The Presets Australia Tour 2027

The Presets do have Australian dates in 2027. Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes conceived and curated Foreverafter, a celebration of Australia's early-2000s dance culture, and will co-headline it with their former Modular label-mates Cut Copy and Ladyhawke. Announced in early July 2026, it visits the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on Sunday 17 January 2027, Carriageworks in Sydney on Saturday 23 January 2027 and the Riverstage in Brisbane on Saturday 30 January 2027.

Bag Raiders, Bang Gang DJs and the young producer FUKHED complete the bill. The Presets have called it their 'ultimate party', and it reunites acts who shared stages, labels and remixes in the mid-2000s, when Sydney and Melbourne dance music went from clubs to festival main stages.

Beyond Foreverafter, no other 2027 Presets show has been announced in Australia or New Zealand as of 9 October 2026. This page sets out the three January dates, the long history of The Presets on stage at home and in New Zealand, their festival record and what their recent sets look like.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

Foreverafter is three nights in three cities. It opens at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne's open-air amphitheatre in Kings Domain, on Sunday 17 January 2027, moves to Carriageworks, the former railway workshops in Eveleigh, Sydney, on Saturday 23 January, and closes at the Riverstage in Brisbane's City Botanic Gardens on Saturday 30 January. The Presets, Cut Copy and Ladyhawke share the headline billing; Bag Raiders and Bang Gang DJs play DJ sets, and FUKHED opens.

The idea grew out of the scene The Presets came up in. In November 2004 they made their first interstate appearances on a Modular Records night that also featured Cut Copy, and in December 2007 both bands supported Daft Punk on their Australian tour. Hamilton and Moyes have said they have 'made a racket alongside most of these artists for years, onstage and off'.

There are no Foreverafter dates in Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart or New Zealand, and no further Presets shows for 2027 have been announced. The duo's 2025-26 calendar was full of festivals and regional dates, from Rymill Park in Adelaide in October 2025 to the Armidale Showground on 16 May 2026, so further bookings are possible, but none is confirmed.

New Zealand fans will have to wait. The last Presets shows there in the setlist archive were in Queenstown on 8 and 9 September 2022.

Before The Presets Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

The Presets formed in Sydney in 2003, after Hamilton and Moyes, who met at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1995, left the group Prop. Their first EP, Blow Up, was supported with gigs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and in November 2004 they played their first interstate shows on a Modular night with Cut Copy. Through the second half of 2005 they toured Australia several times with Little Birdy, Paul Mac and Regurgitator, played their own headline tour in October 2005, DJed at Splendour in the Grass and the Come Together festival in Sydney, and closed the year at the Falls Festival in Lorne.

In 2006 they played the Big Day Out in the Boiler Room for the first time, then returned mid-year for the Infinity 2006 tour with Digitalism, which sold out everywhere, and a celebrated set at Splendour in the Grass. Their 2007 Big Day Out set came in the penultimate slot of the Boiler Room. The setlist archive's earliest Presets entry is the Auckland Big Day Out at Mount Smart Stadium on Friday 19 January 2007. In December 2007 they were the main support for Daft Punk in Australia, with almost 35,000 people at the Sydney show alone.

Apocalypso debuted at No. 1 in April 2008 and made them arena-sized at home. In February 2009 they toured with the Good Vibrations Festival, and on 14 March 2009 they played Sound Relief at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the benefit for the Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods, in front of 80,000 people during a thunderstorm. In May 2009 their national tour, with Architecture in Helsinki in support, played to around 70,000 people. They played Field Day in Sydney on New Year's Day 2010 and headlined Summadayze in Perth on 3 January 2010.

In 2011 they headlined the MS Festival at Inveresk in Launceston in February and played Future Music Festival in five cities in March. After Pacifica in September 2012 they headlined the five-city Parklife festival in September and October, played the Australia Day Live concert on the lawns of Parliament House on 25 January 2013, toured nationally in February 2013, and appeared at Dark Mofo in Hobart, Splendour in the Grass and the Mardi Gras festival in Sydney that year.

The Hi Viz tour of June 2018 is well documented in the archive: The Lair in Sydney on 31 May, Metropolis Fremantle on 13 June, the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on 15 June, the University of Canberra Refectory on 21 June, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 23 June and The Tivoli in Brisbane on Wednesday 27 June, followed by the Gold Coast and Mackay. Their Sydney show at The Factory Theatre on 21 November 2020 and two nights at the Brisbane Showgrounds on 12 and 13 December 2020 came during the pandemic, followed by two nights at the Metro City Concert Club in Perth on 1 and 3 April 2021.

