Niall Horan brings The Dinner Party Live On Tour to Australia in February 2027. There are four arena shows: the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena on Wednesday 10 February, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Friday 12 February, Afterpay Arena in Sydney on Tuesday 16 February and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday 19 February 2027.
Jude York and Day We Ran are the support acts. The tour follows Dinner Party, Horan's fourth solo album, released in June 2026; it went to number one in Australia, as The Show had done in 2023. Tickets have been on sale since Thursday 18 June 2026.
Adelaide is the new name on the map: neither of Horan's two solo arena tours, in 2018 and 2024, went there. This page gathers the 2027 dates and venues, his concerts in Australia and New Zealand from the Flicker Sessions in 2017 to Rod Laver Arena in 2024, the songs he plays here and the essentials for buying tickets safely.
Dinner Party: Live on Tour began in Birmingham on 22 September 2026, with European dates announced in March 2026 and North American dates in May. The Australian leg is one of three legs and 57 concerts in total. It arrives in February 2027, in the middle of the Australian summer, and runs for ten days.
The order of the leg is unusual for an international tour here: it starts in Adelaide, at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena on Wednesday 10 February 2027, and then moves east to Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Friday 12 February. Sydney follows at Afterpay Arena, the former Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park, on Tuesday 16 February, and the tour finishes at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday 19 February.
Jude York and Day We Ran open each Australian show. There is a single night in each city, which is a change from 2024, when Horan played two nights at Rod Laver Arena.
No New Zealand show has been announced. Auckland's Spark Arena was on both of his earlier solo tours, in June 2018 and April 2024, but as of 9 October 2026 the 2027 leg was Australia only, and there was no Perth date either.
The Adelaide Entertainment Centre opened on 20 July 1991 in Hindmarsh, just north-west of the city centre. Its arena holds up to about 11,300 people and is South Australia's main indoor venue for touring concerts.
Rod Laver Arena opened on 11 January 1988 in Melbourne Park, close to the city centre. It is the centre court of the Australian Open and seats about 14,800 people for sport, more with a floor configuration for concerts.
The Sydney SuperDome opened on 6 November 1999 at Sydney Olympic Park for the 2000 Olympics. It has carried the names Acer Arena, Allphones Arena and Qudos Bank Arena, and became Afterpay Arena in 2026; it holds up to about 21,000 people.
The Brisbane Entertainment Centre opened on 20 February 1986 in Boondall, in Brisbane's northern suburbs. It holds about 14,500 people for concerts and is the city's main indoor arena for touring acts.
Wednesday 10 February 2027 — Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena, Adelaide. The tour starts here.
Friday 12 February 2027 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. Niall Horan last played Rod Laver Arena on 4 May 2024 (The Show: Live on Tour).
Tuesday 16 February 2027 — Afterpay Arena, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented Niall Horan concert was at Qudos Bank Arena (1 May 2024).
Friday 19 February 2027 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane. Niall Horan last played Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 28 April 2024 (The Show: Live on Tour). This venue closes the tour.
Horan's first concerts in Australia and New Zealand came as a member of One Direction. On the Up All Night Tour in April 2012 the band played the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Hisense Arena in Melbourne and Brisbane, then the Trusts Arena in Henderson and the St James Theatre in Wellington; the Australian shows sold out in three minutes. In September and October 2013 the Take Me Home Tour returned with eighteen arena shows in Australia and New Zealand, including Adelaide, Perth, Christchurch and Auckland, and all 190,000 tickets sold.
The last One Direction visit was the On the Road Again Tour, which opened in Sydney on 7 February 2015 and went on to stadiums in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. It was the band's only stadium tour of Australia, and the last time Horan played Adelaide or Perth.
His solo story here began in 2017. After promotional appearances in Sydney in mid-2017, he played the Enmore Theatre in Newtown on Sunday 10 September 2017 as part of The Flicker Sessions, a 14-song set built around songs that would appear on Flicker, with "This Town" and "Slow Hands" already well known.
The Flicker World Tour brought him back in June 2018 for four arena shows: Spark Arena in Auckland on Friday 1 June, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 3 June, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 5 June and Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Thursday 7 June 2018. Each set ran to 18 songs and included a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" and One Direction's "Drag Me Down".
The Show: Live on Tour, his second solo arena tour, visited in April and May 2024. It opened at Spark Arena in Auckland on Friday 26 April, then went to the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 28 April, Qudos Bank Arena on 1 May and two nights at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 May 2024, the last of which is his most recent concert in the region.
The step from Margaret Court Arena in 2018 to two nights at Rod Laver Arena in 2024 shows how his Australian audience grew between the two tours. In 2027 the tour adds Adelaide and keeps the same arenas in Sydney (now named Afterpay Arena), Melbourne and Brisbane.
