Tove Lo returns to Australia in March 2027 with the ESTRUS Tour, named after the album she released on 18 September 2026. Four shows are confirmed: The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Monday 1 March, Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday 3 March, the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Friday 5 March and the Ice Cream Factory Outdoor in Perth on Sunday 7 March. SALTY is the support act, and tickets have been on sale since Tuesday 15 September 2026.
The Swedish singer-songwriter, born Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson in 1987, has a long and slightly unusual relationship with Australian audiences. She first played arenas here not as a headliner but as the opening act for Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour in late 2014, then came back for club shows, two Splendour in the Grass appearances, a Listen Out run in 2022 and a winter tour in 2023. Along the way she recorded with two Australian stars, Flume and Kylie Minogue, and co-wrote a single for New Zealand's Lorde.
This page sets out everything confirmed about the 2027 dates, how ticketing works, and a detailed history of her concerts in Australia and New Zealand, from the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in November 2014 to Auckland Town Hall in July 2023.
The ESTRUS Tour is the headline run for Tove Lo's sixth studio album, Estrus, which came out on 18 September 2026 and reached No. 32 in Australia. Three singles led into the record, starting with 'I'm Your Girl Right?' in May 2026. The Australian leg is short and tightly scheduled: four cities across seven days, beginning on the east coast and finishing in the west.
Brisbane opens the run on Monday 1 March 2027 at The Fortitude Music Hall in Fortitude Valley. Melbourne follows on Wednesday 3 March at Margaret Court Arena, the roofed show court at Melbourne Park and the largest room on the tour. Sydney gets the Friday night, 5 March, at the Hordern Pavilion in Moore Park, and the tour ends on Sunday 7 March in Perth at the Ice Cream Factory Outdoor in Northbridge, an open-air site suited to a late-summer evening.
There is one show per city and, as of 9 October 2026, no second night has been added anywhere. No New Zealand date has been announced for 2027, which is worth noting because Auckland was part of each of her previous three visits. Adelaide, which saw her at the Spin Off festival in 2023, is also absent from the confirmed list.
SALTY opens every night. The venue mix is mid-sized rather than arena-scale: The Fortitude Music Hall holds about 3,000, the Hordern Pavilion about 5,500 and Margaret Court Arena about 7,500, which is close to the scale of her 2023 Dirt Femme shows at the Forum in Melbourne and the Roundhouse in Sydney, but a step up in Sydney and Brisbane.
The Fortitude Music Hall opened in July 2019 on the Brunswick Street Mall in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. It holds about 3,000 people standing and was built to fill the gap for a mid-sized concert hall in the city.
Margaret Court Arena opened in 1988 at Melbourne Park as Show Court One, when the Australian Open moved from Kooyong. Renamed in 2003, it seats about 7,500 and gained a retractable roof in its 2014-2015 redevelopment.
The Hordern Pavilion opened in 1924 in Moore Park, Sydney, and holds about 5,500 people. Over the years it has hosted concerts, dance parties and championship boxing, including fights featuring Jeff Fenech.
The Ice Cream Factory is an event space on Roe Street in Northbridge, Perth's inner-city entertainment district. Its outdoor area is used for summer concerts and festival-style events.
Monday 1 March 2027 — The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane. In Brisbane, the last documented Tove Lo concert was at Brisbane Showgrounds (2 October 2022). This is the opening night of the run.
Wednesday 3 March 2027 — Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. In Melbourne, the last documented Tove Lo concert was at Forum Theatre (19 July 2023).
Friday 5 March 2027 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney. In Sydney, the last documented Tove Lo concert was at Roundhouse (25 July 2023).
Sunday 7 March 2027 — Ice Cream Factory Outdoor, Perth. The artist's most recent documented Perth show was at HBF Arena on 25 September 2022. This venue closes the tour.
Tove Lo's first Australian concerts were some of the biggest she had played anywhere. She joined Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour as opening act from 30 November 2014 until the end of its Oceania leg, taking over from Betty Who. The setlist archive shows her at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 30 November and 1 December, at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 4, 6, 7 and 10 December, at Allphones Arena in Sydney on 12 and 13 December, back in Brisbane on 15 December, and at Vector Arena in Auckland on 19 and 20 December 2014.
Those support sets were short, seven songs each night, but they were well timed. 'Habits (Stay High)' had just become a hit in the United States and 'Talking Body' was building, and both were played every night along with 'Moments', 'Not on Drugs' and 'Run on Love', her collaboration with Lucas Nord. Shortly afterwards she took time off for surgery on her vocal cords, which took place on 3 January 2015.
The Lady Wood Tour brought her back in July 2017 as a headliner in clubs. After Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands on 23 July, she played the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 26 July and the Prince Bandroom in St Kilda, Melbourne, on 28 July. Those club sets ran to 17 songs and featured most of Lady Wood, including 'True Disaster', 'Influence' and 'Cool Girl', alongside 'Say It', her Flume collaboration. A smaller promotional visit in November 2016 had included a performance at the iHeartRadio Theatre in Sydney.
