Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027

Eskimo Joe have 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 for next year, and no new studio album has been announced. The Fremantle trio of Kavyen Temperley, Stuart MacLeod and Joel Quartermain last released new material with the single 'Say Something' in 2020 and the greatest hits collection The World Repeats Itself Somehow in December 2021.

What the band did in 2026 was look back at their biggest record. Black Fingernails, Red Wine came out in 2006, debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart and went four times platinum, and twenty years on Eskimo Joe took it around the country on an anniversary tour with Alex Lloyd. The setlist archive follows that run from three nights at Freo.Social in Fremantle, starting on Thursday 30 April 2026, to The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide on Friday 5 June 2026.

This page explains what is and is not known about Eskimo Joe in 2027 and gives a detailed account of their concerts in Australia and New Zealand: the Big Day Out years, the theatre tours, the long run of regional and outdoor shows since 2019, and the songs that have anchored their sets. If new dates are announced, they will appear here, and you can sign up below for an alert.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about an Eskimo Joe tour in 2027. The band have not announced dates in any Australian state or in New Zealand, and no festival line-up published so far includes them for next year. Anything presented as an Eskimo Joe 2027 itinerary, or as a 'presale code' for one, should be treated with suspicion until the band confirm it.

The pattern of recent years helps explain why. Since 2019 Eskimo Joe have been almost constantly on the road at home, but in a particular way: short city runs built around an album, mixed with a steady stream of summer outdoor shows, winery dates, racecourse concerts and regional theatre nights. The 2022 Black Fingernails Red Wine In the City tour played theatres in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Fremantle; the 2026 anniversary run returned to mid-size rooms in the same capitals. Neither was announced a year in advance, so a quiet calendar in October does not tell us much about 2027.

What we can say is that 2026 marked twenty years of their most successful album, and that the band have now toured it twice in full. There is no announced album to promote either. If Eskimo Joe do go out in 2027, the most likely format on past form is again a run of capital-city theatres and summer outdoor bills, but that is an observation, not an announcement.

New Zealand fans have had a long wait. The setlist archive's New Zealand entries are all in Auckland: Mount Smart Stadium on Friday 19 January 2007, Three Kings Reserve on 25 February 2007 and Mount Smart Stadium again on Friday 15 January 2010. Nothing has been announced across the Tasman for 2027.

Before the Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Eskimo Joe's live story begins in Western Australia. Their first gig was in August 1997 at the University of Western Australia, in a local heat of the National Campus Band Competition. They went on to win the state final in Perth and the national final in Sydney, and the prize included a place at the 1997 Livid Festival in Brisbane. After the Sweater EP in 1998 they toured for months, and the band built their following on Triple J airplay and constant gigging around Perth and Fremantle.

By the mid-2000s they were one of the biggest bands in the country. After Black Fingernails, Red Wine topped the chart in 2006 they returned from the CMJ Music Festival in New York to play Southbound in Western Australia and the Falls Festival in Victoria and Tasmania, then all legs of the 2007 Big Day Out. In July 2007 they played the Australian leg of Live Earth in Sydney, and at the end of that month they played a secret show in Perth under the name The Andy Callison Project as a warm-up for their American tour. In March 2009 they were on the bill of the Sound Relief benefit at the Sydney Cricket Ground, with Coldplay, Hoodoo Gurus, Icehouse, Jet, Wolfmother and You Am I, again warming up in Perth as The Andy Callison Project.

In 2013 the band tried something different: the Winter Warmer tour, two-hour acoustic shows at intimate and unusual venues around Australia, reworking songs from every album. A year later Temperley toured solo to mark ten years of A Song Is a City, telling the stories behind the songs between July and September 2014. The setlist archive picks up the band in detail from late 2019, when a spring run took in the Kingscliff Beach Hotel on 27 October, the Royal Theatre in Canberra, the Ettamogah Hotel at Kellyville Ridge in Sydney, Waves in Wollongong, the Chelsea Heights Hotel in Melbourne, the Revesby Workers Club, the EVAN Theatre in Penrith and Wickham Park in Newcastle.

The 2020s have been the busiest stretch in the archive. Summer 2020 brought shows at Birrarung Marr in Melbourne, the Forecourt in Sydney, City Park in Launceston and Sir James Mitchell Park in Perth. In 2021 and 2022 they played Mindil Beach and the Gardens Amphitheatre in Darwin, SkyCity in Adelaide, Townsville's Flinders Street Stage and Burswood Park in Perth. Then came the Black Fingernails Red Wine In the City tour: The Tivoli in Brisbane on Wednesday 28 September 2022, the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney and the Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday 15 October 2022.

From 2023 the band were everywhere from the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne and the Riverstage in Brisbane to Langley Park in Perth, Stage 1 shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in December 2023, and pub dates in Geraldton, Rockingham and Dunsborough. In July 2024 they toured regional theatres and town halls: The Wedge in Sale, Moorabbin Town Hall, the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, Horsham Town Hall, the Mildura Arts Centre, Swan Hill Town Hall, The Art House in Wyong and the Tunuba Stage in Rockhampton, after a show at the Red Earth Arts Precinct in Karratha in June. Late 2024 included the Riverstage, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Burswood Park and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.

