Imagine Dragons have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival booking or one-off show in either country. The band's Loom World Tour, which began in July 2024, ended in Monterrey, Mexico, on 21 June 2026 without a single Australian or New Zealand date, and no follow-up tour has been published.
That makes the wait a long one for fans here. The band last played Australia and New Zealand in May 2018 on the Evolve World Tour, with arena shows in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington. Neither the Mercury World Tour of 2022 and 2023 nor the Loom World Tour came to Oceania, so by October 2026 more than eight years have passed since their last concert in the region.
This page explains what is and is not known about Imagine Dragons' plans for 2027, and tells the full story of their concerts in Australia and New Zealand, from the Powerstation in Auckland in October 2013 to Margaret Court Arena, the Riverstage and the arena run of 2018.
There is no official Imagine Dragons tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, cities, venues or ticket details have been released, and the band does not appear among the 2027 tours in Europe or elsewhere confirmed so far on this network of sites. Any list of 'Imagine Dragons Australia 2027' dates, or any 'presale code' for them, is unconfirmed until the band announces a tour.
The band's touring has been tied to album cycles. Night Visions (2012) led to their first visit in 2013, Smoke + Mirrors (2015) to a preview show in Sydney and an arena tour that September, and Evolve (2017) to the May 2018 run. Origins (2018), Mercury (2021 and 2022) and Loom (2024) were all toured heavily in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, but none of those tours included Australia or New Zealand.
Loom is still the band's latest studio album as of 9 October 2026, and it was their first without drummer Daniel Platzman, so the line-up that would come to Australia is now the trio of Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon and Ben McKee with touring musicians. Whether the next cycle will include Oceania is simply not known.
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Imagine Dragons first came to this part of the world in October 2013, as 'Radioactive' and 'Demons' were climbing charts everywhere. The Night Visions Tour played the Powerstation in Auckland on Tuesday 15 October, the Palace Theatre in Melbourne on Wednesday 16 October and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Friday 18 October 2013. The sets had 14 songs, opening with 'Round and Round', 'Amsterdam' and 'Tiptoe' and ending with 'Radioactive' and 'Nothing Left to Say', with 'Hang Me Up to Dry' joined to 'Stand by Me' in the middle.
They returned in March 2015, weeks after Smoke + Mirrors was released, for a promotional visit to Sydney and Melbourne. Its centrepiece was a preview concert at The Star Event Centre in Sydney on Tuesday 17 March 2015, which Wikipedia lists as the preview show of the Smoke + Mirrors Tour, almost a month before the tour officially began in Santiago, Chile, on 12 April.
The Smoke + Mirrors Tour proper reached Australia in September 2015: Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday 2 September, the Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney on Friday 4 September and the open-air Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 5 September. British India opened those three Australian shows. The band then crossed to New Zealand for Vector Arena in Auckland on Tuesday 8 September and Horncastle Arena in Christchurch on Thursday 10 September 2015, with The Rubens in support.
The Evolve World Tour gave Australia and New Zealand their biggest Imagine Dragons run so far in May 2018, with The Temper Trap opening. It began at Perth Arena on Saturday 12 May, played two nights at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on 15 and 16 May, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday 18 May and Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Saturday 19 May, then finished in New Zealand at Spark Arena in Auckland on Monday 21 May and TSB Bank Arena in Wellington on Wednesday 23 May 2018.
Reported box office figures for that leg show how close to capacity the shows were: about 11,100 tickets in Perth, 13,500 across the two Melbourne nights, 9,300 in Brisbane, 13,450 in Sydney, 9,865 in Auckland and a sold-out 5,635 in Wellington. It was the first time the band played Perth and Wellington, and so far it remains their last visit to the region.
