Passenger Australia Tour 2027

Passenger returns to Australia in October 2027 with the Wild Love Tour, named after his new album. Five theatre shows are confirmed: the Astor Theatre in Perth on Friday 22 October 2027, Adelaide Town Hall on Sunday 24 October, The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 27 October, the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 29 October and the State Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 30 October 2027.

For Mike Rosenberg, the Brighton singer-songwriter behind the name, Australia is close to a second home. He moved here in October 2009 to busk, recorded two albums in the country with Australian musicians, filmed the video for Let Her Go at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville and has toured Australia almost every year or two since 2013, often adding stops such as Hobart, Cairns, Darwin, Canberra and the Margaret River region that many international acts skip.

This page covers the confirmed October 2027 dates and venues, a night-by-night look at the tour, and Passenger's Australian and New Zealand concerts from 2013 to the All the Little Lights anniversary shows of October 2024, as recorded in the setlist.fm archive. Tickets have been on sale since Friday 28 August 2026.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: confirmed dates

The Wild Love Tour was announced alongside a new single, It Was Gonna Be You, and the album Wild Love, due on Friday 6 November 2026. The tour is a long one. It starts in Europe in March 2027, with dates from Oslo and Stockholm to Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan and Berlin through to mid-April, then returns to the UK and Ireland in September, from Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre on 7 September to the Eventim Apollo in London on 17 September and a hometown show at the Brighton Dome on 25 September 2027.

Australia follows a month later. The run goes from west to east, starting at the Astor Theatre in Mount Lawley, Perth, on Friday 22 October 2027 and crossing to Adelaide Town Hall on King William Street on Sunday 24 October. After a short break, the tour picks up at The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 27 October.

The last two nights are on the east coast: the Palais Theatre in St Kilda, Melbourne, on Friday 29 October and the State Theatre on Market Street in Sydney on Saturday 30 October 2027. Every venue is a seated or mid-sized theatre, the format Passenger has preferred on his recent Australian tours, and Adelaide Town Hall is a new venue for him in the city after the Thebarton Theatre, the AEC Theatre and the Gov.

As of 9 October 2026, the announcement carries a note that further dates may be added. No New Zealand show has been confirmed for 2027, and no support act has been named. Hobart, Canberra and regional Western Australia, all of which Passenger has played before, are not on the current list.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: venue guide

Passenger Australia Tour 2027 at Astor Theatre, Perth

The Astor Theatre on Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley opened in 1914 as the Lyceum Theatre and was rebuilt in Art Deco style in 1939. Listed on the State Register of Heritage Places, it reopened in 2009 as a venue for live music and comedy.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027 at Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide

Adelaide Town Hall on King William Street was built between 1863 and 1866 to designs by Edmund Wright and Edward Woods, and opened on 20 June 1866. Listed on the South Australian Heritage Register, it is where the Beatles appeared on the balcony before huge crowds in June 1964.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027 at The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane

The Fortitude Music Hall opened in July 2019 on the Brunswick Street Mall in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. It holds about 3,000 people standing and was built to fill the gap for a mid-sized concert hall in the city.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027 at Palais Theatre, Melbourne

The Palais Theatre stands on the Lower Esplanade at St Kilda, next to Luna Park, and opened in 1927. With a capacity of nearly 3,000 it is described as the largest seated theatre in Australia, and it is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027 at State Theatre, Sydney

The State Theatre on Market Street in the Sydney CBD opened on 7 June 1929 and seats 2,034. Listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register, it has a Wurlitzer organ and the Koh-i-Noor chandelier, and has hosted the Sydney Film Festival since 1974.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: night by night

Friday 22 October 2027 — Astor Theatre, Perth. Passenger last played Astor Theatre on 17 October 2024 (All The Little Lights 10th Anniversary). This is the opening night of the run.

Sunday 24 October 2027 — Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide. In Adelaide, the last documented Passenger concert was at Thebarton Theatre (9 October 2022).

Wednesday 27 October 2027 — The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane. Passenger last played Fortitude Music Hall on 19 October 2024 (All The Little Lights 10th Anniversary).