In October 2019, a few weeks after Sunshine Kitty came out, she played the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 9 October, a ten-song set that included 'Glad He's Gone', 'Bad as the Boys' and 'Really Don't Like U'. In September and October 2022 she toured Australia and New Zealand again, this time around Listen Out. Her own shows on that trip were at the Powerstation in Auckland on 21 September, 170 Russell in Melbourne on 28 September and the Metro Theatre in Sydney on 29 September, each with around 18 or 19 songs.
The Dirt Femme Tour reached Australia in July 2023. The archive shows the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 19 July, the Spin Off festival at Adelaide Showground on 21 July, Splendour in the Grass on 23 July, the Roundhouse at UNSW in Sydney on 25 July and Auckland Town Hall on 27 July 2023, where she played a 20-song set ending with 'Habits (Stay High)' and 'No One Dies From Love'. That Auckland night is, for now, her most recent full concert in the region.
The table below lists 28 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Tove Lo between 2014 and 2023, with the most shows in Melbourne (9), Sydney (7), Auckland (4), Brisbane (4), Byron Bay (2), Adelaide (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2023 | Auckland | Auckland Town Hall | Dirt Femme Tour |
| 25 July 2023 | Sydney | Roundhouse | Dirt Femme Tour |
| 23 July 2023 | Byron Bay | North Byron Parklands | Dirt Femme Tour |
| 21 July 2023 | Adelaide | Adelaide Showground | Dirt Femme Tour |
| 19 July 2023 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | Dirt Femme Tour |
| 2 October 2022 | Brisbane | Brisbane Showgrounds | |
| 1 October 2022 | Sydney | Centennial Park | |
| 29 September 2022 | Sydney | Metro Theatre | Aus/NZ 2022 |
| 28 September 2022 | Melbourne | 170 Russell | Aus/NZ 2022 |
| 25 September 2022 | Perth | HBF Arena | |
| 23 September 2022 | Melbourne | Catani Gardens | |
| 21 September 2022 | Auckland | Powerstation | Aus/NZ 2022 |
| 9 October 2019 | Melbourne | Forum Theatre | |
| 28 July 2017 | Melbourne | Prince Bandroom | Lady Wood Tour |
| 26 July 2017 | Sydney | The Metro Theatre | Lady Wood Tour |
| 23 July 2017 | Byron Bay | North Byron Parklands | Lady Wood Tour |
| 22 November 2016 | Sydney | iHeartRADIO Theatre | |
| 20 December 2014 | Auckland | Vector Arena | |
| 19 December 2014 | Auckland | Vector Arena | |
| 15 December 2014 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | |
| 13 December 2014 | Sydney | Allphones Arena | |
| 12 December 2014 | Sydney | Allphones Arena | |
| 10 December 2014 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
| 7 December 2014 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
| 6 December 2014 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
| 4 December 2014 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
| 1 December 2014 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | |
| 30 November 2014 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre |
Concert data: setlist.fm
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (26 July 2017 to 27 July 2023), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Tove Lo has played Splendour in the Grass at North Byron Parklands twice: on 23 July 2017, during the Lady Wood era, and again on 23 July 2023. In 2023 she also played Spin Off, Adelaide's one-day festival built from acts visiting Australia for Splendour, at Adelaide Showground on 21 July.
In 2022 she was one of the headline names at Listen Out, alongside Disclosure and Chris Lake. The setlist archive has her at Catani Gardens in St Kilda on 23 September, HBF Arena in Perth on 25 September, Centennial Park in Sydney on 1 October and the Brisbane Showgrounds on 2 October 2022, with 10 or 11 songs each time.
Tove Lo grew up in Djursholm, near Stockholm, and studied at the Rytmus music school, where she became friends with Caroline Hjelt of Icona Pop. After three years in the math-rock band Tremblebee she turned to pop songwriting, signing a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell in 2011 and working with Max Martin, Xenomania and Alexander Kronlund. She released 'Habits' independently in 2013 before signing to Universal, Island and Polydor.
Her debut album, Queen of the Clouds (2014), went to No. 14 on the US Billboard 200, and the Hippie Sabotage remix 'Habits (Stay High)' reached No. 3 on the Hot 100. As a songwriter she co-wrote Ellie Goulding's 'Love Me Like You Do', which earned Grammy and Golden Globe nominations. Lady Wood (2016) topped the Swedish chart, and its lead single 'Cool Girl' made the top 30 in Australia, where it was certified Platinum.
Blue Lips (2017) completed the two-part Lady Wood story, and Sunshine Kitty (2019) included 'Glad He's Gone', nominated for a Grammy for Best Music Video, and 'Really Don't Like U' with Kylie Minogue. In 2022 she launched her own label, Pretty Swede Records, and released Dirt Femme, with 'How Long' from the second season of Euphoria and 'No One Dies From Love'.