The table below lists 10 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Niall Horan between 2017 and 2024, with the most shows in Melbourne (3), Sydney (3), Brisbane (2), Auckland (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2024 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | The Show: Live on Tour |
| 3 May 2024 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | The Show: Live on Tour |
| 1 May 2024 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | The Show: Live on Tour |
| 28 April 2024 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | The Show: Live on Tour |
| 26 April 2024 | Auckland | Spark Arena | The Show: Live on Tour |
| 7 June 2018 | Melbourne | Margaret Court Arena | Flicker World Tour |
| 5 June 2018 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | Flicker World Tour |
| 3 June 2018 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Flicker World Tour |
| 1 June 2018 | Auckland | Spark Arena | Flicker World Tour |
| 10 September 2017 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | The Flicker Sessions |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 10 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (10 September 2017 to 4 May 2024), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Niall James Horan was born on 13 September 1993 in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. He taught himself guitar, and in 2010, aged 16, auditioned for The X Factor in Dublin. He did not progress as a solo act, but at bootcamp he was placed with Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik to form One Direction, who finished third.
One Direction released five albums and became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time, before announcing a hiatus in 2016. Horan then signed with Capitol Records as a solo artist. His first album, Flicker (2017), reached number one in Ireland and the United States and number two in Australia, helped by the singles "This Town" and "Slow Hands".
Heartbreak Weather came out in March 2020 and topped the UK chart; in Australia it peaked at number two, but its tour was cancelled by the pandemic. The Show (2023), with the singles "Heaven" and "Meltdown", was his first number one album in Australia, and its tour brought him back to Australian arenas in 2024.
Dinner Party was released in June 2026, with the singles "Dinner Party", "Little More Time" and "End of an Era", and went to number one in Australia. Outside music Horan has been a coach on The Voice, co-founded a golf management company and supported charities working on autism and cancer research.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Flicker | 2017 | AUS 2 |
| Heartbreak Weather | 2020 | AUS 2 |
| The Show | 2023 | AUS 1 |
| Dinner Party | 2026 | AUS 1 |
For the first time on a solo tour, Niall Horan plays Adelaide. The Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena hosts the opening night of the Australian leg on Wednesday 10 February 2027.
His last concerts in Adelaide were with One Direction, on the Take Me Home Tour in 2013 and the On the Road Again stadium tour in February 2015. For South Australian fans who travelled to Melbourne in 2018 and 2024, this is a home show at last.
Melbourne has the clearest record of his growth. In June 2018 he played the smaller Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne Park; in May 2024 he had two nights next door at Rod Laver Arena. In 2027 he plays Rod Laver Arena again, on Friday 12 February, this time for one night.
The two 2024 sets were not identical: the first night included "Never Grow Up", "Put a Little Love on Me" and "Everywhere", while the second had "Cross Your Mind", "If You Leave Me" and "Dear Patience". Fans who go to more than one night on a Horan tour can expect a few changes.
Sydney's show at Afterpay Arena on Tuesday 16 February 2027 returns to the same building as his 2018 and 2024 concerts, which were billed at Qudos Bank Arena before the venue was renamed in 2026. His first solo concert in the city was much smaller, at the Enmore Theatre in September 2017.
Brisbane closes the tour at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday 19 February. He played the same arena in June 2018 and April 2024, and with One Direction in 2013.
Spark Arena in Auckland has been a fixture of Horan's solo touring: it opened the Oceania leg in June 2018 and again in April 2024. With One Direction he also played Henderson and Wellington in 2012 and Christchurch and Auckland in 2013.
The 2027 leg, as announced, has no New Zealand date. New Zealand fans who want to see this tour will need to cross the Tasman, and the alert below will flag any New Zealand show if one is added.
Horan's Australian sets have grown from 14 songs at the Enmore Theatre in 2017 to 18 on the Flicker World Tour and 20 on The Show tour. In 2024 the shows opened with "Nice to Meet Ya" and a medley of "Small Talk" with Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen", followed by "On the Loose", "On a Night Like Tonight" and "The Show".
The second half of the 2024 shows built to "Heaven", "Meltdown", "Mirrors", "Still" and "Save My Life" before the encore of "Slow Hands". Several nights included a One Direction song such as "Night Changes", and the Sydney show added a cover of Angus & Julia Stone's "Big Jet Plane".
The songs played most often in Australia and New Zealand are "Slow Hands", "This Town", "On the Loose" and "Mirrors". The 2027 shows are built around Dinner Party; the Australian set list had not been published as of 9 October 2026.
Tickets for The Dinner Party Live On Tour in Australia have been on sale since Thursday 18 June 2026, through the authorised outlets for each arena and the venue box offices. Each city has one show, so check that your ticket is for the right city and date.
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When does Niall Horan's Australian tour start?
At the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena on Wednesday 10 February 2027.
Which cities is he playing?
Adelaide (10 February), Melbourne (12 February), Sydney (16 February) and Brisbane (19 February 2027).
Who are the support acts?
Jude York and Day We Ran.
Is Niall Horan playing New Zealand in 2027?
No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. He last played Spark Arena in Auckland on 26 April 2024.
Is there a Perth show?
No. The 2027 leg is Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
When did tickets go on sale?
Tickets have been on sale since Thursday 18 June 2026.
Is Afterpay Arena the same venue as Qudos Bank Arena?
Yes. The Sydney Olympic Park arena took the Afterpay Arena name in 2026; Horan played it as Qudos Bank Arena in 2018 and 2024.
When did he last play Australia?
On The Show: Live on Tour, finishing with two nights at Rod Laver Arena on 3 and 4 May 2024.
What is his latest album?
Dinner Party, released in June 2026, which reached number one in Australia.
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