Sombr returns to Australia and New Zealand in April 2027 as an arena act. The You Are the Reason Tour, his first arena tour, plays ten shows between Tuesday 13 April and Tuesday 27 April 2027: one in Adelaide, three at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, two at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, three at Afterpay Arena in Sydney and a closing night at Spark Arena in Auckland.
It is a big jump in sixteen months. In December 2025 the New York singer-songwriter played his first headline shows down under on the Late Nights & Young Romance Tour, in venues such as Auckland Town Hall, Festival Hall in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. Demand for the 2027 run was strong enough that extra Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney shows were added on the day of the general sale.
The artist pre-sale ran on Thursday 3 September 2026 and the promoter pre-sale on Monday 7 September. Tickets have been on general sale since Tuesday 8 September 2026.
The tour opens at the AEC Arena, the main arena of the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Hindmarsh, on Tuesday 13 April 2027. Adelaide was not on the 2025 itinerary, so this will be Sombr's first show in South Australia according to the setlist.fm archive.
Melbourne follows with three consecutive nights at Rod Laver Arena on Thursday 15, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 April. Brisbane has two nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Boondall on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 April, and Sydney three at Afterpay Arena in Sydney Olympic Park on Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 April.
New Zealand closes the run. Spark Arena in Auckland hosts the final night on Tuesday 27 April 2027, three days after the last Sydney show. Auckland was also where his first Australasian tour began, at the Town Hall on 2 December 2025.
There are no Perth, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart or Wellington dates on the 2027 schedule, although Perth, Canberra and the Gold Coast were on the 2025 itinerary. No Australian or New Zealand support act had been named in the tour data as of 9 October 2026. Elsewhere, the You Are the Reason Tour has a North American leg in late 2026, two nights in Mexico City in January 2027, European arena dates in May 2027 and UK and Irish shows in June 2027.
The main arena of the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, opened on 20 July 1991 on Port Road in Hindmarsh and redeveloped in 2010. With about 11,300 places it is the largest auditorium in South Australia.
The centre court of Melbourne Park, opened in 1988 and home of the Australian Open. It was the first arena in Australia with a retractable roof and holds about 14,200 for concerts.
Opened on 20 February 1986 in Boondall, in Brisbane's northern suburbs, it holds up to about 14,500 for concerts. It is due to host handball at the 2032 Olympic Games.
Opened in 1999 at Sydney Olympic Park as the Sydney SuperDome, later Acer Arena, Allphones Arena and Qudos Bank Arena, and renamed Afterpay Arena in July 2026. It is the largest permanent indoor entertainment venue in Australia.
Auckland's main indoor arena, opened in March 2007 in Quay Park near Britomart and known as Vector Arena until 2017. It holds about 13,280 for concerts.
Tuesday 13 April 2027 — AEC Arena, Adelaide. This is the opening night of the run.
Thursday 15 April 2027 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 3 nights are booked at Rod Laver Arena; this is number 1. In Melbourne, the last documented Sombr concert was at Festival Hall (4 December 2025).
Monday 19 April 2027 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane. This is show 1 of the 2-night stand here. The artist's most recent documented Brisbane show was at Fortitude Music Hall on 11 December 2025.
Thursday 22 April 2027 — Afterpay Arena, Sydney. This is show 1 of the 3-night stand here. The artist's most recent documented Sydney show was at Hordern Pavilion on 16 December 2025.
Tuesday 27 April 2027 — Spark Arena, Auckland. The artist's most recent documented Auckland show was at Auckland Town Hall on 2 December 2025. The run finishes here.
Sombr's live history in Australia and New Zealand is short and recent. Wikipedia's account of his career has him announcing his first solo tour in April 2025, after supporting Nessa Barrett and Daniel Seavey in the United States, with Australia and New Zealand dates starting in Auckland on 2 December 2025. By then “Undressed” and “Back to Friends” had both reached the top five in Australia and New Zealand.
