Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027

Kylie Minogue has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour name, no city, no venue and no on-sale date for a home run next year. In May 2026, speaking ahead of the release of her Netflix documentary, she said a tour was coming to mark forty years since her first single, and later said talks were under way about a career-spanning show. That is a plan, not a schedule: no Australian or New Zealand date has been published, and talk of a 2027 homecoming remains rumour until an official announcement.

What Australia did get in 2026 was a reminder of how she fills a stadium. On Saturday 26 September 2026 she performed the pre-game show at the AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, an eleven-song medley in front of a crowd of about 100,000, ending with 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'. Before that, her last full Australian tour was the Tension Tour, which opened at RAC Arena in Perth on Saturday 15 February 2025 and finished with three nights at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney in early March.

This page sets out what is and is not known about Kylie's plans for 2027, and tells the long story of her concerts at home: from the Enjoy Yourself Tour of 1989 through the record-breaking Sydney and Melbourne residencies of the 2000s, the emotional Showgirl homecoming of 2006, the winery nights of the Golden Tour and the Tension Tour arena shows of 2025.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official Kylie Minogue tour of Australia or New Zealand for 2027. In comments reported in May 2026 she confirmed she intends to tour to mark four decades since 'The Loco-Motion' was released in 1987, and she has since described the idea as a show looking back over her whole career. No dates, cities, promoter or ticketing details have followed, so any page or post offering 2027 Australian dates or presale codes for Kylie should be treated as unconfirmed.

The only 2027 date involving Kylie published so far is outside Australia. She is listed as the special guest for Harry Styles at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 April 2027, two nights of his Together, Together Tour. That is a support slot in the United States and says nothing about her own touring plans at home.

Her history does suggest what a homecoming might look like if it is announced. Almost every Kylie tour since 2001 has visited Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, and her biggest runs have stacked several nights in the two largest cities: seven nights in a row at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in May 2001, five at Rod Laver Arena in August 2002, six in Melbourne in December 2006. The Tension Tour in 2025 played ten arena nights across the five mainland capitals. None of that is a forecast of dates, only a guide to the cities that have always been part of her tours.

New Zealand has been visited less often. The setlist archive records two Kylie concerts at the Vector Arena in Auckland in December 2008, on the KylieX2008 tour, and no full New Zealand concert since. Sign up below to be alerted as soon as any Australian or New Zealand concert is confirmed.

Before the Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Kylie's touring life at home began while she was still one of the most famous faces on Australian television. The Enjoy Yourself Tour of 1989 opened in Australia with arena shows at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday 3 February, the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 5 February and the National Tennis Centre in Melbourne on 9 February 1989. Nine years later, after her Deconstruction albums, the Intimate and Live tour of 1998 was a deliberately smaller theatre run: repeated nights at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, the Capitol Theatre and State Theatre in Sydney, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide and the Royal Theatre in Canberra, with extra shows added as it sold out.

The return to pop with Light Years made the On a Night Like This tour of 2001 one of the biggest Australian tours of its time. It opened at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Saturday 14 April 2001 and went to Sydney, Hobart's Derwent Entertainment Centre, Melbourne, Adelaide and the Perth Entertainment Centre before closing with long residencies: four nights at Rod Laver Arena in early May and seven nights in a row at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, from 9 to 15 May 2001. KylieFever2002 followed in August 2002 with six nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and five at Rod Laver Arena, the last on Friday 16 August.

The Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour was due to reach Australia in 2005, but the Australian leg was cancelled when Kylie was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2005. She came back with Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, which opened at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Saturday 11 November 2006. The run took in three nights in Brisbane, three more in Sydney at Acer Arena, two in Adelaide, three at the Burswood Dome in Perth and six at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, ending on Sunday 17 December 2006. KylieX2008 returned two years later with three nights at Acer Arena and three at Rod Laver Arena, the last on Monday 22 December 2008.

Aphrodite: Les Folies arrived in June 2011 with its Greek-myth staging: two nights in Brisbane, three at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, three at Rod Laver Arena, one in Adelaide and a final night at the Burswood Dome in Perth on Wednesday 22 June 2011. In March 2012 she went the other way with the Anti Tour, a show of B-sides and rarities at the Palace Theatre in Melbourne on 18 March and the Big Top at Luna Park in Sydney on Tuesday 20 March 2012. The Kiss Me Once Tour came in March 2015, opening at Perth Arena and visiting Adelaide, Rod Laver Arena, the Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

The Golden Tour of March 2019 mixed theatres and open-air sites: two nights at the ICC Sydney Theatre, Sir James Mitchell Park in Perth, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, and two winery shows at Bimbadgen Estate in the Hunter Valley and Sirromet at Mount Cotton near Brisbane, the last on Sunday 17 March 2019. Six years passed before the next full tour.

The Tension Tour opened in Perth on Saturday 15 February 2025, then played the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, three nights at Rod Laver Arena, two at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre and three at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, the last on Monday 3 March 2025. Since then her Australian appearances have been one-offs: a ten-song set at Raheen in Melbourne listed for 21 March 2026, and the AFL Grand Final pre-game show at the MCG on 26 September 2026.

