The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027

The Rolling Stones have not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there are no dates anywhere in the world for 2027, although the band released a new album, Foreign Tongues, in July 2026 and Mick Jagger has said publicly that he hopes they will tour next year.

Australia and New Zealand have a long history with the band. They first came in January 1965, playing 34 shows for around 100,000 people across the two countries, and they returned in 1966, 1973, 1995, 2003, 2006 and 2014. Their last concert in the region was at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 22 November 2014, the final night of the 14 On Fire tour.

This page sets out what is and is not known about a possible 2027 tour, then tells the story of every visit the band has made to Australia and New Zealand, from Brisbane City Hall in 1965 to Auckland in 2014.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about a Rolling Stones tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, venues, support acts or sale dates have been published as of 9 October 2026, and the verified tour lists used by this site contain no 2027 Rolling Stones dates in Europe, North America or anywhere else.

What has been said is cautious. Around the release of Foreign Tongues in July 2026, Jagger said he did not expect the band to play shows this year but hoped they would do shows next year, and Keith Richards said they would talk about it later. That is an intention, not a tour, and it says nothing about which continents a tour would visit.

History also suggests caution for local fans. The band's last two world tours, No Filter and Hackney Diamonds, did not come to Australia or New Zealand and the 14 On Fire shows of 2014 remain their most recent in the region; only the 22-year gap between 1973 and 1995 was longer.

If a tour is announced and Australia or New Zealand is on it, this page will be updated with the dates, venues and presale and general sale times. Until then, any '2027 Australia tour' or presale code you see advertised is not official. Sign up for the alert below to hear first.

Before The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

The Stones' first tour of the region, in January and February 1965, was a package tour of theatres and halls, usually two or three shows a night. The setlist archive lists Brisbane City Hall on 26 January, the Manufacturer's Auditorium in Sydney on 27 January, the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on 28 and 29 January, then New Zealand: the Theatre Royal in Christchurch, the Civic Theatre in Invercargill, the Dunedin Town Hall, three shows at the Auckland Town Hall on 6 February and two at the Wellington Town Hall on 8 February. They returned to the Palais in Melbourne on 10 February, played the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds on 11 February and the Capitol Theatre in Perth on 13 February 1965.

A year later, in February 1966, they were back with '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' and '19th Nervous Breakdown' in the set. The tour played the Commemorative Pavilion in Sydney on 18 and 19 February, Brisbane City Hall, Centennial Hall in Adelaide, three days of shows at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne from 24 to 26 February, the Wellington Town Hall on 28 February and the Civic Theatre in Auckland on 1 March 1966. The sets were nine songs long.

The Pacific Tour of 1973 nearly did not reach Australia: the band was refused entry to Japan because of drug convictions and was almost banned from Australia too. In the end it opened at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland on 11 February 1973 and played the Milton Tennis Courts in Brisbane, Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne on 17 and 18 February, Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide on 20 and 21 February, the WACA Ground in Perth on 24 February and Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on 26 and 27 February 1973. The sets drew on Exile on Main St. and Sticky Fingers, with 'Brown Sugar', 'Rocks Off', 'Tumbling Dice' and 'Midnight Rambler'.

After a gap of 22 years, the Voodoo Lounge Tour brought the band to the big stadiums in 1995: two nights at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 and 28 March, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 1 and 2 April, Football Park in Adelaide on 5 April, Perry Lakes Stadium in Perth on 8 April, ANZ Stadium in Brisbane on 12 April and two nights at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland on 16 and 17 April 1995.

The Licks World Tour of February and March 2003 offered a contrast between club, arena and stadium-sized rooms. It started with a small show at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 18 February, followed by two nights at the Sydney SuperDome, three at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and two at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 4 and 5 March 2003. A Bigger Bang came in April 2006, with Telstra Stadium in Sydney on 11 April, Rod Laver Arena on 13 April, Western Springs Stadium in Auckland on 16 April and Westpac Stadium in Wellington on 18 April 2006; during the break that followed, Keith Richards was treated in a New Zealand hospital for head surgery after a fall in Fiji.

