The Rubens Australia Tour 2027

The Rubens start 2027 the way they have started several summers: on the road along the New South Wales coast, in pubs, bowling clubs and country clubs rather than arenas. Group Therapy Tour Part 2 opens at the Shoal Bay Country Club on Friday 22 January 2027 and ends at The Pavilion in Kiama on Saturday 13 February, ten shows in all.

Part 2 follows Part 1 of the Group Therapy Tour, which runs from October to December 2026 behind the band's sixth studio album, Group Therapy, announced in August 2026 for an October release. Where Part 1 covers the main run of 2026 dates, Part 2 is a summer lap of coastal and regional rooms: Erina, Lake Macquarie, Mona Vale, Pacific Palms, Coffs Harbour, Yamba and Brunswick Heads in late January, then Wombarra and Kiama on the South Coast in mid-February.

Every date is in Australia and every one is in New South Wales; there are no capital-city arena shows, no Queensland or Victorian stops and no New Zealand date on this leg. The artist pre-sale ran on Tuesday 22 September 2026 and tickets have been on general sale since Wednesday 23 September 2026.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: confirmed dates

The first week is a run up the coast north of Sydney. After Shoal Bay on Friday 22 January, the band play the Woodport Hotel in Erina on Saturday 23 January, the Toronto Hotel on Lake Macquarie on Sunday 24 January and the Mona Vale Hotel on Sydney's Northern Beaches on Monday 25 January, the eve of the Australia Day public holiday. That is four shows in four nights, all in hotel and club venues within a couple of hours of Sydney.

After a short break the tour heads up the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers. The Recky at Pacific Palms is on Thursday 28 January, the Hoey Moey in Coffs Harbour on Friday 29 January, the Yamba Bowling Club on Saturday 30 January and the Hotel Brunswick in Brunswick Heads on Sunday 31 January, again four nights back to back. Several of these names will be familiar to fans who followed the band's earlier summer runs: the Hoey Moey and the Yamba Bowling Club were both on the Good Mood Tour in January 2024, and the Hotel Brunswick hosted the band in October 2025.

The last two shows are south of Sydney. Wombarra Bowling & Rec, on the coast road north of Wollongong, is on Friday 12 February, and The Pavilion in Kiama closes the tour on Saturday 13 February 2027. Both are compact rooms, and as on the northern swing the shows fall on a Friday and Saturday.

The shape of the tour says a lot about how The Rubens work. The band come from Menangle, a small town south-west of Sydney, and for more than a decade they have mixed big city shows with long regional laps through towns that rarely see a national headliner. Part 2 of Group Therapy is the purest version of that habit so far: ten small rooms, all in their home state, timed for the summer holidays and the long weekend at the end of January.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: venue guide

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Shoal Bay Country Club, Shoal Bay

A club venue at Shoal Bay on Port Stephens, north of Newcastle. The Rubens played here on 10 January 2024 during the Good Mood Tour, and return to open Group Therapy Tour Part 2.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Woodport Hotel, Erina

A hotel venue in Erina, a suburb of the Central Coast region between Sydney and Newcastle. It is a new stop for The Rubens in the setlist.fm archive.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Toronto Hotel, Lake Macquarie

A hotel in Toronto, a town on the western shore of Lake Macquarie, south-west of Newcastle. Lake Macquarie is one of the largest coastal saltwater lakes in Australia.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Mona Vale Hotel, Mona Vale

A hotel in Mona Vale, a suburb on Sydney's Northern Beaches. It is the closest Part 2 date to central Sydney.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at The Recky, Pacific Palms

A club venue at Pacific Palms, a coastal locality on the Mid North Coast between Forster and Seal Rocks. Earlier Rubens shows in the area were listed at the Pacific Palms Recreation Club at Elizabeth Beach in 2024 and 2025.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Hoey Moey, Coffs Harbour

A hotel venue in Coffs Harbour, the largest city on the Mid North Coast. The Rubens played the Hoey Moey on 7 January 2024 on the Good Mood Tour.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Yamba Bowling Club, Yamba

A bowling club in Yamba, a coastal town at the mouth of the Clarence River in the Northern Rivers. The Rubens played here on 6 January 2024 on the Good Mood Tour.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Hotel Brunswick, Brunswick Heads

A hotel in Brunswick Heads, a small coastal town in the Northern Rivers north of Byron Bay. The Rubens played the Hotel Brunswick on 24 October 2025.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at Wombarra Bowling & Rec, Wombarra

A bowling and recreation club in Wombarra, a small village on the coast between the Royal National Park and Wollongong in the Illawarra.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 at The Pavilion, Kiama

A function and event venue in Kiama, a coastal town on the South Coast of New South Wales known for its blowhole. It hosts the closing night of Group Therapy Tour Part 2 on 13 February 2027.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: night by night

Friday 22 January 2027 — Shoal Bay Country Club, Shoal Bay. The tour starts here.

