Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027

Vera Blue has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 no dates, cities, venues or on-sale details have been published for next year. Her most recent run at home was the Modern Rituals Tour, six shows in August 2026 that opened in Brisbane on the day her third studio album as Vera Blue was released and closed at the Rechabite in Perth a week later.

Celia Pavey, who records as Vera Blue, came to national attention on the second season of The Voice Australia in 2013, where she finished third. Under her own name she released the folk album This Music, which reached No. 14 on the ARIA Albums Chart, before reinventing herself in 2015 with a mix of folk melody and synth-pop production. Perennial (2017) went to No. 6 and was certified Gold, and songs such as 'Regular Touch', 'Lady Powers' and 'Rushing Back', her collaboration with Flume, became fixtures of Australian radio and festival stages.

This page explains what is and is not known about her plans for 2027 and gives a detailed account of her concerts in Australia: the Mercurial Tour of late 2022, the paired theatre nights in Melbourne and Brisbane in 2021, the summer festival circuit, her orchestral concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in July 2026 and the Modern Rituals dates that followed.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official Vera Blue tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No 2027 shows appear among the tour announcements made so far for the region, and nothing has been said about a second leg of the Modern Rituals Tour, regional dates or a trip across the Tasman. Any list of Vera Blue 2027 dates, or any 'presale code' attached to one, is unconfirmed until she confirms it herself.

What is confirmed is a busy 2026. Modern Rituals, preceded by the singles 'Parallel Desire', 'In the Corner', 'Go Lucky' and 'Rituals', came out on Friday 21 August 2026 and reached No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The tour that launched it played the Princess Theatre in Brisbane that same night, City Recital Hall Angel Place in Sydney on Saturday 22 August, the University of Canberra Refectory on Sunday 23 August, the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on Wednesday 26 August, the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide on Thursday 27 August and the Rechabite in Perth on Friday 28 August 2026.

Those were mid-sized rooms rather than arenas, and the run did not include New Zealand, Hobart, Darwin or any regional centre. That leaves obvious gaps a later leg could fill, but nothing of the kind has been announced, and this page will not guess at dates or cities. The setlist archive holds no Vera Blue show in New Zealand at all, so a first headline visit there would be news in itself.

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Before the Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

Vera Blue's touring history began in support slots. Before the new name had a full release behind it she opened for Conrad Sewell on his Australian tour in September 2015, then supported Matt Corby on his Telluric tour in April and May 2016 and Broods on their Australian dates in July 2016. Her own first headline run, the Fingertips tour, finished in May 2016 with all eight shows sold out, and a second headline tour from August to October 2016 reached regional as well as capital cities. The Private Tour followed in 2017, and the Lady Powers tour of March and June 2018 was her largest to that point; its Melbourne show was released as the live album Lady Powers Live at the Forum.

The earliest headline show with a full set list in the archive is at Costa Hall in Geelong on Saturday 21 September 2019, a 17-song night that opened and closed with 'The Way That You Love Me' and 'Regular Touch' and dipped into older songs such as 'Magazine', 'Give In', 'Overachiever', 'First Week' and 'Fool'. In October 2019 she went north to Queensland, with dates at Brothers Leagues Club in Cairns on Friday 11 October, the Uni Bar in Townsville and Magnums Hotel in Airlie Beach.

After the pandemic pause she returned to seated theatres. She played two nights at Hamer Hall in Melbourne on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 March 2021 and two at the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 March 2021, each a 13-song set that began with 'Everything Is Wonderful' and 'Red Rose' and ended with 'Mended' and 'Rushing Back'. She also appeared in the Domain in Sydney on 28 March 2021.

The Mercurial Tour, for the album released on 28 October 2022, was her widest national run in the archive. It started at Miami Marketta on the Gold Coast on Thursday 3 November 2022, then played the Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane on Friday 4 November, Newcastle Civic Theatre on Saturday 5 November and the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Saturday 12 November. It continued to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Wednesday 30 November, Hobart City Hall on Friday 2 December, the Ice Cream Factory in Perth on Thursday 8 December, Anita's Theatre in Wollongong on Friday 16 December and the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 17 December 2022. The Brisbane, Newcastle and Melbourne shows ran to 19 or 20 songs, with 'The Curse', 'Trust Fall', 'Temper' and 'Red Rose' among the new material.

