcyon came out in October 2012 and the headline tour followed in 2014; Delirium came out in late 2015 and the arena tour arrived in September 2016. There was no headline tour of the region for Brightest Blue (2020) or Higher Than Heaven (2023), according to the sources we use.
That means it has now been ten years since her last full Australian and New Zealand tour. A return would be welcome news for many fans, but it has not been announced, and we will not present speculation as fact.
Ellie Goulding's first documented appearances in the region came in late October 2012, when Halcyon was new. The setlist archive lists a show at Studio The Venue in Auckland on 26 October 2012 and one at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney on 1 November 2012, along with a television appearance on The X Factor in Australia, where she sang 'Anything Could Happen'.
She was back in March 2013 for the Future Music Festival, which toured the racecourses and parks of Australia: Doomben Racecourse in Brisbane on Saturday 2 March, Arena Joondalup in Perth on 3 March, Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on 9 March, Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on 10 March and Bonython Park in Adelaide on Monday 11 March. In between, she played a sideshow at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Friday 8 March 2013, a full set of 19 songs.
Her first headline tour, the Halcyon Days Tour, began at Challenge Stadium in Perth on Wednesday 28 May 2014, according to the tour's Wikipedia article, and continued at Festival Hall in Melbourne on 31 May, the AEC Theatre in Adelaide on 1 June, the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 3 June and the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 5 June. New Zealand followed: Vector Arena in Auckland on 7 June, the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington on 9 June and the CBS Canterbury Arena in Christchurch on 11 June 2014.
In 2015 she came for one weekend. On Saturday 3 October she performed in the pre-match entertainment of the AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the next day, Sunday 4 October, she played a one-off headline show at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, announced as a special concert following the Grand Final. The setlist archive also lists a television performance of 'On My Mind' on The X Factor two days later.
The Delirium World Tour brought her back as an arena headliner in 2016. The Oceania leg opened at Horncastle Arena in Christchurch in late September and continued at Vector Arena in Auckland on Saturday 1 October, the Riverstage in Brisbane on Wednesday 5 October, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Friday 7 October and Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Saturday 8 October 2016. Years & Years opened the Australian shows; the New Zealand support was Openside.
Two further dates were planned on that tour, at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 10 October and Perth Arena on 12 October 2016, but Wikipedia lists both as cancelled because of a scheduling conflict. As a result, Melbourne on 8 October 2016 is her most recent documented headline concert in Australia.
The table below lists 22 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Ellie Goulding between 2012 and 2016, with the most shows in Sydney (6), Melbourne (4), Brisbane (3), Auckland (2), Christchurch (2), Adelaide (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 October 2016 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Delirium World Tour |
| 7 October 2016 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | Delirium World Tour |
| 5 October 2016 | Brisbane | Riverstage | Delirium World Tour |
| 1 October 2016 | Auckland | Vector Arena | Delirium World Tour |
| 28 September 2016 | Christchurch | Horncastle Arena | Delirium World Tour |
| 4 October 2015 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | |
| 3 October 2015 | Melbourne | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |
| 11 June 2014 | Christchurch | CBS Canterbury Arena | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 9 June 2014 | Wellington | TSB Bank Arena | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 7 June 2014 | Auckland | Vector Arena | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 5 June 2014 | Brisbane | Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 3 June 2014 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 1 June 2014 | Adelaide | AEC Theatre | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 31 May 2014 | Melbourne | Festival Hall | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 28 May 2014 | Perth | Challenge Stadium | The Halcyon Days Tour |
| 11 March 2013 | Adelaide | Bonython Park | |
| 10 March 2013 | Melbourne | Flemington Racecourse | |
| 9 March 2013 | Sydney | Royal Randwick Racecourse | |
| 8 March 2013 | Sydney | Metro Theatre | |
| 3 March 2013 | Perth | Arena Joondalup | |
| 2 March 2013 | Brisbane | Doomben Racecourse | |
| 1 November 2012 | Sydney | Oxford Art Factory |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (9 March 2013 to 8 October 2016), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Ellie Goulding's main Australian festival run was the Future Music Festival of March 2013, which travelled between Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide over consecutive weekends. The Sydney festival set at Royal Randwick on 9 March 2013 included 'Figure 8', 'Anything Could Happen', 'I Need Your Love', 'Lights' and 'Starry Eyed'.
She was not a Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass or Falls Festival act according to the sources we use. Her other large outdoor appearance in Australia was not a festival at all but the AFL Grand Final at the MCG in October 2015.
Elena Jane Goulding was born on 30 December 1986 in Hereford, England. She won the BBC Sound of 2010 poll and the Brit Critics' Choice award, and her debut album Lights (2010), reissued as Bright Lights, included 'Starry Eyed', her cover of Elton John's 'Your Song' and the title track 'Lights', which reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. In April 2011 she performed at the wedding reception of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
Halcyon (2012), reissued as Halcyon Days in 2013, gave her her first UK number-one single, 'Burn', and also included 'Anything Could Happen'. Her collaborations with Calvin Harris, 'I Need Your Love' and 'Outside', became international hits and fixtures of her live shows in Australia.
'Love Me Like You Do', from the soundtrack of Fifty Shades of Grey, spent four weeks at number one in the UK, reached number three in the US and earned her a Grammy nomination. It led into Delirium (2015), which reached number three in Australia, her highest placing there, with 'On My Mind' and 'Something in the Way You Move'.