Friday 29 October 2027 — Palais Theatre, Melbourne. The artist's previous show at this venue was on 23 October 2024.

Saturday 30 October 2027 — State Theatre, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented Passenger concert was at Concert Hall (21 October 2024). The run finishes here.

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

Passenger's Australian story begins before his first recorded headline show. After his band split in 2009, Mike Rosenberg moved to Australia in October that year and busked, supported Lior and the Sydney musicians Elana Stone and Brian Campeau, and played the One Movement festival in Perth. According to Wikipedia, he was soon selling out 500-seat rooms around the country. The setlist.fm archive picks up the story in March 2013, just after Let Her Go had become a worldwide hit: Zeal in Wellington and Zeal West in Auckland on 14 and 15 March, then the Astor Theatre in Perth on 30 March, the Queensland Conservatorium Theatre in Brisbane on 3 April and two nights at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 6 and 7 April 2013.

He came back before the end of 2013. The Opera House in Wellington and the Powerstation in Auckland on 28 and 29 November led into an Australian tour that took in the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on 1 December, the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on 4 December, two nights at The Tivoli in Brisbane on 6 and 7 December, an appearance in Martin Place, Sydney, on 10 December, the Enmore the next night and the Riverside Theatre in Perth on 13 December. In April 2014 he played the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm site near Byron Bay on 20 April and the Sydney Opera House two days later.

The Whispers World Tour of January and February 2015 was his widest Australian run. It opened at the Theatre Royal in Hobart on 16 January, played two nights at the Palais on 17 and 18 January, the AEC Theatre in Adelaide, the Canberra Theatre, the Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney on 23 January, the Riverstage in Brisbane and the Cairns Convention Centre, then the Civic Theatre in Auckland and the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, before Darwin Entertainment Centre on 5 February and the Red Hill Auditorium in Perth on 7 February. Later that year he supported Ed Sheeran's stadium tour: Suncorp Stadium on 28 November, nib Stadium in Perth on 2 December, two nights at AAMI Park in Melbourne, Allianz Stadium in Sydney on 9 December and Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 12 December 2015.

Headline tours followed in quick succession. In February and March 2016 he played the Odeon Theatre in Hobart, the Enmore, the Riverstage, the Palais, the Thebarton and the Fremantle Arts Centre. In January 2017, on the Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea tour, he moved up to outdoor venues: the Civic in Auckland and the Opera House in Wellington, then the Riverstage on 20 January, Munro Martin Parklands in Cairns, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 25 January, two nights at the Enmore, the Odeon in Hobart, the Thebarton and the South Lawn in Fremantle on 4 February 2017.

The Runaway Tour of November 2018 started at the Powerstation in Auckland on 13 November and went through The Tivoli, the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, the Enmore, the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide and the Astor Theatre, ending at the 3 Oceans Winery in Metricup, in the Margaret River region, on 25 November. After the pandemic, the Australia and New Zealand 2022 tour opened at the Astor on 7 October and finished at the Hunter Lounge in Wellington on 22 October, with Adelaide, Hobart, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland in between.

His most recent visit was the All the Little Lights 10th anniversary tour in October 2024: the Astor Theatre on 17 October, the Fortitude Music Hall on 19 October, two nights in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House on 20 and 21 October and the Palais Theatre on 23 October 2024. Three of the five 2027 venues, the Astor, the Fortitude Music Hall and the Palais, are rooms he played on that tour.

The table below lists 73 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Passenger between 2013 and 2024, with the most shows in Sydney (14), Melbourne (11), Brisbane (10), Auckland (8), Perth (7), Adelaide (6). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Passenger 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 January 2015 to 21 October 2024), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. I Hate — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Let Her Go — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Holes — played at 14 of 15 shows
4. Life's for the Living — played at 14 of 15 shows
5. Scare Away the Dark — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Whispers — played at 12 of 15 shows
7. The Sound of Silence — played at 10 of 15 shows
8. Things That Stop You Dreaming — played at 10 of 15 shows
9. Young as the Morning Old as the Sea — played at 9 of 15 shows
10. Riding to New York — played at 7 of 15 shows
11. Table for One — played at 7 of 15 shows
12. 27 — played at 6 of 15 shows
13. Survivors — played at 5 of 15 shows
14. Blink of an Eye — played at 4 of 15 shows

