RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027

RÜFÜS DU SOL have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival headline slot or one-off show confirmed in either country, and the Sydney trio have not announced a new album since Inhale / Exhale, released on 11 October 2024.

The band have just come off the biggest tour of their career. The Inhale / Exhale world tour ran from March 2025 to September 2026 and sold about 1.7 million tickets, with a reported gross of $158 million, the first dance-music tour to pass $100 million and the first to sell more than a million tickets. Its Australian leg in November 2025 filled arenas for twelve nights, including three at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and three at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, before a stadium-sized night at Western Springs in Auckland on 29 November 2025.

This page sets out what is and is not known about 2027 and tells the story of RÜFÜS DU SOL on stage at home, from the Gardens Amphitheatre in Darwin in May 2014 to the arenas of 2025, via Field Day, Beyond The Valley and a run of New Year's festivals.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about RÜFÜS DU SOL concerts in 2027. The band have not named a tour, released new music after the Inhale / Exhale era or announced festival appearances for the 2026-27 Australian summer. Treat any 2027 city list, ticket listing or 'presale code' with caution until there is an official announcement.

Their recent history shows a clear rhythm. After the Surrender album, the band toured the world for two years and played big outdoor shows across Australia in November and December 2022, then returned for the festival season at the end of 2023. After Inhale / Exhale they launched the album with a show at the Fleet Steps in Sydney on 10 October 2024 and brought the world tour home in November 2025.

Whether 2027 brings a new album cycle, a festival summer or a break after eighteen months on the road is not known. What we can say is that Australia has always been a priority: since 2014 the band have played their home country every year or two, often over the Christmas and New Year period.

New Zealand has its own history with the band, from Hagley Park in Christchurch in 2015 to the 2025 show at The Outer Fields at Western Springs, but nothing is announced there either. Sign up below for the alert and we will email you when RÜFÜS DU SOL confirm 2027 dates.

Before the RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

The band, then billed simply as RÜFÜS, took their debut album Atlas around Australia in mid-2014 on the World Within Worlds Tour. It was a club and pub tour of the kind few acts still do: the Gardens Amphitheatre in Darwin on 24 May, the Fremantle Arts Centre, The Entrance Leagues Club, Newcastle Panthers, C.ex Coffs, The Beach Hotel in Byron Bay, HQ in Adelaide, The Showroom in Hobart, the ANU Bar in Canberra, Waves in Wollongong, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 21 June and Mackay Showgrounds, followed by North Byron Parklands on 26 July 2014.

The You Were Right Tour of October 2015 showed how fast they were growing: two nights at The Tivoli in Brisbane, the Fremantle Arts Centre, HQ in Adelaide, three nights at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, two at the Enmore Theatre and Nobbys Beach in Newcastle on 31 October 2015, then a New Year run at Mount Duneed Estate near Geelong, Marion Bay in Tasmania and North Byron Parklands.

Bloom, their second No. 1 album, kept them on the road through 2016 and early 2017. In April and May 2016 they played the Thebarton Theatre, Red Hill Auditorium in Perth, two nights at the Hordern Pavilion, two at Festival Hall in Melbourne, the Odeon in Hobart, the Riverstage in Brisbane and the Gardens Amphitheatre in Darwin. A spring run took them outdoors to Catani Gardens in St Kilda, HBF Arena in Perth, Centennial Park in Sydney on 1 October and Brisbane's Sporting Fields on 2 October 2016, and early 2017 brought a long regional tour from the Gold Coast to Wollongong, Geelong, 3 Oceans Winery at Metricup, Rottnest Island, Canberra, Gosford, three nights in Cairns and Airlie Beach.

The Solace Tour came home in February and March 2019 with two nights at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, the AEC Theatre in Adelaide, two nights at the Fremantle Arts Centre, 3 Oceans Winery and two nights at the Riverstage in Brisbane on 2 and 3 March 2019. Three nights at Carriageworks in Sydney followed in June 2019, and the band ended the year on the summer circuit at the Brisbane Showgrounds, Lardner Park in Warragul, Wellington Square in Perth and the Regatta Grounds in Hobart.

The Surrender era brought their biggest outdoor shows at home: the Brisbane Showgrounds on 26 November 2022, two nights at The Domain in Sydney on 2 and 3 December, Ellis Park in Adelaide, two nights at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on 15 and 16 December and Langley Park in Perth on 17 December 2022, each with a set of around 21 songs.

