Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027

Fatboy Slim plays eight shows in Australia in March 2027, in some of the most unusual settings of any tour this year. The run opens at Esplanade Park in Fremantle on Wednesday 3 March, continues with three nights at Carriageworks, the converted railway workshops in Sydney, from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 March, two nights at On The Banks in Brisbane on Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 March, and ends with two nights at The Underpass in Melbourne on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March.

Demand has been strong. All three Sydney nights, Brisbane on 10 March and Melbourne on 13 March have sold out, and Brisbane on Tuesday 9 March was added as an extra show. Tickets went on sale on Tuesday 15 September 2026; the Fremantle show, the added Brisbane date and Melbourne on 12 March are the ones to watch for remaining availability.

Norman Cook has been coming to Australia since the late 1990s, from the Boiler Room dance stage in 1999 to the Fatboy Slim Loves Australia tour of March 2025, which took him from Langley Park in Perth to wineries in the Barossa and at Mount Cotton. This page covers the 2027 dates, his long Australian and New Zealand history, what his recent sets have contained and how to buy safely.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: confirmed dates

The 2027 tour avoids conventional arenas. Cook has described it as a run of bridges, rivers, parks and old railway sheds, and the venues match that: a waterfront park in Fremantle, the nineteenth-century carriage workshops at Eveleigh in Sydney, an outdoor stage by the river at South Bank in Brisbane, and The Underpass, a new outdoor venue built beneath an elevated freeway in Melbourne's inner west.

Western Australia opens the tour at Esplanade Park in Fremantle on Wednesday 3 March 2027. Sydney follows with three consecutive nights at Carriageworks in Redfern (Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 March), all of them sold out.

Brisbane's show at On The Banks was first set for Wednesday 10 March; it sold out and a second show was added on Tuesday 9 March. Melbourne closes the tour at The Underpass on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March, and the Saturday has sold out. The Underpass holds more than 5,000 people and is due to open in November 2026, a few months before Cook's shows.

There are no New Zealand dates in 2027 as of 9 October 2026, and Adelaide, Hobart and Canberra are not on the itinerary. Cook's last New Zealand tour was in early 2023, when he played Christchurch, Auckland, Waiheke Island, Wellington, Queenstown and Taupō. No support acts had been announced for the Australian shows.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: venue guide

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027 at Esplanade Park, Fremantle

Esplanade Park is a grassed reserve in Fremantle's West End, between the city centre and the Fishing Boat Harbour. It is used for festivals and outdoor events, and hosts open-air concerts in the summer of 2027.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027 at Carriageworks, Sydney

Carriageworks occupies the former Eveleigh Carriage Workshops in Redfern, built in the 1880s and closed as a rail workshop in 1988. It opened as a contemporary multi-arts centre in 2007, was expanded in 2013 and hosts exhibitions, performances, concerts and a weekly farmers market.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027 at On The Banks, Brisbane

On The Banks is an outdoor concert stage on the forecourt of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank, beside the Brisbane River. QPAC opened in 1985 and has five theatres, the newest being the Glasshouse Theatre, opened in March 2026.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027 at The Underpass, Melbourne

The Underpass is a new outdoor music venue built beneath an elevated freeway in Melbourne's inner west, with room for more than 5,000 people. It is due to open in November 2026 and is run by the team behind several of the city's bridge parties.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: night by night

Wednesday 3 March 2027 — Esplanade Park, Fremantle. This is the opening night of the run.

Friday 5 March 2027 — Carriageworks, Sydney. 3 nights are booked at Carriageworks; this is number 1. In Sydney, the last documented Fatboy Slim concert was at Roundhouse (18 March 2025).

Tuesday 9 March 2027 — On The Banks, Brisbane. This is show 1 of the 2-night stand here. The artist's most recent documented Brisbane show was at Riverstage on 3 May 2023.

Friday 12 March 2027 — The Underpass, Melbourne. 2 nights are booked at The Underpass; this is number 1. In Melbourne, the last documented Fatboy Slim concert was at Revolver Upstairs (19 March 2025). This venue closes the tour.