Her collaborations have a strong antipodean thread: 'Say It' with Australian producer Flume, the Minogue duet, and a co-writing credit on 'Homemade Dynamite' from Lorde's Melodrama. She has won six Grammis awards in Sweden. In July 2020 she announced that she had married her New Zealand partner, Charlie Twaddle. Estrus, her sixth album, followed in September 2026.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Queen of the Clouds | 2014 | AUS 47 |
| Lady Wood | 2016 | AUS 21 |
| Blue Lips | 2017 | — |
| Sunshine Kitty | 2019 | AUS 54 |
| Dirt Femme | 2022 | — |
| Estrus | 2026 | AUS 32 |
Few overseas pop acts have arrived in Australia the way Tove Lo did. Her first eleven shows in the region, in November and December 2014, were in front of arena crowds who had bought tickets for Katy Perry: four nights at Rod Laver Arena, two at Allphones Arena, three at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre and two at Vector Arena in Auckland.
When she came back on her own terms in 2017, the rooms were much smaller: the Metro Theatre in Sydney and the Prince Bandroom in Melbourne. The 2027 tour completes that arc. Margaret Court Arena, the Hordern Pavilion and The Fortitude Music Hall are the largest headline rooms she has booked in Australia, and Melbourne Park takes her back to the precinct where she first played to Australian audiences.
Melbourne has hosted Tove Lo more often than any other Australian city: Rod Laver Arena in 2014, the Prince Bandroom in 2017, the Forum Theatre in 2019 and 2023, Catani Gardens and 170 Russell in 2022. Margaret Court Arena, next door to Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park, gives her a seated bowl with a retractable roof, so the Wednesday 3 March show is not dependent on the weather.
Sydney's history runs through Allphones Arena, two visits to the Metro Theatre, the Roundhouse and Centennial Park. The Hordern Pavilion, which opened in Moore Park in 1924 and holds about 5,500 people, is a room with a long tradition of touring rock and pop, and the Friday date makes it the likeliest of the four shows to be the busiest.
Brisbane opens the tour on a Monday night at The Fortitude Music Hall, a 3,000-capacity venue that opened in July 2019 on the Brunswick Street Mall. Her previous Brisbane shows were the three Katy Perry support nights in 2014 and Listen Out at the Brisbane Showgrounds in 2022, so this is her first headline concert in the city.
Perth gets the closing show on Sunday 7 March at the Ice Cream Factory Outdoor in Northbridge. Her only previous Perth appearance in the archive is Listen Out in 2022. New Zealand, by contrast, has seen her on every recent visit, in 2014, 2022 and 2023, but no Auckland date is confirmed for 2027. If one is added, it will appear on this page; until then, do not trust listings for a New Zealand show.
Tove Lo's ties to Australian music go beyond touring. 'Say It', her 2016 single with Sydney producer Flume, became a fixture of her sets and appeared in her 2017, 2019 and 2022 Australian shows. 'Really Don't Like U', recorded with Kylie Minogue for Sunshine Kitty in 2019, has been part of her setlists in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland since.
Across the Tasman, she co-wrote 'Homemade Dynamite' with Lorde, and her married life also has a New Zealand connection. Neither Flume nor Minogue is announced as a guest for 2027, and there is no reason to expect a duet; the songs themselves are the link.
Tove Lo's recent Australian headline sets have run to about 18 to 20 songs. On the Dirt Femme Tour in 2023 she opened with 'Pineapple Slice' and 'Attention Whore', moved through 'Cool Girl', '2 Die 4', 'Talking Body' and 'disco tits', took a quieter middle section with 'Moments', 'True Romance' and 'Grapefruit', and finished with 'How Long', 'True Disaster', her cover of Robyn's 'Dancing on My Own', 'Habits (Stay High)' and 'No One Dies From Love'.
The 2027 set will be built around Estrus, but the core of every Australian show since 2014 is likely to remain: 'Habits (Stay High)' and 'Talking Body' have been played at almost every concert in the archive, and 'Cool Girl' at nearly every one since 2016. She is known for a physical, uninhibited performance style and often performs barefoot, and her lyrics are as frank on stage as on record.
Tickets for all four ESTRUS Tour dates have been on sale since Tuesday 15 September 2026, through the official ticketing outlets for each venue and the venues' own box offices. No presale is listed for the Australian leg, and as of 9 October 2026 the shows are still on sale.
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When does Tove Lo's 2027 Australian tour start?
At The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Monday 1 March 2027.
Which cities are on the ESTRUS Tour in Australia?
Brisbane (1 March), Melbourne (3 March), Sydney (5 March) and Perth (7 March 2027).
Where does Tove Lo play in Melbourne?
At Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne Park, on Wednesday 3 March 2027.
Is there a New Zealand date in 2027?
Not so far. As of 9 October 2026 no Auckland or other New Zealand show has been announced. Her last New Zealand concert was at Auckland Town Hall on 27 July 2023.
Who is the support act?
SALTY opens all four Australian shows.
Are tickets on sale?
Yes. All four dates have been on sale since Tuesday 15 September 2026 through the official outlets and venue box offices.
When did Tove Lo last play Sydney?
At the Roundhouse on 25 July 2023, on the Dirt Femme Tour.
Has Tove Lo played Splendour in the Grass?
Yes, twice: in 2017 and 2023, both at North Byron Parklands.
What was her first Australian tour?
She opened for Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour from 30 November 2014, in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland arenas.
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