Sleep Theory play Australia for the first time in February 2027. The Memphis band, who mix heavy rock and metalcore with R&B and pop vocals, open their Sleep Theory Australian Tour 2027 at Metropolis Fremantle on Saturday 6 February 2027, then play the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on Wednesday 10 February and Festival Hall in Melbourne on Friday 12 February.
Sydney gets two nights, the Metro Theatre on Saturday 13 February and the Enmore Theatre on Sunday 14 February, and the tour ends at The Tivoli in Brisbane on Monday 15 February 2027. The Los Angeles duo RIVALS support on every date. Tickets have been on sale since Friday 31 July 2026, and several shows were upgraded to bigger rooms because of demand.
Because this is a first visit, there is no past Australian or New Zealand concert to list yet. This page covers the confirmed dates and venues, a night-by-night view of the tour, how the band went from a solo project to rock radio number ones in five years, what their live show looks like and how ticketing works.
The tour was announced on 28 July 2026, with a general sale three days later, on Friday 31 July. The first routing used smaller rooms: Magnet House in Perth, The Gov in Adelaide, 170 Russell in Melbourne, the Metro Theatre in Sydney and the Princess Theatre in Brisbane. Within days, demand changed the map.
Perth moved to Metropolis Fremantle and forward one day to Saturday 6 February. Melbourne went from 170 Russell to Festival Hall, one of the city's largest standing venues, for Friday 12 February. Brisbane moved from the Princess Theatre to The Tivoli, now on Monday 15 February, and Adelaide is now at the Thebarton Theatre on Wednesday 10 February. Tickets bought for the original venues remained valid.
Sydney sold out first. The Metro Theatre show on Saturday 13 February stayed in place, and a second night was added at the Enmore Theatre in Newtown on Sunday 14 February 2027. That makes six shows in five cities over ten days, an unusually large first tour for a band whose debut album came out in May 2025.
RIVALS, a dark pop-rock duo from Los Angeles, open every show. As of 9 October 2026 there is no New Zealand date and no Canberra show; if either is added, it will appear on this page.
Metropolis Fremantle stands at 58 South Terrace, next to the Sail and Anchor Hotel. It opened on 27 September 1904 as the King's Theatre, designed by Frederick William Burwell, became a concert club in 1991 and holds about 1,200 people over two levels.
The Thebarton Theatre is a concert hall in Torrensville, in Adelaide's inner west. It opened in 1928 as a combined town hall and picture theatre and holds about 2,000 people.
Festival Hall opened in 1913 on Dudley Street, West Melbourne, as a boxing venue known as 'the House of Stoush'. Rebuilt after a 1955 fire in time for the 1956 Olympics, it hosted the Beatles in 1964 and holds about 5,400 people.
The Metro Theatre at 624 George Street in the Sydney CBD opened in 1994 and holds about 1,550 people in its main room. It is known for heavy, indie and alternative shows, from Jeff Buckley in 1995 to You Am I's seven sold-out nights in 1996.
The Enmore Theatre on Enmore Road in Newtown, in Sydney's inner west, opened in 1912 and was remodelled in Art Deco style in 1937. It holds about 1,700 seated or 2,500 standing and is the longest-running live theatre in Sydney.
The Tivoli at 52 Costin Street in Fortitude Valley was built in 1917 as Adams Bakery and turned into a restaurant and theatre around Expo 88. It keeps its art deco features and holds about 1,560 standing.
Saturday 6 February 2027 — Metropolis, Fremantle. This is the opening night of the run.
Wednesday 10 February 2027 — Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide.
Friday 12 February 2027 — Festival Hall, Melbourne.
Saturday 13 February 2027 — Metro Theatre, Sydney.
Sunday 14 February 2027 — Enmore Theatre, Sydney.
Monday 15 February 2027 — The Tivoli, Brisbane. The run finishes here.
Sleep Theory have never played a concert in Australia or New Zealand. The setlist.fm archive has no show for the band in either country, and the February 2027 tour was announced as their first ever Australian tour. The history table on this page is therefore empty for now; it will fill from the Fremantle show onwards.
