The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027

The Naked and Famous have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, festival booking or one-off show on the calendar for either country. The Auckland band, now the duo of Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers, played together for the first time in more than five years at the Singapore Grand Prix in October 2025, but no new run of dates in the region has followed.

Few New Zealand bands of their generation have been so closely tied to the southern summer festival circuit. Between 2009 and 2014 they played the Big Day Out in Auckland and across Australia, Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne, the Falls Festival at Lorne and Marion Bay, Southbound in Busselton, Parklife, the Future Music Festival and Groovin the Moo, and in between they headlined clubs and theatres from the Powerstation in Auckland to the Metro Theatre in Sydney and 170 Russell in Melbourne.

This page sets out what is and is not known about the band's plans for 2027 and gives a full account of their concerts in New Zealand and Australia, from the Auckland pubs and parks of 2009 and 2010 to the winery dates of March 2020.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official The Naked and Famous tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No cities, venues, support acts or on-sale times have been released, and no 2027 festival line-up in the region has named the band as of 9 October 2026. Any list of 2027 dates or any 'presale code' circulating now should be treated as unconfirmed.

The band's recent history explains the caution. Their fourth album, Recover, came out on 24 July 2020, a few months after their last documented Australian shows, and the following years were quiet: Xayalith turned to a solo career, and Wikipedia records the Singapore Grand Prix appearance of October 2025 as the first time the pair had performed together in over five years. That show was a reunion on stage, not the start of an announced tour.

What would a return look like? The past offers a pattern rather than a promise. The band's own headline tours of the region came in May 2014 for In Rolling Waves and January 2017 for Simple Forms, each pairing a short run of Australian capital-city theatres with an Auckland show. Their festival years were concentrated in the southern summer, between late December and early March. None of this means a 2027 tour is planned; it only describes how the band has toured here before.

If a tour is confirmed, this page will be updated with the cities, venues and sale dates. Until then, the safest course is to sign up for the alert below rather than buy from a listing that has no official announcement behind it.

Before The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

The Naked and Famous were an Auckland band before they were anything else, and their earliest documented shows are all in their home city. The setlist archive lists Mount Smart Stadium on 16 January 2009, the day of that year's Big Day Out in Auckland, then Nixon Park and Vector Arena in February 2009 and the Masonic Tavern in Devonport in October 2009. In 2010, as 'Young Blood' went to No. 1 in New Zealand, came Red Square at Britomart in February, a bfm Summer Series show in Albert Park in March, the Kings Arms in May, The Trusts Arena and the Powerstation at the end of July and start of August, the San Francisco Bath House in Wellington on 2 October and a headline show at the Powerstation on Saturday 16 October 2010.

The year closed with the New Zealand summer circuit: the Riwaka Hotel near Motueka on 29 December 2010 and Rhythm and Vines at Waiohika Estate in Gisborne on New Year's Eve. Three weeks later the band were on the Big Day Out at Mount Smart Stadium on Friday 21 January 2011, playing ten songs from Passive Me, Aggressive You including 'All of This', 'Punching in a Dream', 'Girls Like You' and 'Young Blood'. Back in Auckland that November they headlined the Auckland Town Hall on Friday 4 November 2011 with a 17-song set, one of the longest in the archive.

Australia came next, and fast. The 2011 Big Day Out took them to the Converse Essential Stage on the Gold Coast on 23 January, two days at the Essential Stage in Sydney on 26 and 27 January, Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on 30 January and the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds on 4 February. Around those dates they played their own club shows: the Corner Hotel in Melbourne on 28 January and 3 February and two nights at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney on 1 and 2 February 2011.

After the festival seasons of 2011 and 2012, the band returned for their own tour of In Rolling Waves in May 2014. Between Groovin the Moo dates they headlined 170 Russell in Melbourne on 30 April, The Hi-Fi in Brisbane on 5 May, the Astor Theatre in Perth on Sunday 11 May and the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Tuesday 13 May, before finishing at the Powerstation in Auckland on Friday 16 May 2014. Those sets ran to 14 or 15 songs and opened with 'A Stillness' and 'Hearts Like Ours'.

The Simple Forms tour brought a shorter visit in January 2017: the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 7 January, 170 Russell in Melbourne on Sunday 8 January and the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland on Tuesday 10 January 2017, each with 16 or 17 songs. In between, New Zealand had seen them at Vector Arena on 1 September 2015 and at Western Springs on 19 March 2016.

