Neil Finn has not announced any solo concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no Neil Finn tour, no Crowded House tour and no further Split Enz dates on sale in either country for next year. His most recent large-scale shows in the region came in April and May 2026 with the reunited Split Enz on the Forever Enz tour.
Born in Te Awamutu, in New Zealand's Waikato, on 27 May 1958, Finn is one of the most successful songwriters the two countries have produced. He joined his brother Tim in Split Enz in 1977 and wrote 'I Got You', 'One Step Ahead', 'History Never Repeats' and 'Message to My Girl'. He then founded Crowded House, whose 'Don't Dream It's Over', 'Weather With You', 'Fall at Your Feet' and 'Better Be Home Soon' are part of the Australasian songbook.
This page is about Neil Finn the solo artist. The concert table below uses setlist.fm's 'Neil Finn' listings only: his solo tours, his Solo with Strings shows and festival sets billed under his own name. Crowded House and Split Enz concerts are listed under those bands and are not counted in the table, although they are mentioned in the text where they help tell the story.
There is no official information about Neil Finn concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No promoter has announced solo dates, no venue has been named and there is no presale. Any listing that already sells 2027 Neil Finn tickets is not official.
What happened most recently was a band reunion, not a solo tour. In 2026, Split Enz came back together with Tim Finn, Eddie Rayner, Noel Crombie and Neil Finn, plus Matt Eccles on drums and James Milne on bass, for the Forever Enz tour. It played Bluesfest in Byron Bay at Easter 2026 and arena shows in New Zealand and Australia in May 2026, including TSB Arena in Wellington, Spark Arena in Auckland, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, the ICC Sydney Theatre, RAC Arena in Perth and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, with Vika and Linda as guests in Australia. No further Split Enz dates have been announced.
Crowded House last toured Australia and New Zealand in 2024. Their dates are not part of this solo page, and nothing has been announced for the band in 2027 either.
His last proper solo tour of the region was the Out of Silence run of 2018: two nights at Silo Park in Auckland in March, two at the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House in May and HOTA on the Gold Coast on 30 June 2018. Whether a new solo album or tour follows in 2027 is not known. This page will be updated as soon as anything is confirmed.
Neil Finn's solo career began after Crowded House split in 1996 with a farewell concert at the Sydney Opera House on 24 November that year. His first solo album, Try Whistling This, came out in 1998, and the setlist archive lists a short New Zealand tour that June: the Regent Theatre in Dunedin on 24 June, the Theatre Royal in Christchurch, the Wellington Town Hall on 27 June and two nights at the St James Theatre in Auckland on 28 and 29 June 1998.
The One Nil tour of 2001 went further into provincial New Zealand. The archive has the University of Canterbury in Christchurch and the Dunedin Town Hall in February, the Taihape Musicians Club on 28 February, the Regent on Broadway in Palmerston North, the Wellington Town Hall, the Hastings Municipal Theatre and the Founders Theatre in Hamilton in early March, then five nights at the St James Theatre in Auckland from 2 to 6 April 2001. Those Auckland nights were the ones where he gathered guests for the 7 Worlds Collide project, released as a live album and DVD that year.
The Dizzy Heights tour of 2014 was his longest solo tour of Australia. It opened at the Nambour Civic Centre on 6 March, then visited the Brisbane Concert Hall, the Canberra Theatre, The Playhouse in Geelong, two nights at Hamer Hall in Melbourne, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, the Perth Concert Hall, the Newcastle Civic Theatre and three nights at the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, the last on 22 March 2014. In September the same tour played New Zealand: the Napier Municipal Theatre, the Opera House in Wellington, the Powerstation in Auckland, the Regent Theatre in Dunedin and Horncastle Arena in Christchurch on 27 September 2014.
In 2015 he toured Solo with Strings, a set built around his piano and guitar with a string ensemble. The archive lists two nights at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in the Melbourne Recital Centre and two at City Recital Hall Angel Place in Sydney at the end of May 2015, the Auckland Town Hall on 18 July, and the Opera House in Wellington and the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch in October 2015.
The Out of Silence album of 2017 was recorded live in front of an audience over several Friday webcasts from Roundhead Studios, his Auckland studio, and the shows that followed in 2018 had a band and choir feel: Silo Park in Auckland on 9 and 10 March, the Joan Sutherland Theatre in Sydney on 30 and 31 May and HOTA – Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast on 30 June 2018. Months earlier, in April 2018, he had joined Fleetwood Mac, and their 2018 to 2019 world tour took him away from solo touring.