Saturday 23 January 2027 — Woodport Hotel, Erina.

Sunday 24 January 2027 — Toronto Hotel, Lake Macquarie.

Monday 25 January 2027 — Mona Vale Hotel, Mona Vale.

Thursday 28 January 2027 — The Recky, Pacific Palms.

Friday 29 January 2027 — Hoey Moey, Coffs Harbour. Their previous show at this venue was on 7 January 2024, on the Good Mood Tour.

Saturday 30 January 2027 — Yamba Bowling Club, Yamba. The Rubens last played Yamba Bowling Club on 6 January 2024 (Good Mood Tour).

Sunday 31 January 2027 — Hotel Brunswick, Brunswick Heads. Their previous show at this venue was on 24 October 2025.

Friday 12 February 2027 — Wombarra Bowling & Rec, Wombarra.

Saturday 13 February 2027 — The Pavilion, Kiama. The run finishes here.

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

The Rubens' live history in this part of the world is long and unusually wide. The setlist.fm archive holds more than a hundred Australian and New Zealand dates since 2012, and a striking share of them are outside the capitals, in towns such as Mildura, Broken Hill, Wagga Wagga, Bundaberg, Mackay, Port Douglas and Torquay.

New Zealand came early. In November 2012, the year of their debut album, the band played Vector Arena in Auckland and the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, followed by a New Year's show at Waiohika Estate in Gisborne on 29 December 2012 and Silo Park in Auckland in January 2013. They were back at Vector Arena in Auckland and Horncastle Arena in Christchurch in September 2015, played a New Zealand Tour in October 2016 (Kings Arms in Auckland and Meow in Wellington), and returned on the Million Man Tour in February 2018 to Galatos in Auckland and San Fran in Wellington. Spark Arena in Auckland followed in September 2018, and The Tuning Fork in Auckland and San Fran in Wellington in August 2023.

In Australia the archive picks up in April 2021 with a theatre run that included the Ulumbarra Theatre in Bendigo, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney and the Forum in Melbourne, then Mindil Beach in Darwin, the Odeon in Hobart and the Canberra Theatre. The Waste a Day Tour in March and April 2022 went deep into regional New South Wales and Victoria: Mildura, Broken Hill, Orange, Tamworth, Katoomba, Wagga Wagga, Griffith, Wodonga, Echuca, Warrnambool and Ballarat, plus two nights at The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide and two at the Torquay Hotel.

The Good Mood Tour in January 2024 is the closest model for the 2027 run. It went up the coast from Kings Beach Tavern in Caloundra and Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast to the Yamba Bowling Club (6 January), the Hoey Moey in Coffs Harbour (7 January), the Pacific Palms Recreation Club at Elizabeth Beach, the Shoal Bay Country Club at Port Stephens (10 January), Drifter's Wharf in Gosford and Dee Why RSL. In May 2024 the band worked through north Queensland: Port Douglas, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Mackay and Toowoomba.

The Soda Tour in late 2024 was the city-and-country run for the fifth album: Forth and the Odeon in Tasmania, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 27 September, Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, the University of Canberra Refectory, Northcote Theatre in Melbourne, Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide, Metropolis in Fremantle, Dubbo, Mildura, Swan Hill and the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda. The 2025 Roll Away Tour took them to Kingscliff, Coffs Harbour, Elizabeth Beach and Port Macquarie in April, and in August 2025 they played three nights at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, billed as ten years of Hoops.

The most recent rows lead straight into Group Therapy. In 2026 the archive has Narooma in January, a show at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in February, the Regatta Grounds in Hobart in March, Merimbula and Mildura in May, and then the first Group Therapy dates in September: The Regal Inn at Tenambit near Maitland, the University of Canberra and the Old Bar Tavern on the Mid North Coast.

The table below lists 113 documented Australia/NZ concerts by The Rubens between 2012 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (9), Melbourne (9), Auckland (7), Canberra (5), Hobart (4), Adelaide (4). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

The Rubens 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 2024 to 26 September 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. God Forgot — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Hoops — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Masterpiece — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Muddy Evil Pain — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. My Gun — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Hallelujah — played at 14 of 15 shows
7. Black Balloon — played at 13 of 15 shows
8. Lay It Down — played at 13 of 15 shows
9. Live in Life — played at 13 of 15 shows
10. Pets and Drugs — played at 13 of 15 shows
11. Good Mood — played at 12 of 15 shows
12. Cornerstore — played at 10 of 15 shows
13. Million Man — played at 9 of 15 shows
14. Sunday Night — played at 7 of 15 shows

