Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027

Hilltop Hoods have not announced a 2027 headline tour of Australia or New Zealand. As of 9 October 2026, the Adelaide trio's only publicised booking that falls in 2027 is a festival date: they head the bill of the Castaway Festival, whose 2026-27 run ends in Wollongong on Saturday 20 March 2027. There is no arena tour, no New Zealand date and no standalone club run on the calendar for next year.

Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris have just completed one of the biggest tours of their career. The Never Coming Home Tour, built around their ninth album Fall from the Light, opened at MyState Bank Arena in Hobart on Saturday 14 February 2026 and played two nights each in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane before closing at RAC Arena in Perth on Saturday 21 March 2026.

This page sets out what is and is not known about Hilltop Hoods in 2027, then follows their concerts in Australia and New Zealand across two decades, from Big Day Out and Falls Festival stages to the orchestral Restrung shows and their arena tours. The table below lists every documented date, and the setlist section shows the songs they play most often at home.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official Hilltop Hoods headline tour for 2027. Their latest album, Fall from the Light, came out on 1 August 2025 and was toured nationally in February and March 2026, so a second arena run so soon would be unusual. In the past, the group has followed each album with a single major national tour and then a period of festival dates.

That is the pattern again for the 2026-27 summer. Hilltop Hoods are announced as headliners of the Castaway Festival alongside Violent Soho and Amy Shark, with Playlunch, Trials, Lyric and Birdland also on the line-up. The festival plays Whitfords Nodes Park in Hillarys, Western Australia, on Saturday 21 November 2026 and Mornington in Victoria on Saturday 12 December 2026, before its last date in Wollongong, New South Wales, on Saturday 20 March 2027.

No New Zealand concert is announced for 2026 or 2027. The group's most recent New Zealand show in the archive is the Ngaio Marsh Theatre in Christchurch on Sunday 3 September 2023.

Beyond the Castaway date, treat any listing of a 2027 Hilltop Hoods tour, or any '2027 presale code', with suspicion. If the group announces new Australian or New Zealand concerts, this page will be updated, and you can sign up below for the alert.

Before the Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Hilltop Hoods have played Australia more widely than almost any other hip hop act. Their early national tours are not well documented in the setlist archive, but Wikipedia records the key steps: The Hard Road Tour in early 2006, followed the same year by The Stopping All Stations Tour, which reached regional towns as well as the capitals with Koolism and Mystro in support; a 2007 run with a Sydney string quartet; and two national tours in 2009 for State of the Art, starting on 18 July and 11 November. In December 2011 they supported Eminem and Lil Wayne on the Australian leg of Eminem's world tour.

The Cosby Sweater Tour of late 2014, with Thundamentals and K21 in support, is the first run with a detailed list of dates. It began at Ollie Robbins Oval in Dubbo on Saturday 1 November 2014 and visited the Adelaide Showground, the Old Mount Gambier Gaol, Melbourne, the Kinross Woolshed Hotel in Albury, Coffs Harbour Showground, the Marquee in Brisbane, Macquarie Wharf 2 in Hobart, Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton and the Red Hill Auditorium in Perth on 6 December 2014, with a final show at the Domain in Sydney on Friday 16 January 2015.

In 2016 the group took the Restrung project on the road with an orchestra: Allphones Arena in Sydney on Saturday 2 April, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and a final night at Perth Arena on Saturday 30 April 2016. Three years later the Great Expanse tour played two nights at Rod Laver Arena, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, two nights at the Riverstage in Brisbane, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 31 August and RAC Arena in Perth on Saturday 7 September 2019.

Earlier in 2019 they had opened for Eminem in stadiums: QSAC in Brisbane on Wednesday 20 February, ANZ Stadium in Sydney, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Optus Stadium in Perth and Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Saturday 2 March 2019. In February 2020 they returned to ANZ Stadium for Fire Fight Australia, the bushfire relief concert.

The Show Business Tour of 2022 played one arena per city on consecutive Saturdays: the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 27 August, Qudos Bank Arena on 3 September, Rod Laver Arena on 10 September, RAC Arena on 17 September and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Saturday 24 September 2022. The Never Coming Home Tour of 2026 doubled up: after Hobart's MyState Bank Arena on 14 February, it played two nights each at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre (20 and 21 February), Qudos Bank Arena (27 and 28 February), Rod Laver Arena (6 and 7 March) and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre (13 and 14 March), ending at RAC Arena in Perth on 21 March 2026.

