Hayley Williams plays her first solo concerts in Australia in February 2027. The Hayley Williams Show comes to the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Wednesday 10 February 2027 and to the Forum in Melbourne a week later, on Wednesday 17 February 2027. Both shows sold out after a registration-based sale.
Australian audiences know her well as the singer of Paramore, who have played arenas, outdoor bowls and festivals here since 2010. These two theatre nights are something different: a solo show drawing on her three albums, Petals for Armor, Flowers for Vases / Descansos and Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, in rooms of around 2,000 people.
This page covers the two confirmed dates and venues, her Laneway Festival appearances in the same weeks, the long Paramore history in Australia and New Zealand, her solo records, and what to do now that both theatre shows have sold out.
The Hayley Williams Show is the touring project she announced for 2026 and 2027, built on material from her whole catalogue. In Europe it runs through June and July 2027, from Milan and Rome to Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Cardiff and London's Alexandra Palace, and she is also a headliner at Primavera Sound in Barcelona in June 2027. The Australian shows come first, in February.
The run is short. Sydney's Enmore Theatre, the 1912 theatre on Enmore Road in Newtown, hosts the first show on Wednesday 10 February 2027. Melbourne's Forum, the 1929 atmospheric theatre on the corner of Flinders and Russell Streets, follows on Wednesday 17 February 2027. There is a full week between the two because she also plays the Laneway Festival in that period.
Tickets were distributed through a registration system designed to keep them away from resellers, and both nights sold out. Tickets have been on sale since Tuesday 22 September 2026, but in practice the only ways in now are the official resale service or an extra show, if one is added.
As of 9 October 2026 there is no Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth headline show, and no New Zealand concert. Her only other Australian appearances in February 2027 are at Laneway in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The Enmore Theatre on Enmore Road in Newtown, in Sydney's inner west, opened in 1912 and was remodelled in Art Deco style in 1937. It holds about 1,700 seated or 2,500 standing and is the longest-running live theatre in Sydney.
An atmospheric theatre on the corner of Flinders and Russell Streets, opened on 23 February 1929 as the State Theatre and designed by John Eberson, with a Moorish exterior and a starry blue ceiling. A live music venue since 1995, it holds about 2,000 standing.
Wednesday 10 February 2027 — Enmore Theatre, Sydney. This is the opening night of the run.
Wednesday 17 February 2027 — Forum Melbourne, Melbourne. The run finishes here.
Hayley Williams has never played a solo concert in Australia or New Zealand, so the concert table on this page has no rows yet. Her history here is as the singer of Paramore, and it is a long one, documented in the band's tour articles from 2010 onwards.
On the Brand New Eyes World Tour, Paramore came twice in 2010. In February and March they played the Soundwave Festival in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, with headline sideshows at The Tivoli in Brisbane on 19 February, Festival Hall in Melbourne on 23 February and Luna Park in Sydney on 24 February, before New Zealand dates at Trusts Stadium in Auckland on 4 March and the Westpac Centre in Christchurch on 5 March. In October 2010 they returned to arenas: Wellington's TSB Bank Arena and Auckland's Vector Arena, then Challenge Stadium in Perth, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, the Sydney Entertainment Centre and the Riverstage in Brisbane on 17 October.
Paramore were back for Soundwave in early 2013, again in all five mainland cities, and then headlined the Self-Titled Tour in January 2014 with Twenty One Pilots, plus You Me at Six in Australia: the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 9 January, Allphones Arena in Sydney on 11 January, the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 12 January, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 14 January, Perth Arena on 16 January and Vector Arena in Auckland on 19 January 2014.
The After Laughter Tour came to the region in February 2018 with Bleachers as support: Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 8 February, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 9 February, the Riverstage in Brisbane on 11 February and Spark Arena in Auckland on 13 February. Sydney's arena at Olympic Park appears in these articles under two of its names, Allphones Arena in 2014 and Qudos Bank Arena in 2018.
