Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027

Ladyhawke has not announced a headline tour of Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026, though, she does have Australian dates in the new year: she is on the bill of Foreverafter, a celebration of the Australian dance and electronic scene of the late 2000s and early 2010s, curated by The Presets, with Cut Copy, Bag Raiders, Bang Gang DJs and FUKHED. It plays the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Sunday 17 January 2027, Carriageworks in Sydney on Saturday 23 January and the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 30 January 2027.

Pip Brown, born in Masterton, has deep roots on both sides of the Tasman. She played in Wellington's Two Lane Blacktop, moved to Melbourne in 2003 and then Sydney to play in Teenager with Nick Littlemore, and her debut album Ladyhawke, released by the Sydney label Modular in 2008, went to No. 1 in New Zealand and won her two ARIA Awards. She has since toured the region with every record, most recently the 15th anniversary shows for that debut in 2024.

This page sets out what is and is not confirmed for 2027 and gives a full account of her concerts in New Zealand and Australia, from the Powerstation in Auckland in October 2009 to the New Zealand summer shows of February 2025.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

The only Ladyhawke dates in the region for 2027 are the three Foreverafter shows. The Presets conceived and curated the event and co-headline it; the line-up also features Cut Copy and Ladyhawke, with DJ sets from Bag Raiders and Bang Gang DJs and the younger producer FUKHED. According to music press reports from July 2026, the same line-up plays each city, and tickets went on sale that month. Foreverafter is a multi-artist event, not a Ladyhawke tour, and no New Zealand date has been announced.

The three cities each carry history for her. Melbourne is where she landed in 2003 and where she has played the Corner Hotel, Howler, the Coburg Velodrome and the Northcote Theatre; the Sidney Myer Music Bowl will be a first for her in the setlist archive. Sydney is the city of Teenager and of Modular, and Brisbane has had her at The Zoo, The Triffid and the Princess Theatre. Carriageworks and the Riverstage are also new venues for her in the archive.

Beyond Foreverafter, nothing is confirmed. There is no headline tour, no new studio album announced, and no New Zealand show for 2027 as of 9 October 2026. In August 2024 she said she was working on new Teenager music with Nick Littlemore, but no release date or concerts have been published for that either.

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Before the Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Ladyhawke's documented New Zealand concerts begin just as her debut album reached No. 1 at home in October 2009: the Powerstation in Auckland on Saturday 31 October and the San Francisco Bath House in Wellington on Sunday 1 November 2009. A few weeks later she was on the Big Day Out, at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on Friday 15 January 2010 and then on the Essential Stage on the Gold Coast on 17 January, in Sydney on 22 and 23 January, at Flemington in Melbourne on 26 January, in Adelaide on 29 January and at Claremont Showground in Perth on 31 January 2010. In February 2010 she played QAGOMA, the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, in Brisbane.

The 2011 calendar was mostly festivals: Southbound at Busselton on New Year's Day, the City Botanic Gardens in Brisbane on 5 January and Aotea Square in Auckland on 31 January 2011, then a run at the end of the year through the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra, The Domain in Sydney, the Meredith Music Festival on 9 December and Port Macquarie on 10 December 2011.

Anxiety, released in May 2012, brought a winter tour. She played Studio and the Powerstation in Auckland in July, Ooralea Race Course in Mackay on 30 June, Billboard The Venue in Melbourne on Tuesday 17 July, an 18-song set that opened with 'Back of the Van' and 'Blue Eyes', the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 18 July and the ANU Bar in Canberra on 20 July, before Splendour in the Grass at Belongil Fields on 28 July 2012.

Wild Things (June 2016) was toured in July 2016 at The Zoo in Brisbane, the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney and Howler in Melbourne, then the Powerstation in Auckland on 23 July. She returned in October 2016 for Stuart Park in Wollongong, Park Alexandra in Caloundra and the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on 6 October, a 17-song set, and ended the year at Southbound in Busselton and Lardner Park in Warragul.

The Time Flies tour of November 2022 played the Roundhouse in Sydney on 5 November, The Triffid in Brisbane on Tuesday 8 November, a 19-song set including 'Guilty Love', 'Time Flies' and 'Black White & Blue', The Factory Theatre in Sydney on 9 November, the Coburg Velodrome and the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on 12 and 13 November. In New Zealand that year she played Spark Arena on 15 October and the Auckland Domain on 26 November 2022, and Rhythm and Vines on 30 December.

