The Script Australia Tour 2027

The Script are back in Australian arenas in March 2027. The Man In The Arena Tour, named after the lead single from their album The User's Guide to Being Human, plays three east-coast cities: the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Tuesday 23 March, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Thursday 25 March and Afterpay Arena in Sydney on Saturday 27 March 2027. Fellow Irish band Picture This are the special guests, and tickets have been on sale since Friday 29 May 2026.

Australia has been one of The Script's strongest markets since 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' and 'Breakeven'. Their second album, Science & Faith, reached No. 2 on the Australian chart, and 'Hall of Fame' was certified five times platinum in the country. They have toured Australia regularly since 2009, from the Enmore Theatre and the Hordern Pavilion to Rod Laver Arena and Perth Arena.

This is also their first Australian arena tour since the death of co-founder and guitarist Mark Sheehan in April 2023. Danny O'Donoghue and Glen Power now lead a four-piece with Ben Sargeant on bass and Ben Weaver on guitar. Below are the 2027 dates, ticket information and a full history of The Script's concerts in Australia and New Zealand.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: confirmed dates

The Script announced The User's Guide to Being Human together with a world tour. The lead single, 'Man In The Arena', was inspired by a speech by Theodore Roosevelt, and the tour takes the song's name. The Australian dates are a short, focused run of three nights in five days on the east coast.

Brisbane opens on Tuesday 23 March 2027 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Boondall, a venue the band have played three times before, in 2013, 2015 and 2018. Melbourne follows on Thursday 25 March at Rod Laver Arena, where they headlined in 2013 and 2015, and Sydney closes the leg on Saturday 27 March at Afterpay Arena at Sydney Olympic Park. The Sydney venue is the same building The Script played as Allphones Arena on 1 May 2015.

Picture This, the Irish pop band, open every night. No shows had been announced in Perth, Adelaide or New Zealand as of 9 October 2026; the band's most recent Perth and Adelaide-region shows were in early 2025, and their last concert in New Zealand was at Vector Arena (now Spark Arena) in Auckland on 5 May 2015.

The 2027 shows mark a return to full arena production in Australia. The 2022 greatest-hits visit mixed outdoor venues and theatres with one arena, Perth's RAC Arena, and the January-February 2025 Satellites dates were mostly open-air winery and park shows. The last time The Script played arenas in all three east-coast capitals was on the No Sound Without Silence Tour in 2015.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: venue guide

The Script Australia Tour 2027 at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane

The Brisbane Entertainment Centre opened on 20 February 1986 at Boondall in Brisbane's northern suburbs, with Torvill and Dean as its first event. It holds about 13,600 people for concerts and is due to host handball at the 2032 Olympic Games.

The Script Australia Tour 2027 at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

Rod Laver Arena opened on 11 January 1988 at Melbourne Park as the National Tennis Centre and has carried Rod Laver's name since 2000. It is the main court of the Australian Open, seats about 14,800 for tennis, and was the first arena in Australia with a retractable roof.

The Script Australia Tour 2027 at Afterpay Arena, Sydney

Built for the 2000 Olympic Games, the arena at Sydney Olympic Park opened on 6 November 1999 as the Sydney SuperDome and was later known as Acer Arena, Allphones Arena and Qudos Bank Arena before becoming Afterpay Arena in 2026. With up to about 21,000 places it is the largest permanent indoor entertainment venue in Australia.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: night by night

Tuesday 23 March 2027 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane. Their previous show at this venue was on 21 April 2018, on the Freedom Child. The tour starts here.

Thursday 25 March 2027 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. The Script last played Rod Laver Arena on 29 April 2015 (No Sound Without Silence Tour).

Saturday 27 March 2027 — Afterpay Arena, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented The Script concert was at ICC Sydney Theatre (30 January 2025). The run finishes here.

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

According to Wikipedia, The Script performed 'Before the Worst' at half-time of the 2009 NRL Grand Final in Sydney on 4 October 2009, early in their Australian story. The setlist archive also lists club and theatre dates in the days before that: the Metro City Concert Club in Perth on 22 September, the Forum in Melbourne on 25 September, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 26 and 30 September and the Tivoli in Brisbane on 29 September 2009. It also has a handful of small shows in Melbourne and at the Bluestone Room in Auckland in late 2008, soon after the debut album came out.

The Science & Faith era brought the first proper headline tour. In October 2010 the band played the Palace Theatre in Melbourne on 5 October and the Big Top at Luna Park in Sydney on 6 October. In April 2011 they returned for a full national run: Challenge Stadium in Perth on 2 April, the AEC Theatre in Adelaide on 4 April, two nights at Festival Hall in Melbourne on 5 and 6 April, two at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on 8 and 9 April and the Brisbane Convention Centre on 10 April 2011.