Brightest Blue (2020) and Higher Than Heaven (2023) both topped the UK albums chart, the latter making her one of the British women with the most number-one albums. Her 2023 collaboration with Calvin Harris, 'Miracle', spent eight weeks at number one in the UK. She has sold more than 44 million albums, won two Brit Awards and received a Time 100 Impact Award for her environmental work.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Lights | 2010 | — |
| Halcyon | 2012 | AUS 16 |
| Delirium | 2015 | AUS 3 |
| Brightest Blue | 2020 | AUS 25 |
| Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | — |
| I Know Too Much | 2026 | — |
Ellie Goulding's Australian concerts trace her rise neatly. In 2012 she was playing the Oxford Art Factory, one of Sydney's small inner-city rooms. In 2013 it was the Metro Theatre, in 2014 the Hordern Pavilion and Festival Hall, and in 2015 the Enmore Theatre. By 2016 she was headlining Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney and Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.
Each step followed a bigger record. The theatre shows came with Halcyon and its singles, the arena tour with Delirium and 'Love Me Like You Do'. If she returns, the scale of the venues will depend on the response to I Know Too Much.
On 3 October 2015 Ellie Goulding was one of the pre-match performers at the AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, alongside Bryan Adams and Chris Isaak. Her short set centred on 'Burn' and 'Love Me Like You Do', and the setlist archive also lists 'Outside', 'Anything Could Happen' and 'I Need Your Love'.
The performance began with a technical problem, when the audio for both songs started at once and was cut. It led to questions about whether she was miming; she said she sang live to a backing track and blamed a sound error. The next night she played a full 19-song headline show at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, ending with 'Burn', 'On My Mind' and 'Love Me Like You Do'.
New Zealand has had more Ellie Goulding headline shows than most countries of its size. The Halcyon Days Tour played Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in June 2014, and the Delirium World Tour returned to Christchurch and Auckland in 2016, each time at the cities' main arenas.
Vector Arena in Auckland, now Spark Arena, hosted her in both 2014 and 2016. Christchurch's arena appears under two names in the data, CBS Canterbury Arena in 2014 and Horncastle Arena in 2016, reflecting a change of sponsor rather than a different building. Wellington's TSB Bank Arena show on 9 June 2014 is her only documented concert in the capital.
Adelaide and Perth have the thinnest Ellie Goulding history of the major Australian cities. Both saw her at the Future Music Festival in 2013, and both were on the Halcyon Days Tour in 2014, at the AEC Theatre and Challenge Stadium. But the 2016 shows at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre and Perth Arena were cancelled because of a scheduling conflict.
That makes June 2014 the last time either city saw a full Ellie Goulding headline concert. Whether a future tour would include them is unknown; no tour has been announced.
The Delirium shows in Australia and New Zealand in 2016 followed a fixed 22-song running order. They opened with an intro, 'Aftertaste', 'Holding on for Life' and 'Something in the Way You Move', moved through 'Outside', 'Devotion', 'Explosions', 'Army' and 'Figure 8', and finished with 'On My Mind', 'Codes', 'Don't Panic', 'Animal', 'I Need Your Love', 'Burn', 'Anything Could Happen' and 'Love Me Like You Do'.
The 2014 Halcyon Days shows were longer and more varied, with 21 entries in the archive, several of them medleys such as 'Tessellate / Life Round Here' and 'Bad Girls / Salt Skin'. They opened with 'Figure 8', 'Ritual' and 'Goodness Gracious', included 'Your Song', 'The Writer' and 'Guns and Horses', and closed with 'Lights', 'You My Everything' and 'Burn'.
Across all her documented concerts in the region, 'Anything Could Happen', 'I Need Your Love', 'Figure 8' and 'Burn' are the constants. A new tour would almost certainly add songs from Brightest Blue, Higher Than Heaven and I Know Too Much, none of which has yet been toured in Australia or New Zealand according to our sources.
There are no Ellie Goulding tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site already selling seats or offering a presale code is not official.
If a tour is confirmed, buy only through the ticket outlet named in the official announcement or the venue's box office, and look out for a fan club or mailing-list presale. Arena tickets are increasingly name-locked mobile tickets, so avoid anyone selling 'presale codes'.
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Is Ellie Goulding touring Australia in 2027?
No dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026.
When did Ellie Goulding last tour Australia?
On the Delirium World Tour in October 2016, ending at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 8 October 2016.
When did Ellie Goulding last play Sydney?
At Qudos Bank Arena on 7 October 2016.
Has Ellie Goulding played New Zealand?
Yes. Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in June 2014, and Christchurch and Auckland in 2016.
Why didn't Ellie Goulding play Perth and Adelaide in 2016?
The shows at Perth Arena and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre were cancelled because of a scheduling conflict.
Did Ellie Goulding play the AFL Grand Final?
Yes, in the pre-match entertainment at the MCG on 3 October 2015.
Has Ellie Goulding played Future Music Festival?
Yes, the 2013 edition in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
Who supported Ellie Goulding on her last Australian tour?
Years & Years opened the 2016 Australian shows.
What is Ellie Goulding's latest album?
I Know Too Much, announced for release in September 2026.
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