The 15th anniversary tour of the debut album came in July and August 2024: The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide on 26 July, Freo.Social in Fremantle on Saturday 27 July, the Princess Theatre in Brisbane on Thursday 1 August, the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Friday 2 August and the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on Saturday 3 August 2024. New Zealand's most recent dates in the archive are summer shows: the TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth on 29 December 2024, Renwick Domain in Marlborough on 8 February 2025 and Mystery Creek Events Centre near Hamilton on 14 February 2025.

The table below lists 56 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Ladyhawke between 2009 and 2025, with the most shows in Auckland (9), Melbourne (8), Sydney (7), Brisbane (5), Adelaide (3), Wellington (3). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Ladyhawke 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 (17 July 2012 to 29 December 2024), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Back of the Van — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Dusk Till Dawn — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Magic — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. My Delirium — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Paris Is Burning — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Professional Suicide — played at 14 of 15 shows
7. Love Don't Live Here — played at 10 of 15 shows
8. Manipulating Woman — played at 10 of 15 shows
9. Embrace — played at 8 of 15 shows
10. Another Runaway — played at 7 of 15 shows
11. Guilty Love — played at 7 of 15 shows
12. A Love Song — played at 6 of 15 shows
13. Mixed Emotions — played at 6 of 15 shows
14. Better Than Sunday — played at 5 of 15 shows

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

• LADYHAWKE's 15th ANNIVERSARY ALBUM TOUR (2024): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Fremantle, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Ladyhawke has played many of the region's big festivals. The archive lists the Big Day Out in Auckland and across Australia in January 2010, Southbound at Busselton on 1 January 2011 and again on 29 December 2016, the Meredith Music Festival on 9 December 2011 and Splendour in the Grass at Belongil Fields on 28 July 2012. In New Zealand she played Auckland City Limits at Western Springs on 19 March 2016, alongside The Naked and Famous and Broods, and Rhythm and Vines at Waiohika Estate in Gisborne on 30 December 2022.

Her recent years in New Zealand have also featured outdoor summer events at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth (December 2023 and December 2024), Mission Estate Winery in Napier (November 2023), Tomoana Showgrounds in Hastings (January 2022), the Basin Reserve in Wellington (April 2021) and Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch (February 2020).

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Phillipa Margaret 'Pip' Brown was born on 13 July 1979 in Masterton, in the Wairarapa, into a musical family: her mother was a singer and guitarist and her stepfather a jazz drummer. She took her stage name from Richard Donner's 1985 film Ladyhawke. After school she moved to Wellington and in 2001 formed Two Lane Blacktop, playing lead guitar; the band broke up in 2003 just before an Australian tour, and she flew to Australia anyway and settled in Melbourne.

In 2004 she joined Nick Littlemore's art-rock band Teenager and moved to Sydney; Littlemore encouraged her to record her own songs. Her debut album, Ladyhawke, was released on 22 September 2008 by Modular Recordings. It reached No. 16 in Australia and the UK, topped the New Zealand chart a year after release and went platinum there. 'My Delirium' was its biggest single, a top-ten hit in both countries, and at the 2009 ARIA Music Awards she won Breakthrough Artist for both album and single.

Anxiety followed in May 2012 and Wild Things in June 2016, after which she moved home to New Zealand. Her fourth album, Time Flies, came out in November 2021 and included 'Guilty Love' with Broods.

Brown has spoken publicly about being diagnosed with Asperger syndrome as an adult, and has linked her childhood immersion in music to it. In August 2024 she confirmed she was working on new Teenager material with Littlemore.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: foreverafter in january

Foreverafter is the one confirmed Ladyhawke booking in the region for 2027. The Presets built the bill around the Australian electronic and dance acts they came up with, and Ladyhawke's debut belongs to that era: it came out on Modular, the Sydney label that was home to The Presets and Cut Copy at the time.