Before the Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Fatboy Slim's first Australian dates in the setlist.fm archive are from January 1999, the year after You've Come a Long Way, Baby reached number 2 in Australia. He played Ericsson Stadium in Auckland on 15 January, then the Boiler Room on the Gold Coast, Olympic Park in Sydney, the Boiler Room and the Metro Nightclub in Melbourne, the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds and Bassendean Oval in Perth on 31 January. He came back in October 2000 for the Roundhouse in Sydney and the Metro in Melbourne, and in April 2001 for the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds and the Hordern Pavilion. On New Year's Eve 2005 he played the Bondi Pavilion.

The late 2000s and early 2010s brought large outdoor events. In February 2009 he played Centennial Park in Sydney, Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Gold Coast Parklands and Heirisson Island in Perth. In March 2012 the circuit included Vector Arena in Auckland, Doomben Racecourse in Brisbane, Arena Joondalup in Perth, the Enmore Theatre and Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Inveresk Park in Launceston, Flemington again and Ellis Park in Adelaide. Later visits included the Riverstage in Brisbane and Red Hill Auditorium in Perth in January 2016, Red Hill and the St Kilda Foreshore in January 2018, and the Waterfront Lawn in Hobart in February 2019.

The World Tour of Australia in January and February 2020 took in two nights at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne (21 and 24 January), the Riverstage in Brisbane, Birrarung Marr in Melbourne on Australia Day, Sydney Showground, Glenelg Beach in Adelaide and Whitfords Nodes Park in Perth on 2 February. Those were long DJ sets, with 28 to 44 tracks logged per night.

After the pandemic he returned twice in 2023. New Zealand came first, from Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch on 27 January to Spark Arena in Auckland, the Sky Tower, Stonyridge Winery on Waiheke Island, Anderson Park in Wellington, Gibbston Valley near Queenstown and Riverside Park in Taupō on 5 February. In April and May he toured Australia: the Adelaide Showground, Maitland Showground and Exhibition Park in Canberra, then Revolver Upstairs and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, the Prince of Wales Showgrounds in Bendigo, Kawana on the Sunshine Coast, the Riverstage, the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney, Hay Park in Bunbury and Burswood Park in Perth on 7 May.

The most recent tour, Fatboy Slim Loves Australia in March 2025, already showed his taste for odd venues. It began at Langley Park in Perth on 14 March and went to Centennial Vineyards at Bowral, Albert Park in Melbourne, the Roundhouse in Sydney, a set at the Northern Soul Chip Shop in Melbourne and another at Revolver Upstairs on 19 March, Peter Lehmann Wines at Tanunda in the Barossa, Mount Duneed Estate near Geelong and Sirromet Winery at Mount Cotton on 23 March.

The table below lists 67 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Fatboy Slim between 1999 and 2025, with the most shows in Melbourne (14), Sydney (10), Perth (8), Brisbane (4), Adelaide (4), Auckland (4). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 13 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (22 February 2009 to 23 March 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Praise You — played at 13 of 13 shows
2. The Rockafeller Skank — played at 11 of 13 shows
3. Right Here, Right Now — played at 10 of 13 shows
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction — played at 9 of 13 shows
5. Eat Sleep Rave Repeat — played at 9 of 13 shows
6. Star 69 — played at 8 of 13 shows
7. Everything Is Beautiful — played at 4 of 13 shows
8. I See You Baby — played at 4 of 13 shows
9. Music Sounds Better With You — played at 4 of 13 shows
10. Red Light Green Light — played at 4 of 13 shows
11. Scrub The Ground — played at 4 of 13 shows
12. Sinner Winner — played at 4 of 13 shows
13. The Creeps 2016 — played at 4 of 13 shows
14. Where U Iz — played at 4 of 13 shows

Before the Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Fatboy Slim Loves Australia (2025): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Bowral, Melbourne, Sydney, Tanunda, Geelong, Mount Cotton.
• Y'all Are The Music, We're Just The DJs (2023): 3 Australia/NZ shows — Adelaide, Maitland, Canberra.
• World Tour of Australia (2020): 7 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Cook's early Australian dates were festival slots. In January 1999 the setlist.fm archive places him in the Boiler Room, the Big Day Out's dance arena, on the Gold Coast and in Melbourne, alongside Olympic Park in Sydney, the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds, Bassendean Oval in Perth and Ericsson Stadium in Auckland. His 2009 and 2012 visits were also built around large outdoor events at racecourses and parks, including Flemington, Royal Randwick, Doomben and Ellis Park.