The table below lists 16 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Imagine Dragons between 2013 and 2018, with the most shows in Sydney (4), Melbourne (4), Auckland (3), Brisbane (2), Wellington (1), Perth (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2018 | Wellington | TSB Bank Arena | Evolve World Tour |
| 21 May 2018 | Auckland | Spark Arena | Evolve World Tour |
| 19 May 2018 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | Evolve World Tour |
| 18 May 2018 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Evolve World Tour |
| 16 May 2018 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | Evolve World Tour |
| 15 May 2018 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | Evolve World Tour |
| 12 May 2018 | Perth | Perth Arena | Evolve World Tour |
| 10 September 2015 | Christchurch | Horncastle Arena | Smoke + Mirrors Tour |
| 8 September 2015 | Auckland | Vector Arena | Smoke + Mirrors Tour |
| 5 September 2015 | Brisbane | Riverstage | Smoke + Mirrors Tour |
| 4 September 2015 | Sydney | Qantas Credit Union Arena | Smoke + Mirrors Tour |
| 2 September 2015 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | Smoke + Mirrors Tour |
| 17 March 2015 | Sydney | The Star Event Centre | |
| 18 October 2013 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | Night Visions Tour |
| 16 October 2013 | Melbourne | Palace Theatre | Night Visions Tour |
| 15 October 2013 | Auckland | Powerstation | Night Visions Tour |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (16 October 2013 to 23 May 2018), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Imagine Dragons formed in 2008 and are based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon and bassist Ben McKee are the current line-up. Their debut single, 'It's Time', came out in February 2012, and their first album, Night Visions, reached No. 2 in the United States that September on the strength of 'Radioactive' and 'Demons'. 'Radioactive' set a record for the most weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and Billboard named them its breakthrough band of 2013.
Smoke + Mirrors (2015) went to number one in the US, Canada and the UK. Evolve (2017) produced three chart-topping rock singles, 'Believer', 'Thunder' and 'Whatever It Takes', and made them the act with the most weeks at number one on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart. Origins followed in 2018 with 'Natural', and Billboard named them its biggest band of 2017.
Mercury – Act 1 (2021) and the double album Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 (2022) brought the US top-five hit 'Enemy', which was also used in the animated series Arcane. Loom (2024) was the band's first album without longtime drummer Daniel Platzman. Critics have often been mixed about their music, but their audience has kept growing.
The band has sold more than 74 million albums and 65 million digital songs worldwide, with about 160 billion streams. They were the first rock act to have four songs, 'Radioactive', 'Demons', 'Believer' and 'Thunder', pass one billion streams each, and they have won three American Music Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards and a Grammy. In Australia their first four albums all peaked at No. 4.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Night Visions | 2012 | AUS 4 |
| Smoke + Mirrors | 2015 | AUS 4 |
| Evolve | 2017 | AUS 4 |
| Origins | 2018 | AUS 4 |
| Mercury – Act 1 | 2021 | AUS 10 |
| Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 | 2022 | AUS 13 |
| Loom | 2024 | AUS 17 |
Since the last show in Wellington on 23 May 2018, Imagine Dragons have played three more world tours: the rest of the Evolve World Tour through November 2019, the Mercury World Tour from February 2022 to September 2023, and the Loom World Tour from July 2024 to June 2026. None of them came to Australia or New Zealand.
Over the same period the band played stadiums in Europe and Latin America and arenas across North America and Asia. Australia and New Zealand were left out, which is why fans here have now waited longer for the band than at any time since their first visit.
There is no public explanation for the gap, and nothing has been announced to end it. The only firm fact is that, as of 9 October 2026, no Imagine Dragons concert in Australia or New Zealand is on sale or scheduled.
Melbourne has seen the band on every one of its tours here. In 2013 they played the Palace Theatre, a mid-sized room, then moved up to Margaret Court Arena in the Melbourne Park precinct for the Smoke + Mirrors show of 2 September 2015.
They came back to Margaret Court Arena for two nights in May 2018, on 15 and 16 May, the only Australian city to get two shows on that tour. The two nights together drew about 13,500 people.
Margaret Court Arena is smaller than its neighbour Rod Laver Arena, so the band's Melbourne shows have tended to feel closer than their arena dates elsewhere. If they return at a bigger scale, a larger venue would be possible, but no venue has been named.