The Late Nights & Young Romance Tour opened at Auckland Town Hall on Tuesday 2 December 2025 with a 16-song set that started with “i wish i knew how to quit you” and ended with “back to friends” and “12 to 12”. Two days later he played Festival Hall in Melbourne with the same running order.
The following days mixed headline rooms and big outdoor sites. Setlist.fm lists Victoria Park in Ballarat on 6 December and the Claremont Showground in Perth on 7 December, then the first of two nights at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 9 December. Wikipedia places a Brisbane show at Fortitude Music Hall on 11 December. Exhibition Park in Canberra followed on 13 December and the Gold Coast Sports Precinct at Carrara on 14 December; at the outdoor sites the sets were shorter, around nine songs.
The tour ended back at the Hordern Pavilion on 16 December 2025. The setlist.fm entry for that night runs to 20 titles because “12 to 12” is listed several times at the end, a sign of how the closing hit was stretched out for a last-night crowd.
Sombr came back to Sydney briefly at the end of January 2026, when setlist.fm records a two-song session at the Triple J studios on 30 January: “Man I Need” and “12 to 12”. The April 2027 arena tour will be his second full visit, and his first since the release of “Homewrecker” and “My Body Isn't Ready” in 2026.
The table below lists 9 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Sombr between 2025 and 2025, with the most shows in Sydney (2), Gold Coast (1), Canberra (1), Brisbane (1), Perth (1), Ballarat (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2025 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | |
| 14 December 2025 | Gold Coast | Gold Coast Sports Precinct | |
| 13 December 2025 | Canberra | Exhibition Park in Canberra | |
| 11 December 2025 | Brisbane | Fortitude Music Hall | |
| 9 December 2025 | Sydney | Hordern Pavilion | |
| 7 December 2025 | Perth | Claremont Showground | |
| 6 December 2025 | Ballarat | Victoria Park | |
| 4 December 2025 | Melbourne | Festival Hall | |
| 2 December 2025 | Auckland | Auckland Town Hall |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 7 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (2 December 2025 to 16 December 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Sombr has no Australian or New Zealand festival appearance named in the data. Several of his December 2025 dates were at large outdoor sites (Victoria Park in Ballarat, the Claremont Showground in Perth, Exhibition Park in Canberra and the Gold Coast Sports Precinct), where he played shorter sets of about nine songs. The 2027 tour is all headline arena shows.
Shane Michael Boose was born on 5 July 2005 in New York City and grew up on the Lower East Side. He started making tracks in GarageBand at the end of primary school, moved to Logic Pro in middle school and studied voice at LaGuardia High School before leaving in his junior year after his song “Caroline” took off in 2022. The name Sombr includes his initials, SMB. He is now based in Los Angeles.
His first single, “Nothing Left to Say”, came out in October 2021. After “Caroline” went viral he signed with Warner Records in early 2023, and his debut EP, In Another Life, co-produced by Tony Berg, followed in September 2023. “Would've Been You” came out that November.
The breakthrough came in March 2025, when “Back to Friends” and “Undressed” spread on TikTok. Both reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, and both reached the top five in Australia and New Zealand. “We Never Dated” and “12 to 12” followed, the latter reaching the Australian top ten, and the debut album I Barely Know Her came out on 22 August 2025, reaching number 4 in Australia. He won Best Alternative Video at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards for “Back to Friends” and was nominated for Best New Artist at the 68th Grammy Awards.
In 2026 he released “Homewrecker” on 6 February, which reached the top ten in Australia and New Zealand, and “My Body Isn't Ready” on 25 June. Sombr has named Jeff Buckley and Radiohead as his biggest influences; his music is described as indie rock, alternative and indie pop.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| I Barely Know Her | 2025 | AUS 4 |
Melbourne and Sydney each get three nights, on consecutive Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings: 15 to 17 April at Rod Laver Arena and 22 to 24 April at Afterpay Arena. Extra Melbourne and Sydney shows were added on 8 September 2026, the day tickets went on general sale.