The most recent Australian dates in the archive are two winery shows in March 2020, at Home Hill Winery in Ranelagh, Tasmania, on 7 March and Roche Estate in Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley on 14 March 2020, followed by a short studio session in Sydney. The setlist archive has no full song lists for those winery dates, and no later concert in either country.

The table below lists 58 documented Australia/NZ concerts by The Naked and Famous between 2009 and 2020, with the most shows in Auckland (17), Sydney (9), Melbourne (8), Adelaide (4), Brisbane (3), Perth (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

The Naked and Famous 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 (28 January 2011 to 10 January 2017), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Girls Like You — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. No Way — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Punching in a Dream — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Young Blood — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. All of This — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Hearts Like Ours — played at 12 of 15 shows
7. A Stillness — played at 11 of 15 shows
8. I Kill Giants — played at 11 of 15 shows
9. Rolling Waves — played at 11 of 15 shows
10. Frayed — played at 8 of 15 shows
11. The Sun — played at 8 of 15 shows
12. Waltz — played at 6 of 15 shows
13. Grow Old — played at 5 of 15 shows
14. The Mess — played at 5 of 15 shows

Before The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Simple Forms (2017): 3 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland.
• In Rolling Waves (2014): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Bunbury, Sydney, Auckland.
• bfm Summer Series (2010): 1 Australia/NZ show — Auckland.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Festivals shaped the band's early years in the region. They played the Big Day Out in Auckland in 2009 and 2011 and on its Australian legs in 2011 and 2014, Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne on New Year's Eve 2010, and the Falls Festival at Marion Bay on 30 December 2011 and Lorne on New Year's Eve 2011, followed by Southbound at Busselton on 7 January 2012.

In 2011 and 2012 they also toured the city festivals: Parklife at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, the City Botanic Gardens in Brisbane, Kippax Lake in Sydney and Botanic Park in Adelaide between 24 September and 3 October 2011, then the Future Music Festival at Doomben Racecourse in Brisbane, Arena Joondalup in Perth, Royal Randwick in Sydney, Flemington in Melbourne and Ellis Park in Adelaide in March 2012.

The 2014 season was the busiest of all: the Big Day Out at Western Springs in Auckland on 17 January, Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast, Flemington in Melbourne, Sydney and Bonython Park in Adelaide, then Groovin the Moo at Oakbank, Maitland, Canberra, Bendigo, Townsville and Bunbury between 25 April and 10 May. In March 2016 they were among the New Zealand acts on Auckland City Limits at Western Springs, on a bill that also included Broods and Ladyhawke.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: career and records

The Naked and Famous formed in Auckland in 2007, when Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith were recording two EPs, This Machine and No Light, with engineer Aaron Short, a fellow student at the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand. The band took their name from a line in Tricky's song 'Tricky Kid'. Xayalith, born in Auckland in 1986 to Laotian refugee parents, taught herself guitar at 13; Powers had been playing in local bands since childhood.

'Young Blood' debuted at No. 1 on the New Zealand chart on 14 June 2010, the first New Zealand act to do so in three years, and the debut album Passive Me, Aggressive You followed on 6 September 2010 on the band's own label, Somewhat Damaged. The BBC put them on its Sound of 2011 poll, and they received six nominations at the 2011 New Zealand Music Awards. Between 2010 and 2012 they played more than 200 shows in 24 countries.

In mid-2012 the band moved to Los Angeles. Their second album, In Rolling Waves, was recorded at Sunset Sound and mixed in London by Alan Moulder, and was released in September 2013. They played Coachella in 2014, released Simple Forms on 14 October 2016 and opened for Blink-182 in the United States in 2017. An acoustic collection, A Still Heart, followed in March 2018, when founding member Aaron Short and Jesse Wood left the band.

Reduced to the core duo of Xayalith and Powers, The Naked and Famous released their fourth album, Recover, on 24 July 2020. After a long pause they performed together again at the Singapore Grand Prix in October 2025. No new album or tour has been announced since.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: auckland, the home city

No city has seen more of The Naked and Famous than Auckland. The archive lists them at Mount Smart Stadium, Vector Arena, the Powerstation, The Trusts Arena, the Kings Arms, Albert Park, Red Square at Britomart, the Auckland Town Hall, John Hood Plaza at the university, Western Springs and the Logan Campbell Centre, a spread from pub stages to stadium festivals over less than a decade.

The Powerstation is the venue that best traces their rise: an August 2010 show as 'Young Blood' was climbing the chart, a full headline set on 16 October 2010, and the closing night of the In Rolling Waves tour on 16 May 2014, when the encore included 'To Move With Purpose' before 'Young Blood'.