In 2023 they marked twenty years with 20 Years 20 Nights, a national DJ tour of small clubs and bars. The archive follows it from the Torquay Hotel on 13 July through Byron Bay, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Cairns, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Albury, Wollongong and Jindabyne to four Sydney nights at the Miranda Hotel and Dee Why RSL and Monsoons in Darwin on 9 September, with added dates at the Gershwin Room of the Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne on 16 and 17 September and Freo.Social in Fremantle on 21 October. Live shows returned in 2024 and 2025, from Ballymore Stadium in Brisbane and The Barracks Precinct in Sydney to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and Waves in Wollongong.

The table below lists 100 documented Australia/NZ concerts by The Presets between 2007 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (15), Melbourne (10), Brisbane (6), Perth (4), Byron Bay (4), Adelaide (3). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

The Presets 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 (29 February 2020 to 5 March 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. My People — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Are You the One? — played at 14 of 15 shows
3. Martini — played at 14 of 15 shows
4. Talk Like That — played at 14 of 15 shows
5. This Boy's in Love — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. 14U+14ME — played at 13 of 15 shows
7. Raka — played at 13 of 15 shows
8. Do What You Want — played at 12 of 15 shows
9. Youth in Trouble — played at 12 of 15 shows
10. I Go Hard, I Go Home — played at 11 of 15 shows
11. Paradise — played at 10 of 15 shows
12. Tools Down — played at 9 of 15 shows
13. Until the Dark — played at 9 of 15 shows
14. Ghosts — played at 7 of 15 shows

The Presets Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Few Australian acts have a festival record like The Presets'. Wikipedia lists Splendour in the Grass (2005, 2006 and 2013), the Falls Festival in Lorne (2005), the Big Day Out (2006 and 2007), Good Vibrations (2009), Field Day (2010), Summadayze (2010), Future Music Festival (2011), Parklife (2012) and Dark Mofo (2013). The archive adds North Byron Parklands in July 2014 and July 2018, the Falls Festival site at Marion Bay on 30 December 2014, Lorne on 31 December 2014 and the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre on 8 December 2018.

Summer remains their busiest season. In the 2025-26 summer alone the archive has Rymill & King Rodney Parks in Adelaide, the Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle, Redbanks at Nugent in Tasmania on 30 December, The Domain in Sydney on New Year's Day 2026, Birrarung Marr in Melbourne and Catani Gardens in St Kilda. Foreverafter in January 2027 continues that habit, this time with The Presets as curators.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027: career and records

The Presets are Julian Hamilton (vocals, keyboards) and Kim Moyes (drums, keyboards). They trained as classical musicians at the Sydney Conservatorium, played in the Sydney group Prop, and formed The Presets in 2003. Modular Records signed them on the strength of a demo, and the EPs Blow Up (2003) and Girl and the Sea (2004) preceded their debut album, Beams, released on 12 September 2005.

Apocalypso (2008) debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA chart, stayed in the top 50 for 63 weeks and was certified triple platinum. At the 2008 ARIA Awards it won six awards, including Album of the Year, the first time an electronic group had won that award, and it took the J Award for Australian Album of the Year. 'My People', 'This Boy's in Love' and 'Talk Like That' all entered the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2008.

In 2009 Hamilton and Moyes were named APRA Songwriters of the Year and 'Talk Like That' won the ARIA for Best Dance Release. Pacifica followed in September 2012 and reached No. 3; 'Ghosts' and 'Youth in Trouble' were its singles. Hi Viz, their fourth album, came out in June 2018.

The duo have remixed tracks for Kings of Leon, Silverchair and Lenny Kravitz, and are recognised as key players in the Australian dance music boom of the late 2000s. They have won seven ARIA Awards from seventeen nominations. In October 2023 they featured on 3%'s debut single 'Our People', which samples 'My People'.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027: Foreverafter and the Modular years

Foreverafter is built around shared history. The Presets, Cut Copy and Ladyhawke were all on Modular in the 2000s, and the label's nights and tours put them on the same stages again and again. Cut Copy even remixed 'Girl and the Sea' for the first Beams single in 2005.

Two of the three headliners topped the ARIA albums chart in 2008: The Presets with Apocalypso and Cut Copy with In Ghost Colours. Foreverafter brings both bands back to the same stage almost twenty years later, with Ladyhawke alongside them.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in January

The three Foreverafter venues are all familiar. The Presets played the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne in November 2024 and the Gershwin Room in March 2026, Carriageworks in Sydney on 7 June 2014, and the Brisbane Showgrounds and Ballymore Stadium in recent years. The Sidney Myer Music Bowl and the Riverstage are two of the best-known open-air venues in the country.