The scale-up is striking. In December 2025 Sombr played Festival Hall in Melbourne once and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney twice. Rod Laver Arena holds around 14,000 for concerts and Afterpay Arena, the former Qudos Bank Arena, up to around 21,000, so the 2027 run multiplies his audience in both cities many times over.
If you are choosing between nights, the running order of a Sombr show tends to stay the same across a tour, as the identical 2025 sets in Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney show. In 2025 the final Sydney night was the one with extras, with “12 to 12” stretched into several encores.
Brisbane has two nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Boondall on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 April 2027. Opened in 1986, it is one of the largest indoor arenas in Australia, a long way up from Fortitude Music Hall, where Wikipedia lists his 2025 Brisbane date.
Adelaide opens the tour on Tuesday 13 April at the AEC Arena in Hindmarsh. South Australian fans missed out in 2025, when the nearest show was Melbourne, so the opening night is also Sombr's Adelaide debut on the available data.
Auckland has played an outsized part in Sombr's story in this region. His first show in Australia or New Zealand was at Auckland Town Hall on 2 December 2025, and “Undressed” and “Back to Friends” both reached the top five in New Zealand; “Homewrecker” made the New Zealand top ten in 2026.
In 2027 Auckland gets the final night of the Australasian leg, at Spark Arena on Tuesday 27 April. With a capacity of about 13,000 it is many times larger than the Town Hall. It is the only New Zealand date; there is no Wellington or Christchurch show.
The Australian and New Zealand dates are one leg of a long tour. The North American leg runs through late 2026, with Mexico City at the end of January 2027; Europe follows in May 2027, the UK and Ireland in June, and a Milan date in July.
That puts the April run between Mexico and Europe, at a point where the arena show will already have been on the road for several months. Fans in Australia and New Zealand will see a production that has been tested across North America.
The December 2025 headline sets ran 16 songs, opening with “i wish i knew how to quit you” and “savior” and moving through “we never dated”, “perfume”, “do i ever cross your mind”, “come closer”, “in your arms”, “caroline”, “dime”, “would've been you”, “undressed”, “canal street”, “crushing” and “under the mat”, before closing with “back to friends” and “12 to 12”.
Arena shows usually allow for a longer set and a bigger production, and newer songs such as “Homewrecker” and “My Body Isn't Ready” were not out at the time of the 2025 tour, so expect the 2027 set to change. The hits from I Barely Know Her are the safe bet: across his Australian and New Zealand shows on setlist.fm, “12 to 12”, “undressed”, “back to friends”, “we never dated”, “crushing” and “come closer” are the most played.
Check each arena's age and entry conditions, and plan transport for the outer-suburb venues at Boondall and Sydney Olympic Park.
The artist pre-sale ran on Thursday 3 September 2026 and the promoter pre-sale on Monday 7 September; both are over. General sale opened on Tuesday 8 September 2026, when extra Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney shows were also added. Tickets are sold through each arena's authorised ticket agency and the venues' own box offices.
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When does Sombr's 2027 Australian tour start?
At the AEC Arena in Adelaide on Tuesday 13 April 2027.
How many Melbourne shows are there?
Three, at Rod Laver Arena on 15, 16 and 17 April 2027.
How many Sydney shows are there?
Three, at Afterpay Arena on 22, 23 and 24 April 2027.
Is Sombr playing Brisbane?
Yes, two nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 April 2027.
Is there a New Zealand date?
Yes: Spark Arena in Auckland on Tuesday 27 April 2027, the last show of the leg.
Is Sombr playing Perth?
No Perth date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. He played the Claremont Showground in Perth on 7 December 2025.
When did Sombr last tour Australia?
In December 2025 on the Late Nights & Young Romance Tour, from Auckland Town Hall on 2 December to the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 16 December.
Are tickets still available?
Tickets have been on general sale since Tuesday 8 September 2026; availability varies by night.
Who is supporting Sombr in Australia?
No Australian or New Zealand support act had been announced in the tour data as of 9 October 2026.
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