The table below lists 89 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Kylie Minogue between 2001 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (36), Melbourne (28), Brisbane (8), Perth (7), Adelaide (6), Auckland (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Kylie Minogue 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 (16 March 2019 to 26 September 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. All the Lovers — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Can't Get You Out of My Head — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Slow — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Spinning Around — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Get Outta My Way — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Love at First Sight — played at 14 of 15 shows
7. On a Night Like This — played at 14 of 15 shows
8. The Loco-Motion — played at 14 of 15 shows
9. Better the Devil You Know — played at 13 of 15 shows
10. Confide in Me — played at 13 of 15 shows
11. In Your Eyes — played at 13 of 15 shows
12. Padam Padam — played at 12 of 15 shows
13. Where the Wild Roses Grow — played at 12 of 15 shows
14. Come Into My World — played at 10 of 15 shows

Before the Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Tension Tour (2025): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney.
• Golden Tour (2019): 7 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Pokolbin, Mount Cotton.
• Kiss Me Once Tour (2015): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
• Anti Tour (2012): 2 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney.
• Aphrodite: Les Folies (2011): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth.
• KylieX2008 (2008): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne.
• Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour (2006): 20 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne.
• KylieFever2002 (2002): 11 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Melbourne.
• On A Night Like This (2001): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Kylie has rarely played the big Australian touring festivals; her concerts at home are almost always her own headline shows. The data does record several large one-off events. On Saturday 14 March 2009 she appeared at the MCG during the Sound Relief bushfire benefit, singing 'I Still Call Australia Home'. On Friday 24 February 2023 she headlined a free concert in the Domain in Sydney during WorldPride, a seven-song set including 'Your Disco Needs You' and 'All the Lovers'.

Other short sets in the archive include a ten-song performance at the Royal Hall of Industries in Sydney in March 2012, a six-song appearance at Darling Harbour in March 2016 and the 2026 AFL Grand Final pre-game show, which drew about 100,000 people to the MCG and featured G Flip on the same bill.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Kylie Ann Minogue was born on 28 May 1968 and raised in Melbourne. She first became famous playing Charlene Mitchell in the soap opera Neighbours from 1986 to 1988, and her cover of 'The Loco-Motion' in 1987 launched a music career with Stock Aitken Waterman at PWL. Her debut album Kylie (1988) reached No. 2 in Australia, and hits such as 'I Should Be So Lucky', 'Especially for You', 'Hand on Your Heart' and 'Better the Devil You Know' made her a star in Australia and the UK.

In the mid-1990s she took more creative control at Deconstruction Records, releasing Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997), both No. 3 in Australia. 'Confide in Me' from that period is still a fixture of her shows. Signing with Parlophone in 1999 brought Light Years (2000), with 'Spinning Around' and 'On a Night Like This', her first Australian No. 1 album.

Fever (2001) was her international breakthrough and best-selling album, led by 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', which sold more than twelve million units. Later albums produced 'Slow', 'I Believe in You', '2 Hearts' and 'All the Lovers'. After signing with BMG in 2017 she topped the Australian chart with Golden (2018), Disco (2020), Tension (2023) and Tension II (2024); 'Padam Padam' from Tension became one of the biggest songs of her late career.

Kylie is the highest-selling Australian-born female artist, with more than 80 million records sold. Her honours include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, eighteen ARIA Music Awards, induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame and appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia. In 2014 she was a coach on The Voice Australia, and in 2024 Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: the Melbourne nights

Melbourne is Kylie's home town and has had more of her concerts than anywhere else in Australia. Rod Laver Arena alone hosted four nights of On a Night Like This in 2001, five of KylieFever2002, six of the Showgirl homecoming in December 2006, three each of KylieX2008, Aphrodite and the Tension Tour, and Kiss Me Once in 2015. Before the arena years there were the Palais Theatre nights of 1998 and the National Tennis Centre in 1989.

Melbourne has also given her some of her most varied stages: the Palace Theatre for the Anti Tour of 2012, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl under the sky in March 2019, and the MCG twice, first for Sound Relief in 2009 and then for the AFL Grand Final in 2026. The Grand Final set, with its flight above a giant football during 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' was watched by a crowd of about 100,000.

If a 40th-anniversary tour does come home, Melbourne would be the city with the strongest claim to several nights, simply on past form. Until dates are published, though, nothing about venues or numbers of shows is known.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: why Sydney gets so many nights

Sydney has hosted Kylie's longest residencies. Seven consecutive nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in May 2001 remains the standout, followed by six nights there in August 2002 and six Sydney shows on the Showgirl homecoming, split between the Entertainment Centre and Acer Arena at Sydney Olympic Park.

