Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027

Spiderbait have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no 2027 tour, no list of cities and no on-sale information. The trio's most recent national run was the Ivy & The Big Apples 30th anniversary tour, which began at the Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday 4 July 2026 and played the album from start to finish in theatres and pubs around the country.

Few Australian bands have spent as much of their life on the road at home. Janet English, Kram and Whitt grew up in Finley, a small town in the Riverina of southern New South Wales, moved to Melbourne in 1990 and came up through the city's punk rooms before 'Buy Me a Pony', 'Calypso' and, in 2004, a chart-topping cover of 'Black Betty' turned them into a festival and arena act. Three decades on they still play a remarkable spread of venues, from the Forum in Melbourne and the Enmore in Sydney to winery stages, surf-coast hotels and regional showgrounds.

This page sets out what is and is not known about Spiderbait's plans for 2027 and gives a full account of their concerts in Australia and New Zealand as recorded in the setlist archive: the Auckland shows of the 1990s, the Black Betty 20th Anniversary Tour of 2024, the In the Key of J winter tour of 2022, the Good Things festival of 2023 and the 2026 anniversary run for Ivy and the Big Apples.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official Spiderbait tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, venues or support acts have been published for next year, and the band do not appear among the 2027 tour announcements made so far for the region. Any list of Spiderbait 2027 dates, or anyone offering a 'presale code' for them, should be treated as unconfirmed until the band themselves confirm a tour.

What has happened is a very busy 2026. In April the band announced a national tour to mark 30 years since Ivy and the Big Apples, the 1996 album that went to number 3 and gave them 'Buy Me a Pony' and 'Calypso'. The tour began in July and played the record in full in Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle, with a rotating group of 1990s peers as guests: Custard, Magic Dirt, The Meanies and Tumbleweed, plus the Melbourne band The Gnomes. A 30th anniversary vinyl reissue of the album came out on 3 July 2026. Because of demand, further regional encore shows were scheduled for October and November 2026.

That pattern is typical of the band since their return. After the 20th anniversary of 'Black Betty' in 2024 they spent the summer of 2025 on the outdoor circuit, from Taronga Zoo in Sydney to the Point Malcolm Reserve in Adelaide, Speers Point Park in Newcastle and Whitfords Nodes Park in Perth, then played pubs and hotels through the end of 2025. A 2027 summer of the same kind would not be a surprise, but nothing has been announced, and this page will not guess at dates or cities.

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

Spiderbait's live story starts in Melbourne. After the trio moved to the city in 1990 they played punk venues such as the Tote Hotel in Collingwood, helped along by The Meanies, and in 1992 they supported Rollins Band and the Beastie Boys on their Australian tours. Primus took them on the road in Australia in 1994. Those early years predate the setlist archive, which holds very few shows from the band's first decade.

New Zealand appears in the archive from that period. Spiderbait played Squid in Auckland on Thursday 18 January 1996 and Mount Smart Stadium the following day, Friday 19 January 1996, returned to the Powerstation in Auckland on Saturday 8 February 1997, and played Ericsson Stadium in Auckland on Friday 21 January 2000. The last New Zealand show in the archive is at Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch on Saturday 26 November 2005. There are no later New Zealand dates on record.

Wikipedia records some notable Australian nights of the middle years: a support tour with Hoodoo Gurus from May 2004, after 'Black Betty' had gone to number one; a set at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne in October 2005 as part of the Coca-Cola Live'n'Local Tour; the Rock the Vote! concert in Brisbane in November 2006; and a support slot for Guns N' Roses in Sydney in December 2010. In November 2013 they played the opening night of the Jam Gallery in Bondi Junction on the day their self-titled album came out.

The detailed record begins in late 2017 and shows a band working constantly. There are winery shows at Bimbadgen Estate in Pokolbin, Sirromet in Mount Cotton, Josef Chromy in Launceston, Leconfield in McLaren Vale and Mount Duneed Estate near Geelong in early 2018; the Big Top at Luna Park in Sydney that June; summer hotel gigs in Torquay, Mornington and Kingscliff over Christmas 2019; and a headline show at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Saturday 9 November 2019 that ran to 26 songs.

In 2022 came the In the Key of J winter tour, built around Sounds in the Key of J, the compilation of every song Janet English sings. It played the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Friday 8 July 2022, the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne, the Princess Theatre in Brisbane, Metropolis Fremantle, the Uni Bar in Hobart and the Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide. Two years later the Black Betty 20th Anniversary Tour opened at the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Tuesday 13 August 2024 and went on to Adelaide, the Odeon in Hobart, Newcastle, Wollongong, two nights at the Astor in Perth, two at the Forum in Melbourne, the Enmore in Sydney, Darwin, the Gold Coast and Canberra.

