Jorja Smith returns to Australia in November 2027 for three headline shows on the east coast. The run opens at the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 6 November, moves to the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Tuesday 9 November and closes at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Saturday 13 November 2027.
It is her first Australian tour since October 2024, when she brought the Falling or Flying Tour to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide and played an outdoor set on the Gold Coast. The 2027 dates follow her third album, What Are the Odds, released in August 2026, and two of the three venues are open-air sites in city parkland, which suits a late-spring tour.
Tickets have been on sale since Friday 28 August 2026. This page sets out the confirmed dates and venues, what is and is not announced as of 9 October 2026, her past concerts in Australia and New Zealand from the setlist.fm archive, the songs she has played most often here, and how to buy safely.
The 2027 Australian tour was announced in the summer of 2026, as Jorja Smith launched the campaign for What Are the Odds. She announced the album on 3 July 2026 with the single "Alive" featuring Wizkid, and the record came out in August. The touring that followed took her to Manchester and Berlin in early September 2026, then to South America and North America in October and November 2026, before a European arena leg in May and June 2027 and a show at The O2 in London on 17 July 2027.
Australia comes at the very end of that cycle. Brisbane is first, on Saturday 6 November 2027 at the Riverstage, the outdoor amphitheatre in the City Botanic Gardens beside the Brisbane River. Three days later she plays the Hordern Pavilion at Moore Park in Sydney on Tuesday 9 November, the only indoor room of the run. The tour finishes on Saturday 13 November 2027 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in the Kings Domain, Melbourne's best-known outdoor concert site.
Three shows in eight days is a compact schedule, and the choice of rooms is a clear step up from 2024. Last time she played Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne and the ICC Sydney Theatre; this time she has the Myer Music Bowl, with space for up to 10,000 people, and the Riverstage, with a capacity of about 9,500. The Hordern is smaller, at around 5,500, and is the room most likely to feel close and loud.
As of 9 October 2026 there is no New Zealand date, no Adelaide or Perth show and no support act announced for the Australian leg. If more dates are added, they will appear on this page; the alert button below is the simplest way to hear about them.
The Riverstage is an outdoor amphitheatre in Brisbane's City Botanic Gardens, on Gardens Point Road beside the Brisbane River. It opened on 7 September 1989, was inspired by the temporary Riverstage used for World Expo '88, and holds about 9,500 people.
The Hordern Pavilion is a concert and events hall at Moore Park in Sydney, built in 1924 for the Royal Agricultural Society as exhibition space for the Royal Easter Show. Named after the Hordern retail family, it holds about 5,500 people.
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is an outdoor concert venue in the Kings Domain, Melbourne, opened in 1959. It holds up to 10,000 people, with 2,030 fixed seats under the canopy and a lawn behind. The Seekers' 1967 homecoming concert there drew an estimated 200,000 people.
Saturday 6 November 2027 — Riverstage, Brisbane. In Brisbane, the last documented Jorja Smith concert was at Brisbane Showgrounds (2 February 2019). The tour starts here.
Tuesday 9 November 2027 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented Jorja Smith concert was at ICC Sydney Theatre (15 October 2024).
Saturday 13 November 2027 — Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. The artist's most recent documented Melbourne show was at Margaret Court Arena on 8 October 2024. This venue closes the tour.
Jorja Smith's first Australian and New Zealand visit in the setlist.fm archive came in the summer of 2019, a few months after her debut album Lost & Found and her Brit Critics' Choice Award. She was on the 2019 lineup of St Jerome's Laneway Festival, and the run started in New Zealand at Albert Park in Auckland on Monday 28 January 2019.
From there she crossed the Tasman. She played the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 1 February, the Brisbane Showgrounds on Saturday 2 February and the grounds of the Sydney College of the Arts on Sunday 3 February 2019. The recorded sets from Auckland, Brisbane and Sydney were twelve songs long, opening with "Lost & Found" and "Teenage Fantasy" and closing with "Blue Lights" and "On My Mind". They also included her cover of TLC's "No Scrubs" and a freestyle over "Lifeboats".
She came back more than five years later with the Falling or Flying Tour, named after her second album. The archive has four Australian dates in October 2024: an outdoor show at Doug Jennings Park on the Gold Coast on Saturday 5 October, Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Tuesday 8 October, Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide on Thursday 10 October and the ICC Sydney Theatre at Darling Harbour on Tuesday 15 October 2024.