Earlier one-offs fill the gaps: the TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth on 16 March 2008, Botanic Park in Adelaide on 8 March 2009, two nights at the York Theatre in Sydney in November 2010, the Red Hill Auditorium in Perth in April 2011 (listed under Songlines), the Seymour Centre in Sydney in January 2014, Sandalford Wines in the Margaret River region in November 2014, Silo Park in Auckland in January 2016 and Gibbston Valley near Queenstown in November 2016.
The table below lists 67 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Neil Finn between 1998 and 2018, with the most shows in Auckland (13), Sydney (10), Christchurch (4), Wellington (4), Melbourne (4), Adelaide (3). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2018 | Gold Coast | HOTA – Home of the Arts | Out of Silence |
| 31 May 2018 | Sydney | Joan Sutherland Theatre | Out of Silence |
| 30 May 2018 | Sydney | Joan Sutherland Theatre | Out of Silence |
| 10 March 2018 | Auckland | Silo Park | Out of Silence |
| 9 March 2018 | Auckland | Silo Park | Out of Silence |
| 17 April 2017 | Byron Bay | Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm | |
| 12 March 2017 | Meredith | Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre | |
| 11 March 2017 | Devonport | Bluff Reserve | |
| 9 March 2017 | Fremantle | Port Beach | |
| 5 March 2017 | Adelaide | Elder Park | |
| 11 November 2016 | Queenstown | Gibbston Valley | |
| 23 January 2016 | Auckland | Silo Park | |
| 14 October 2015 | Christchurch | Isaac Theatre Royal | Solo with Strings |
| 13 October 2015 | Wellington | The Opera House | Solo with Strings |
| 10 October 2015 | Auckland | SkyCity Theatre | |
| 18 July 2015 | Auckland | Auckland Town Hall | Solo with Strings |
| 31 May 2015 | Sydney | City Recital Hall Angel Place | Solo with Strings |
| 30 May 2015 | Sydney | City Recital Hall Angel Place | Solo with Strings |
| 29 May 2015 | Melbourne | Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre | Solo with Strings |
| 27 May 2015 | Melbourne | Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre | Solo with Strings |
| 27 March 2015 | Hastings | Blyth Performing Arts Centre, Iona College | |
| 21 November 2014 | Wilyabrup | Sandalford Wines | |
| 27 September 2014 | Christchurch | Horncastle Arena | Dizzy Heights |
| 26 September 2014 | Dunedin | Regent Theatre | Dizzy Heights |
| 20 September 2014 | Auckland | Powerstation | Dizzy Heights |
| 19 September 2014 | Wellington | The Opera House | Dizzy Heights |
| 18 September 2014 | Napier | Napier Municipal Theatre | Dizzy Heights |
| 22 March 2014 | Sydney | Concert Hall | Dizzy Heights |
| 21 March 2014 | Sydney | Concert Hall | Dizzy Heights |
| 20 March 2014 | Newcastle | Newcastle Civic Theatre | Dizzy Heights |
| 18 March 2014 | Sydney | Concert Hall | Dizzy Heights |
| 16 March 2014 | Perth | Perth Concert Hall | Dizzy Heights |
| 15 March 2014 | Adelaide | Thebarton Theatre | Dizzy Heights |
| 13 March 2014 | Melbourne | Hamer Hall | Dizzy Heights |
| 12 March 2014 | Melbourne | Hamer Hall | Dizzy Heights |
| 11 March 2014 | Geelong | The Playhouse | Dizzy Heights |
| 9 March 2014 | Canberra | Canberra Theatre | Dizzy Heights |
| 7 March 2014 | Brisbane | Concert Hall | Dizzy Heights |
| 6 March 2014 | Nambour | Nambour Civic Centre | Dizzy Heights |
| 29 January 2014 | Sydney | Seymour Centre | |
| 4 January 2014 | Busselton | Sir Stewart Bovell Park | |
| 2 January 2014 | Byron Bay | North Byron Parklands | |
| 31 December 2013 | Marion Bay | Marion Bay Falls Festival Site | |
| 30 December 2013 | Lorne | Surf Coast Shire | |
| 25 April 2011 | Perth | Red Hill Auditorium | Songlines |
| 11 December 2010 | Meredith | Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre | |
| 18 November 2010 | Sydney | York Theatre | |
| 17 November 2010 | Sydney | York Theatre | |
| 8 March 2009 | Adelaide | Botanic Park | |
| 16 March 2008 | New Plymouth | TSB Bowl of Brooklands | |
| 6 April 2001 | Auckland | St James Theatre | One Nil |
| 5 April 2001 | Auckland | St James Theatre | One Nil |
| 4 April 2001 | Auckland | St James Theatre | One Nil |
| 3 April 2001 | Auckland | St James Theatre | One Nil |
