Holly Humberstone brings her second album, Cruel World, to Australia in February 2027. The four-date headline tour opens at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 4 February 2027, then moves to The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Monday 8 February, Forum Melbourne on Wednesday 10 February and the Astor Theatre in Perth on Friday 12 February.
Holly Hebe is the support act on all four nights. There are no New Zealand dates on this run, and no Adelaide show; Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth each get a single night in a mid-sized theatre.
It will be the singer from Grantham's fourth visit in five years. She first played Australia in July 2022, returned for summer dates around New Year 2024, and spent much of November 2025 here, mixing large outdoor shows with her own club gigs. Tickets for the 2027 dates have been on sale since Wednesday 26 August 2026.
Tickets for the February 2027 dates went on sale on Wednesday 26 August 2026. Wikipedia lists her current headline run as the Cruel World Tour, spanning 2026 and 2027; in Australia the dates are billed simply as her 2027 Australian tour.
The route is compact: Sydney first, at the Enmore Theatre on Thursday 4 February; Brisbane on Monday 8 February at The Fortitude Music Hall, where she also played in January 2024; Melbourne on Wednesday 10 February at Forum Melbourne on Flinders Street; and Perth on Friday 12 February at the Astor Theatre in Mount Lawley.
The venues are a clear step up from her own club shows on the last visit, when she played Max Watt's in Melbourne, The Triffid in Brisbane, The Factory Theatre in Sydney and Freo.Social in Fremantle. The Enmore holds about 2,500 standing, the Fortitude about 3,000 and the Forum about 2,000.
Holly Hebe opens every show. As of 9 October 2026 no New Zealand or Adelaide date had been added; Auckland's only Humberstone headline show so far remains The Tuning Fork in July 2022.
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.
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.
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.
The Astor Theatre on Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley opened in 1914 as the Lyceum Theatre and was rebuilt in Art Deco style in 1939. Listed on the State Register of Heritage Places, it reopened in 2009 as a venue for live music and comedy.
Thursday 4 February 2027 — Enmore Theatre, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented Holly Humberstone concert was at The Factory Theatre (23 November 2025). This is the opening night of the run.
Monday 8 February 2027 — The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane. Holly Humberstone last played Fortitude Music Hall on 3 January 2024 (Paint My Bedroom Black).
Wednesday 10 February 2027 — Forum Melbourne, Melbourne. In Melbourne, the last documented Holly Humberstone concert was at Sidney Myer Music Bowl (15 November 2025).
Friday 12 February 2027 — Astor Theatre, Perth. The artist's most recent documented Perth show was at Kings Park and Botanic Garden on 28 November 2025. This venue closes the tour.
Humberstone's first Australian shows came in July 2022, a few months after she won the Brit Award for Rising Star. The setlist.fm archive lists the North Byron Parklands on 24 July, The Factory Theatre in Marrickville, Sydney, on 27 July and the Corner Hotel in Richmond, Melbourne, on 29 July, before a single New Zealand date at The Tuning Fork in Auckland on 31 July. The club sets ran to about eleven songs, opening with "Vanilla" and "Overkill" and ending with "The Walls Are Way Too Thin".
She was back over the 2023-24 summer, a few weeks after releasing her debut album Paint My Bedroom Black. The archive places her at a festival site in Glenworth Valley, north of Sydney, on 30 December 2023 and at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on New Year's Eve, followed by The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on 3 January 2024, the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 4 January and Adelaide Showground on 6 January.
The Metro show on 4 January 2024 was her longest Australian set of that trip, sixteen songs including "Antichrist", "Superbloodmoon", "Lauren", "Elvis Impersonators" and "Room Service" from the new album, with "Scarlett" to close.
November 2025 was her biggest Australian visit. In big outdoor and arena venues she played nine-song sets: two nights at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne (14 and 15 November), the Riverstage in Brisbane (19 November), the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney (21 November), the Adelaide Entertainment Centre (25 November) and Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth (28 November).