The Melbourne and Sydney shows were full headline sets of 21 and 23 songs. Both opened with "Try Me", "Blue Lights", "Addicted" and "Feelings", went deep into the new album with "Greatest Gift", "Broken is the man", "She Feels", "falling or flying", "GO GO GO", "Burn" and "Too many times", and ended with "Be Honest", "On My Mind" and "Little Things". Sydney, the last night, added "Backwards" and "February 3rd".
The Gold Coast date was shorter, nine songs on The Spit, and the archive holds no set list for Adelaide or for the 2019 Melbourne show. No New Zealand concert appears in the archive after Auckland in 2019, so New Zealand has now waited more than seven years.
In 2027 Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne all return, but in different rooms: none of the three 2027 venues appears in her earlier Australian history.
The table below lists 8 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Jorja Smith between 2019 and 2024, with the most shows in Sydney (2), Melbourne (2), Adelaide (1), Gold Coast (1), Brisbane (1), Auckland (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 October 2024 | Sydney | ICC Sydney Theatre | |
| 10 October 2024 | Adelaide | Hindley Street Music Hall | |
| 8 October 2024 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | |
| 5 October 2024 | Gold Coast | Doug Jennings Park | |
| 3 February 2019 | Sydney | Sydney College of the Arts | |
| 2 February 2019 | Brisbane | Brisbane Showgrounds | |
| 1 February 2019 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | |
| 28 January 2019 | Auckland | Albert Park |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 6 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (28 January 2019 to 15 October 2024), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Wikipedia lists Jorja Smith on the 2019 lineup of St Jerome's Laneway Festival, and her January and February 2019 dates in Auckland, Brisbane and Sydney were played at outdoor sites during that festival season. The Gold Coast show at Doug Jennings Park in October 2024 was also an outdoor set of nine songs, much shorter than her arena shows that month.
The 2027 dates are all her own headline concerts. No Australian or New Zealand festival appearance had been announced for her as of 9 October 2026.
Jorja Alice Smith was born on 11 June 1997 in Walsall, in the West Midlands, to a Jamaican father and an English mother. Her father had sung in a neo-soul group before she was born, and she started piano lessons at eight, later winning a music scholarship at Aldridge School where she learned the oboe and studied classical singing. She was writing songs from the age of 11 and moved to London at 18, working as a barista while she wrote.
Her first single, "Blue Lights", built on a sample of Dizzee Rascal's "Sirens", appeared on SoundCloud in January 2016 and drew 400,000 plays in a month. Drake picked out her second single, "Where Did I Go?", featured her on two tracks of More Life and took her on his Boy Meets World Tour in 2017. She also opened for Bruno Mars on the 24K Magic World Tour in late 2017, and finished fourth on the BBC's Sound of 2017 list.
In 2018 she became the first independent artist to win the Brit Critics' Choice Award. Lost & Found, written over five years, came out in June 2018 and reached number three in the UK; in 2019 she was named Best British Female Artist at the Brits and was nominated for the Grammy for Best New Artist. "Be Honest" with Burna Boy followed in 2019, and the EP Be Right Back in May 2021.
Her second album, Falling or Flying, arrived in September 2023, led by "Little Things" and "GO GO GO", and she toured it through 2024 and 2025. In 2025 she released "Crush" with AJ Tracey; in April 2026 she was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live UK; and in July 2026 she announced What Are the Odds, the album behind the 2027 Australian dates.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Lost & Found | 2018 | AUS 13 |
| Falling or Flying | 2023 | — |
| What Are the Odds | 2026 | AUS 60 |
Two of the three 2027 concerts are outdoors. The Riverstage sits in the City Botanic Gardens on Gardens Point Road, opened in 1989 and was inspired by the temporary Riverstage built for World Expo '88. The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, opened in 1959 in the Kings Domain, is a large shell with fixed seats near the stage and a sloping lawn behind them.
Early November is late spring on the east coast, so evenings are usually mild but rain is possible. Both venues have their own rules on bags, chairs and umbrellas; check them before you go and allow for lawn areas being general admission.
Her past Australian outdoor shows were festival or short sets, so these are the first full-length headline concerts she will play in the open air here.