New Zealand has seen the group less often. The archive lists Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland in January 2008 and January 2010, a 2014 run through Loco in Queenstown (two nights), Platform in Auckland and San Fran in Wellington in late June 2014, club shows at Studio The Venue in Auckland, San Fran and the Foundry in Christchurch in July 2019, and the Ngaio Marsh Theatre in Christchurch in September 2023.

The table below lists 107 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Hilltop Hoods between 2008 and 2026, with the most shows in Melbourne (10), Adelaide (10), Brisbane (9), Sydney (9), Perth (7), Byron Bay (6). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Hilltop Hoods 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 (23 July 2023 to 21 March 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. I Love It — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. The Nosebleed Section — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. 1955 — played at 14 of 15 shows
4. Chase That Feeling — played at 14 of 15 shows
5. Cosby Sweater — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Exit Sign — played at 14 of 15 shows
7. Leave Me Lonely — played at 14 of 15 shows
8. Clark Griswold — played at 13 of 15 shows
9. Won't Let You Down — played at 13 of 15 shows
10. Live and Let Go — played at 11 of 15 shows
11. Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom — played at 11 of 15 shows
12. Fall From The Light — played at 10 of 15 shows
13. Higher — played at 10 of 15 shows
14. Never Coming Home — played at 10 of 15 shows

Before the Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Never Coming Home Tour (2026): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth.
• The Show Business Tour (2022): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide.
• The Great Expanse World Tour (2019): 1 Australia/NZ show — Perth.
• The Restrung Tour (2016): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth.
• Cosby Sweater Tour (2014–2015): 11 Australia/NZ shows — Dubbo, Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Melbourne, Albury, Coffs Harbour, Brisbane, Hobart, Busselton, Perth, Sydney.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Festivals run through the whole Hilltop Hoods story. Wikipedia lists appearances at the Big Day Out, Southbound, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Bassinthegrass, Groovin the Moo, Falls Festival, Pyramid Rock, Homebake and others. They played Bass in the Grass in Darwin on 27 April 2006, Homebake and Falls Festival at the end of 2006, headlined Pyramid Rock on Phillip Island over New Year's Eve 2007, played the Big Day Out in 2008, Groovin the Moo in Townsville, Maitland and Bendigo in 2009, and were one of the two headliners of Homebake in Sydney on Saturday 8 December 2012, with Blondie.

At Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay in July 2014, Suffa used the introduction to 'Speaking in Tongues' to tell the crowd that the group did not care about anyone's race, religion, sex or sexuality, a statement the band later called very important to them. The setlist archive adds many more festival-style dates at North Byron Parklands, Marion Bay, Lorne, Mount Duneed Estate, Maitland and Bendigo showgrounds, Exhibition Park in Canberra, Mindil Beach in Darwin and, more recently, Lake Breeze Wines at Langhorne Creek, Pineapple Fields at Woombye, Ebenezer Park in Tweed Heads and Memorial Park in The Entrance in late 2025.

The 2026-27 Castaway Festival continues that tradition, with the group headlining in Hillarys, Mornington and, on 20 March 2027, Wollongong.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Hilltop Hoods formed in Adelaide in the mid-1990s. Suffa (Matthew Lambert) and Pressure (Daniel Smith) met at Blackwood High School in Eden Hills, and the name comes from the local nickname for Blackwood, 'the Hilltop'. DJ Next completed the original line-up; after the debut album A Matter of Time (1999) he left, and DJ Debris (Barry Francis) became the group's full-time DJ. Left Foot, Right Foot followed in 2001.

The Calling (2003), recorded on Suffa's mother's computer, became the first Australian hip hop album to be certified platinum, and 'The Nosebleed Section' later ranked second in the Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs. The Hard Road (2006) was the first Australian hip hop album to reach number one on the ARIA chart, and its orchestral remake, The Hard Road: Restrung, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, followed in 2007.

State of the Art (2009), with 'Chase That Feeling', Drinking from the Sun (2012), led by 'I Love It' with Sia, and Walking Under Stars (2014), with 'Cosby Sweater', all reached number one. The Great Expanse (2019) gave them a sixth chart-topper and set an ARIA record for number one albums by an Australian group. The group has won seven ARIA Awards and, as of January 2026, holds the record for the most songs in the Triple J Hottest 100, with 27.