The 2026 anniversary tour brought them back to the cities that made them. After three nights at Freo.Social in Fremantle from 30 April to 2 May, they played two nights at The Triffid in Brisbane, three at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne from Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 May, the Manning Bar and The Factory Theatre in Sydney, and The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide on 5 June 2026, the most recent Eskimo Joe show in the archive.

The table below lists 101 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Eskimo Joe between 2007 and 2026, with the most shows in Melbourne (14), Sydney (10), Perth (10), Brisbane (7), Fremantle (4), Newcastle (4). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Eskimo Joe 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 (8 February 2025 to 5 June 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Black Fingernails, Red Wine — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Foreign Land — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. From the Sea — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Love Is a Drug — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. New York — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Sarah — played at 15 of 15 shows
7. The First Time — played at 15 of 15 shows
8. Setting Sun — played at 14 of 15 shows
9. Breaking Up — played at 11 of 15 shows
10. How Does It Feel — played at 10 of 15 shows
11. London Bombs — played at 10 of 15 shows
12. Beating Like a Drum — played at 9 of 15 shows
13. Comfort You — played at 9 of 15 shows
14. Reprise — played at 9 of 15 shows

Before the Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Black Fingernails Red Wine 20th Anniversary (2026): 11 Australia/NZ shows — Fremantle, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide.
• Penrith Carnival of Cups 2026 (2026): 1 Australia/NZ show — Penrith.
• Black Fingernails Red Wine In the City Tour 2022 (2022): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Fremantle.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Eskimo Joe have a long festival record at home. Wikipedia lists the 1997 Livid Festival in Brisbane, Southbound in Western Australia (including 2011, when 'Love Is a Drug' was first played live in Busselton), the Falls Festival in Victoria and Tasmania over New Year 2006-07, every leg of the 2007 Big Day Out, the Australian leg of Live Earth in Sydney in 2007, and both the East Coast and West Coast Blues & Roots festivals in 2008, at Byron Bay and Fremantle.

In New Zealand the setlist archive has them at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 19 January 2007, the Auckland date of that summer's Big Day Out, and again on 15 January 2010. In recent summers they have been a regular name on outdoor and winery bills, from Sandalford Winery in the Swan Valley and Castelli Winery in Denmark to Speers Point Park in Newcastle, Broadwater Parklands on the Gold Coast, Berry Showground and the Mornington Racecourse.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Eskimo Joe formed in East Fremantle in 1997 as a side project of the funk band Freud's Pillow. Kavyen Temperley (bass and vocals) and Stuart MacLeod (guitar) had been school mates at John Curtin Senior High School, and Joel Quartermain joined on drums. Their 1998 Sweater EP reached No. 33 in the Triple J Hottest 100, and the 1999 self-titled EP put two more songs in that year's countdown.

Signed to Modular, they released Girl in 2001, produced by Ed Buller; it reached No. 29 and went gold, and 'Wake Up' won the ARIA for Best Video. After moving to Festival Mushroom Records they made A Song Is a City (2004), a record Temperley described as being about Fremantle and his friends. It peaked at No. 2, went double platinum, and gave them 'From the Sea', 'Smoke' and 'Older Than You'.

Black Fingernails, Red Wine (2006), produced by the band themselves, made them stars. The title track reached No. 6 and won the ARIA for Single of the Year, the album debuted at No. 1 and spent 51 weeks in the top 50, and the band won four ARIA awards from nine nominations that year. 'Sarah', 'New York', 'Breaking Up' and 'London Bombs' followed as singles. Inshalla (2009), led by 'Foreign Land', became their second No. 1 album.

Ghosts of the Past (2011), with 'Love Is a Drug', reached No. 3, and Wastelands (2013), crowdfunded through Pozible and produced by Burke Reid, reached No. 12. The band have won eight ARIA Music Awards in total. After a long break from releasing music they returned with 'Say Something' in June 2020 and the hits album The World Repeats Itself Somehow in December 2021.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: Fremantle, home port

No band is more closely tied to Fremantle than Eskimo Joe. They formed in East Fremantle, Temperley wrote A Song Is a City about the town and its people, and in 2010 the band became the number-one ticket-holder of the Fremantle Football Club, an honour they held until 2012. 'From the Sea' was even used in television advertising for the West Coast Eagles.

Their biggest home shows of recent years have been in and around the port city. The Black Fingernails Red Wine In the City tour finished at the Fremantle Arts Centre on 15 October 2022, and the 2026 anniversary tour began with three nights at Freo.Social from 30 April to 2 May 2026. Across the river, Perth has seen them at Langley Park, Sir James Mitchell Park, Whitfords Nodes Park, Burswood Park and Kings Park and Botanic Garden.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: touring the regions

Few Australian rock bands of their era have played as many regional towns in recent years. The setlist archive has Eskimo Joe in Bunbury, Dunsborough, Geraldton, Karratha, Rottnest Island, Boddington and Denmark in Western Australia; Mildura, Horsham, Swan Hill, Sale, Torquay, Barwon Heads, Mornington and Wodonga in Victoria; Rockhampton, Townsville and Moreton Bay in Queensland; and Bathurst, Bowral, Berry, Coffs Harbour, Wyong and Kingscliff in New South Wales.