Between albums she kept playing smaller Australian rooms. In 2024 she was at the Big Pineapple site at Woombye on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday 19 October and back at the Ice Cream Factory in Perth on Friday 22 November. In June 2025 she played Howler in Melbourne on Friday 13 June, a 16-song set that tried out 'Parallel Desires', 'Rituals' and 'In the Corner' months before the album, and Mary's Underground in Sydney two weeks later. On Friday 27 February 2026 she played Taronga Zoo in Sydney, an 18-song outdoor show that included a cover of Madonna's 'Like a Prayer'.

Two non-concert moments are worth recording, although they are not counted in the table. Vera Blue sang the national anthem at the AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday 27 September 2025, and in 2023 she headlined RMIT's graduation ceremony at Marvel Stadium. The most significant concert of 2026 before the album tour was on Saturday 11 July at Hamer Hall, where she performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Leonard Weiss to a sold-out house, a 17-song programme that closed with a cover of Massive Attack's 'Teardrop'.

The table below lists 53 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Vera Blue between 2019 and 2026, with the most shows in Melbourne (7), Sydney (6), Brisbane (5), Perth (3), Adelaide (3), Wollongong (3). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

Vera Blue 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 (5 November 2022 to 28 August 2026), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.

1. All the Pretty Girls — played at 15 of 15 shows
2. Hold — played at 15 of 15 shows
3. Lady Powers — played at 15 of 15 shows
4. Regular Touch — played at 15 of 15 shows
5. Mended — played at 14 of 15 shows
6. Rushing Back — played at 14 of 15 shows
7. Settle — played at 14 of 15 shows
8. Private — played at 13 of 15 shows
9. Lie to Me — played at 10 of 15 shows
10. Feel Better — played at 9 of 15 shows
11. In the Corner — played at 9 of 15 shows
12. Heart Still Works — played at 8 of 15 shows
13. Parallel Desires — played at 8 of 15 shows
14. Rituals — played at 7 of 15 shows

Before the Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: past Australia/NZ tours at a glance

• Modern Rituals (2026): 6 Australia/NZ shows — Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth.
• Mercurial Tour (2022): 10 Australia/NZ shows — Gold Coast, Brisbane, Newcastle, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, Perth, Wollongong, Sydney, Barunah Park.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Festival stages have been central to Vera Blue's profile in Australia. At Splendour in the Grass in 2016 she joined Flume for 'Never Be Like You', and the setlist archive shows her at North Byron Parklands, the Splendour site, again on Saturday 24 July 2021 with a ten-song set. Over the 2019-20 summer she played the Falls Festival circuit: the Marion Bay site in Tasmania on Sunday 29 December 2019, North Byron Parklands on New Year's Eve and Fremantle Oval on Saturday 4 January 2020.

Later outdoor dates in the archive include Cornelian Bay Park in Hobart and Queenscliff in March 2022, Mindil Beach in Darwin in May 2022, Queens Park in Toowoomba in September 2022 and Barunah Plains in Victoria on 30 December 2022. In 2023 she played Quercus Park at Carrick in Tasmania, Federation Square in Melbourne, Commonwealth Park in Canberra, Rochford Winery in the Yarra Valley, Harrup Park in Mackay, Park Alexandra in Caloundra, the University of Wollongong and the Adelaide parklands on Sunday 29 October 2023. Wikipedia also lists the Big Chill Festival in Armidale, New South Wales, in May 2025, which appears in the archive as the Armidale Showground on 17 May 2025.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: career and records

Celia Pavey sings, dances and plays guitar, violin and the electronic wind instrument. Her audition on The Voice Australia in 2013, a version of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Scarborough Fair / Canticle' on guitar, has been viewed more than 14 million times online. She joined Team Delta, finished third, and released This Music in July 2013, followed by the EP Bodies, produced by Eric J. Dubowsky, in August 2014, which she toured along the east coast.