The most recent visit was the 14 On Fire tour. Its Australian and New Zealand dates were first set for March 2014 but were postponed after the death of L'Wren Scott, Jagger's partner, on 17 March 2014. The rescheduled run opened at the Adelaide Oval on 25 October 2014, the first concert at the redeveloped ground, with Jimmy Barnes in support, and went on to Perth Arena, Rod Laver Arena, Allphones Arena in Sydney on 12 November, Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley on 15 November, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 18 November and Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 22 November 2014.

The table below lists 59 documented Australia/NZ concerts by The Rolling Stones between 1965 and 2014, with the most shows in Melbourne (15), Sydney (12), Auckland (7), Brisbane (7), Adelaide (6), Perth (5). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

The Rolling Stones 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 (1 March 2003 to 22 November 2014), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Brown Sugar — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Honky Tonk Women — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Start Me Up — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Sympathy for the Devil — played at 15 of 15 shows
7. Tumbling Dice — played at 15 of 15 shows
8. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (but I Like It) — played at 14 of 15 shows
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want — played at 14 of 15 shows
10. Gimme Shelter — played at 12 of 15 shows
11. Midnight Rambler — played at 12 of 15 shows
12. Miss You — played at 12 of 15 shows
13. Happy — played at 11 of 15 shows
14. Before They Make Me Run — played at 8 of 15 shows

Before The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• 14 on Fire (2014): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Pokolbin, Brisbane, Auckland.
• A Bigger Bang Tour (2006): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Wellington.
• Licks Tour (2003): 8 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
• Voodoo Lounge Tour (1995): 9 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Auckland.
• The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973 (1973): 9 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney.
• Australasian Tour 1966 (1966): 9 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Wellington, Auckland.
• Australasian Tour 1965 (1965): 12 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Christchurch, Invercargill, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, Adelaide, Perth.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: career and records

The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962. Their first stable line-up was Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, with Ian Stewart as road manager and keyboard player. They began with blues and rock and roll covers, were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, and soon moved to their own songs: 'The Last Time' in 1965 was the first Jagger/Richards song to top the UK chart, and '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' later that year was their first international No. 1.

The run of albums from Beggars Banquet (1968) to Exile on Main St. (1972) is often seen as the peak of their work. Mick Taylor replaced Jones in 1969; Sticky Fingers (1971), with 'Brown Sugar' and 'Wild Horses', was the first record on their own label, and Goats Head Soup (1973) gave them 'Angie'. In Australia, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Sticky Fingers, Goats Head Soup and Tattoo You all reached No. 1.

Ronnie Wood replaced Taylor at the end of 1974. Some Girls (1978) and Tattoo You (1981), with 'Start Me Up', kept the hits coming, and Steel Wheels (1989) and Voodoo Lounge (1994), an Australian No. 1, launched the stadium tours that broke the record for the highest-grossing tour three times by 2007. Wyman left in 1993, and Darryl Jones became the regular bassist.

Charlie Watts died in 2021, and Steve Jordan became the band's regular drummer. Hackney Diamonds (2023), their first album of original songs in 18 years, went to No. 1 in Australia and the UK, and Foreign Tongues followed in July 2026, reaching No. 2 in Australia. With more than 250 million albums sold, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: sixty years of visits

Few overseas acts have a longer history in Australia and New Zealand. The Stones' first visit in January 1965 came less than three years after the band formed, and their seventh, in 2014, came more than half a century later. In between, they played everything from town halls and tennis courts to racecourses, cricket grounds and indoor arenas.

The 1960s tours were short, fast package shows, often two or three a night at the same venue, which is why the setlist archive lists several entries for a single date. By 1973 they were playing outdoors to large crowds, and from 1995 the tours were built around stadiums.

A 2027 visit would be the band's first in more than twelve years, but nothing has been announced.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: the Melbourne and Sydney stadiums

The 1995 Voodoo Lounge shows at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Sydney Cricket Ground, two nights each, brought the band back to Australia's biggest sporting grounds after 22 years away. Sydney later had Telstra Stadium in 2006, while Melbourne's later visits moved indoors to Rod Laver Arena, which hosted the band in 2003, 2006 and 2014.