The 2026 Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary shows opened with two nights at the Tivoli in Brisbane on 4 and 5 July, then played the Warehouse in Perth, Shoal Bay Country Club at Port Stephens, The Entrance Leagues Club, the Miranda Hotel in Sydney, two nights at the Forum in Melbourne on 23 and 24 July, the Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide, The Baso in Canberra, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Friday 31 July and the King Street Hotel in Newcastle on Saturday 1 August 2026.

The table below lists 101 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Spiderbait between 1996 and 2026, with the most shows in Melbourne (12), Sydney (8), Brisbane (7), Gold Coast (7), Newcastle (6), Adelaide (6). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Spiderbait 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 (18 October 2025 to 1 August 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Black Betty — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Calypso — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Fucken Awesome — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Shazam! — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Chest Hair — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Hot Water & Milk — played at 14 of 15 shows
7. Buy Me a Pony — played at 13 of 15 shows
8. Old Man Sam — played at 12 of 15 shows
9. Outta My Head — played at 12 of 15 shows
10. Big Furry Green Monster — played at 10 of 15 shows
11. Conjunctivitis — played at 10 of 15 shows
12. Don't Kill Nipper — played at 10 of 15 shows
13. Driving Up the Ceiling — played at 10 of 15 shows
14. Goin' Off — played at 10 of 15 shows

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

• Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary (2026): 12 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Perth, Port Stephens, The Entrance, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle.
• Black Betty 20th Anniversary Tour (2024): 14 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Newcastle, Wollongong, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin, Gold Coast, Canberra.
• In the Key of J Winter Tour (2022): 2 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Hobart.
• Tour In The Key Of J (2022): 1 Australia/NZ show — Sydney.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Spiderbait were a fixture of the Australian festival circuit in the 1990s and 2000s, and the archive shows them on big outdoor stages in Auckland in January 1996 and January 2000. More recently Wikipedia records their set at Good Things in December 2023, on a bill with Limp Bizkit, Devo and Fall Out Boy; the archive lists those shows in Melbourne on Friday 1 December, Sydney on 2 December and Brisbane on Sunday 3 December 2023.

Since then much of their summer touring has been at one-day outdoor events in parks, on foreshores and at racecourses: Broadwater Parklands on the Gold Coast, Torquay Common, Victoria Park in Echuca, Albert Park in Melbourne, Speers Point Park in Newcastle, Whitfords Nodes Park in Perth, Mornington Racecourse and Burleigh Beach. These are typically short sets of 10 to 14 songs built on the hits.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Spiderbait formed in 1989 in Finley, New South Wales, with Janet English on bass and vocals, Mark 'Kram' Maher on drums and vocals and Damian 'Whitt' Whitty on guitar. Kram and Whitt, second cousins, had jammed as schoolboys, and Kram taught English to play bass. After a one-off gig as Candy Spuds and a spell as Spiderbaby, they moved to Melbourne in 1990, signed with Au-Go-Go Records and released their first single, 'Circle K', in 1991. The debut album Shashavaglava followed in February 1993.

A move to Polydor brought The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake in 1995, which reached number 14 with 'Monty' and 'Jesus' on Triple J. Ivy and the Big Apples (1996) went to number 3 and double platinum. 'Buy Me a Pony' topped the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996, making Spiderbait the first Australian group to do so, and 'Calypso' reached number 13 on the ARIA Singles Chart and later appeared in the film 10 Things I Hate About You. The album won the ARIA Award for Best Alternative Release in 1997.

Grand Slam (1999) also reached number 3, with 'Shazam!', 'Stevie' and 'Glokenpop', whose cover art won English an ARIA in 2000. The Flight of Wally Funk (2001) was a more dance-influenced record. Tonight Alright, recorded in California with producer Sylvia Massy, came out in March 2004; its cover of Lead Belly's 'Black Betty' spent three weeks at number one in Australia, went double platinum and reached the top 40 of the US Mainstream Rock chart.

A Greatest Hits compilation followed in 2005, and after a long break the self-titled Spiderbait arrived in November 2013. In 2022 'My Car's a UFO' led the compilation Sounds in the Key of J; in June 2023 the band played New York's Aussie BBQ Festival, their first US show in more than 25 years; and in 2024 they released the Bunch of Bettys EP of alternative 'Black Betty' recordings. All seven of their albums have reached gold status or more.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: from Finley to the Forum

Spiderbait are a rare case of a band whose home town is part of the legend. The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake was named after a community project in Finley, an artificial lake with a replica sailing ship. The band have always carried that country-town humour onto big stages.