The July 2024 theatre tour is a good example: seven nights in a little over three weeks across regional Victoria, the ACT edge of New South Wales, the Central Coast and central Queensland, in town halls and arts centres rather than pubs. For fans outside the capitals, a future Eskimo Joe tour is more likely than most to come somewhere near them.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: the Black Fingernails anniversary

Eskimo Joe have built two tours around their most famous record. In 2022 the In the City shows played both A Song Is a City and Black Fingernails, Red Wine: 27-song sets that opened with 'Come Down' and 'From the Sea', ran through the 2004 album, then played the 2006 album from 'Comfort You', 'New York' and the title track to 'How Does It Feel', before an encore of 'Sweater', 'Love Is a Drug' and 'Foreign Land'.

The 2026 tour, with Alex Lloyd on the bill, focused on the 2006 album alone. The logged sets had 17 songs, starting with 'Comfort You', 'New York' and 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine' and closing with 'Love Is a Drug' and 'From the Sea'. With that anniversary now behind them, the band have not said what comes next.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

Eskimo Joe's New Zealand visits have been rare and festival-shaped. The setlist archive lists only Auckland: Mount Smart Stadium on 19 January 2007, when the only song logged is 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine', Three Kings Reserve on 25 February 2007, and Mount Smart Stadium again on 15 January 2010.

There is no record of a New Zealand headline tour in the archive, and no New Zealand date has been announced for 2027. If that changes, we will add it to this page.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A full Eskimo Joe headline show in recent years runs to 15-17 songs, longer when they play an album in full. Typical sets mix the three big eras: 'Sarah', 'New York', 'Older Than You', 'Breaking Up', 'Setting Sun', 'London Bombs', 'Foreign Land' and 'The First Time', with 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine', 'Love Is a Drug' and 'From the Sea' near the end. Shorter festival and outdoor sets keep the same core at 9-12 songs.

The regional theatre shows of July 2024 were looser and more acoustic in feel, opening with 'Foreign Land' and 'Sarah' and including 'Planet Earth', 'Setting Sun' and 'A Song Is a City', the last of these paired with 'Ain't No Sunshine' in several towns. At Horsham Town Hall 'Sarah' ended with a 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' outro. At the Carine Glades Tavern in Perth in November 2023 the band walked on to 'The Imperial March'.

Across all logged shows in Australia and New Zealand, the most played songs are 'Foreign Land', 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine', 'New York', 'From the Sea', 'Sarah' and 'Love Is a Drug'. Older favourites such as 'Sweater', 'Wake Up' and 'Who Sold Her Out' still turn up regularly.

Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Eskimo Joe tickets on sale for 2027, and no presale or on-sale date has been announced. When the band announce new dates, tickets are normally sold through the official agency named in the announcement and through venue box offices; many of their regional and winery shows are sold by the venue itself.

Buy only from those official outlets. Most Australian tours now use name-locked mobile tickets, so buy through the official outlet or its official resale service to make sure the ticket is in your name, and anyone selling a 'presale code' before a tour exists is not genuine. Subscribers to the band's own mailing list usually hear about new dates first.

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Eskimo Joe Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are Eskimo Joe touring Australia in 2027?

Nothing has been announced. As of 9 October 2026 there are no Eskimo Joe dates in Australia or New Zealand for 2027.

When did Eskimo Joe last tour?

Their Black Fingernails, Red Wine 20th anniversary tour with Alex Lloyd ran from Freo.Social in Fremantle on 30 April 2026 to The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide on 5 June 2026, according to the setlist archive.

Which cities did the 2026 anniversary tour visit?

Fremantle (three nights), Brisbane (two nights at The Triffid), Melbourne (three nights at the Corner Hotel), Sydney (Manning Bar and The Factory Theatre) and Adelaide.

Have Eskimo Joe played New Zealand?

Yes, but rarely. The setlist archive has Auckland shows at Mount Smart Stadium in January 2007 and January 2010, and at Three Kings Reserve in February 2007.

Have Eskimo Joe played the Big Day Out?

Yes. They played all legs of the 2007 Big Day Out, including Auckland on 19 January 2007.

What songs do Eskimo Joe play live?

Their most played songs in the archive are 'Foreign Land', 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine', 'New York', 'From the Sea', 'Sarah' and 'Love Is a Drug'.

Is there a new Eskimo Joe album?

No new studio album has been announced. Their last studio album is Wastelands (2013); since then they have released 'Say Something' (2020) and the hits collection The World Repeats Itself Somehow (2021).

Are there presale codes for Eskimo Joe 2027?

No. With no tour announced, no presale exists. Ignore anyone selling codes and sign up for our alert instead.