Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027

Ocean Alley have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no headline tour, no one-off show and no festival booking for 2027 published for the band, so this page sets out what is known and what is not, and keeps a complete record of their shows at home and across the Tasman.

The six-piece from Sydney's Northern Beaches are one of the biggest live draws in Australian guitar music. Formed in a backyard shed in 2011, they built their audience the slow way, touring the country five times in their own four-wheel drive in 2014 and 2015, and by the start of 2026 they were playing their largest headline tour yet: the Love Balloon Australia & New Zealand Tour, which sold more than 80,000 tickets.

That run, at outdoor sites such as Catani Gardens in Melbourne, the Brisbane Showgrounds, The Domain in Sydney, the Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle and Spark Arena in Auckland, is the most recent chapter in a live history that goes back to a pub show at the Kings Arms in Auckland in October 2016. Everything below comes from the setlist archive and the band's Wikipedia record.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no Ocean Alley tour of Australia or New Zealand announced for 2027. The band's most recent home headline run took place between January and March 2026, in support of their fifth album Love Balloon, and it was their first headline tour in this part of the world since 2023. Nothing has been published about what follows it.

Their pattern since 2019 has been to alternate big summer runs at home with long trips overseas. In 2025 they toured North America twice, in July and October, and played their first Latin America tour across ten headline dates, after a 2024 world tour that included a headline show at Alexandra Palace in London. No 2027 dates in other regions are part of the verified data used on this page either.

Until the band or an established festival announces a 2027 booking, any list of 2027 Ocean Alley dates in Australian or New Zealand cities should be treated as unconfirmed. That includes social media posts, ticket listings and anything offering a 'presale code' for a show that does not yet exist.

If a new run is announced, this page will be updated with the cities, venues and sale details. You can sign up below for the alert so you hear about it as soon as it is official.

Before the Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Ocean Alley started out on the Northern Beaches and in the city of Sydney, first toured interstate in 2014 and crossed to New Zealand for the first time in 2016. The setlist archive's first New Zealand run is a short club tour in October 2016: the Kings Arms in Auckland on 12 October, ReFuel in Dunedin, a show in Christchurch and Bodega in Wellington. On New Year's Eve that year they played Waiohika Estate in Gisborne, home of Rhythm & Vines.

The Chiaroscuro era brought the first big Australian headline shows in the archive. In March 2019 the band played the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 10 March, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 14 March and the Riverstage in Brisbane, with dates at Mindil Beach in Darwin and Fremantle Oval as well. A New Zealand leg followed in April 2019: two nights at the Powerstation in Auckland, two at the Hunter Lounge at Union Hall in Wellington, then Union Hall in Dunedin and Christchurch Town Hall.

The pandemic years did not stop them playing at home. In late 2020 the archive has the UniBar in Wollongong, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 28 November and two nights at NightQuarter on the Sunshine Coast, and 2021 brought two nights at the Canberra Theatre, the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on 24 March, two nights at the Newcastle Civic Theatre and a regional run through Tamworth, Port Macquarie, Gosford, Batemans Bay and Mudgee in May 2021.

The Lonely Diamond shows of February 2022 were their biggest headline run up to that point: two nights at the Riverstage in Brisbane, HOTA on the Gold Coast, three nights at the Hordern Pavilion from 18 to 20 February and John Cain Arena in Melbourne on 23 February. In May 2022 they returned to New Zealand for Spark Arena in Auckland, the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington and the town halls of Dunedin and Christchurch, and played the Fremantle Arts Centre.

The Australia and New Zealand '23 tour opened at Spark Arena in Auckland on 23 September 2023 and then took in two more nights at the Hordern Pavilion, the Forum Theatre and John Cain Arena in Melbourne, two nights at the Red Hill Auditorium in Perth, Rymill and King Rodney Parks in Adelaide, two nights at the Riverstage, Exhibition Park in Canberra and Heritage Bank Stadium on the Gold Coast. It finished with a New Zealand summer swing through Taupo, New Plymouth, Cardrona, Upper Hutt and Whangamata in late December 2023 and early January 2024.

Since then the archive shows a coastal run in March and April 2024, from the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart to Torquay, Wollongong, Adelaide, Moreton Bay and Metricup, and then the 2026 Love Balloon dates. Those began at Catani Gardens in Melbourne on 24 January 2026, reached The Domain in Sydney on Saturday 31 January and Spark Arena in Auckland on Friday 27 February, and closed at Glenelg Beach in Adelaide on 21 March 2026.