The most recent Paramore visit was the This Is Why Tour in November 2023. It opened at Spark Arena in Auckland on 18 November, then played two nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 22 and 23 November, The Domain in Sydney on 25 November and three nights at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 27, 28 and 30 November 2023.
The 2027 theatre shows are therefore her smallest Australian concerts in well over a decade, and the first under her own name. The closest comparison is February 2010, when Paramore played Soundwave sideshows at The Tivoli in Brisbane, Festival Hall in Melbourne and Luna Park in Sydney.
Hayley Williams is one of the two headliners of Laneway Festival 2027, announced on 30 September 2026 alongside Fontaines D.C. She is billed for Sydney at Centennial Park on 12 February, Brisbane at the Brisbane Showgrounds on 13 February and Melbourne in Flemington on 19 February 2027. She is not on the Auckland date at Western Springs on 21 February.
These are her first Australian festival appearances as a solo performer. With Paramore she played the Soundwave Festival twice, in 2010 and 2013, in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. The 2010 edition put the band alongside Faith No More, AFI, You Me at Six, All Time Low, A Day to Remember and Taking Back Sunday.
Laneway tickets are sold separately from the theatre shows. For fans who missed out on the Enmore and the Forum, the festival is the other confirmed way to see her in Australia in February 2027.
Hayley Nichole Williams was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on 27 December 1988 and moved to Franklin, Tennessee, with her mother at 13. There she met Josh and Zac Farro and Jeremy Davis, and together they formed Paramore. Atlantic Records signed her as a young teenager with plans to make her a solo pop artist, but she insisted on being in a band, and Paramore's records came out through Fueled by Ramen.
Paramore released All We Know Is Falling in 2005, when she was 16, followed by Riot! (2007), Brand New Eyes (2009), Paramore (2013), After Laughter (2017) and This Is Why (2023). She is the only member on all six albums, and with Taylor York she won the 2015 Grammy for best rock song for "Ain't It Fun". Outside the band she sang on B.o.B's "Airplanes", a US number two in 2010, and on Taylor Swift's "Castles Crumbling" in 2023.
Her solo career began in January 2020 with the single "Simmer" and the EP Petals for Armor I. The full album Petals for Armor came out on 8 May 2020 and reached number six in Australia; the Petals for Armor Tour planned for 2020 was cancelled. Flowers for Vases / Descansos, her second solo album, followed on 5 February 2021.
Between albums she has kept up a long list of collaborations. In 2025 she worked with Turnstile on "Seein' Stars", released "I Like It I Like It" with Moses Sumney, and appeared on David Byrne's album Who Is the Sky? and on Jay Som's Belong. She also founded the hair dye company Good Dye Young; in July 2025 the first Ego Death songs were unlocked on her website with a passcode shared through it.
Her third album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, appeared in stages in summer 2025: songs were shared through her website in late July, released as stand-alone singles on 1 August, and gathered as an album on 28 August 2025 on her own label, Post Atlantic. It reached number 17 in Australia and brought Grammy nominations at the 2026 ceremony, including best alternative music album. In 2026 she also started the project Power Snatch with producer Daniel James. In 2023 Billboard ranked her the 13th greatest rock lead singer of all time.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Petals for Armor | 2020 | AUS 6 |
| Flowers for Vases / Descansos | 2021 | — |
| Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party | 2025 | AUS 17 |
On her last visit, in November 2023, Hayley Williams sang to three Rod Laver Arena crowds in Melbourne and an outdoor audience at The Domain in Sydney. In February 2027 she plays the Enmore Theatre and the Forum, each around 2,000 to 2,500 people.
The Hayley Williams Show is presented as an intimate set drawn from three solo albums, and theatres suit that better than arenas. It also explains why both nights sold out so quickly: the demand of an arena act met the capacity of a theatre.
Sydney comes first on Wednesday 10 February 2027 at the Enmore Theatre in Newtown, in the inner west. It is a 1912 theatre remodelled in Art Deco style in 1937 and the longest-running live theatre in the city.