Sydney has seen almost every format: the Manufacturer's Auditorium in 1965, the Commemorative Pavilion in 1966, Royal Randwick Racecourse in 1973, the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1995, the Enmore Theatre and the Sydney SuperDome in 2003, Telstra Stadium in 2006 and Allphones Arena in 2014. The SuperDome, Telstra Stadium and Allphones Arena are names from their time; both venues are at Sydney Olympic Park.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: Auckland, Wellington and New Zealand

New Zealand was on every one of the band's tours of the region except 2003. In 1965 they played Christchurch, Invercargill, Dunedin, Auckland and Wellington, and in 1966 Wellington and Auckland again. Western Springs Stadium in Auckland has been their main New Zealand home, in 1973, on two nights in 1995 and in 2006.

Wellington had the band at its Town Hall in the 1960s and at Westpac Stadium on 18 April 2006. The most recent New Zealand show was at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 22 November 2014, with Hunters & Collectors in support, which closed the 14 On Fire tour.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: Adelaide, Perth and the regions

Adelaide has been on most tours, from the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds in 1965 and Centennial Hall in 1966 to Memorial Drive Park in 1973, Football Park in 1995 and the Adelaide Oval, which opened its redeveloped ground to concerts with the Stones on 25 October 2014.

Perth had the Capitol Theatre in 1965, the WACA Ground in 1973, Perry Lakes Stadium in 1995 and Perth Arena in 2014. The 2014 tour also took the band to Hope Estate, a winery in the Hunter Valley, on 15 November, with British India and The Preatures in support.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Rolling Stones concert of the modern era runs about two hours and close to 20 songs. At Mount Smart Stadium in 2014 the set opened with 'Start Me Up', 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)', 'You Got Me Rocking' and 'Tumbling Dice', included 'Doom and Gloom' and a Keith Richards section with 'You Got the Silver', 'Before They Make Me Run' and 'Happy', and ended with 'Gimme Shelter', 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', 'Sympathy for the Devil', 'Brown Sugar', 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' and 'Satisfaction'.

Across all their Australian and New Zealand shows in the archive, the most played songs are 'Tumbling Dice', 'Brown Sugar', 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', 'Honky Tonk Women', '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction', 'Gimme Shelter' and 'Start Me Up'. The 2003 Enmore show was the outlier, with soul covers such as 'I Can't Turn You Loose', 'Everybody Needs Somebody to Love' and 'Going to a Go-Go' alongside the hits.

If the band does tour Foreign Tongues, expect a similar mix of the classic songs with a few new ones, but no set list for 2027 exists yet.

The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Rolling Stones tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site selling seats or offering a presale code for 2027 dates is not official.

When the band does tour, tickets are sold through the official ticketing partner of each stadium or arena, usually with a fan presale before the general sale. Buy only from official outlets or the venue box office, expect name-linked mobile tickets, and be careful with anyone selling 'presale codes'.

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The Rolling Stones Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Are the Rolling Stones touring Australia in 2027?

No dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026. Mick Jagger has said he hopes the band will tour in 2027, but no country has been confirmed.

When did the Rolling Stones last play Australia?

At the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 18 November 2014, on the 14 On Fire tour.

When did they last play New Zealand?

At Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 22 November 2014, the last night of 14 On Fire.

What is the band's latest album?

Foreign Tongues, released in July 2026; it reached No. 2 in Australia.

When did the Rolling Stones first tour Australia?

In January 1965, starting at Brisbane City Hall on 26 January.

Why was the 2014 Australian tour moved?

The original March 2014 dates were postponed after the death of L'Wren Scott and rescheduled for October and November 2014.

Have the Stones played the MCG?

Yes, two nights at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 and 28 March 1995, on the Voodoo Lounge Tour.

What songs do they play most in Australia?

'Tumbling Dice', 'Brown Sugar', 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', 'Honky Tonk Women' and 'Satisfaction'.

Is there a presale code for a 2027 tour?

No. With no tour announced, any code on offer is not official.