Sydney falls on Tuesday 9 November 2027, the only midweek date of the run. The Hordern Pavilion at Moore Park opened in 1924 as an exhibition hall for the Royal Easter Show and has long been one of the city's main standing-room concert halls, holding about 5,500 people.
That makes Sydney the smallest of the three rooms in 2027, after a seated theatre show at the ICC Sydney Theatre in October 2024 and a Laneway set at the Sydney College of the Arts in February 2019. Smaller capacity and a single date usually mean the Sydney show is the first to run short of tickets.
Melbourne has the final night, on Saturday 13 November 2027. Jorja Smith's Melbourne history covers the Forum Theatre in February 2019 and Margaret Court Arena in October 2024, so the Myer Music Bowl is the third different venue in three visits, and by far the largest.
The Bowl has a long concert history: The Seekers' homecoming show there in 1967 drew an estimated 200,000 people and was later recorded by Guinness as the largest concert attendance in the Southern Hemisphere. For a soul and R&B singer known for quiet, close vocals, a warm Saturday on the lawn is a fitting way to end a two-year album cycle.
The 2027 announcement covers Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne only. Auckland, where she played Albert Park in January 2019, has no date, and neither does Adelaide, which she visited in October 2024 at Hindley Street Music Hall. Perth and the Gold Coast are also absent.
As of 9 October 2026 nothing further has been announced. Extra dates are sometimes added to a tour once the first shows are on sale, but there is no sign of that yet, and fans in New Zealand and other cities should not count on it. Sign up below and you will be told if anything changes.
The Falling or Flying shows in Australia ran to 21 to 23 songs, about an hour and a half on stage. The Sydney set on 15 October 2024 opened with "Try Me" and "Blue Lights", moved through "Addicted", "Feelings" and "Greatest Gift", included "Where Did I Go?", "Don't Watch Me Cry", "The One", "Come Over", "High" and "Teenage Fantasy", and closed with "Be Honest", "On My Mind" and "Little Things".
The 2027 shows will be built around What Are the Odds, so expect the new album, including "Alive", alongside the songs that have featured at every Australian visit: "Blue Lights", "Teenage Fantasy", "The One" and "On My Mind". The Australian set list has not been published, and it may differ from her earlier dates on the tour.
Her 2019 festival sets, by comparison, were twelve songs long and drew mostly on Lost & Found, with "Let Me Down" and "I Am", her song from the Black Panther soundtrack album.
The sale for the 2027 Australian tour is finished. An album and artist pre-sale ran on Wednesday 26 August 2026, followed by a second pre-sale on Thursday 27 August, and the general sale opened on Friday 28 August 2026. Tickets are sold through the official ticketing outlets for each venue and the venues' own box offices.
There is no public Jorja Smith presale code, and the pre-sales are over, so ignore anyone selling a "code" or guaranteed access. Most Australian concerts now use name-locked mobile tickets, which makes tickets bought from strangers on social media risky; if a show sells out, use the official resale service attached to the original ticketing outlet.
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When does Jorja Smith's 2027 Australian tour start?
At the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 6 November 2027.
Which cities is she playing?
Brisbane (Riverstage, 6 November), Sydney (Hordern Pavilion, 9 November) and Melbourne (Sidney Myer Music Bowl, 13 November 2027).
Is there a New Zealand date?
No. As of 9 October 2026 no New Zealand show has been announced. Her last New Zealand concert in the archive was at Albert Park in Auckland on 28 January 2019.
Is Jorja Smith playing Adelaide or Perth?
No Adelaide or Perth date has been announced. She last played Adelaide at Hindley Street Music Hall on 10 October 2024.
Are tickets still on sale?
The general sale opened on Friday 28 August 2026 after two pre-sales on 26 and 27 August. Check the official outlets for remaining tickets.
Who is the support act?
No support act had been announced for the Australian shows as of 9 October 2026.
When was she last in Sydney?
At the ICC Sydney Theatre on Tuesday 15 October 2024, on the Falling or Flying Tour.
Which album is the tour promoting?
What Are the Odds, her third album, released in August 2026.
Are the shows indoors?
Sydney's Hordern Pavilion is indoors; the Brisbane Riverstage and Melbourne's Sidney Myer Music Bowl are outdoor venues.
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