FKJ, the French multi-instrumentalist Vincent Fenton, returns to Australia and New Zealand in February 2027 with the Tyber Tour. Five shows are confirmed: Auckland Town Hall on Saturday 20 February 2027, The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Tuesday 23 February, the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Wednesday 24 February, PICA in Port Melbourne on Friday 26 February and Metro City in Perth on Saturday 27 February 2027.
These will be his first concerts in the region since January 2018, and his first headline shows here in venues of this size. On his earlier visits he played small clubs such as the Toff in Town in Melbourne and the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, plus summer festival slots in Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand. The name itself has a local link: FKJ stands for French Kiwi Juice, and Fenton was born to a French mother and a father from New Zealand.
This page sets out the confirmed 2027 dates and venues, a night-by-night view of the tour, his earlier Australian and New Zealand concerts as recorded in the setlist.fm archive, and how the ticket sale has worked. Tickets have been on sale since Thursday 9 July 2026.
The Tyber Tour is named after FKJ's next album, Tyber, which follows V I N C E N T (2022). It was recorded in London, Los Angeles, Paris, Brazil and Mexico, with guests including Lucy Park, Baby Rose, Bas, Eryn Allen Kane and Labrinth, and was introduced by the single Soulmates, a song he has described as being about embracing solitude. The Australian and New Zealand dates were announced in July 2026 as part of a wider global headline tour.
The southern run starts in New Zealand. Auckland Town Hall, whose Great Hall seats about 1,500, hosts the only New Zealand date on Saturday 20 February 2027. Three days later the tour opens in Australia at The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Tuesday 23 February, then plays the Hordern Pavilion at Moore Park in Sydney the next night, Wednesday 24 February.
Melbourne follows on Friday 26 February at PICA, the Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts, a large converted industrial venue listed with a capacity of about 5,500. The tour ends the next night, Saturday 27 February 2027, at Metro City on Roe Street in Northbridge, Perth. Adelaide is not on the schedule, and no support act had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
The size of the rooms shows how far FKJ has come in Australia since 2018. The Hordern Pavilion and PICA each hold well over 5,000 people, against a few hundred at the Oxford Art Factory or the Toff in Town, and the run is built around his solo live show rather than a festival slot.
Auckland Town Hall opened on 14 December 1911 on Queen Street and is a Category 1 historic place. Its Great Hall, modelled on the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and noted for its acoustics, seats about 1,500 and houses the country's largest musical instrument, the town hall organ.
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 Hordern Pavilion opened in 1924 in Moore Park, Sydney, and holds about 5,500 people. Over the years it has hosted concerts, dance parties and championship boxing, including fights featuring Jeff Fenech.
PICA, the Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts, is a large industrial-space venue in Port Melbourne used for concerts, club events and festival programmes, including the RISING festival in June 2025. It is listed among Melbourne's large music venues with a capacity of about 5,500.
Metro City Concert Club is a live music and club venue on Roe Street in Northbridge, Perth's nightlife precinct, established in the 1990s. Spread over three levels, it holds more than 2,000 people and hosts international touring acts as well as club nights.
Saturday 20 February 2027 — Auckland Town Hall, Auckland. The tour starts here.
Tuesday 23 February 2027 — The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane.
Wednesday 24 February 2027 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented FKJ concert was at Oxford Art Factory (5 January 2018).
Friday 26 February 2027 — PICA, Melbourne. In Melbourne, the last documented FKJ concert was at The Toff in Town (24 November 2016).
Saturday 27 February 2027 — Metro City, Perth. In Perth, the last documented FKJ concert was at Jack Rabbit Slim's (26 November 2017). The run finishes here.
FKJ's first Australian visit in the setlist.fm archive came in November 2016, a few months before his debut album. He played the Toff in Town, an upstairs venue on Swanston Street in Melbourne, on 24 November 2016 and the Rocket Bar & Rooftop in Adelaide the next night, 25 November. These were club shows in rooms holding a few hundred people, at a time when he was known mainly through his early EPs and YouTube videos.