The city's arena has changed name several times in her career: Acer Arena in 2006 and 2008, Qantas Credit Union Arena on the 2015 setlists, and Qudos Bank Arena for the three Tension Tour nights in March 2025. The Sydney Entertainment Centre, which hosted her from 1989 to 2011, has since closed; on the Golden Tour in 2019 she played two nights at the ICC Sydney Theatre at Darling Harbour instead.

Sydney has also seen her at her most intimate and most public: the Big Top at Luna Park for the Anti Tour, a WorldPride concert in the Domain in 2023, and short television sets for The X Factor and The Voice Australia.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: the 2006 homecoming

The Showgirl story is the emotional centre of Kylie's Australian live history. The original Greatest Hits tour was meant to reach Australia in 2005, but those shows were cancelled after her breast cancer diagnosis in May that year. When she returned to the stage in November 2006, the tour was renamed Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour and opened in Sydney.

The Australian leg ran for 20 nights between 11 November and 17 December 2006, across Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne, and most shows had 26 songs. The run ended with six nights at Rod Laver Arena, close to where she grew up.

It set the pattern of a big end-of-year homecoming that KylieX2008 followed two years later, again finishing at Rod Laver Arena just before Christmas.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

New Zealand has had far fewer Kylie concerts than Australia. The setlist archive records two nights at the Vector Arena in Auckland on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 December 2008, on the KylieX2008 tour, with sets of 24 and 22 songs including 'Speakerphone', 'Wow' and 'Your Disco Needs You'.

None of her later tours, from Aphrodite to Tension, included a New Zealand date in the data. A future tour may or may not change that; nothing has been announced for New Zealand as of 9 October 2026.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: forty years since The Loco-Motion

Kylie's version of 'The Loco-Motion' was released in Australia in 1987 and became her first hit, which is why 2027 is the year she has linked to an anniversary tour. In 2026 she said she was planning one and that the show could look back across her whole career, in the spirit of other recent retrospective tours.

Her set lists already lean that way. On the Tension Tour in 2025 she played 'Hand on Your Heart', 'The Loco-Motion' and 'Better the Devil You Know' alongside 'Padam Padam' and 'Tension'. Whether a retrospective show reaches Australia, and when, has not been announced.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Kylie headline show in Australia usually runs to 25-30 songs. On the Tension Tour in 2025 she played between 27 and 29 songs a night, opening with 'Lights Camera Action' and moving through 'In Your Eyes', 'Spinning Around', 'Shocked', 'Hold On to Now' and 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' before a closing run of 'Tension', 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', 'All the Lovers', 'Padam Padam' and 'Love at First Sight'.

Across all her Australian and New Zealand concerts in the setlist archive, the most played songs are 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', 'Spinning Around', 'On a Night Like This' and 'Better the Devil You Know', followed by 'Confide in Me', 'Love at First Sight', 'Slow' and 'The Loco-Motion'. Her productions have ranged from the theatre staging of Intimate and Live and the Anti Tour to the full arena spectacles of Showgirl, Aphrodite and Tension, with costume changes, dancers and sections built around different eras.

Her shorter appearances use the hits: the 2026 AFL Grand Final set ran from 'Love at First Sight' through 'Padam Padam' and 'The Loco-Motion' to 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'.

Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Kylie Minogue tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. No presale, on-sale date or venue exists yet, so any site offering 2027 tickets or a 'presale code' now is not official.

When Kylie tours at home, tickets are sold through the official ticketing agent for each venue, often with an artist presale for fan-club or mailing-list members before the general sale. Buy only from official outlets or the venue box office and expect name-locked mobile tickets.

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Kylie Minogue Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Kylie Minogue touring Australia in 2027?

Nothing is confirmed as of 9 October 2026. She has said she plans a tour for her 40th anniversary in music, but no Australian or New Zealand dates have been announced.

Does Kylie have any confirmed 2027 concerts?

She is listed as special guest for Harry Styles at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles on 23 and 24 April 2027. No headline dates of her own have been published.

When did Kylie last perform in Australia?

She performed the pre-game show at the AFL Grand Final at the MCG in Melbourne on Saturday 26 September 2026.

When was her last full Australian tour?

The Tension Tour, from RAC Arena in Perth on 15 February 2025 to Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 3 March 2025, with ten arena shows in five cities.

When did Kylie last play New Zealand?

The setlist archive records two concerts at the Vector Arena in Auckland on 8 and 9 December 2008, on the KylieX2008 tour.

How many nights has Kylie played in a row in Sydney?

Seven: at the Sydney Entertainment Centre from 9 to 15 May 2001, on the On a Night Like This tour.

Why was the 2005 Australian tour cancelled?

The Australian leg of Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour was cancelled after her breast cancer diagnosis in May 2005. She returned with Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour in November 2006.

What songs does Kylie play live?

Her most played songs in Australia are 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', 'Spinning Around', 'On a Night Like This' and 'Better the Devil You Know'; recent shows also include 'Padam Padam' and 'Tension'.

Are there presale codes for Kylie's 2027 tour?

No. There is no announced tour, so there is no presale. Sign up for the alert to hear when anything official is published.