The table below lists 130 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Ocean Alley between 2016 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (12), Melbourne (11), Adelaide (9), Brisbane (8), Auckland (7), Canberra (6). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Ocean Alley 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 (6 April 2024 to 15 March 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Confidence — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Tombstone — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Touch Back Down — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Yellow Mellow — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Happy Sad — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Knees — played at 14 of 15 shows
7. Partner in Crime — played at 14 of 15 shows
8. Baby Come Back — played at 13 of 15 shows
9. Lemonworld — played at 13 of 15 shows
10. Tangerine — played at 13 of 15 shows
11. Drenched — played at 11 of 15 shows
12. First Blush — played at 11 of 15 shows
13. Left of the Dealer — played at 11 of 15 shows
14. Love Balloon — played at 11 of 15 shows

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

• Aus Coastal '24 (2024): 1 Australia/NZ show — Hobart.
• Australia and New Zealand '23 (2023–2024): 21 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Pambula, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Ballarat, The Entrance, Taupo….

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Festivals have been central to Ocean Alley's rise. Wikipedia records appearances at Lost Paradise, Rhythm & Vines, Rhythm & Alps and Soundsplash over the 2016-17 New Year period, The Hills Are Alive and Groovin the Moo in Maitland in 2017, the national Groovin the Moo tour and Splendour in the Grass in 2018, and a headline slot at the final edition of Bluesfest in Byron Bay in April 2025.

The setlist archive adds many outdoor dates around those events: Robrosa Station at Cardrona on New Year's Eve 2017 and 2023, North Byron Parklands in July 2019 and July 2023, Glenworth Valley on 30 December 2022, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on New Year's Eve 2022, and a run of regional showgrounds in April 2023 including Adelaide, Maitland, Canberra, Bendigo, the Sunshine Coast and Bunbury.

In New Zealand they have also played Hagley Park in Christchurch, the Tomoana Showgrounds in Hastings, Wainui Reserve in Raglan and stadium sites in Mount Maunganui, Auckland and Dunedin. For many fans on both sides of the Tasman, a festival field in summer is where they first saw the band.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Ocean Alley are Baden Donegal on vocals and guitar, Angus Goodwin on lead guitar, Lach Galbraith on keyboards and vocals, Mitch Galbraith on guitar, Nic Blom on bass and Tom O'Brien on drums. Their sound has been described as a fusion of cruisey psych, rock and reggae, and the members have named Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, The Smiths and Oasis among their influences. They have released all their records independently.

The Yellow Mellow EP of 2013 and In Purple of 2015 were followed by the debut album Lost Tropics in May 2016, which the band supported with a sold-out East Coast run and some 40 shows in Europe. 'The Comedown' reached No. 48 in the triple j Hottest 100 of 2017, and the second album Chiaroscuro (2018) made them a national name when 'Confidence' topped the Hottest 100 of 2018, with 'Knees', their cover of 'Baby Come Back' and 'Happy Sad' also in the count.

Lonely Diamond, led by 'Hot Chicken', was released in June 2020 and reached No. 3 on the ARIA albums chart, as did Low Altitude Living in October 2022. In late 2023 'Confidence' found a new global audience through TikTok and returned to the ARIA top 40 more than five years after its release.

'Tangerine', released in October 2024, was their first new music in two years and placed at No. 15 in the 2024 Hottest 100. The fifth album Love Balloon, announced in June 2025, explores love in its full range, and was followed by the band's largest Australian and New Zealand tour. Writers have described them as beloved in their home nation, and younger Australian bands have cited them as an influence.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: what the 2026 run tells us

The Love Balloon Australia & New Zealand Tour of early 2026 was the band's biggest headline campaign, with more than 80,000 tickets sold. Rather than a string of indoor arenas, much of it was staged outdoors: Catani Gardens in Melbourne, the Brisbane Showgrounds, The Domain in Sydney, Quercus Park in Carrick in Tasmania, the Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle, Exhibition Park in Canberra, Torquay Common, Speers Point Park near Newcastle, Sunshine Coast Stadium at Bokarina and Glenelg Beach in Adelaide.

That choice of open-air sites in summer suits a band whose music is so closely tied to the beach and the festival field. It also means that a full home tour every year is unlikely: after the 2023 run, the band went almost two and a half years before the next headline tour at home. No sequel to the 2026 shows has been announced.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: Sydney and the Hordern Pavilion

As a Northern Beaches band, Sydney is their home crowd, and the Hordern Pavilion is the venue that marks their growth. The archive has them there on 10 March 2019, for three nights in a row from 18 to 20 February 2022 and for two more nights on 6 and 7 October 2023.