After singles such as 'Show Business' and 'Laced Up', the ninth studio album Fall from the Light was released on 1 August 2025. Recorded in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne and New Zealand, it features 'The Gift' with Marlon, 'Don't Happy, Be Worry', the Adelaide singer Nyassa and the New Zealand band Six60, and it debuted at number one.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: Adelaide, the home city

Adelaide is where it all started, and it remains central to the group's live story. Their concert film Parade of the Dead (2010) was shot at the former Adelaide Gaol, they played the Adelaide 500 race concerts, and both Restrung albums were made with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

On tour, Adelaide has grown from showground dates in 2014 to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in 2016, 2019 and 2022, and two nights at the same arena on 20 and 21 February 2026. The Castaway Festival of 2026-27 does not include an Adelaide date.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: touring the regions

Hilltop Hoods have always gone beyond the capital cities. The Stopping All Stations Tour of 2006 was built around regional Australia, and the Cosby Sweater Tour of 2014 opened in Dubbo and visited Mount Gambier, Albury, Coffs Harbour and Busselton as well as the capitals.

Festival circuits have taken them to Bunbury, Bendigo, Maitland, Townsville, Shepparton, Sale, Lucindale, Coffs Harbour and the Sunshine Coast hinterland over the years. The Castaway Festival continues that pattern with Hillarys, Mornington and Wollongong rather than the big city centres.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: New Zealand and the trans-Tasman link

New Zealand connections run through the group's recent music: Fall from the Light was partly recorded in New Zealand and features Six60, and Walking Under Stars included the New Zealand soul singer Aaradhna. On stage, though, New Zealand visits have been occasional.

The archive shows festival stadium dates at Mount Smart in Auckland in 2008 and 2010, a club tour in June 2014 with two nights in Queenstown, the Eminem support at Westpac Stadium in Wellington in March 2019, club shows in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in July 2019 and the Ngaio Marsh Theatre in Christchurch in September 2023. No New Zealand date has been announced for 2026 or 2027.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: the orchestral shows

The Restrung projects set Hilltop Hoods apart from most hip hop acts. The Hard Road: Restrung (2007) reworked their breakthrough album with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and the 2016 Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung was taken on a national arena tour with an orchestra in April 2016, ending at Perth Arena on 30 April.

In 2022 the group said a third instalment, The Great Expanse Restrung, was planned but 'won't be out anytime soon'. No release date or orchestral tour has been announced.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Hilltop Hoods arena show now runs to about 19 to 22 songs. The Never Coming Home sets of 2026 opened with 'Leave Me Lonely' and 'Chase That Feeling', went back to 'The Nosebleed Section', played new songs such as 'Fall From The Light', 'The Gift' and 'Don't Happy, Be Worry', and covered every era with '1955', 'I Love It', 'Won't Let You Down', 'Clark Griswold', 'Exit Sign', 'Higher' and 'Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom', before closing with 'Still Standing' and 'Cosby Sweater'. Some nights included a drum solo and the title song 'Never Coming Home'.

Festival sets are shorter, often 10 to 15 songs, but keep the big singalongs. The list of most-played songs below is drawn from the most recent Australian and New Zealand shows with full set lists.

For the Castaway Festival dates, including Wollongong on 20 March 2027, expect a headline-length festival set rather than the full arena production.

Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There is no Hilltop Hoods headline tour on sale for 2027. The only announced 2027 appearance is the Castaway Festival in Wollongong on 20 March 2027, sold as a festival ticket covering the full line-up, and festival tickets have been on sale since late August 2026.

If the group announces a 2027 tour, buy only through the official outlet named in the announcement or the venue box office, expect name-linked mobile tickets, and avoid 'presale codes' that appear before the general sale.

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Hilltop Hoods Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are Hilltop Hoods touring Australia in 2027?

No headline tour is announced as of 9 October 2026. Their only announced 2027 date is the Castaway Festival in Wollongong on Saturday 20 March 2027.

When did Hilltop Hoods last tour Australia?

On the Never Coming Home Tour, from Hobart on 14 February to Perth on 21 March 2026.

Where are Hilltop Hoods playing in late 2026?

At the Castaway Festival in Hillarys, WA, on 21 November and in Mornington, Victoria, on 12 December 2026.

Who else is on the Castaway Festival line-up?

Violent Soho and Amy Shark are co-headliners, with Playlunch, Trials, Lyric and Birdland.

Are Hilltop Hoods playing New Zealand?

Nothing is announced. Their last NZ show in the archive is the Ngaio Marsh Theatre in Christchurch on 3 September 2023.

When did Hilltop Hoods last play Adelaide?

Two nights at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 20 and 21 February 2026.

How many number one albums do Hilltop Hoods have?

Seven albums have reached number one in Australia: six studio albums from The Hard Road (2006) to Fall from the Light (2025), plus the 2016 Restrung album.

Is there a Hilltop Hoods presale code for 2027?

No headline tour has been announced, so any code offered online for one is not official.

How long is a Hilltop Hoods concert?

On the 2026 arena tour they played about 19 to 22 songs a night.