Around those dates she slotted in her own smaller shows: Max Watt's House of Music in Melbourne on 13 November, The Triffid in Brisbane on 18 November, the UniBar in Wollongong on 22 November, The Factory Theatre in Sydney on 23 November and Freo.Social in Fremantle on 27 November. These ran to fifteen or sixteen songs and gave Australian audiences an early hearing of "Die Happy", "Cruel World", "Down Swinging" and "To Love Somebody", months before the album came out in April 2026.
The 2027 tour is therefore her first Australian headline run since Cruel World was released, and the first in which all four cities get her own full-length show in a theatre.
The table below lists 19 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Holly Humberstone between 2022 and 2025, with the most shows in Melbourne (5), Sydney (4), Brisbane (3), Adelaide (2), Perth (1), Fremantle (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 November 2025 | Perth | Kings Park and Botanic Garden | |
| 27 November 2025 | Fremantle | Freo.Social | |
| 25 November 2025 | Adelaide | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | |
| 23 November 2025 | Sydney | The Factory Theatre | |
| 22 November 2025 | Wollongong | UniBar | |
| 21 November 2025 | Sydney | The Entertainment Quarter | |
| 19 November 2025 | Brisbane | Riverstage | |
| 18 November 2025 | Brisbane | The Triffid | |
| 15 November 2025 | Melbourne | Sidney Myer Music Bowl | |
| 14 November 2025 | Melbourne | Sidney Myer Music Bowl | |
| 13 November 2025 | Melbourne | Max Watt's House of Music | |
| 6 January 2024 | Adelaide | Adelaide Showground | Paint My Bedroom Black |
| 4 January 2024 | Sydney | Metro Theatre | Paint My Bedroom Black |
| 3 January 2024 | Brisbane | Fortitude Music Hall | Paint My Bedroom Black |
| 31 December 2023 | Melbourne | Sidney Myer Music Bowl | Paint My Bedroom Black |
| 31 July 2022 | Auckland | The Tuning Fork | |
| 29 July 2022 | Melbourne | Corner Hotel | |
| 27 July 2022 | Sydney | The Factory Theatre | |
| 24 July 2022 | Byron Bay | North Byron Parklands |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (29 July 2022 to 28 November 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Humberstone's first Australian date in the archive was at the North Byron Parklands, the home of Splendour in the Grass, in July 2022. Over the 2023-24 summer she played a festival site at Glenworth Valley on the New South Wales Central Coast, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on New Year's Eve and Adelaide Showground, all with short sets of three to nine songs.
The data does not always name the festival behind each date, so we list only the sites. The February 2027 tour is made up entirely of her own headline shows, and no Australian or New Zealand festival appearance for 2027 had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
Holly Ffion Humberstone was born in Nottingham on 17 December 1999 and grew up in Grantham, Lincolnshire, one of four sisters in a family of doctors. She played violin in the Lincolnshire Youth Symphony Orchestra, studied at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and was spotted after appearing on BBC Radio Lincolnshire's Music Introducing show in 2017, which led to a slot on the BBC Music Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2019.
Her debut single "Deep End" came out in January 2020, followed by the EP Falling Asleep at the Wheel. In 2021 she signed with Polydor in the UK and Darkroom/Interscope in the US, released the EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin, which won Best Mixtape at the NME Awards, and was named the Brit Awards' Rising Star for 2022, a prize presented to her by Sam Fender.
In 2022 she opened for Girl in Red in North America and for part of Olivia Rodrigo's Sour Tour. Her debut album Paint My Bedroom Black followed on 13 October 2023, with the singles "Antichrist" and "Room Service". In 2024 she released the EP Work In Progress, opened for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour on 16 August 2024 and supported Sam Fender on his People Watching Tour.
