Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027

Gin Wigmore has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, headline show or festival booking for 2027 on either side of the Tasman, even though the Auckland-born singer released singles from her fifth album, Beautiful Mess, through the first half of 2026: 'Country Diamond' on 30 April, the title track on 5 May and 'Rodeo' on 12 June.

Wigmore is one of New Zealand's most distinctive voices, known for a high, raspy tone that sits somewhere between blues, soul, country and rock. Her first three albums, Holy Smoke (2009), Gravel & Wine (2011) and Blood to Bone (2015), all went to No. 1 in New Zealand, and Blood to Bone reached No. 13 on the ARIA chart, her best result in Australia. She has lived in Palm Springs, California, for several years, which is one reason her shows at home have become occasional events rather than an annual habit.

This page sets out what is and is not known about her 2027 plans and gives a full account of her concerts in New Zealand and Australia, from winery shows in December 2008 and a support tour of regional Australia that same year to her headline nights at the Powerstation, the Opera House in Wellington and Melbourne's Howler.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about Gin Wigmore concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, venues or sale times have been published for either country, and no festival line-up released so far includes her name. Any list of '2027 dates' or any 'presale code' circulating before an official announcement should be treated with suspicion.

The new album is the most likely reason for a tour when one comes. Beautiful Mess, her first full-length record since Ivory in 2018, was announced in April 2026 and is, according to Wikipedia, inspired by her divorce from Jason Aalon Butler, the singer of Fever 333. Between Ivory and the new record she released only standalone songs, such as 'Hangover Halo', 'Feels Like Me' and 'HBIC' in 2020, 'Woman' and 'Hand Over Heart' in 2021, and 'Somebody's Gonna Die Tonight' and 'Sugar Like That' in 2023.

Her recent pattern suggests that New Zealand would come first. Since 2019 the setlist archive has her on stage only in New Zealand: the Ivory NZ Tour of February 2019, summer shows in January 2021, a long regional run in March 2023 that went from the Lincoln Event Centre near Christchurch to Nelson, Gisborne, Wellington, Raglan, Mount Maunganui, Auckland and the Leigh Sawmill Cafe, then Waiohika Estate in Gisborne on New Year's Eve 2023 and McLean Park in Napier on 6 April 2024. Her last Australian concert in the archive dates from December 2015.

That is an observation about the past, not a forecast. Until Wigmore or a promoter publishes dates, there is no confirmed Gin Wigmore concert anywhere in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. Sign up below and we will send an alert if that changes.

Before the Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Wigmore's live career in the region began in 2008, the year her debut EP Extended Play came out. It was released in Australia on 2 August 2008 by Island Records, and she spent August and September on Pete Murray's national tour. The setlist archive traces that run in detail: two nights at the Regal Theatre in Perth on 5 and 6 August, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 15 August, The Cube in Wodonga, the ANU Bar & Refectory in Canberra, the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, the Newcastle Civic Theatre, and a string of regional rooms in Tamworth, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Ipswich and the Empire Theatre in Toowoomba, followed by Gosford Showground on 20 September.

Back home, December 2008 brought two outdoor winery dates, at the Mud House Winery in Waipara on 7 December and Alana Wines in Martinborough on 6 December, during the month Wikipedia says she toured New Zealand with John Mellencamp and Sheryl Crow. After Holy Smoke came out in 2009 she played the Powerstation in Auckland on 28 November 2009, then a summer circuit that took in Butlers Reef in New Plymouth, the Rising Tide in Mount Maunganui, the Coroglen Tavern on the Coromandel and the Waihi Beach Hotel on New Year's Eve. In Australia that year she was at the Toff in Town in Melbourne, the Troubadour in Brisbane, Gosford Showground again, the Palace Theatre in Melbourne in October and The Domain in Sydney in December.

The Holy Smoke Tour of 2010 brought her into bigger New Zealand rooms: the State Opera House in Wellington on 14 February, the Bruce Mason Centre on Auckland's North Shore on 19 February and the Auckland Town Hall on 31 August 2010, where the set ran from 'Oh My' and 'Man Like That' to 'Under My Skin', 'Too Late for Lovers', 'I Do', 'Hey Ho' and 'Black Sheep'. In 2012, with Gravel & Wine charting in both countries, she played two nights at the Workers Club in Melbourne on 4 and 5 April, Fremantle Park, and an August–September Australian run through The Standard in Sydney, the Great Northern Hotel in Byron Bay, the Heritage Hotel in Wollongong, the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne, the Old Museum in Brisbane and Eatons Hill.

The Blood to Bone era was her most active in both countries. She launched the album with an intimate show at the Powerstation in Auckland on Wednesday 1 July 2015 and the Newtown Social Club in Sydney on 8 July, then returned at the end of the year: the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch on 26 November, the Opera House in Wellington on 28 November and the Black Barn Amphitheatre in Hastings on 29 November, followed by The Foundry in Brisbane on 9 December and Howler in Melbourne on Saturday 12 December 2015, which remains her last Australian date in the archive.