New Zealand has been on every Imagine Dragons visit to the region. Their first show here was at the Powerstation in Auckland on 15 October 2013, a club-sized room, before the Australian dates.
In 2015 they played Vector Arena in Auckland and Horncastle Arena in Christchurch, with The Rubens opening. In 2018 they returned to the same Auckland arena, by then called Spark Arena, and played TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, where all 5,635 tickets were sold.
Three cities in New Zealand have now hosted the band: Auckland three times, Christchurch and Wellington once each. No New Zealand date is announced for 2027.
On the September 2015 tour the band added a cover of Midnight Oil's 'Beds Are Burning' to their Australian sets, alongside their own 'Shots', 'Polaroid', 'Gold' and 'I Bet My Life'. It sat in the middle of the show, after 'Roots' and before 'I'm So Sorry'.
In 2018 the covers changed: the Evolve shows here included Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds' and Alphaville's 'Forever Young' in a stripped-back section. Those choices show that the band has adapted the set for each visit rather than playing an identical show everywhere.
Nobody knows what a future set would include, since it would depend on the next album. But the archive of past nights shows a band that likes to mark the place it is playing in.
Imagine Dragons' shows in Australia and New Zealand have grown from 14 songs in the theatres of 2013 to 16 or 17 in 2015 and 20 or 21 in the arenas of 2018. The 2018 Sydney set at Qudos Bank Arena opened with 'I Don't Know Why' and 'Believer', ran through 'It's Time', 'Gold', 'Whatever It Takes', 'Demons', 'On Top of the World' and 'Thunder', and ended with 'Walking the Wire', 'The Fall' and 'Radioactive'.
Earlier sets were built around Night Visions and Smoke + Mirrors. In 2013 they opened with 'Round and Round', 'Amsterdam' and 'Tiptoe'; in 2015 with 'Shots', 'Trouble' and 'It's Time', and closed with 'Radioactive' and 'The Fall'. The 2015 sets were the first here to include songs from the new album, such as 'Shots', 'Friction', 'Polaroid' and 'I'm So Sorry'.
Across all documented shows here, 'On Top of the World', 'Radioactive', 'It's Time' and 'Demons' have been played most often, followed by 'Gold', 'Forever Young', 'I Bet My Life' and 'Shots'. Songs from Mercury and Loom, such as 'Enemy', have never been played live in Australia or New Zealand.
There is nothing to buy yet: as of 9 October 2026 no Imagine Dragons concert in Australia or New Zealand has been announced for 2027, so there is no presale, no on-sale date and no official price. Anyone selling tickets for an Australian date now is selling something that does not exist.
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Are Imagine Dragons touring Australia in 2027?
No tour has been announced. As of 9 October 2026 Imagine Dragons have no confirmed concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027.
When did Imagine Dragons last play Australia?
In May 2018 on the Evolve World Tour: Perth Arena on 12 May, Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on 15 and 16 May, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 18 May and Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 19 May.
When did Imagine Dragons last play New Zealand?
Spark Arena in Auckland on 21 May 2018 and TSB Bank Arena in Wellington on 23 May 2018, both with The Temper Trap opening.
Did the Loom World Tour come to Australia?
No. The Loom World Tour ran from July 2024 to June 2026 and had no Australian or New Zealand dates. The Mercury World Tour of 2022 and 2023 did not come either.
Who supported Imagine Dragons in Australia?
British India opened the September 2015 Australian shows, The Rubens the 2015 New Zealand shows, and The Temper Trap the whole 2018 Oceania leg.
What was Imagine Dragons' first Australian concert?
The Palace Theatre in Melbourne on 16 October 2013, a day after their first New Zealand show at the Powerstation in Auckland. The Enmore Theatre in Sydney followed on 18 October.
Is there an Imagine Dragons 2027 presale code?
No. With no tour announced there is no presale and no code. Real codes only come from the band, the promoter or the official ticket partner after an announcement.
What is Imagine Dragons' latest album?
Loom, released in 2024, which peaked at No. 17 in Australia. It was their first album without drummer Daniel Platzman.
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