| 2 April 2001 | Auckland | St James Theatre | One Nil |
| 6 March 2001 | Hamilton | Founders Theatre | One Nil |
| 3 March 2001 | Hastings | Hastings Municipal Theatre | One Nil |
| 2 March 2001 | Wellington | Wellington Town Hall | One Nil |
| 1 March 2001 | Palmerston North | The Regent on Broadway | One Nil |
| 28 February 2001 | Taihape | Taihape Musicians Club | One Nil |
| 21 February 2001 | Dunedin | Dunedin Town Hall | One Nil |
| 20 February 2001 | Christchurch | University of Canterbury | One Nil |
| 29 June 1998 | Auckland | St James Theatre | Try Whistling This |
| 28 June 1998 | Auckland | St James Theatre | Try Whistling This |
| 27 June 1998 | Wellington | Wellington Town Hall | Try Whistling This |
| 25 June 1998 | Christchurch | Theatre Royal | Try Whistling This |
| 24 June 1998 | Dunedin | Regent Theatre | Try Whistling This |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (4 May 2017 to 26 August 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Several festival appearances are listed under his own name. Over the 2013 to 2014 New Year he played a run of summer festival dates: Lorne on 30 December 2013, the Falls Festival site at Marion Bay in Tasmania on 31 December, North Byron Parklands on 2 January and Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton, Western Australia, on 4 January 2014. He also played the Supernatural Amphitheatre at Meredith twice, on 11 December 2010 and again on 12 March 2017.
In March 2017 the archive lists a run of outdoor dates at Elder Park in Adelaide, Port Beach in Fremantle, Bluff Reserve in Devonport and Meredith, followed by Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm near Byron Bay, the Bluesfest site, on Easter Monday, 17 April 2017. Those sets mixed solo songs with Crowded House and Split Enz favourites such as 'Private Universe', 'Pony Ride', 'Fall at Your Feet', 'Into Temptation' and 'I Got You'. In 2026 he returned to Bluesfest as a member of Split Enz.
Finn grew up in a musical Catholic family in Te Awamutu and went to Sacred Heart College in Auckland, following his brother Tim. He decided at 12 to become a musician. In 1977 Tim invited him to London to join Split Enz in place of Phil Judd, and by 1980 he was sharing lead vocals and had written the band's first international hit, 'I Got You'. Split Enz broke up in 1984.
With drummer Paul Hester and bassist Nick Seymour he formed Crowded House, named after the house they rented while recording in Los Angeles. 'Don't Dream It's Over' (1987) reached No. 2 in the United States and No. 1 in New Zealand and Canada, and Woodface (1991), with Tim Finn, gave them 'Weather With You', 'Fall at Your Feet' and 'Four Seasons in One Day'. Both brothers were appointed OBE in 1993. Crowded House split in 1996 and reformed in 2007.
His solo albums are Try Whistling This (1998), One Nil (2001), Dizzy Heights (2014) and Out of Silence (2017), and he made Lightsleeper (2018) with his son Liam. With Tim he recorded as the Finn Brothers, and he led the 7 Worlds Collide charity project. In 2013 he toured Australia with Paul Kelly; the live album Goin' Your Way, recorded at the Sydney Opera House, reached No. 5 on the ARIA chart.
From 2018 to 2022 he was a member of Fleetwood Mac. He wrote 'Song of the Lonely Mountain' for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and the All Blacks' 1999 Rugby World Cup song 'Can You Hear Us?', which topped the New Zealand chart, and in 2023 he had a voice cameo in Bluey. He is married to Sharon Finn, with whom he formed Pajama Club in 2011, and their sons Liam and Elroy are both musicians.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Try Whistling This | 1998 | — |
| One Nil | 2001 | — |
| Dizzy Heights | 2014 | — |
| Out of Silence | 2017 | — |
| Lightsleeper (with Liam Finn) | 2018 | — |
Auckland is Neil Finn's home base and the city that dominates his solo history. The St James Theatre hosted two nights in 1998 and five in April 2001, the Powerstation the Dizzy Heights show of September 2014, the Auckland Town Hall Solo with Strings in July 2015, and Silo Park on the waterfront in January 2016 and March 2018.