Melbourne comes first, on Sunday 17 January 2027. Sydney follows the next Saturday, 23 January, and Brisbane the Saturday after, 30 January. Each is a single show; no second night has been announced in any city.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027: the regional DJ tours

The Presets have spent much of the 2020s in regional Australia. The 20 Years 20 Nights DJ tour of 2023 took them to Cairns, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Albury, Jindabyne and Port Stephens, and in January 2025 they played Shoal Bay Country Club, the Hoey Moey in Coffs Harbour and the Hotel Brunswick in Brunswick Heads on three consecutive nights.

Hamilton has described their DJ sets as more freewheeling than the live show, mixing their own songs with tracks by favourite artists. Some of the logged DJ sets include covers or edits such as 'Lithium', 'Great Southern Land' and 'Killing in the Name'.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027: Auckland, Christchurch and Queenstown

The New Zealand entries in the archive are few but varied: the Big Day Out at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 19 January 2007, Silo Park in Auckland on 27 January 2014, Hagley Park in Christchurch on 6 February 2016, and QPS Park and Coronet Peak in Queenstown on 8 and 9 September 2022.

The Queenstown set on 8 September 2022 had 12 songs, from 'Talk Like That' and 'Martini' to 'My People', 'Are You the One?' and 'Until the Dark'. Foreverafter does not include New Zealand.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Presets live show runs to about 14 to 18 songs. At the Gershwin Room in Melbourne on 5 March 2026 the logged set opened with 'Raka', 'Martini', 'Ghosts', 'Do What You Want' and 'Paradise', ran through 'Kicking & Screaming', 'Tools Down', 'Feel Alone', 'Girl and the Sea' and 'This Boy's in Love', and finished with 'I Go Hard, I Go Home', 'Youth in Trouble', 'My People', 'Are You the One?', 'Talk Like That', '14U+14ME' and 'Until the Dark'.

That running order has been stable since 2024: the same opening five songs appear at The Barracks Precinct in Sydney on 27 September 2024, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on 15 November 2024 and Waves in Wollongong on 21 March 2025. In 2018 the Hi Viz sets opened with 'Talk Like That' and 'Eucalyptus' and included 'Downtown Shutdown', 'Together', 'Are You Here?' and 'Anywhere'.

Hamilton sings and plays keyboards while Moyes plays drums and electronics. Foreverafter sets will share the evening with Cut Copy and Ladyhawke, so they may be shorter than a full headline show; the running order has not been published.

The Presets Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

Foreverafter tickets have been on sale since July 2026. According to the announcement, a member presale run by the promoter opened at 1pm AEST on Monday 6 July 2026 and the general sale started at 2pm AEST on Tuesday 7 July 2026. Availability at each venue may now be limited.

Buy only from the official seller named in the announcement or the venue's own outlets. Mobile tickets are often locked to the buyer's name, so check the transfer rules before buying for someone else. Be wary of anyone offering a 'presale code' now: the presale has already happened.

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The Presets Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are The Presets touring Australia in 2027?

They co-headline Foreverafter, which they curated: Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, on Sunday 17 January 2027; Carriageworks, Sydney, on Saturday 23 January; and the Riverstage, Brisbane, on Saturday 30 January.

Who else is on the Foreverafter bill?

Cut Copy and Ladyhawke co-headline, with DJ sets from Bag Raiders and Bang Gang DJs, and the producer FUKHED.

Is Foreverafter coming to Perth or Adelaide?

No. Only Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane have been announced.

Are The Presets playing New Zealand in 2027?

No New Zealand date has been announced. Their last New Zealand shows in the archive were in Queenstown on 8 and 9 September 2022.

When did The Presets last play live?

The latest show in the setlist archive is the Armidale Showground on 16 May 2026.

When did they last play Melbourne?

The archive's latest Melbourne show is the Gershwin Room on Thursday 5 March 2026, after Catani Gardens on 28 February 2026.

What songs do The Presets play live?

Recent sets include 'Raka', 'Martini', 'Ghosts', 'This Boy's in Love', 'My People', 'Are You the One?', 'Talk Like That' and 'Until the Dark'.

When did Foreverafter tickets go on sale?

The member presale opened on Monday 6 July 2026 and the general sale on Tuesday 7 July 2026, according to the announcement.

What was the 20 Years 20 Nights tour?

The Presets' 2023 national DJ tour of clubs and bars, from July to September, marking twenty years of the band.