He was back a year later, after French Kiwi Juice (March 2017) and the improvised hit Tadow with Masego had widened his audience. The archive records Jack Rabbit Slim's in Northbridge, Perth, on 26 November 2017, then a run of festival dates over New Year: a festival site in Glenworth Valley, on the New South Wales Central Coast, on 30 December 2017 and Lardner Park near Warragul in Victoria, home of the Beyond the Valley festival, on 31 December 2017.
New Zealand came next. On 2 January 2018 he played the ASB Baypark Stadium site at Mount Maunganui for the Bay Dreams festival, his only New Zealand concert in the archive. He ended the trip with a headline club show at the Oxford Art Factory in Darlinghurst, Sydney, on 5 January 2018.
That is the whole recorded history: seven concerts in Australia and one in New Zealand between November 2016 and January 2018, none of them in a theatre or hall. The archive does not hold the songs played at any of these shows, so the most-played list on this page cannot be built from local data. The press release for the 2027 tour confirms that he has not performed in the region since 2018.
Several 2027 cities are new for him in the record. FKJ has no recorded concert in Brisbane or Auckland, so The Fortitude Music Hall on 23 February and Auckland Town Hall on 20 February will be his first shows in each city as far as the archive shows. Perth and Sydney have seen him once each, while his Victorian record is the Toff in Town in 2016 and the Lardner Park festival site near Warragul, about 100 km east of Melbourne, in 2017.
The table below lists 7 documented Australia/NZ concerts by FKJ between 2016 and 2018, with the most shows in Sydney (1), Mount Maunganui (1), Warragul (1), Glenworth Valley (1), Perth (1), Adelaide (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2018 | Sydney | Oxford Art Factory | |
| 2 January 2018 | Mount Maunganui | ASB Baypark Stadium | |
| 31 December 2017 | Warragul | Lardner Park | |
| 30 December 2017 | Glenworth Valley | Festival Site | |
| 26 November 2017 | Perth | Jack Rabbit Slim's | |
| 25 November 2016 | Adelaide | Rocket Bar & Rooftop | |
| 24 November 2016 | Melbourne | The Toff in Town |
Concert data: setlist.fm
FKJ's Australian and New Zealand festival record is concentrated in one summer. Over New Year 2017-18 he played Lardner Park near Warragul on 31 December 2017 for Beyond the Valley and a festival site in Glenworth Valley, New South Wales, on 30 December 2017, then Bay Dreams at Baypark in Mount Maunganui on 2 January 2018.
Outside the region he has played Coachella, Lollapalooza, CRSSD, Lightning in a Bottle and Euphoria, according to Wikipedia. No Australian or New Zealand festival appearance has been announced for 2027; the February dates are all headline shows.
Vincent Fenton was born on 26 March 1990 and grew up in Tours, in central France, the son of a French mother and a father from New Zealand. He grew up on his parents' record collections, from Queen, Pink Floyd, the Police and Led Zeppelin to Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Miles Davis, and later trained in sound engineering for film. He took the stage name French Kiwi Juice, shortened to FKJ, and was one of the early names on the Roche Musique label, part of what was called the new French house scene.
His self-titled debut album, French Kiwi Juice, came out on 3 March 2017. The same year Tadow, a song improvised with saxophonist and singer Masego during a session on the day they met, spread widely online and became his best-known track. He played the Do Lab stage at Coachella in April 2017, and the Ylang Ylang EP followed in 2019. In March 2019 he married the musician June Marieezy, with whom he had recorded Vibin' Out.
Just Piano (2021), a set of solo piano pieces, was followed by V I N C E N T in 2022. In April 2022 he performed his single Greener with Carlos Santana. He has also worked with other artists as a producer and featured musician, including the songs NASA and Ctrl with the Korean singer DEAN in November 2024 and Intro: Jane on Jennie's 2025 album Ruby.
His music mixes nu jazz, electronic music, R&B and French house, and his YouTube channel has passed 2.5 million subscribers. Tyber, introduced by Soulmates in 2026, is the album behind the 2027 world tour.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| French Kiwi Juice | 2017 | — |
| Just Piano | 2021 | — |
| V I N C E N T | 2022 | — |
FKJ's stage name is a small piece of autobiography: French for his mother's side and his upbringing in Tours, Kiwi for his New Zealand father. That makes the Auckland Town Hall show on Saturday 20 February 2027 more than just the first night of the southern leg.