Melbourne follows on Wednesday 17 February at the Forum, opened in 1929 as the State Theatre, with a Moorish exterior and a ceiling painted as a starry sky. Between the two she is due at Laneway in Sydney and Brisbane, and Melbourne's Laneway on 19 February comes two days after the Forum show.
Brisbane gets Hayley Williams only at Laneway, at the Brisbane Showgrounds on 13 February 2027. There is no headline show in the city, which has seen Paramore at The Tivoli, the Riverstage and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
Adelaide and Perth have no date at all in 2027 as of 9 October 2026. Both cities were regular Paramore stops in 2010 and 2014, at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Challenge Stadium and Perth Arena, but neither had a Paramore show on the 2018 or 2023 tours.
New Zealand has had Paramore many times: Trusts Stadium and the Westpac Centre in Christchurch in March 2010, TSB Bank Arena in Wellington and Vector Arena in October 2010, Vector Arena again in January 2014, and Spark Arena in 2018 and 2023.
For 2027 there is no New Zealand date. Laneway's Auckland edition at Western Springs on 21 February 2027 goes ahead without her, and no solo show across the Tasman had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
The two Australian theatre nights are the first confirmed headline shows of The Hayley Williams Show in 2027. The European leg follows four months later: Carroponte in Milan on 7 June, the Cavea of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome on 8 June, Forest National in Brussels on 14 June, the Zénith Paris – La Villette on 16 June and AFAS Live in Amsterdam on 17 June 2027.
The UK and Ireland come next, with the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on 23 June, Slane Castle on 26 June as a guest of Fontaines D.C., the Utilita Arena in Cardiff on 30 June and Alexandra Palace in London on 2 July 2027. She is also on the Primavera Sound bill in Barcelona, held from 2 to 6 June 2027.
Several of those European rooms are arenas, much larger than the Enmore and the Forum. That contrast is one reason Australian fans who hold tickets for February are seeing her in unusually small venues for an artist of her profile.
There is no Australian solo set list to look at yet. The Hayley Williams Show draws on all three solo albums, so the pool of songs runs from "Simmer", "Leave It Alone" and "Dead Horse" on Petals for Armor through Flowers for Vases / Descansos to the singles from Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, including "Mirtazapine", "Parachute" and "Glum".
The Australian announcement promised the three solo records with "a selection of surprises"; whether that includes Paramore songs has not been stated. The detailed running order for the 2027 shows has not been published.
The Laneway sets will be shorter festival slots on stages shared with Fontaines D.C. and many others, so the theatre shows in Sydney and Melbourne are the longer versions of the show.
Tickets for both shows have been on sale since Tuesday 22 September 2026, through a registration-based sale run with the venues' official outlets. Both the Enmore Theatre and the Forum sold out. If you registered and received tickets, they are usually tied to your account and name, so keep them in the official app until the night.
There is no Hayley Williams presale code to buy or share, and no one can sell you a "guaranteed" ticket for a sold-out show. Official resale through the original seller reissues the ticket in your name. Use the official resale service only, and watch for returns closer to the dates.
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When is Hayley Williams playing Australia?
At the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Wednesday 10 February 2027 and the Forum in Melbourne on Wednesday 17 February 2027.
Are tickets still available?
Both shows sold out after a registration-based sale. Use the official resale service only.
Is this her first solo tour of Australia?
Yes. She has played Australia many times with Paramore, but these are her first solo concerts here.
Is she playing Laneway Festival 2027?
Yes, in Sydney (12 February), Brisbane (13 February) and Melbourne (19 February 2027), co-headlining with Fontaines D.C.
Is Hayley Williams playing New Zealand?
No. She is not on Laneway's Auckland date and no New Zealand show had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
When was she last in Australia?
With Paramore on the This Is Why Tour in November 2023, ending with three nights at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.
Will she play Paramore songs?
The show is built on her three solo albums with some surprises; Paramore songs have not been announced.
Is there a Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth show?
Brisbane only at Laneway on 13 February 2027. No Adelaide or Perth date had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
What is her latest album?
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, released on 28 August 2025, which reached number 17 in Australia.
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