The three dates fall on a Sunday in Melbourne (17 January) and Saturdays in Sydney (23 January) and Brisbane (30 January 2027). Each is an outdoor or warehouse-scale event rather than a theatre show, and as a multi-act bill it is unlikely to follow the format of her own headline concerts.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: new zealand summers

Since moving home after Wild Things, Ladyhawke has become a fixture of New Zealand's summer calendar. The archive lists Ferrymead in Christchurch in February 2020, the Basin Reserve in Wellington in April 2021, Hastings in January 2022, the Auckland Domain and Rhythm and Vines in late 2022, Mission Estate in Napier and New Plymouth in 2023, and New Plymouth, Renwick and Hamilton over the 2024-25 summer.

In New Plymouth on 29 December 2024 her eight-song set ran 'Magic', 'Back of the Van', 'Dusk Till Dawn', 'Guilty Love', 'Mixed Emotions', 'Paris Is Burning', 'Embrace' and 'My Delirium'.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: the debut album, fifteen years on

In July and August 2024 Ladyhawke toured Australia playing her debut album in full, in its original running order: 'Magic', 'Manipulating Woman', 'My Delirium', 'Better Than Sunday', 'Another Runaway', 'Love Don't Live Here', 'Back of the Van', 'Paris Is Burning', 'Professional Suicide', 'Dusk Till Dawn', 'Crazy World' and 'Morning Dreams', followed by later songs including 'Guilty Love', 'My Love' and 'Embrace'.

The tour visited Adelaide, Fremantle, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. At the Metro Theatre on 2 August she played 'My Delirium' a second time at the end, the longest documented set of the run.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: melbourne and sydney

Melbourne, where she arrived in 2003, has the longest list of Ladyhawke venues in the archive: Flemington and a beer-garden show in January 2010, Billboard The Venue in 2012, Howler and the Corner Hotel in 2016, the Coburg Velodrome and the Corner again in 2022 and the Northcote Theatre in 2024.

Sydney has seen her at the Big Day Out, The Domain, the Metro Theatre in 2012 and 2024, the Oxford Art Factory in 2016 and the Roundhouse and The Factory Theatre in 2022. Carriageworks in January 2027 adds a new venue to that list.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Ladyhawke's headline sets usually run to 15-19 songs. On the 2022 Time Flies tour, The Triffid heard 'Magic', 'Guilty Love', 'Blue Eyes', 'Take It Easy Mama', 'Time Flies', 'Black White & Blue', 'Professional Suicide', 'Dusk Till Dawn', 'Back of the Van', 'A Love Song', 'Paris Is Burning', 'River' and 'Embrace', closing with 'My Delirium'.

The 2016 Wild Things sets opened with 'The River' and 'Golden Girl' and also ended with 'My Delirium', which has closed almost every documented headline show in the region. Festival and outdoor sets are shorter, from five to ten songs, but nearly always include 'Magic', 'Back of the Van', 'Dusk Till Dawn' and 'Paris Is Burning'.

Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There is no Ladyhawke headline tour on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027. Tickets for the three Foreverafter dates in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane went on sale in July 2026 through the event's official ticketing; check the event announcement or the venue for the official outlet.

Buy only from the official seller, the venue box office or an official presale. Many Australian venues use name-locked mobile tickets, so avoid anyone offering 'presale codes'.

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Ladyhawke Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Ladyhawke touring Australia in 2027?

Not a headline tour. She is on the Foreverafter bill in Melbourne (17 January), Sydney (23 January) and Brisbane (30 January 2027).

Who else plays Foreverafter?

The Presets, who curated it, Cut Copy, Bag Raiders, Bang Gang DJs and FUKHED.

Where are the Foreverafter shows?

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Carriageworks in Sydney and the Riverstage in Brisbane.

Is Ladyhawke playing New Zealand in 2027?

No New Zealand date has been announced as of 9 October 2026.

When did Ladyhawke last play Australia?

On the 15th anniversary tour, ending at the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on 3 August 2024.

When did Ladyhawke last play New Zealand?

The latest documented show is Mystery Creek Events Centre near Hamilton on 14 February 2025.

When did Ladyhawke last play Sydney?

At the Metro Theatre on 2 August 2024.

What is Ladyhawke's latest album?

Time Flies, released in November 2021.

Is there a Ladyhawke presale code for 2027?

No genuine code is circulating for a headline tour, because none has been announced.