The Inhale / Exhale tour reached Australia in November 2025 as an arena tour: two nights at RAC Arena in Perth on 7 and 8 November, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 11 November, three nights at Rod Laver Arena from 13 to 15 November, three nights at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney from 20 to 22 November and two at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 25 and 26 November 2025. The setlist archive logs up to 28 songs on the final Sydney night.

The table below lists 106 documented Australia/NZ concerts by RÜFÜS DU SOL between 2014 and 2025, with the most shows in Sydney (17), Melbourne (13), Brisbane (11), Adelaide (7), Perth (7), Auckland (5). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

RÜFÜS DU SOL 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 (3 December 2022 to 26 November 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Alive — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Eyes — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Innerbloom — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. No Place — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. On My Knees — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Underwater — played at 15 of 15 shows
7. You Were Right — played at 15 of 15 shows
8. Next to Me — played at 14 of 15 shows
9. Treat You Better — played at 14 of 15 shows
10. Surrender — played at 12 of 15 shows
11. Always — played at 11 of 15 shows
12. Break My Love — played at 9 of 15 shows
13. Exhale — played at 8 of 15 shows
14. In the Moment — played at 8 of 15 shows

Before the RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Inhale / Exhale World Tour 2025 (2025): 12 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland.
• Solace Tour (2019): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Metricup, Brisbane.
• Bloom World Tour (2016–2017): 34 Australia/NZ shows — Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, Darwin, Auckland, Woombye, Lake Hawea, Gisborne, Gold Coast….
• You Were Right Tour (2015–2016): 13 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Geelong, Marion Bay, Byron Bay.
• World Within Worlds Tour (2014): 13 Australia/NZ shows — Darwin, Fremantle, The Entrance, Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Byron Bay, Adelaide, Hobart, Canberra, Wollongong, Sydney, Mackay.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Field Day in Sydney's Domain on New Year's Day has been a recurring part of the RÜFÜS DU SOL story. The archive has them at The Domain on 1 January 2015, 1 January 2019 and again on 1 January 2024. They also headlined Beyond The Valley in Victoria in 2023, playing Barunah Plains on 29 and 30 December 2023 before shows at the Brisbane Showgrounds on New Year's Eve, The Domain on New Year's Day, Claremont Showground in Perth and Ellis Park in Adelaide in early January 2024.

Other summer shows in the data include the Marion Bay site in Tasmania (31 December 2015), North Byron Parklands (1 January 2016), Glenworth Valley (29 December 2017) and, in New Zealand, Waiohika Estate near Gisborne and the Lake Hawea Hotel at the end of December 2016.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: career and records

RÜFÜS DU SOL are Tyrone Lindqvist (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jon George (keyboards) and James Hunt (drums). They formed in Sydney in November 2010 and released their first EP on 1 January 2011. Known simply as RÜFÜS in Australia until 2018, they used RÜFÜS DU SOL in the United States from 2014 to avoid confusion with the funk band Rufus, and adopted the longer name worldwide in May 2018.

Their debut album, Atlas, went to No. 1 in Australia in August 2013, with singles including 'Take Me', 'Desert Night', 'Tonight' and 'Sundream'. 'You Were Right' won the ARIA for Best Dance Release in 2015, and Bloom became their second No. 1 album in January 2016, with 'Innerbloom' becoming one of their signature songs. They played Coachella and Electric Forest in 2016.

Solace (2018), with 'No Place', 'Underwater' and 'Lost in My Mind', reached No. 2 and won the ARIA for Best Dance Release. In 2020 they released Live from Joshua Tree, an album and film shot in the California desert. Surrender (2021), largely recorded during a seven-week residency in Pioneertown, California, gave them another No. 1, and its single 'Alive' won the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Recording in 2022. On the Surrender tour they sold out three stadium shows at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles.

The fifth album, Inhale / Exhale, was announced on 11 September 2024 and released on 11 October 2024, reaching No. 3 in Australia. The band have won five ARIA Awards from more than thirty nominations, including Best Group in 2021, plus an APRA Award for 'On My Knees' and a National Live Music Award for Best DJ/Electronic Act.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: from club tours to arenas

Few Australian bands have climbed the venue ladder at home as steadily. In 2014 RÜFÜS played rooms such as the ANU Bar in Canberra and Waves in Wollongong; in 2015 they did three nights at the Forum in Melbourne; in 2016 two at the Hordern Pavilion; in 2019 two at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl; in 2022 racecourses, parks and The Domain; and in 2025 three nights each at Rod Laver Arena and Qudos Bank Arena.