The 3 World Tour, for the album #3, moved them into arenas. After a warm-up at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 24 September 2012, the band played the new Perth Arena on 3 April 2013, Rod Laver Arena on 6 April, the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 7 April and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 9 April, with a further Sydney show at the Hordern Pavilion on 11 April and Vector Arena in Auckland on 12 April 2013. The set opened with 'Good Ol' Days' and ended with 'Hall of Fame'.

The No Sound Without Silence Tour, the biggest Australian run so far, followed in April and May 2015, after a promotional visit in October 2014 that included the Metro Theatre in Sydney. It played Perth Arena on 24 April, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 27 April, Rod Laver Arena on 29 April, Allphones Arena in Sydney on 1 May and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 2 May, then Vector Arena in Auckland on 5 May 2015. That remains their most recent concert in New Zealand.

The Freedom Child tour was shorter: Hisense Arena in Melbourne on 19 April, the ICC Sydney Theatre on 20 April and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 21 April 2018. In September 2022, on the Tales from The Script greatest-hits tour, they played the Riverstage in Brisbane on 15 September, the Aware Super Theatre in Sydney on 16 September, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on 17 September and RAC Arena in Perth on 20 September 2022 — the band's last Australian tour before Mark Sheehan's death.

The first Australian tour without Sheehan came in January and February 2025, on the Satellites World Tour. It went mostly to open-air sites outside the capitals: Bimbadgen Estate in Pokolbin on 25 January, Sirromet Winery at Mount Cotton on 26 January, the WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong on 28 January, the ICC Sydney Theatre on 30 January, Mount Duneed Estate near Geelong on 1 February, Peter Lehmann Wines in Tanunda in the Barossa on 2 February and Burswood Park in Perth on 5 February 2025.

The table below lists 47 documented Australia/NZ concerts by The Script between 2008 and 2025, with the most shows in Sydney (15), Melbourne (10), Perth (6), Brisbane (6), Auckland (3), Adelaide (2). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

The Script 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 April 2015 to 5 February 2025), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. Breakeven — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. For the First Time — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Hall of Fame — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. No Good in Goodbye — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Nothing — played at 15 of 15 shows
6. Paint the Town Green — played at 15 of 15 shows
7. Superheroes — played at 15 of 15 shows
8. The Man Who Can't Be Moved — played at 15 of 15 shows
9. If You Could See Me Now — played at 14 of 15 shows
10. Before the Worst — played at 13 of 15 shows
11. Rain — played at 11 of 15 shows
12. Six Degrees of Separation — played at 9 of 15 shows
13. You Won't Feel a Thing — played at 9 of 15 shows
14. Never Seen Anything "Quite Like You" — played at 8 of 15 shows

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

• SATELLITES WORLD TOUR (2025): 7 Australia/NZ shows — Pokolbin, Mount Cotton, Wollongong, Sydney, Geelong, Tanunda, Perth.
• Tales from The Script - Greatest Hits Tour (2022): 4 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth.
• Freedom Child (2018): 3 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
• No Sound Without Silence Tour (2015): 6 Australia/NZ shows — Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland.
• 3 World Tour (2012–2013): 6 Australia/NZ shows — Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland.
• Science & Faith Tour (2010–2011): 9 Australia/NZ shows — Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: career and records

The Script were formed in Dublin in 2001 by Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power. O'Donoghue and Sheehan had been friends since they were 12. They moved to London after signing to Phonogenic, part of Sony, and released their debut album, The Script, on 8 August 2008. It went to No. 1 in Ireland and the UK and No. 9 in Australia, with 'We Cry', 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved', 'Breakeven' and 'Before the Worst'.

Science & Faith (2010), #3 (2012) and No Sound Without Silence (2014) all topped the Irish and UK charts; Science & Faith reached No. 2 in Australia and No. 3 in the United States. '#3' included 'Hall of Fame' with will.i.am, the band's most successful song, certified five times platinum in Australia and twice platinum in New Zealand. O'Donoghue spent two seasons as a coach on The Voice UK.

Freedom Child (2017) and Sunsets & Full Moons (2019) followed, then the greatest-hits collection Tales from The Script in 2021. Mark Sheehan died on 14 April 2023, aged 46, after a brief illness. In May 2024 the band returned with the single 'Both Ways' and announced that long-time touring bassist Ben Sargeant and guitarist Ben Weaver were joining as full members.

Satellites, the seventh album, came out on 16 August 2024 and was supported by a world tour that included Australia. The eighth, The User's Guide to Being Human, came out in 2026 and reached No. 42 in Australia. The Script have sold more than 20 million records and won three Meteor Ireland Music Awards and two World Music Awards.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: three east-coast nights

The 2027 leg is the most compact arena tour The Script have brought to Australia. Brisbane on a Tuesday, Melbourne on a Thursday and Sydney on a Saturday: three shows in five days, all in large indoor arenas.