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

• All The Little Lights 10th Anniversary (2024): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Brisbane, Sydney.
• Australia & New Zealand 2022 (2022): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland, Wellington.
• Runaway Tour (2018): 7 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Metricup.
• Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea (2017): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Wellington, Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide, Fremantle.
• Whispers World Tour (2015): 12 Australia/NZ shows — Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Auckland, Wellington, Darwin, Perth.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Passenger's Australian concerts have almost all been his own shows. The setlist.fm archive records him at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm near Byron Bay on 20 April 2014, the Easter site of Bluesfest, with a thirteen-song set that included Let Her Go, Holes and his cover of Eye of the Tiger. Before the archive begins, Wikipedia notes that he played the One Movement festival in Perth in his early years in Australia.

His outdoor shows, at the Riverstage in Brisbane, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Munro Martin Parklands, the Fremantle South Lawn and the 3 Oceans Winery in Metricup, were headline concerts rather than festival slots. The 2027 tour is all indoor theatre dates, and no festival appearance has been announced.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Michael David Rosenberg was born in Brighton on 17 May 1984 and left school at 16 to pursue music, spending the next few years busking in England and Australia. In 2003 he formed the band Passenger in Brighton and Hove with the songwriter and producer Andrew Phillips. Their only album, Wicked Man's Rest, came out in 2007, and when the band split in 2009 Rosenberg kept the name for his solo work.

Much of his solo career was made in Australia. Wide Eyes Blind Love appeared in 2009, and his third album, Flight of the Crow (2010), was recorded in Australia with guests including Lior, Kate Miller-Heidke, Boy & Bear, Josh Pyke and Katie Noonan. All the Little Lights (2012) was recorded at Linear Recording in Sydney with Boy & Bear drummer Tim Hart, bassist Cameron Undy and keyboard player Stu Hunter. Its single Let Her Go topped the charts in 16 countries, including Australia and New Zealand, and its video, filmed at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville, is the most-viewed Australian video on YouTube.

Success abroad followed through support slots for Ed Sheeran and Jools Holland. Whispers (2014) reached number 2 in Australia, and Young as the Morning Old as the Sea (2016) went to number one in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The Boy Who Cried Wolf (2017), Runaway (2018) and Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted (2021) all made the Australian top ten. Several later records were released to raise money for charities, from Shelter to the Trussell Trust.

In 2014 he won the Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work and was nominated for a Brit Award. In 2025 he wrote the music and lyrics for the stage musical of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which opened in Chichester and moved to the West End in January 2026, and released One for the Road, songs from the show. Wild Love, due on 6 November 2026, is the album behind the 2027 tour.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: the Australian connection

Few British songwriters are as closely tied to Australia as Passenger. He lived here from late 2009, built his first audience busking and supporting local acts, and made his breakthrough records with Australian players. Wikipedia counts Let Her Go as the most-viewed Australian YouTube video ever, because he was based in Australia when it came out and the clip was shot in Marrickville.

That history shows in his touring. Since 2013 the archive records him in Australia in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2024, usually for a week or more and often more than once a year. The October 2027 shows will be his ninth year of Australian concerts in the setlist.fm record.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: October in the theatres

The 2027 run is short but carefully placed. Each city gets one night, and each venue is a heritage or purpose-built theatre: the Astor (rebuilt in 1939), Adelaide Town Hall (1866), the Fortitude Music Hall (2019), the Palais (1927) and the State Theatre (1929), which seats just over 2,000.

Ending on a Friday in Melbourne and a Saturday in Sydney gives the two biggest cities the weekend slots. Perth opens on a Friday too, while Adelaide falls on a Sunday and Brisbane on a Wednesday. The gaps between shows, two days before Brisbane and one before Melbourne, are typical of his Australian tours, which have usually allowed time to travel between capitals rather than playing back-to-back nights.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: what about New Zealand?