Until now the band have toured mainly in the United States. Between August and December 2025 they were on the road in support of Afterglow, sharing bills with Falling in Reverse, Papa Roach, The Used, Nevertel, Oxymorrons and Strayview. They have also played with Shinedown and Daughtry.
Their first headline tour outside North America came in February 2026, when they played the United Kingdom and Europe with The Pretty Wild as support. In September 2026 they were on the bill of the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the largest rock festivals in the United States.
Australian fans have so far known Sleep Theory through streaming and rock radio rather than live shows. The speed with which the first routing was upgraded, from small club rooms to Festival Hall and a second Sydney night at the Enmore, shows how far the songs travelled before the band did.
Sleep Theory began in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2019 as a solo project of singer Cullen Moore, a US Army veteran. Bassist Paolo Vergara joined early on, and the line-up settled in 2023 with guitarist and unclean vocalist Daniel Pruitt and drummer Ben Pruitt. Moore handles the clean vocals, and the band's mix of heavy guitars with a smooth, R&B-trained voice is the core of their sound.
The first singles, "Another Way" and "Numb", led to the debut EP Paper Hearts in 2023, which passed 33 million streams within a few months. "Numb" reached number nine on the US Mainstream Rock chart, and "Fallout" followed it to number two. In 2024 "Stuck in My Head" went to number one on that chart, the band's first.
The debut album Afterglow, produced by David Cowell, came out on Epitaph Records on 16 May 2025. It reached number 117 on the Billboard 200, number six on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart and number 12 on the UK Rock and Metal Albums chart, and was well reviewed in Kerrang! and on Blabbermouth. "Static" and "Words Are Worthless" both went to number one on Mainstream Rock.
In 2026 the band released the covers EP (E)motional (S)upport (C)are (P)ackage, with songs by *NSYNC, Paramore and Taylor Swift. They won best international breakthrough artist at the Heavy Music Awards in 2025 and best new rock artist at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in 2026. The band have cited Linkin Park, Bring Me the Horizon, Issues, Bad Omens, Beartooth, Saosin and Michael Jackson among their influences.
The band's rise has been driven largely by streaming and US rock radio rather than by long tours. Five singles reached the top ten of the Mainstream Rock chart in under three years, and four of them reached number one or two. That radio profile, and the strength of the songs on playlists, is the main reason a band that had never played Australia could move up to Festival Hall and add a second Sydney theatre on their first visit.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Afterglow | 2025 | — |
Few first tours of Australia change as much between announcement and show day as this one. In the space of a few weeks, five club and theatre dates became six shows, with every city except Sydney's first night moved to a larger room, and Sydney itself doubled.
The jumps were large: 170 Russell to Festival Hall in Melbourne, Magnet House to Metropolis Fremantle, the Princess Theatre to The Tivoli and The Gov to the Thebarton Theatre. The note on the tour is simple: several shows were upgraded because of demand.
Sydney is the only city with two shows. The Metro Theatre on George Street, in the city centre, holds about 1,550 people and has been a home for heavy and alternative music since 1994. It sold out first, on Saturday 13 February 2027.
The extra show on Sunday 14 February is at the Enmore Theatre in Newtown, a 1912 theatre on Enmore Road in the inner west and one of the city's best-known concert rooms. It is the larger of the two Sydney venues, so it was the natural choice for a second night.
Melbourne's show on Friday 12 February 2027 moved from 170 Russell, a club in the city centre, to Festival Hall in West Melbourne, which holds about 5,400 people. It is the biggest room of the tour.
Festival Hall has more than a century of history, from boxing nights in its early years to the Beatles in 1964. For a band playing Australia for the first time, a headline night there is a strong start.
The tour opens in Western Australia on Saturday 6 February 2027 at Metropolis Fremantle, the former King's Theatre on South Terrace, built in 1904 and a concert club since 1991. There is then a gap of three days before Adelaide, where the band play the Thebarton Theatre in Torrensville on Wednesday 10 February.