From 2019 the story is entirely about New Zealand. The Ivory NZ Tour opened at the Opera House in Wellington on Tuesday 5 February 2019 and went on to the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch, the Regent Theatre in Dunedin and the Hunting Lodge winery in Auckland on 9 February. She played Soper Reserve in Mount Maunganui in January 2020, summer dates at Gibbston Valley near Queenstown, Riverside Park in Taupō and the waterways at Whitianga in January 2021, and the Basin Reserve in Wellington in April 2021. The March 2023 run was the most thorough tour of small-town New Zealand she has done, including two nights each at the Theatre Royal in Nelson, the Smash Palace Bar in Gisborne and the Leigh Sawmill Cafe.

The table below lists 72 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Gin Wigmore between 2008 and 2024, with the most shows in Auckland (8), Melbourne (7), Wellington (6), Brisbane (4), Gisborne (3), Mount Maunganui (3). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027 setlist: the songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand

Across the 10 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (31 August 2010 to 23 January 2021), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Black Sheep — played at 10 of 10 shows
2. Man Like That — played at 10 of 10 shows
3. Kill of the Night — played at 9 of 10 shows
4. Sweet Hell — played at 9 of 10 shows
5. If Only — played at 8 of 10 shows
6. One Last Look — played at 8 of 10 shows
7. Devil in Me — played at 7 of 10 shows
8. Hey Ho — played at 6 of 10 shows
9. Dirty Love — played at 5 of 10 shows
10. I Will Love You — played at 5 of 10 shows
11. Oh My — played at 5 of 10 shows
12. These Roses — played at 5 of 10 shows
13. Too Late for Lovers — played at 5 of 10 shows
14. Under My Skin — played at 5 of 10 shows

Before the Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Blood to Bone Tour 2015 (2015): 1 Australia/NZ show — Brisbane.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Wigmore's festival history in the region is mostly a New Zealand summer story. Wikipedia lists the Homegrown Festival in 2014, and the setlist archive has her at the Wellington Waterfront, the festival's home, on 15 February 2014. She played Waiohika Estate near Gisborne, the site of the Rhythm and Vines New Year festival, on 31 December 2023, and Wikipedia also lists a Summer Concert Tour of New Zealand and the Peachy Keen Festival in 2021.

In Australia her early outdoor dates were at Gosford Showground on the Central Coast in 2008 and 2009, and at The Domain in Sydney on 5 December 2009. In New Zealand she has also played Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland in January 2010 and January 2012, and Riverside Park in Taupō on 2 January 2010, all in the summer-festival window.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Virginia Claire Wigmore was born in Auckland on 6 June 1986. She wrote her first song, 'Angelfire', at 14, inspired by David Gray's White Ladder. After her father died of cancer she stopped playing for a time, then wrote 'Hallelujah' as a tribute to him. Her sister entered it in the US-based International Songwriting Competition in 2004, and Wigmore beat around 11,000 entries from 77 countries to become the youngest and only unsigned Grand Prize winner in the contest's history.

Her debut EP, Extended Play (2008), was produced by Tony Buchen and featured John Butler on ukulele on 'SOS'; it reached No. 10 in New Zealand and went platinum. She was the first artist signed to Island Records in Australia. Holy Smoke (2009), recorded with The Cardinals, the former band of Ryan Adams, gave her the No. 4 single 'Oh My', and all four of its singles were on the New Zealand airplay chart in the same week of May 2010.

For Gravel & Wine (2011) she spent two months in Mississippi and Alabama before recording in California with producer Butch Walker. The album topped the New Zealand chart and reached No. 29 in Australia, and its songs became fixtures of film, TV and advertising: 'Black Sheep' appeared in Grey's Anatomy and Teen Wolf, and 'Kill of the Night' was used by Alfa Romeo in Australia and as the theme of the series Crazyhead. She played the whole of the 2013 Vans Warped Tour in the United States.

Blood to Bone (2015) was her third straight No. 1 in New Zealand and peaked at No. 13 in Australia. 'New Rush' was on the FIFA 16 soundtrack, and 'Willing to Die' featured the American rapper Logic and Suffa of the Hilltop Hoods. Ivory followed in April 2018, named after her son. After a run of standalone singles she returned in 2026 with Beautiful Mess, her fifth album.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: New Zealand first

Every Gin Wigmore concert in the setlist archive since the start of 2016 has been in New Zealand. That reflects both her place in the New Zealand music scene, where three straight No. 1 albums made her a household name, and the logistics of touring from a home base in California with a young family. When she has come home, she has often chosen towns rather than only the three big cities.

The 2023 run is the clearest example. Over a month it went from the Lincoln Event Centre in Canterbury to the Theatre Royal in Nelson, the Smash Palace Bar in Gisborne, the Wellington Waterfront, the Raglan Club, Totara Street in Mount Maunganui, the Sweat Shop Brew Kitchen in Auckland and two nights at the Leigh Sawmill Cafe north of Auckland. Several of those rooms hold a few hundred people, which made for close-up shows from an artist used to much bigger stages abroad.