New Zealand has been part of nearly every Passenger trip to the region. The archive has him at the Powerstation in Auckland in 2013, 2018 and 2022, the Civic Theatre in 2015 and 2017, the Opera House in Wellington in 2013 and 2017, the Michael Fowler Centre in 2015 and the Hunter Lounge in 2022, as well as supporting Ed Sheeran at Mount Smart Stadium in 2015. Young as the Morning Old as the Sea topped the New Zealand albums chart.

For 2027, however, no New Zealand date has been announced as of 9 October 2026. The 2024 anniversary tour also skipped New Zealand. The tour note that further dates may be added leaves room for change, but until a date is confirmed, New Zealand fans should not assume one.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: Adelaide, Hobart and the regions

Passenger has often gone further than the five mainland capitals. Hobart had him at the Theatre Royal in 2015 and the Odeon Theatre in 2016, 2017 and 2022; Cairns in 2015 and 2017; Darwin and Canberra in 2015; and the Margaret River region in 2018. Fremantle hosted him at the Arts Centre in 2016 and on the South Lawn in 2017.

In Adelaide he has played the Thebarton Theatre four times, in 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2022, as well as the AEC Theatre in 2015 and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in 2018. Adelaide Town Hall on 24 October 2027 is a change of room, and a grand one: the 1866 hall on King William Street is where the Beatles waved to the crowds from the balcony in 1964.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Passenger's Australian sets in the archive usually run to fourteen to sixteen songs, played mostly solo on acoustic guitar. The most played songs in Australia and New Zealand are Let Her Go, I Hate, Holes, Life's for the Living, Scare Away the Dark and Whispers, and his cover of Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence has been a fixture since 2013. Holes has closed many of his Australian shows.

The 2024 anniversary shows opened with All the Little Lights and ran through Life's for the Living, Table for One, Riding to New York, Young as the Morning Old as the Sea and a new song, Wild Love, before Let Her Go, Scare Away the Dark, Things That Stop You Dreaming, Whispers and Holes. The 2022 shows had a similar shape, with Survivors, Queenstown, Sandstorm and Heaven.

In 2027 the set will be built around the new album, but the pattern of his previous tours suggests the best-known songs will stay. Older Australian shows also featured crowd-pleasing covers, such as Eye of the Tiger and a medley of Brown Eyed Girl, Dancing in the Dark and Go Your Own Way at the Palais in January 2015.

Passenger Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

Tickets for all five Australian shows have been on sale since Friday 28 August 2026, through the official ticketing partner of each venue and the venues' own box offices. The tour announcement notes that further dates may be added; any new show would be listed with its own sale date.

Buy from the official outlet named by each venue or at the box office, and check the date, city and seating section before paying. Many Australian venues issue name-linked mobile tickets that cannot always be transferred, so buy through the official outlet or its official resale service to make sure the ticket is in your name. Do not pay for so-called presale codes: genuine presale access comes only from the artist, the venue, the promoter or a card partner, and is never sold.

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Passenger Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

When is Passenger touring Australia in 2027?

From Friday 22 October to Saturday 30 October 2027, with five shows: Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Where does the tour start?

At the Astor Theatre in Mount Lawley, Perth, on Friday 22 October 2027.

Where is the Sydney show?

At the State Theatre on Market Street on Saturday 30 October 2027, the last night of the Australian run.

Where does Passenger play in Melbourne and Brisbane?

The Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Friday 29 October 2027 and The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Wednesday 27 October 2027.

Is there an Adelaide date?

Yes, Adelaide Town Hall on Sunday 24 October 2027.

Is Passenger playing New Zealand in 2027?

No New Zealand date has been announced as of 9 October 2026. His last New Zealand shows in the archive were the Powerstation in Auckland and the Hunter Lounge in Wellington in October 2022.

When did Passenger last tour Australia?

In October 2024, on the All the Little Lights 10th anniversary tour: Perth, Brisbane, two nights at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall and the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on 23 October.

What is the Wild Love Tour named after?

His album Wild Love, due on 6 November 2026. The tour also visits Europe in March and April and the UK and Ireland in September 2027.

Who is supporting Passenger in Australia?

No support act had been announced as of 9 October 2026.