Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027

Hockey Dad have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no national tour, no festival booking and no New Zealand date published for the duo next year, so this page sets out what is known, what is not, and where they have played at home over the last decade.

Zach Stephenson and Billy Fleming grew up on the same street in Windang, on the New South Wales south coast near Wollongong, and formed Hockey Dad in 2013. They have released four studio albums, from Boronia in 2016 to Rebuild Repeat in 2024, and two of them reached the top ten of the ARIA Albums Chart: Blend Inn at No. 6 and Brain Candy at No. 2. On stage they are joined by touring bassist Steve Bourke.

Few Australian rock bands of their size tour as widely. Their documented shows run from big rooms such as the Hordern Pavilion and Margaret Court Arena to beach pubs, surf clubs and, on the recent Bowlo Tour, bowling clubs, with regular trips to New Zealand from Auckland and Wellington to Raglan, Queenstown and Mount Maunganui.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

No Hockey Dad tour of Australia or New Zealand has been announced for 2027. The band's most recent touring has been the Bowlo Tour, a run of bowling club and coastal shows that began with a hometown night at Club Windang on Friday 3 October 2025 and included two nights at Marrickville Bowling Club in Sydney on 9 and 10 January 2026. The latest show in the setlist archive is at The Station Resort in Jindabyne on Wednesday 12 August 2026.

The last full national headline tour was the Rebuild Repeat Australian Tour in June and July 2024, which followed the release of their fourth album. It opened at The Rechabite in Perth on 21 June and played Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide, Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 6 July 2024, with The Belair Lip Bombs in support. A North American tour followed later that year.

Since then the band have released The Clip EP in 2025, and in 2026 Zach Stephenson released his first solo album, I Needed To Hear Me Say It. A solo record does not mean the band has stopped, but there is no announcement yet of a fifth Hockey Dad album or of the tour that would normally come with it.

Until there is official news, treat any list of 2027 dates, any ticket listing and any presale code for Hockey Dad with caution. When dates are confirmed for Australia or New Zealand they will be added to this page, and the alert below will tell you straight away.

Before the Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Hockey Dad's first New Zealand shows in the setlist archive came in September 2016, the year of Boronia: the Whammy Bar in Auckland on Thursday 22 September and Moon in Wellington on Saturday 24 September 2016. Wikipedia lists the Boronia Tour (2016), the Benefit of the Doubt Tour (2017) and the Join the Club Tour (2018) as their early national runs in Australia, along with a Blend Inn tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2018, which in the archive includes Meow in Wellington on 5 April and the Yot Club in Raglan on 7 April 2018.

In January 2020 the duo played Albert Park in Auckland on Monday 27 January, on a festival bill that also included King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Beths, Marlon Williams and Benee. Later that year Wikipedia records Alive at the Drive-In among their tours, and the Brain Candy Tour followed in 2022. In May 2022 they were back in New Zealand on large stages, at Spark Arena in Auckland on 14 May, the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington on 15 May and the Christchurch Town Hall on 19 May, the same nights as Ocean Alley's New Zealand shows at those venues.

2023 was a long year on the road. After La La La's in Wollongong on 22 February and outdoor dates at Rosebud and Geelong in March, the band played capital-city rooms in winter: The Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday 24 June, Metropolis Fremantle on 30 June, the Forum in Melbourne on 7 July, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Friday 14 July and Adelaide Showground on 21 July. Wikipedia lists the Hockey Fields Tour, co-headlined with Ruby Fields, in 2023. A regional run followed in November, from the Hoey Moey in Coffs Harbour and Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast to Castlemaine, Torquay, Mackay, Airlie Beach, Townsville and the Edge Hill Tavern in Cairns, with New Zealand club dates at San Fran in Wellington and The Tuning Fork in Auckland, and a New Year's Eve show at the North Wollongong Hotel.

The Rebuild Repeat Australian Tour of 2024 was their biggest headline run in the archive. In the week before it, the duo played short acoustic-style sets in independent record shops in Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth; those promotional appearances are not counted in the concert table. The tour itself played The Rechabite in Perth on Friday 21 June, Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide on 22 June, Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on 29 June, Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Friday 5 July and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Saturday 6 July 2024.

December 2024 brought club shows at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne, Jive in Adelaide, The Outpost in Brisbane, the Lansdowne Hotel in Sydney and The Station in Newcastle, then The Farm at Wonthaggi on 30 December. In February 2025 the band toured New Zealand's smaller towns and clubs: San Fran in Wellington, the Loons Club in Lyttelton, Yonder in Queenstown, The Tuning Fork in Auckland, Yard Music Bar in Raglan and Totara Street in Mount Maunganui. Australian dates in 2025 included Flagstaff Hill in Wollongong, the Kings Beach Tavern in Caloundra, the King Street Hotel in Newcastle, the Pier Bandroom in Melbourne and Liberty Hall in Sydney on 30 August.