If a Beautiful Mess tour reaches the region, New Zealand fans have historically had the wider choice of dates. That is a pattern, not an announcement: no 2027 New Zealand date exists yet.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: the Australian connection

Australia played a big part in Wigmore's early career. She was signed to Island Records in Australia before she had a full album out, John Butler played on her first EP, and her first long tour was as Pete Murray's support act in 2008, which took her from Perth and Adelaide to Wodonga, Canberra, Tamworth, Coffs Harbour, Lismore and Toowoomba. Few New Zealand artists have seen as much of regional Australia so early.

Her Australian chart record grew with each of her first three albums, from No. 69 for Holy Smoke to No. 29 for Gravel & Wine and No. 13 for Blood to Bone. 'Willing to Die', with Suffa of the Hilltop Hoods, strengthened that link in 2015, the same year she last toured Australia.

Since the shows at The Foundry in Brisbane and Howler in Melbourne in December 2015, there has been no Australian headline date in the archive. A return would therefore be her first Australian concert in more than a decade.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: from winery stages to theatres

Wineries recur throughout her New Zealand history: Mud House in Waipara and Alana Wines in Martinborough in 2008, the Black Barn Amphitheatre in Hastings in 2015, the Hunting Lodge in Auckland in 2019 and Gibbston Valley in 2021. These summer outdoor shows are a familiar part of New Zealand touring, and they suit her mix of country, blues and rock.

She has also played the country's grand old theatres: the Opera House in Wellington three times (2010 as the State Opera House, 2015 and 2019), the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch in 2015 and 2019, the Regent Theatre in Dunedin, the Theatre Royal in Nelson and the Auckland Town Hall. The Powerstation in Auckland, where she played in 2009 and launched Blood to Bone in 2015, is the club she has returned to most in the city.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane

In Melbourne the archive lists the Forum Theatre (2008), the Toff in Town and the Palace Theatre (2009), two nights at the Workers Club (2012), the Northcote Social Club (2012) and Howler (2015). Sydney has seen her at The Domain (2009), The Standard (2012) and the Newtown Social Club (2015); Brisbane at the Troubadour (2009), the Old Museum and Eatons Hill (2012) and The Foundry (2015).

Those are mostly mid-sized club and theatre rooms, which is where she has headlined in Australia. Whether a future tour would use similar venues is unknown; nothing has been announced.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Wigmore's headline sets in the archive run to about 13 to 16 songs. On the 2012 Australian tour the Northcote Social Club set opened with 'Devil in Me' and 'Poison' and ran through 'Too Late for Lovers', 'If Only', 'These Roses', 'Kill of the Night', 'Under My Skin', 'Man Like That', 'One Last Look' and 'Black Sheep' before 'Singin' My Soul', 'Sweet Hell' and 'Oh My'.

By the end of 2015 the Blood to Bone shows at The Foundry, Howler and the Black Barn Amphitheatre shared an identical 15-song order: 'Willing to Die', 'New Rush', 'Black Parade' and 'Kill of the Night' at the start, 'Black Sheep' in the middle and 'Man Like That', 'Sweet Hell' and 'I Will Love You' at the end. Her Gibbston Valley set in January 2021 kept 'Black Sheep', 'Hey Ho', 'Man Like That', 'Kill of the Night' and 'Sweet Hell' alongside newer songs such as 'HBIC' and 'Girl Gang'.

Most of her New Zealand dates since 2019 have no set list in the archive, so it is not possible to say how much of Beautiful Mess she plays live. The most played songs table below is built from the shows that were documented.

Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

No sale information exists for Gin Wigmore concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. There is no presale, no general sale date and no presale code. Anyone offering tickets or codes now is guessing or selling something that does not yet exist.

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Gin Wigmore Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Gin Wigmore touring Australia in 2027?

Not as of 9 October 2026. No Australian or New Zealand dates for 2027 have been announced.

Does Gin Wigmore have a new album?

Yes. Her fifth album, Beautiful Mess, came out in 2026, preceded by the singles 'Country Diamond' (30 April), 'Beautiful Mess' (5 May) and 'Rodeo' (12 June 2026).

When did Gin Wigmore last play in Australia?

The latest Australian concert in the setlist archive is Howler in Melbourne on 12 December 2015, after The Foundry in Brisbane on 9 December.

When did she last play in New Zealand?

The latest New Zealand date in the archive is McLean Park in Napier on 6 April 2024, after a show at Waiohika Estate in Gisborne on New Year's Eve 2023.

Where is Gin Wigmore from?

She was born in Auckland on 6 June 1986 and has lived in Palm Springs, California, for several years.

What was her biggest album in Australia?

Blood to Bone (2015), which reached No. 13 on the ARIA chart. It was also her third consecutive No. 1 in New Zealand.

Which Sydney venues has she played?

The Domain (2009), The Standard (2012) and the Newtown Social Club (2015), according to the setlist archive.

Has she toured regional Australia?

Yes. As Pete Murray's support act in 2008 she played Wodonga, Canberra, Gosford, Newcastle, Tamworth, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Ipswich and Toowoomba, as well as Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne.

Is there a Gin Wigmore presale code for 2027?

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