In recent years he has preferred his own outdoor shows. The 2027 dates are all headline events; no Australian festival appearance had been announced as of 9 October 2026.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Norman Quentin Cook was born Quentin Leo Cook in Bromley, Kent, on 31 July 1963 and grew up in Reigate, Surrey. He started DJing at 15 and studied at Brighton Polytechnic from 1982 to 1985, where he learned to mix. In 1985 he joined the Housemartins as bassist, and the band went to number one in the UK with “Caravan of Love” in 1986. After they split, he formed Beats International, whose “Dub Be Good to Me” was a UK number one in 1990, and played in Freak Power.

He adopted the name Fatboy Slim in 1995 and co-founded the Big Beat Boutique club night at the Concorde in Brighton, which gave its name to the big beat genre. Better Living Through Chemistry came out in 1996, followed by You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998), with “The Rockafeller Skank”, “Praise You” and “Right Here, Right Now”, which reached number 2 in Australia. Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (2000) reached number 6 here and included “Weapon of Choice”, whose Spike Jonze video with Christopher Walken won six MTV Video Music Awards. Palookaville (2004) reached number 51.

In 2001 and 2002 he played free concerts on Brighton beach, the second, Big Beach Boutique II, drawing around 250,000 people. He made the album I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat as the Brighton Port Authority in 2009 and collaborated with David Byrne on Here Lies Love, a concept album about Imelda Marcos that became a musical; it opened on Broadway in 2023 and earned the pair a Tony nomination for Best Original Score in 2024.

Since then Cook has concentrated on DJ sets rather than new albums, saying in 2025 that he felt he had made enough records. He has played Glastonbury every year since 1996, estimated in 2025 that he had performed there about 100 times, and holds the Guinness record for the most UK number-one singles by one musician as a member of different acts. He has been sober since 2009, and in December 2025 released “Satisfaction Skank”, a reworking of “The Rockafeller Skank”.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: three nights at Carriageworks

Sydney gets three shows in a row at Carriageworks, from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 March 2027, and all three have sold out. The venue is the former Eveleigh Carriage Workshops in Redfern, built in the 1880s as part of the Eveleigh rail complex, where carriages including royal carriages were made until the workshops closed in 1988. It reopened as a contemporary arts centre in 2007.

The setting fits Cook's description of the tour. Sydney has seen him in many kinds of room, from Olympic Park in 1999 and the Roundhouse in 2000 and 2025 to the Hordern Pavilion, the Enmore Theatre, Royal Randwick, Sydney Showground and the Entertainment Quarter. Carriageworks is the first time he has played a three-night stand in the city in the archive.

With all three nights sold out, the only legitimate route to a ticket now is the official resale facility of the original seller, or a release of held-back tickets closer to the date.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: a freeway, a river and a foreshore

Melbourne's two shows are at The Underpass, an outdoor venue for more than 5,000 people built beneath an elevated freeway in the city's inner west, from the team behind several of Melbourne's bridge parties. It is due to open in November 2026, so Cook's shows on Friday 12 and Saturday 13 March 2027 will be among its first big nights. The Saturday is sold out.

In Brisbane, On The Banks is the outdoor stage on the forecourt of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at South Bank, next to the river. The original date, Wednesday 10 March, sold out, and Tuesday 9 March was added. Brisbane has hosted Cook outdoors before, at the Riverstage across the river in 2016, 2020 and 2023.

Fremantle's Esplanade Park, on Wednesday 3 March, is the tour's only Western Australian date. Perth audiences have seen him at Heirisson Island, Arena Joondalup, Red Hill Auditorium, Whitfords Nodes Park, Burswood Park and Langley Park.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: no New Zealand dates this time

New Zealand is not part of the 2027 tour as of 9 October 2026. That breaks a recent pattern: Cook toured the country in January 2019, with Claudelands Arena in Hamilton, Church Road Winery in Napier, the Hunter Lounge at Union Hall in Wellington, the Gloucester Green in Christchurch and Cargo Brewery in Queenstown, and again in early 2023, when the run included Spark Arena in Auckland and a set at the Sky Tower.