The Bowlo Tour then took them to Club Windang, Pambula Beach, Bangalow Bowling Club, Redbanks at Nugent in Tasmania on New Year's Eve 2025, Marrickville Bowling Club for two nights in January 2026 and Frankston Waterfront in February. Locale Event Space in Midland, near Perth, on 21 March and The Station Resort in Jindabyne on 12 August 2026 are the most recent dates.

The table below lists 68 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Hockey Dad between 2016 and 2026, with the most shows in Melbourne (6), Sydney (6), Auckland (5), Wellington (5), Newcastle (3), Wollongong (3). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Hockey Dad 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 (22 June 2024 to 12 August 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Join the Club — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Safety Pin — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Seaweed — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Still Have Room — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Wreck & Ruin — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Base Camp — played at 13 of 15 shows
7. Babes — played at 12 of 15 shows
8. I Missed Out — played at 12 of 15 shows
9. I Wanna Be Everybody — played at 10 of 15 shows
10. Homely Feeling — played at 9 of 15 shows
11. Unhinged — played at 9 of 15 shows
12. Sweet Release — played at 8 of 15 shows
13. All Hat No Cattle — played at 6 of 15 shows
14. Barn Boiler — played at 6 of 15 shows

Before the Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Bowlo Tour (2025–2026): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Bangalow, Nugent, Sydney, Melbourne.
• Bowl Tour (2025): 1 Australia/NZ show — Windang.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

The setlist archive includes many outdoor and festival-style dates for Hockey Dad, though it does not always name the event: Albert Park in Auckland in January 2020, Rosebud Village Green and Cunningham Pier in Geelong in March 2023, Adelaide Showground in July 2023, the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart and Point Malcolm Reserve in Adelaide in 2024, the Agriplex in Burnie in January 2025, Flagstaff Hill in Wollongong in March 2025 and the Meadowlands Amphitheatre in Mackay in August 2025.

Their festival sets are shorter than a headline show, typically 12 songs: at Flagstaff Hill on 2 March 2025 they played 'Base Camp', 'Beach House', 'Unhinged', 'I Wanna Be Everybody', 'Homely Feeling', 'Wreck & Ruin', 'Safety Pin', 'I Need a Woman', 'I Missed Out', 'Still Have Room', 'Join the Club' and 'Seaweed'.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Zach Stephenson (lead vocals, guitar) and Billy Fleming (drums and backing vocals) met in 1999 as small children playing football in their street in Windang. In high school they played together in a band called Abstract Classic before forming Hockey Dad in 2013; the name comes from a video game seen in a 2003 episode of The Simpsons. Their debut EP, Dreamin', came out in June 2014, and later that year they signed to the Wollongong independent label Farmer & the Owl.

The band name 1960s garage rock as their main influence, along with Bass Drum of Death, Sparkadia and Band of Horses. Fleming has spoken of his older brother's 1990s punk records, and Stephenson of his father's collection of 1980s Australian punk and rock. That mix of surf rock, punk and Australian guitar pop runs through all their records.

Boronia (2016) reached No. 55 on the ARIA Albums Chart and was followed by a North American tour in 2017. Blend Inn (2018) went to No. 6, and Brain Candy (2020) to No. 2, the band's highest placing. Rebuild Repeat (2024) reached No. 15, and the EP The Clip followed in 2025.

Hockey Dad have been recognised at the APRA Awards, the J Awards, the National Live Music Awards and the Rolling Stone Australia Awards, according to Wikipedia. In 2026 Stephenson stepped out with his solo album I Needed To Hear Me Say It, led by the single 'In N Out', with backing vocals from Maisie Everett of The Belair Lip Bombs.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: the Bowlo Tour

The Bowlo Tour of 2025-26 is the clearest picture of how Hockey Dad like to play now. Instead of arenas, the duo booked bowling clubs and coastal venues, starting with a hometown show at Club Windang on 3 October 2025, where the 17-song set included rarer songs such as 'Heavy Assault' and 'Bad Thang'. Bangalow Bowling Club followed on 10 October, then Redbanks at Nugent on New Year's Eve.