Her second album, Cruel World, was announced in January 2026 and released on 10 April 2026, preceded by "Die Happy" and "To Love Somebody"; a four-track EP of reworked album songs, It's a Real Cruel World, followed in June. Critics have compared her intimate, atmospheric style to Lorde and Bon Iver, and she names Damien Rice, Ben Howard, Phoebe Bridgers and Haim as influences.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Paint My Bedroom Black | 2023 | — |
| Cruel World | 2026 | AUS 18 |
Each city gets one night, and each venue is a theatre or music hall rather than an arena. The Enmore in Newtown dates from 1912 and is Sydney's longest-running live theatre. The Fortitude Music Hall opened in Fortitude Valley in 2019. The Forum in Melbourne, the former State Theatre of 1929, has a Moorish exterior and a starry ceiling, and the Astor in Perth's Mount Lawley was rebuilt in Art Deco style in 1939.
For an artist whose songs are built on close, confessional lyrics, rooms of this size are a good fit. They are also a big step up from her first Australian club shows, at the Corner Hotel and the Factory Theatre in 2022.
The Brisbane date falls on Monday 8 February 2027, four days after Sydney. It is a return to The Fortitude Music Hall, where she played on 3 January 2024, a nine-song set during her summer visit.
Brisbane has also seen her at The Triffid in Newstead and at the riverside Riverstage, both in November 2025. The 2027 show is a full headline set, and the Monday slot means fans travelling from the Gold Coast or the Sunshine Coast will be heading home on a work night.
Perth closes the tour on Friday 12 February 2027 at the Astor Theatre. Western Australia came late to Humberstone's touring map: her first local dates were in November 2025, at Freo.Social in Fremantle on 27 November and Kings Park and Botanic Garden the following night.
The Astor, on Beaufort Street, is a heritage-listed former cinema that reopened as a live music venue in 2009. A Friday night closing show gives fans from regional WA the best chance to make the trip.
New Zealand is not on the 2027 schedule. Humberstone's only New Zealand show in the archive is The Tuning Fork in Auckland on 31 July 2022, at the end of her first trip down under.
Adelaide, where she played the Showground in January 2024 and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in November 2025, is also missing from the February 2027 run. As of 9 October 2026 no extra date had been announced for either; if one is added, we will update this page and alert subscribers.
Humberstone's own headline shows in Australia have run to fifteen or sixteen songs. At The Factory Theatre in Sydney on 23 November 2025 she opened with "The Walls Are Way Too Thin", "Into Your Room" and "Paint My Bedroom Black", then mixed older songs such as "Overkill", "Deep End" and "Falling Asleep at the Wheel" with new material, including "Die Happy", "Cruel World", "Kissing in Swimming Pools", "White Noise", "To Love Somebody", "Down Swinging" and "Ghost Me", before "Dive" and "Scarlett" closed the night.
Her shorter sets in larger venues kept the same backbone in nine songs, ending with "Dive" and "Scarlett". Across every Australian and New Zealand set list in the archive the most played songs are "Falling Asleep at the Wheel", "The Walls Are Way Too Thin" and "Scarlett", followed by "Paint My Bedroom Black".
With Cruel World now out, the 2027 sets are likely to lean further on the new album, but the archive suggests the early EP songs will stay. Holly Hebe's opening set comes first each night.
Tickets for all four February 2027 shows have been on sale since Wednesday 26 August 2026, through the official ticket outlet for each venue and the venues' own box offices. Each city has one night only, so if your show sells out there is no second date to fall back on.
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When does Holly Humberstone's 2027 Australian tour start?
At the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 4 February 2027.
Which cities is she playing?
Sydney (4 February), Brisbane (8 February), Melbourne (10 February) and Perth (12 February 2027).
Who is supporting?
Holly Hebe opens all four shows.
Which venue is the Melbourne show at?
Forum Melbourne, on the corner of Flinders and Russell streets, on Wednesday 10 February 2027.
Is there a New Zealand date?
No. Her only New Zealand show so far was The Tuning Fork in Auckland on 31 July 2022.
Is she playing Adelaide?
Not on the announced dates. She last played Adelaide at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 25 November 2025.
When did tickets go on sale?
On Wednesday 26 August 2026. They remain on sale through official outlets and venue box offices while available.
When was she last in Australia?
In November 2025, with shows in Melbourne, Brisbane, Wollongong, Sydney, Adelaide, Fremantle and Perth.
Which album is she touring?
Cruel World, her second album, released on 10 April 2026.
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