Wellington has had far fewer chances: the archive records only the San Francisco Bath House on 2 October 2010. Any future New Zealand tour would have plenty of cities to make up.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: sydney and the metro theatre

In Sydney the band's story runs from the Oxford Art Factory, where they played two nights on 1 and 2 February 2011, to the Metro Theatre on George Street, which they headlined on 13 May 2014 and again on 7 January 2017. Both Metro sets were full-length shows: 14 songs in 2014, 16 in 2017.

The city also saw them on three festival legs: the Big Day Out in 2011 and 2014, Parklife at Kippax Lake in October 2011 and the Future Music Festival at Royal Randwick in March 2012. That combination of festival days and mid-sized theatres is typical of how they have played Australia.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: melbourne nights at 170 russell

Melbourne has been loyal from the start. The Corner Hotel in Richmond hosted two club shows around the 2011 Big Day Out, on 28 January and 3 February 2011, with sets that already included 'Punching in a Dream', 'The Sun' and 'Young Blood'.

When they came back as headliners it was to 170 Russell, the basement venue in the city centre, on 30 April 2014 and 8 January 2017. Melbourne's festival days took them to Flemington Racecourse three times (2011, 2012 and 2014) and to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl for Parklife in September 2011.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: beyond the capitals

Festival touring took the band well beyond the state capitals. Groovin the Moo alone brought them to Oakbank in the Adelaide Hills, Maitland in the Hunter, Bendigo, Townsville and Bunbury in 2014, and Southbound took them to Busselton in January 2012.

Their last Australian shows in 2020 followed the same instinct, at Home Hill Winery in Ranelagh, south of Hobart, and Roche Estate in Pokolbin. In New Zealand they have played Gisborne, Riwaka and Devonport as well as Auckland and Wellington.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A headline show by The Naked and Famous has usually run to 14-17 songs. On the Simple Forms tour of January 2017 the Sydney and Melbourne sets opened with 'The Water Beneath You' and 'Higher', moved through 'All of This', 'Punching in a Dream', 'Rolling Waves', 'I Kill Giants' and 'Hearts Like Ours', and ended with 'Young Blood', 'Last Forever' and 'Rotten'. Auckland on 10 January 2017 added 'The Runners'.

The 2014 shows were built around In Rolling Waves: 'A Stillness' opened, 'Hearts Like Ours', 'Girls Like You', 'Frayed', 'Grow Old' and 'Waltz' followed, and 'Young Blood' closed. Festival sets were shorter, typically eight or nine songs, and the early club shows of 2010 and 2011 drew on the debut album and older songs such as 'Spank', 'Eyes', 'Jilted Lovers' and 'A Wolf in Geek's Clothing'.

'Young Blood' has closed almost every documented set in the region. It is also the band's most played song here, ahead of 'Punching in a Dream', 'Girls Like You' and 'All of This'.

The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no tickets on sale for The Naked and Famous in Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site already offering seats or a presale code is not selling official tickets.

If dates are announced, buy only from the official ticket outlet named in the announcement, from the venue box office or through an official fan presale. Many Australian and New Zealand venues now use name-locked mobile tickets, so screenshots or transferred PDFs from strangers may not get you in. Be wary of anyone selling 'presale codes'.

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The Naked and Famous Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are The Naked and Famous touring Australia or New Zealand in 2027?

No. Nothing has been announced as of 9 October 2026.

When did The Naked and Famous last play Australia?

The last documented shows were at Home Hill Winery in Ranelagh, Tasmania, on 7 March 2020 and Roche Estate in Pokolbin on 14 March 2020.

When did they last play Auckland?

Their last documented Auckland show was at the Logan Campbell Centre on 10 January 2017, on the Simple Forms tour.

Have they played together recently?

Yes. In October 2025 they performed at the Singapore Grand Prix, their first show together in over five years.

When did they last play Sydney?

They headlined the Metro Theatre on 7 January 2017.

What was their last Melbourne headline show?

170 Russell on 8 January 2017.

Which Australian festivals have they played?

The Big Day Out (2011 and 2014), Falls (2011-12), Southbound (2012), Parklife (2011), the Future Music Festival (2012) and Groovin the Moo (2014).

Who is in The Naked and Famous now?

Alisa Xayalith (vocals, keyboards) and Thom Powers (vocals, guitars).

Is there a presale code for a 2027 tour?

No. Nothing is on sale, so any code offered now is not genuine.