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

• Group Therapy (2026): 3 Australia/NZ shows — Tenambit, Canberra, Old Bar.
• 10 YEARS OF HOOPS (2025): 1 Australia/NZ show — Sydney.
• Roll Away Tour (2025): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Kingscliff, Coffs Harbour, Elizabeth Beach, Port Macquarie, Melbourne.
• Soda Tour (2024–2025): 13 Australia/NZ shows — Forth, Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Dubbo, Mildura, Swan Hill, Carrick.
• Good Mood Tour (2024): 5 Australia/NZ shows — Caloundra, Gold Coast, Yamba, Coffs Harbour, Port Stephens.
• Waste a Day Tour 2022 (2022): 1 Australia/NZ show — Mildura.
• Million Man Tour (2018): 2 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Wellington.
• New Zealand Tour 2016 (2016): 2 Australia/NZ shows — Auckland, Wellington.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

The setlist.fm data shows The Rubens on many outdoor summer bills, though most rows do not name the event. In early 2023 they played a string of parks and foreshores: Thomas Dalton Park in Wollongong, the Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle, the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart, Rochford Winery in the Yarra Valley, Torquay Common, Park Beach Reserve in Coffs Harbour, Broadwater Parklands on the Gold Coast, Kalgoorlie and the Long Jetty Foreshore on the Central Coast.

Other outdoor appearances include Albert Park in Melbourne in April 2022, Riverside Park in Swan Hill in November 2024, Quercus Park at Carrick in Tasmania in February 2025 and Tumbalong Park in Sydney in October 2025. Group Therapy Tour Part 2 itself is a headline run with no festival dates.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: career and records

The Rubens are an Australian alternative rock band from Menangle, New South Wales. The line-up is the three Margin brothers, Sam (lead vocals and guitar), Izaac (lead guitar) and Elliott (keyboards and backing vocals), with drummer Scott Baldwin and bassist William Zeglis.

In 2011 the newly formed group uploaded a demo of “Lay It Down” to Triple J Unearthed. It was voted number 57 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 and led to a deal with Ivy League Records in early 2012. The August 2012 single “My Gun” was nominated for Best Music Video at the 2012 ARIA Awards and came in at number 10 in the Hottest 100 of 2012. Their self-titled debut album reached number 3 on the ARIA chart and was nominated for a J Award for Album of the Year.

Hoops followed in August 2015 and reached number 2. Its title track climbed to number 25 on the ARIA Singles Chart, then won the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015, counted down on Australia Day 2016; after the win the single re-entered the chart and peaked at number 9 in February 2016. Lo La Ru (2018) became their third album to debut in the ARIA top five, and the same year the band supported Pink on her 46-show Australian tour.

0202, released in February 2021, was the band's first number-one album in Australia. Soda came out on 20 September 2024 and reached number 4. In August 2026 the band announced a sixth album, Group Therapy, for October 2026, supported by an Australian tour from October to December 2026 and then by the regional NSW run of Part 2 in early 2027. The band have won two APRA Awards and been nominated for four ARIA Awards.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: touring the NSW coast

Part 2 is built around two stretches of coastline. The northern swing runs from Port Stephens (Shoal Bay) through the Central Coast (Erina), Lake Macquarie and the Northern Beaches (Mona Vale), then up to the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers (Pacific Palms, Coffs Harbour, Yamba, Brunswick Heads). The southern swing is two nights in the Illawarra and on the South Coast, at Wombarra and Kiama.

For fans in Sydney, the closest shows are Mona Vale on Monday 25 January and Wombarra on Friday 12 February; Erina and the Toronto Hotel are within reach of the Central Coast and Newcastle. North Coast fans have four nights in a row from Pacific Palms to Brunswick Heads, which makes it possible to catch more than one show on a summer road trip.

There are no dates in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra or Hobart on Part 2, and none in New Zealand. Fans in those cities should look at Part 1 of the Group Therapy Tour, which runs from October to December 2026.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: going back to familiar rooms

Several Part 2 venues have hosted The Rubens before. The Shoal Bay Country Club appears in the setlist.fm archive on 10 January 2024, the Yamba Bowling Club on 6 January 2024 and the Hoey Moey in Coffs Harbour on 7 January 2024, all on the Good Mood Tour. The Hotel Brunswick in Brunswick Heads hosted the band on 24 October 2025, and the Pacific Palms Recreation Club at nearby Elizabeth Beach appears in January 2024 and April 2025.

That repeat pattern is part of the appeal. These are rooms where the band have already played to locals and holiday-makers, and the 2027 dates come at the same time of year as the Good Mood Tour, at the height of the summer holidays.