By comparison, the 2013 and 2015 arena tours also took in Perth, and the 2015 run added Adelaide and Auckland. The 2025 tour went further out, to wineries in the Hunter Valley, the Barossa and near Geelong, and to Wollongong.

Fans in Canberra, Newcastle or Wollongong are closest to the Sydney show, and Gold Coast fans to Brisbane. Western Australian and South Australian fans would have to travel east for 2027, as things stand on 9 October 2026.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: back at Rod Laver Arena

Rod Laver Arena has hosted The Script twice before, on 6 April 2013 and 29 April 2015. The 2027 date, Thursday 25 March, is their first show there in twelve years.

In between, Melbourne saw the band at Hisense Arena (now John Cain Arena) in 2018, at the open-air Sidney Myer Music Bowl in September 2022 and, in February 2025, at Mount Duneed Estate near Geelong. The setlist archive also lists an appearance at Caulfield Racecourse in October 2014.

Rod Laver Arena seats about 14,800 for tennis and is part of the Melbourne Park precinct, a short walk or tram ride from Flinders Street station.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: Sydney's biggest room

The Sydney show on Saturday 27 March is at Afterpay Arena, the former Allphones Arena where The Script played on 1 May 2015. With up to about 21,000 places, it is the largest venue on this leg.

Sydney has seen more Script shows than any other Australian city: the Enmore Theatre in 2009, Luna Park in 2010, two Hordern Pavilion nights in 2011, the Metro Theatre in 2012 and 2014, the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 2013, and the ICC Sydney Theatre in 2018 and 2025.

A Saturday-night finale in the biggest room usually sells fastest, so Sydney fans who still need tickets should watch for official releases.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: after Mark Sheehan

Mark Sheehan co-founded the band and was part of its Australian story from the first visits in 2008 and 2009. He missed the American leg of the 2022 tour for family reasons and died in April 2023, after which the band took a year before releasing new music. When they returned to Australia in January 2025, it was as a four-piece with Ben Sargeant and Ben Weaver.

The 2025 Australian set included 'Both Ways' and 'At Your Feet' from Satellites alongside the hits. The 2027 tour is the first time the new line-up plays Australian arenas, and it comes with a new album behind it.

The Script Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

The Script's shows are built around O'Donoghue's vocals and piano and Power's drumming, with sing-along choruses throughout. On the 2015 arena tour the set ran to 19 songs, opening with 'Paint the Town Green' and closing with 'For the First Time', 'No Good in Goodbye' and 'Hall of Fame'.

The 2025 Australian set ran to 17 or 18 songs. It opened with 'You Won't Feel a Thing' and 'Superheroes', included 'Rain', 'Both Ways', 'Six Degrees of Separation', 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' and 'If You Could See Me Now', and finished with 'Breakeven' and 'Hall of Fame', a closing pair the band have used for years.

The 2027 set list has not been published. Songs from The User's Guide to Being Human, including 'Man In The Arena', are expected alongside the hits. Picture This play before The Script each night.

The Script Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

Tickets for the three Australian shows have been on sale since Friday 29 May 2026, through the official ticketing outlets for each venue and the venue box offices. Most Australian arena tickets are now name-locked mobile tickets, so check the transfer rules before buying for a friend.

There is no public presale code for The Script to buy or share. Treat codes and 'guaranteed' tickets offered on social media with suspicion. If your show sells out, use the official resale service of the original seller.

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The Script Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

When does The Script's 2027 Australian tour start?

At the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Tuesday 23 March 2027.

Which cities are included?

Brisbane (23 March), Melbourne (25 March) and Sydney (27 March 2027).

Who is the support act?

Irish band Picture This open every show.

Is The Script playing Perth or Adelaide in 2027?

No Perth or Adelaide date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. They last played Perth at Burswood Park on 5 February 2025.

Is The Script playing New Zealand in 2027?

No New Zealand date had been announced as of 9 October 2026. Their last New Zealand concert was at Vector Arena in Auckland on 5 May 2015.

Where is the Sydney show?

At Afterpay Arena at Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday 27 March 2027, the venue they played as Allphones Arena in 2015.

When did tickets go on sale?

Tickets have been on sale since Friday 29 May 2026.

When did The Script last tour Australia?

In January and February 2025 on the Satellites World Tour, from Pokolbin on 25 January to Perth on 5 February.

Why is it called the Man In The Arena Tour?

It is named after the lead single of the album The User's Guide to Being Human, a song inspired by a speech by Theodore Roosevelt.