His first New Zealand date in the archive goes back to Ericsson Stadium in Auckland in January 1999, and he played Vector Arena, now Spark Arena, in March 2012. If New Zealand shows are added, they will appear on this page and the alert will let you know.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: why it sold so fast

Cook's Australian audience has grown steadily over three decades. You've Come a Long Way, Baby reached number 2 here in 1998, and his tours since 2020 have filled outdoor venues across the country, from the Sidney Myer Music Bowl to wineries in New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland.

The 2027 venues are mostly capped at a few thousand people, much smaller than the parks and showgrounds of earlier tours. That, plus the novelty of the settings, explains why five of the eight shows sold out quickly after the sale on Tuesday 15 September 2026, and why a second Brisbane date was added.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Fatboy Slim's shows are DJ sets rather than concerts with a fixed set list, and the logged track lists vary from night to night. At the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on 21 January 2020, 44 tracks were logged; at the Riverstage on 25 January 2020 there were 31 and at Birrarung Marr the next day 33. The sets mix his own records, such as “Right Here, Right Now”, “The Rockafeller Skank”, “Praise You” and “Eat Sleep Rave Repeat”, with house, disco and hip-hop edits and mash-ups.

The Entertainment Quarter show in Sydney on 5 May 2023 logged 21 tracks, from “Don't Stop Me Now” to “Weapon of Choice”, “Praising You”, “Born Slippy .NUXX” and “Pure Shores”, ending with “Right Here, Right Now”, “The Rockafeller Skank” and “Praise You”. At the Roundhouse in Sydney on 18 March 2025, the 13 logged tracks included “Burning Down the House”, “Star 69”, “Mr. Brightside”, “Wonderwall” and the Rolling Stones' “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” next to “The Rockafeller Skank”, the pairing he later released as “Satisfaction Skank”.

Expect long sets in 2027, built for the outdoor and warehouse spaces. Exact running times had not been published as of 9 October 2026.

Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

Tickets went on general sale on Tuesday 15 September 2026 through the authorised ticket sellers for each venue. Sydney (all three nights at Carriageworks), Brisbane on Wednesday 10 March and Melbourne on Saturday 13 March have sold out. The added Brisbane show on Tuesday 9 March, Melbourne on Friday 12 March and Fremantle on Wednesday 3 March are the dates to check.

There is no public Fatboy Slim presale code to buy or share, and “guaranteed” tickets or codes offered on social media are scams. For sold-out nights, use only the official resale facility of the original ticket seller; most Australian events now issue name-locked mobile tickets that cannot be legitimately transferred any other way.

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Fatboy Slim Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

When does Fatboy Slim's 2027 Australian tour start?

At Esplanade Park in Fremantle on Wednesday 3 March 2027.

How many Sydney shows are there?

Three, at Carriageworks on Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 March 2027. All three have sold out.

Which shows are sold out?

All three Sydney nights, Brisbane on Wednesday 10 March and Melbourne on Saturday 13 March.

Was a show added?

Yes. Brisbane on Tuesday 9 March 2027 at On The Banks was added after the 10 March show sold out.

What is The Underpass?

A new outdoor venue in Melbourne's inner west, built beneath an elevated freeway, with room for more than 5,000 people. Fatboy Slim plays there on 12 and 13 March 2027.

Is Fatboy Slim playing New Zealand in 2027?

No New Zealand dates had been announced as of 9 October 2026. His last New Zealand tour was in January and February 2023.

When was his last Australian tour?

Fatboy Slim Loves Australia in March 2025, which ran from Langley Park in Perth on 14 March to Sirromet Winery at Mount Cotton on 23 March.

Is there an Adelaide show?

Not in 2027. He last played Adelaide at the Adelaide Showground in April 2023 and Glenelg Beach in February 2020.

When did tickets go on sale?

On Tuesday 15 September 2026.