Melbourne became their base, and the Forum Theatre has become their room of choice there: a headline show in November 2019, two nights on the Black Betty tour in September 2024 and two more on the Ivy anniversary tour in July 2026. The Northcote Theatre hosted the 2022 winter tour, and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl had them in April 2021.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: touring the regions and the coast

The most striking thing about Spiderbait's recent record is how far beyond the capital cities it reaches. The archive lists Toowoomba, Gladstone, Townsville, Ipswich, Echuca, Bendigo, Maitland, Camden, Pambula, Caloundra, Coffs Harbour, Brunswick Heads, Launceston, Queenstown in Tasmania, Portsea and Torquay, as well as wineries in the Hunter Valley, McLaren Vale and the Tamar Valley.

Pub and hotel shows remain part of the mix, from the Racehorse Hotel in Ipswich and the Croxton Park Hotel in Melbourne to the Hoey Moey in Coffs Harbour and Crowbar in Brisbane and Sydney. The 2026 anniversary tour also took in club venues such as Shoal Bay Country Club and The Entrance Leagues Club alongside the city theatres.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: the Black Betty years

No song has shaped Spiderbait's live life more than 'Black Betty'. Released in March 2004, it took ten weeks to reach number one and became their biggest-selling single. It closes almost every show in the archive, and on the Black Betty 20th Anniversary Tour of 2024 the band opened and closed with it.

The anniversary tour ran from August to October 2024 with Polish Club, Adalita, Private Function, Abbe May and local bands in support. In September 2024 came Bunch of Bettys, an EP of alternative versions including a live take recorded at the Tivoli in Brisbane on 31 March 2017.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: New Zealand, a long wait

New Zealand fans have had a long wait. The archive's Kiwi dates are all from 1996 to 2005: Squid, Mount Smart Stadium, the Powerstation and Ericsson Stadium in Auckland, and Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch on 26 November 2005.

None of the band's recent tours, including the 2022, 2024 and 2026 runs, crossed the Tasman. As of 9 October 2026 no New Zealand date has been announced for 2027 either.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A full Spiderbait headline show runs to 22 to 26 songs, with Kram singing from behind the drum kit and English and Whitt alongside. On the 2026 anniversary tour the first half was Ivy and the Big Apples in order, from 'Chest Hair', 'Hot Water & Milk', 'Buy Me a Pony' and 'When Fusion Ruled the Earth' to 'Calypso', 'Goin' Off', 'Conjunctivitis', 'Joyce's Hut', 'Jasper', 'Hawaiian Nights' and 'Driving Up the Ceiling'. The second half moved to the hits: 'Shazam!', 'Outta My Head', 'Run', 'Ol' Man Sam', 'Fucken Awesome' and 'Black Betty'.

The Black Betty tour of 2024 drew from the whole catalogue: at the Astor in Perth on 14 September the set included 'Straight Through the Sun', 'Jesus', 'Monty', 'Cows', 'Tonight Alright', 'By the Time I Get to Howlong', 'Glockenpop', 'Sam Gribbles', 'Scenester', 'Footy', 'Circle K' and a cover of Motörhead's 'Ace of Spades'. The 2022 Key of J shows were different again, built around English's songs such as 'I Gotta Know', 'Yeah Oh Yeah', 'Stevie' and 'Alex the Seal'.

Festival and summer sets are shorter, usually 10 to 14 songs, and rarely leave out 'Calypso', 'Buy Me a Pony', 'Shazam!', 'Fucken Awesome' and 'Black Betty'.

Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Spiderbait tickets on sale for 2027 because no concerts have been announced. Any website selling 2027 seats or offering a presale code is not official.

When Spiderbait tour, tickets usually go on sale through the authorised outlets of each venue, often with a short presale first for fans on the band's mailing list. Buy only from the official seller named in the announcement or from the venue box office and check whether mobile tickets are locked to the buyer's name.

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Spiderbait Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Spiderbait touring Australia in 2027?

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

What was Spiderbait's last tour?

The Ivy & The Big Apples 30th Anniversary tour, which opened at the Tivoli in Brisbane on 4 July 2026 and played the album in full in Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle, with regional encore shows scheduled for October and November 2026.

Who played with Spiderbait on the 2026 tour?

A rotating line-up of guests: Custard, Magic Dirt, The Meanies, Tumbleweed and the Melbourne band The Gnomes.

When did Spiderbait last play Melbourne?

Their most recent Melbourne headline shows in the archive are two nights at the Forum Theatre on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 July 2026.

When did Spiderbait last play New Zealand?

The latest New Zealand show in the archive is at Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch on Saturday 26 November 2005. No New Zealand date is announced for 2027.

Did Spiderbait play Good Things?

Yes. They played Good Things in December 2023, in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

What songs do Spiderbait play live?

Shows are built around 'Black Betty', 'Calypso', 'Buy Me a Pony', 'Shazam!', 'Fucken Awesome', 'Outta My Head', 'Straight Through the Sun', 'Old Man Sam' and 'Chest Hair'.

Is there a Spiderbait presale code for 2027?

No. No 2027 tour is announced, so there is no presale. Ignore anyone selling codes.

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