Until now, his only New Zealand concert in the archive was a festival set at Bay Dreams in Mount Maunganui on 2 January 2018. Auckland Town Hall, a seated Edwardian hall known for its acoustics, gives him a very different setting: a full headline show in the country's largest city, in a room usually associated with orchestras and choirs. Wellington and Christchurch are not on the 2027 schedule.
Few acts on the 2027 Australian calendar have grown as much between visits. In November 2016 FKJ played the Toff in Town, a small room above Swanston Street; in February 2027 he plays PICA in Port Melbourne, listed at around 5,500 capacity, on Friday 26 February.
Sydney shows the same jump. His last show there was at the Oxford Art Factory on 5 January 2018. On Wednesday 24 February 2027 he plays the Hordern Pavilion, the 1924 Moore Park hall that holds about 5,500 people. Even Perth, where he played Jack Rabbit Slim's in 2017, moves up to Metro City, a three-level venue in Northbridge with a capacity of more than 2,000.
The whole southern leg takes eight days. After Auckland on the Saturday, the Australian dates come almost back to back: Brisbane on Tuesday, Sydney on Wednesday, Melbourne on Friday and Perth on Saturday 27 February. In Australia, only the Thursday between Sydney and Melbourne is a night off.
There is no Adelaide date this time, although he played the Rocket Bar & Rooftop there in November 2016. Canberra, Hobart and regional centres are not included either, and the tour note does not mention any possible extra shows. For fans in South Australia, the nearest options are Melbourne on 26 February and Perth on 27 February.
FKJ's live show is built around looping. Working through Ableton Live, he records parts on keyboards, guitar, bass, saxophone, drum machine and voice in real time, layering them into full arrangements on stage. Many of his songs change shape from night to night, and improvisation, as on Tadow, is part of the act.
That format has stayed the same as his audiences have grown, which is why the 2027 venues matter. The Hordern Pavilion and PICA are large standing rooms where the sound of a single performer has to fill a hall; the Fortitude Music Hall and Auckland Town Hall are smaller and closer. Each night of the tour will show a slightly different side of the same show.
The setlist.fm archive has no song lists for FKJ's Australian and New Zealand concerts, so there is no local set to quote. His shows are usually built from his best-known recordings, such as Tadow, Ylang Ylang and songs from French Kiwi Juice and V I N C E N T, extended and reshaped through live looping and improvisation.
The 2027 sets will introduce material from Tyber, including Soulmates. Because much of his show is improvised, set lists vary more than most, and no two nights on the tour are likely to be identical.
Tickets for all five Australian and New Zealand shows have been on sale since Thursday 9 July 2026, through each venue's official ticketing partner and the venues' own box offices. No additional dates had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
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When does FKJ's 2027 tour of Australia and New Zealand start?
At Auckland Town Hall on Saturday 20 February 2027. The first Australian show is at The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Tuesday 23 February.
Where does FKJ play in Sydney?
At the Hordern Pavilion in Moore Park on Wednesday 24 February 2027.
Where is the Melbourne show?
At PICA, the Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts, on Friday 26 February 2027.
When is the Perth show?
At Metro City in Northbridge on Saturday 27 February 2027, the last night of the tour.
Is there an Adelaide date?
No. Adelaide is not on the 2027 schedule; FKJ last played there at the Rocket Bar & Rooftop on 25 November 2016.
When did FKJ last play in Australia?
At the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney on 5 January 2018. The 2027 shows are his first in the region since 2018.
Has FKJ played in New Zealand before?
Once in the archive: the Bay Dreams festival at Baypark, Mount Maunganui, on 2 January 2018. Auckland Town Hall on 20 February 2027 is his first recorded Auckland concert.
What does FKJ stand for?
French Kiwi Juice. Vincent Fenton has a French mother and a father from New Zealand.
What is the tour named after?
His album Tyber, introduced by the single Soulmates.
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