Other stops are new to the archive. There is no earlier listed Rubens show at the Woodport Hotel, the Toronto Hotel, the Mona Vale Hotel, Wombarra Bowling & Rec or The Pavilion in Kiama, although the band have played nearby: Drifter's Wharf in Gosford, Dee Why RSL, Thomas Dalton Park in Wollongong, Crooked River Wines at Gerringong and the Long Jetty Foreshore.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: why small rooms matter to the band

The Rubens can fill large venues in Australia: they have played the Enmore Theatre, Fortitude Music Hall and the Forum, and the archive also lists short sets at Rod Laver Arena in November 2023 and Suncorp Stadium in August 2024. Yet a large part of their touring history is in clubs and pubs with a few hundred to a couple of thousand people.

The setlist.fm data reflects that choice year after year: Broken Hill Civic Centre and Griffith Regional Theatre in 2022, Magnums Hotel at Airlie Beach and Harrup Park in Mackay in 2024, The Setts in Mildura in 2024 and 2026, Club Sapphire in Merimbula in 2026. Group Therapy Tour Part 2 continues the habit with ten venues of that size.

For ticket buyers, the consequence is simple: capacity is limited. The tour has been on sale since 23 September 2026, so availability varies from venue to venue.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: Australia Day weekend

The first four nights fall around the Australia Day long weekend: Shoal Bay on Friday 22 January, Erina on Saturday 23, Lake Macquarie on Sunday 24 and Mona Vale on Monday 25 January 2027, the day before the 26 January public holiday.

The timing has a link to the band's story. “Hoops” won the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015 in the countdown held on Australia Day, 26 January 2016, and remains the song the band play most: it comes at or near the end of almost every set in the setlist.fm archive.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

A Rubens headline show usually runs 15 to 20 songs. The Group Therapy set at the Old Bar Tavern on 26 September 2026 had 18: it opened with “Love Me America” and moved through “My Gun”, “The Fool”, “Pets and Drugs”, “God Forgot”, “The Best We Got”, “Live in Life”, “Lay It Down”, “Hallelujah”, “Masterpiece”, “Muddy Evil Pain”, “Cornerstore”, “Good Mood”, “Goanna”, “Are You Getting High” and “No Champagne”, before ending with “Hoops” and “Black Balloon”.

Across all Australian and New Zealand shows in the archive the most played songs are “Hoops”, “My Gun”, “Masterpiece”, “Hallelujah”, “Muddy Evil Pain”, “Lay It Down”, “Live in Life” and “God Forgot”. Newer songs such as “Goanna” and “No Champagne” have joined the set during 2026, so expect a mix of the new album and the hits from the 2012 debut onward.

The rooms on Part 2 are mostly standing venues in hotels and clubs, so the shows are loud, close and informal. Check each venue's age rules before you buy, as licensed clubs and hotels set their own entry conditions.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

The artist pre-sale for Group Therapy Tour Part 2 ran on Tuesday 22 September 2026 and is finished. General sale opened on Wednesday 23 September 2026, and tickets are sold through the authorised ticket agencies for each venue and the venues' own box offices.

Because these are small rooms, some dates may sell out or move to limited availability. Buy only from the authorised seller listed by each venue, check the date and town carefully (Pacific Palms, Shoal Bay and Wombarra are small places with similar-sounding venues nearby).

There is no presale code left to use for this run, and codes offered on social media are not genuine. If new dates are added, sign up below for the alert.

The Rubens Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

When does The Rubens' Group Therapy Tour Part 2 start?

At the Shoal Bay Country Club in Shoal Bay on Friday 22 January 2027.

Where does the tour finish?

At The Pavilion in Kiama on Saturday 13 February 2027.

Are The Rubens playing Sydney in 2027?

Not in the city centre. The closest Part 2 dates are the Mona Vale Hotel on the Northern Beaches (Monday 25 January) and Wombarra Bowling & Rec north of Wollongong (Friday 12 February).

Are there New Zealand dates?

No. All ten dates of Part 2 are in New South Wales. The band last played New Zealand in August 2023, at The Tuning Fork in Auckland and San Fran in Wellington, according to setlist.fm.

Have The Rubens played these venues before?

Yes, several. The Shoal Bay Country Club, the Yamba Bowling Club and the Hoey Moey in Coffs Harbour were all on the Good Mood Tour in January 2024, and the Hotel Brunswick hosted them in October 2025.

Are tickets still on sale?

Tickets have been on general sale since Wednesday 23 September 2026. The artist pre-sale ran on 22 September and is over.

What is Group Therapy?

The band's sixth studio album, announced in August 2026 for release in October 2026. Part 1 of the tour runs from October to December 2026.

Which songs do they play?

Recent Group Therapy shows mix new songs such as “Goanna” and “No Champagne” with “My Gun”, “Lay It Down”, “Hallelujah”, “Hoops” and “Black Balloon”.

How many shows are on Part 2?

Ten: eight between 22 and 31 January 2027 and two on 12 and 13 February 2027.