He has also been one of the few major New Zealand artists to tour the smaller towns: Taihape, Palmerston North, Hastings, Napier, New Plymouth and Hamilton all appear in the archive, alongside Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Roundhead Studios in Auckland, which he owns, is where many of his recent livestreams and studio performances have come from, including the Out of Silence and Infinity Sessions broadcasts. Those studio sessions and online performances are not counted as concerts on this page.
No venue is more tied to Neil Finn in Australia than the Sydney Opera House. Crowded House said farewell there on 24 November 1996, his Dizzy Heights tour played three nights in the Concert Hall in March 2014, and the Out of Silence shows were in the Joan Sutherland Theatre on 30 and 31 May 2018. The live album Goin' Your Way with Paul Kelly was recorded there in 2013.
Sydney has seen him in many other rooms too, from the York Theatre and the Seymour Centre to City Recital Hall Angel Place for Solo with Strings in 2015, and the ICC Sydney Theatre with Split Enz in May 2026.
Anyone looking for Neil Finn tickets in 2027 should check which name is on the bill. Solo shows, Crowded House shows and Split Enz shows are sold separately, have different line-ups and different set lists. The history on this page follows the solo listings; the band tours are only mentioned for context.
As of 9 October 2026, none of the three has announced 2027 dates in Australia or New Zealand. Crowded House last toured the region in 2024 and Split Enz in 2026.
In Melbourne his solo shows have been in concert halls: two nights at Hamer Hall in March 2014 and two at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in May 2015, with The Playhouse in Geelong close by. The 2009 Sound Relief concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, for the victims of the Victorian bushfires, saw him on stage with Tim and Liam Finn for 'Weather With You'.
Victoria is also where he has played festivals most often, with Lorne at the end of 2013 and two visits to Meredith's Supernatural Amphitheatre in 2010 and 2017.
His solo concerts are long. The Dizzy Heights shows of 2014 ran to 25 or 26 songs, opening with 'Impressions' and mixing the new album ('Flying in the Face of Love', 'Dizzy Heights', 'Better Than TV') with 'One Step Ahead', 'Distant Sun', 'Fall at Your Feet', 'Only Talking Sense' and 'Message to My Girl'. The Auckland Powerstation show of 20 September 2014 reached 30 songs.
The Out of Silence concerts of 2018 opened with 'Love Is Emotional', 'Independence Day', 'Chameleon Days', 'More Than One of You', 'Alone' and 'Widow's Peak', usually playing most of the new album before moving to the older catalogue, for 19 to 25 songs in total. Solo with Strings in 2015 favoured deeper album tracks such as 'Only Talking Sense', 'Catherine Wheels', 'Last Day of June' and 'Black and White Boy'.
Expect a show of around two hours if he tours solo again, with Crowded House and Split Enz songs alongside his own solo work.
There are no Neil Finn solo tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. The same is true for Crowded House and Split Enz as of 9 October 2026.
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Is Neil Finn touring Australia in 2027?
No solo dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026, and there are no Crowded House or Split Enz dates for 2027 either.
When did Neil Finn last tour solo in Australia?
On the Out of Silence tour of 2018, with the Joan Sutherland Theatre in Sydney on 30 and 31 May and HOTA on the Gold Coast on 30 June 2018.
When did Neil Finn last play New Zealand solo?
Two nights at Silo Park in Auckland on 9 and 10 March 2018, according to the setlist archive.
Did Neil Finn tour with Split Enz in 2026?
Yes. The reunited Split Enz played the Forever Enz tour in April and May 2026, including Bluesfest and arenas in New Zealand and Australia.
Does this page include Crowded House concerts?
No. The concert table uses solo 'Neil Finn' listings only. Crowded House and Split Enz shows are listed under those bands.
Where has Neil Finn played most in Australia?
Sydney, especially the Sydney Opera House, where he played three nights in 2014 and two in 2018.
What are Neil Finn's solo albums?
Try Whistling This (1998), One Nil (2001), Dizzy Heights (2014) and Out of Silence (2017), plus Lightsleeper (2018) with Liam Finn.
Has Neil Finn played Australian festivals?
Yes, including the Falls Festival at Marion Bay on New Year's Eve 2013, Meredith in 2010 and 2017 and Bluesfest in 2017.
Is there a Neil Finn presale code for 2027?
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