Each step came with a new album, and each Australian tour has been bigger than the last. If a 2027 tour is announced, it would start from that arena-and-park level, but no such tour has been confirmed.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: Sydney, the home city

Sydney is where the band formed and it has hosted more of their shows than any other city in the archive: the Enmore Theatre (2014, 2015), the Hordern Pavilion (2016, 2022), Centennial Park (2016), Carriageworks (three nights in 2019), The Domain (Field Day 2015, 2019, 2024, plus two Surrender nights in December 2022), the Fleet Steps on 10 October 2024 and three nights at Qudos Bank Arena in November 2025.

The Fleet Steps show, on the eve of the release of Inhale / Exhale, was a one-off night on the harbour the day before the album came out, with a 14-song set in the archive.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

The band's New Zealand history begins at Hagley Park in Christchurch on 6 February 2015. On the Bloom World Tour they played two nights at the Powerstation in Auckland in May 2016 and summer shows at the Lake Hawea Hotel and Waiohika Estate near Gisborne in December 2016.

They then moved up to The Trusts Arena in Auckland in March 2019, Spark Arena on 25 November 2022 and, on the Inhale / Exhale tour, The Outer Fields at Western Springs on 29 November 2025, their biggest New Zealand show to date in the archive. Nothing is announced for New Zealand in 2027.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: a summer of festivals

The Australian summer, and especially the days around New Year, has been the band's favourite time to play at home. They have played on 31 December or 1 January in five different summers in the archive, at Marion Bay, North Byron Parklands, Lardner Park, Wellington Square in Perth, the Brisbane Showgrounds and Sydney's Domain.

That is why fans watch the festival announcements each spring. As of 9 October 2026, the band have not been announced for any Australian or New Zealand festival in the 2026-27 summer.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

On the Inhale / Exhale tour, RÜFÜS DU SOL played sets of 23 to 28 songs in Australia, the longest in the archive, mixing the new album with older favourites. Lindqvist sings and plays guitar and keys, George handles keyboards and Hunt plays live drums, which gives the shows more of a band feel than a DJ set.

Across all logged Australian and New Zealand shows, their most played songs are 'Innerbloom', 'You Were Right', 'Like an Animal', 'Underwater', 'Eyes', 'Treat You Better' and 'No Place', with 'Desert Night', 'Sundream', 'Brighter', 'On My Knees', 'Alive' and 'Next to Me' close behind.

The 2022 outdoor shows ran to about 21 songs and the 2019 Solace dates to around 16. No 2027 set list exists, as no 2027 show has been announced.

RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

No RÜFÜS DU SOL tickets are on sale for 2027, and no presale or on-sale date has been announced in Australia or New Zealand. When a tour is announced, the official details will name the ticket agency for each venue; buy only through it, through the venue box office or through the band's own fan sign-up.

Recent tours have sold quickly, so it is worth being ready, but be careful: most Australian and New Zealand arenas now use name-locked mobile tickets, so buy through the official outlet or its official resale service to make sure the ticket is in your name. Never pay for a 'presale code'.

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RÜFÜS DU SOL Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are RÜFÜS DU SOL touring Australia in 2027?

Nothing has been announced. As of 9 October 2026 there are no confirmed 2027 dates in Australia or New Zealand.

When did RÜFÜS DU SOL last play in Australia?

In November 2025 on the Inhale / Exhale tour, ending with two nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 25 and 26 November 2025.

When did they last play New Zealand?

At The Outer Fields at Western Springs in Auckland on 29 November 2025.

Has the Inhale / Exhale tour finished?

Yes. The world tour ran from March 2025 to September 2026 and sold about 1.7 million tickets.

Where did they play in Sydney and Melbourne in 2025?

Three nights at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney (20-22 November) and three at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne (13-15 November 2025).

Will they play Field Day or another festival this summer?

Not as far as has been announced. They have played Field Day at The Domain on New Year's Day in 2015, 2019 and 2024, but no 2026-27 festival appearance is confirmed.

What is their latest album?

Inhale / Exhale, released on 11 October 2024, which reached No. 3 in Australia.

Why the name change from RÜFÜS?

They used RÜFÜS DU SOL in the US from 2014 to avoid confusion with the funk band Rufus, and adopted it worldwide in May 2018.