Brisbane closes the run on Monday 15 February at The Tivoli in Fortitude Valley, a 1917 former bakery turned art deco theatre that holds about 1,560 standing. The Monday finale follows the two Sydney nights.
Sleep Theory arrive in the middle of a busy stretch for American heavy music in Australia. Beartooth, a band Sleep Theory name among their influences, play Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane between 26 and 31 January 2027, in several of the same venues: the Thebarton Theatre and Festival Hall host both tours within a fortnight.
Dayseeker are touring at almost exactly the same time. Their Adelaide show at the Hindley Street Music Hall is on Tuesday 9 February, the night before Sleep Theory's Thebarton date; on Friday 12 February Dayseeker play the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney while Sleep Theory are at Festival Hall in Melbourne, and both bands play Brisbane within two days, Dayseeker at The Fortitude Music Hall on 14 February and Sleep Theory at The Tivoli on 15 February.
For fans of melodic metalcore and post-hardcore, that means three separate American headline tours across late January and February 2027, each with its own support acts and its own venues, rather than one shared festival bill. Beartooth bring Fit For A King and Volumes, Dayseeker bring Jutes, Silent Planet and sace6, and Sleep Theory bring RIVALS.
No New Zealand concert had been announced as of 9 October 2026, and the band have never played there.
Beyond Australia, Sleep Theory's touring since 2025 has covered the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. This page will be updated if further dates in the region are announced.
Sleep Theory's live show is built on contrast: Daniel Pruitt's guitar riffs and harsh vocals against Moore's clean, soulful singing, with Vergara and Ben Pruitt as a tight rhythm section. Moore is also credited on harmonica.
No Australian set list exists yet, and the setlist.fm archive has nothing for the band in the region. Their headline sets in 2025 and 2026 were built around Afterglow, whose 12 tracks include "Static", "Hourglass", "III", "Fallout", "Stuck in My Head", "Gravity", "Afterglow", "Numb", "Parasite", "Just a Mistake", "Paralyzed" and "Words Are Worthless".
The radio number ones "Stuck in My Head", "Static" and "Words Are Worthless", along with "Numb" and "Fallout", are the songs most Australian fans will know. Whether any of the 2026 cover versions make the set has not been announced.
Tickets for all six shows have been on sale since Friday 31 July 2026 through the official outlets and the venues' own box offices. Several shows were upgraded to bigger rooms because of demand, and tickets bought for the original venues stayed valid. Check that the venue and date on your ticket match the current list above.
The Metro Theatre night in Sydney sold out first, which is why the Enmore Theatre show was added. There is no public Sleep Theory presale code to buy or share now; codes and "guaranteed" tickets offered on social media are not genuine. Mobile tickets are usually tied to the buyer's account, so a ticket bought from a stranger may not get you in. Use the official resale service only.
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Have Sleep Theory played Australia before?
No. The February 2027 tour is their first in Australia, and they have never played New Zealand.
When and where does the tour start?
At Metropolis Fremantle on Saturday 6 February 2027.
What are all the dates?
Fremantle 6 February, Adelaide (Thebarton Theatre) 10 February, Melbourne (Festival Hall) 12 February, Sydney (Metro Theatre) 13 February, Sydney (Enmore Theatre) 14 February and Brisbane (The Tivoli) 15 February 2027.
Why are there two Sydney shows?
The Metro Theatre show sold out, so a second night was added at the Enmore Theatre on Sunday 14 February 2027.
Did the venues change?
Yes. Perth moved from Magnet House to Metropolis Fremantle, Melbourne from 170 Russell to Festival Hall, Brisbane from the Princess Theatre to The Tivoli and Adelaide from The Gov to the Thebarton Theatre. Original tickets remained valid.
Who is the support act?
RIVALS, a pop-rock duo from Los Angeles.
When did tickets go on sale?
Tickets have been on sale since Friday 31 July 2026.
Is there a New Zealand show?
No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
What is their latest album?
Afterglow, released on Epitaph Records on 16 May 2025. A covers EP followed in 2026.
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