Sydney has also seen them at the Metro Theatre (two sold-out nights in 2017, according to Wikipedia), Qudos Bank Arena in November 2020, The Domain in February 2020 and January 2026, and Pittwater Rugby Park, close to where they started, in November 2019.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

New Zealand has been part of nearly every Ocean Alley cycle since 2016. In Auckland the band have moved from the Kings Arms (2016) and Studio The Venue (2017) to two nights at the Powerstation in April 2019 and three visits to Spark Arena, on 14 May 2022, 23 September 2023 and 27 February 2026.

Outside Auckland they have played club rooms and town halls in Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch, and summer festival sites from Gisborne and Cardrona to Taupo, New Plymouth, Upper Hutt, Whangamata, Raglan, Hastings and Nelson. The 2026 New Zealand leg was shorter, with Spark Arena and Hagley Park in Christchurch on 28 February.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: touring the regions

Few Australian bands of their size have spent as much time outside the capital cities. The archive includes Pambula, Ballarat, Shepparton, Lucindale, Tamworth, Port Macquarie, Gosford, Batemans Bay, Mudgee, Kiama, Bunbury, Bendigo, The Entrance, Carrick and Metricup in Western Australia's Margaret River region.

Those shows reflect the band's early years of touring the country in a four-wheel drive, and they mean that fans in regional New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia have often seen Ocean Alley without a trip to a city arena.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

The 2026 headline set ran to 20 songs. At The Domain in Sydney on 31 January 2026 and Spark Arena in Auckland on 27 February 2026 the band opened with 'Tangerine' and 'Touch Back Down', played 'Life in Love', 'Tombstone', 'Sweet Boy', 'Yellow Mellow', 'Partner in Crime', 'Lemonworld' and 'Left of the Dealer', and built the last stretch around 'Happy Sad', 'Hot Chicken', 'Confidence', 'Baby Come Back', 'Knees', 'First Blush', 'Love Balloon' and 'Drenched'.

Earlier sets drew more from the first two albums. At Spark Arena on 23 September 2023 the 22-song show included 'Home', 'Double Vision', 'The Comedown', 'Drinks and Cigars', 'Simple Pleasures', 'Holiday', 'Deepest Darkness' and 'West Coast', while the Powerstation show of 4 April 2019 featured 'Corduroy', 'Stained Glass', 'Overgrown' and 'Bones'. Their Bluesfest headline set on 17 April 2025 had 19 songs.

Across all the Australian and New Zealand set lists in the archive, 'Confidence', 'Knees', 'Yellow Mellow', 'Tombstone' and 'Baby Come Back' are the songs played most often. The band are known for long instrumental passages and loose, jam-style transitions rather than heavy production.

Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

No Ocean Alley tickets for Australia or New Zealand in 2027 are on sale, because no concerts have been announced. Any site claiming to sell 2027 seats or offering a presale code at this stage is not official.

When the band announce a tour, tickets are normally sold through the official ticket agent named in the announcement and through the venue or festival, often with a fan presale first. Buy only from those outlets, expect name-linked mobile tickets at many venues, and use only the official resale option if you can no longer attend. Be cautious with anyone selling 'presale codes'.

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Ocean Alley Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are Ocean Alley touring Australia in 2027?

No 2027 Australian dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026.

When did Ocean Alley last tour Australia and New Zealand?

On the Love Balloon Australia & New Zealand Tour, from 24 January to 21 March 2026, which sold more than 80,000 tickets.

When did Ocean Alley last play Sydney?

At The Domain on 31 January 2026.

When did Ocean Alley last play New Zealand?

At Spark Arena in Auckland on 27 February 2026 and Hagley Park in Christchurch on 28 February 2026.

Where did Ocean Alley play in Melbourne?

Venues in the archive include the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, the Forum Theatre, John Cain Arena, Footscray Park, Alexandra Gardens and Catani Gardens.

Did Ocean Alley headline Bluesfest?

Yes, they headlined the final edition of Bluesfest in Byron Bay in April 2025.

Which Ocean Alley song won the triple j Hottest 100?

'Confidence' was No. 1 in the Hottest 100 of 2018.

What is Ocean Alley's latest album?

Love Balloon, their fifth album, announced in June 2025.

Is there an Ocean Alley presale code for 2027?

No. Nothing is on sale, so any code offered now is not genuine.