The two nights at Marrickville Bowling Club in Sydney, on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 January 2026, had 17 and 18 songs, opening with 'Join the Club' and 'Lifeline' and closing with 'Seaweed' and either 'Sweet Release' or 'Germaphobe' and 'Purple Sneakers'. These are small rooms, which is why the shows sold quickly and why fans outside the big cities should watch for any new run of this kind.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: Wollongong and the south coast

The band's home region appears again and again in the archive: La La La's in Wollongong in February 2023, the North Wollongong Hotel on New Year's Eve 2023, Flagstaff Hill in March 2025, Club Windang in October 2025 and Pambula Beach the next day. Fleming and Stephenson still describe themselves as Windang locals, and those shows tend to be the most celebratory nights of any tour.

Wollongong also sits on almost every NSW leg because it is so close to Sydney. If a 2027 tour is announced, a south coast date is very likely to be part of it, but nothing has been confirmed.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: New Zealand from Auckland to Queenstown

Hockey Dad have played New Zealand at least six times since 2016. Their visits range from support-sized shows in big venues, such as Spark Arena and the Michael Fowler Centre in May 2022, to a club tour in February 2025 that reached Lyttelton, Queenstown, Raglan and Mount Maunganui as well as Wellington and Auckland.

Raglan has been a favourite stop, with the Yot Club in April 2018 and Yard Music Bar in February 2025. Wellington has hosted them at Moon, Meow and San Fran, and Auckland at the Whammy Bar, Albert Park, Spark Arena and The Tuning Fork. No New Zealand date is announced for 2027.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: from theatres to arenas

The Rebuild Repeat tour put Hockey Dad in their largest headline rooms: Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney in July 2024. The Hordern show had a 19-song set opening with 'Base Camp' and 'Germaphobe' and finishing with 'Join the Club', 'Road Signs' and 'Babes'.

A year earlier they had played the Enmore Theatre, the Forum and The Tivoli. That steady climb, combined with their love of small regional rooms, means a future tour could look either way: a big-room capital-city run or another set of pubs and clubs.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Hockey Dad headline show usually has between 15 and 19 songs and lasts a little over an hour. The duo play loud and fast, with Stephenson on guitar and lead vocals, Fleming on drums and a touring bassist filling out the sound. Recent sets have opened with 'Join the Club', 'Base Camp' or 'Laura'.

Across the documented set lists, the most played songs are 'Seaweed' and 'Join the Club', followed by 'Safety Pin', 'Wreck & Ruin', 'Still Have Room', 'I Wanna Be Everybody', 'Babes' and 'I Missed Out'. 'Seaweed' and 'Babes' often close the night. At The Station Resort in Jindabyne on 12 August 2026 the 17-song set began with 'Laura' and 'Wreck & Ruin' and also featured 'Bobby', 'No Subtlety' and 'Purple Sneakers'.

The 2024 arena shows drew heavily on Rebuild Repeat, with 'Base Camp', 'Germaphobe', 'Itch', 'Keg' and 'That's on You', while the Bowlo Tour sets added 'Lifeline', 'Hole', 'Barn Boiler' and 'All Hat No Cattle'.

Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

No Hockey Dad tickets for Australia or New Zealand in 2027 are on sale, because no concerts have been announced. Any site selling 2027 seats or offering a presale code for the band now is not official.

When new dates are announced, tickets are sold through the official ticket agent named in the announcement and through the venue, sometimes after a fan presale. Many of the band's venues are small clubs and pubs, so shows can sell out on the first morning. Buy only from official outlets, expect name-linked mobile tickets at many venues, and use only the official resale option if you cannot go. Be careful with anyone selling 'presale codes'.

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Hockey Dad Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are Hockey Dad touring Australia in 2027?

No 2027 Australian or New Zealand dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026.

What was the Bowlo Tour?

A run of bowling club and coastal shows that started at Club Windang on 3 October 2025 and included two nights at Marrickville Bowling Club in Sydney on 9 and 10 January 2026.

When did Hockey Dad last play Sydney?

At Marrickville Bowling Club on Saturday 10 January 2026.

When did Hockey Dad last play Melbourne?

At Frankston Waterfront on 7 February 2026, listed under Melbourne in the setlist archive.

When was Hockey Dad's last national headline tour?

The Rebuild Repeat Australian Tour, from The Rechabite in Perth on 21 June to the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 6 July 2024.

When did Hockey Dad last play New Zealand?

In February 2025, from San Fran in Wellington on 6 February to Totara Street in Mount Maunganui on 15 February.

Where are Hockey Dad from?

Windang, on the New South Wales south coast near Wollongong.

What is Hockey Dad's latest album?

Rebuild Repeat (2024), which reached No. 15 in Australia; the EP The Clip followed in 2025.

Is there a presale code for Hockey Dad 2027?

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