In August 2015 she announced the Vera Blue name. The Fingertips EP of May 2016 included 'Hold' and 'Settle'; 'Hold' topped the Australian Spotify Viral 50 and reached No. 5 on the US viral chart. The same year she featured on Illy's 'Papercuts', which reached No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Perennial followed in July 2017, peaking at No. 6, and 'Regular Touch' placed 15th in triple j's Hottest 100 of 2017.

'Lady Powers' in 2018 and 'All the Pretty Girls', premiered on triple j in October 2018, kept her on the radio between albums. In February 2019 she released 'Like I Remember You' in partnership with Greenpeace, as part of the campaign against oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight. She also built a parallel career as a featured vocalist with producers such as Flume, Illenium and Louis the Child.

Mercurial, released on 28 October 2022 and preceded by 'The Curse', reached No. 61. After a three-year gap 'In the Corner' arrived in May 2025, and Modern Rituals followed on 21 August 2026, reaching No. 12. In interviews about the album she named Madonna, Enya and Björk as influences, and her recent sets reflect that, with covers of 'Like a Prayer' and, in 2023, Enya's 'Orinoco Flow'.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: what the Modern Rituals tour tells us

The August 2026 run was compact: six capital cities in eight days, launched on release night in Brisbane and finished in Perth. The rooms were mostly theatres and band rooms such as the Princess Theatre, the Northcote Theatre and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, with City Recital Hall Angel Place as the formal Sydney setting.

Compared with the Mercurial Tour of 2022, which also took in the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Wollongong and Hobart, the 2026 tour left out the regional and second-tier cities. Whether those markets get a follow-up in 2027 has not been said, and no further dates have been announced as of 9 October 2026.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: the Melbourne nights

Melbourne has given Vera Blue some of her landmark shows. The Forum hosted the Lady Powers concert that became her live album, and the Forum Theatre was again on the Mercurial Tour on 12 November 2022. Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne staged her two seated nights in March 2021 and the sold-out orchestral concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on 11 July 2026.

Smaller Melbourne rooms feature too: Howler in June 2025 and the Northcote Theatre on the Modern Rituals Tour. She has also sung the anthem at two big football occasions in the city, at IKON Park in December 2023 and at the MCG for the 2025 AFL Grand Final.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: New Zealand so far

The setlist archive has no Vera Blue concert in New Zealand, and none of the tours listed on Wikipedia mentions New Zealand dates. Her touring has been almost entirely Australian, with the capital cities, Geelong, Newcastle, Wollongong, Hobart, Darwin and north Queensland all covered at least once.

That means there is no previous Auckland or Wellington venue to point to. If a New Zealand show is ever added it will be announced with the rest of a tour; nothing of that kind exists for 2027 at the moment.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: Perth and the west

Perth has been a regular stop. The Ice Cream Factory hosted her on the Mercurial Tour on 8 December 2022 and again on 22 November 2024, and the Rechabite closed the Modern Rituals Tour on 28 August 2026. Fremantle Oval was her West Australian festival stage in January 2020.

The 8 December 2022 show is one of the fullest Mercurial set lists in the archive, at 17 songs, with 'Everything Is Wonderful', 'Mermaid Avenue' and 'Wherever We Go' alongside the singles.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Vera Blue's headline sets have grown from about 13 songs in 2021 to 20 or 21 on the Modern Rituals Tour. In Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in August 2026 she opened with 'Brittle Wings' and 'Parallel Desires', moved through 'Fingertips', 'In My Head', 'Imprints' and 'Private', played the new 'In the Corner', 'Lie to Me' and 'Rituals', and built towards 'Hold', 'Go Lucky', 'Lady Powers' and 'All the Pretty Girls'. The closing stretch was 'Maze', 'Regular Touch' and 'Rushing Back', followed by covers of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' and Radiohead's 'Creep'.

Earlier tours had a different shape. Mercurial shows started with 'Lethal', 'Lie to Me' and 'Alright Now' and included 'Heart Still Works', 'Temper', 'Mended' and 'Feel Better'. Festival sets were shorter, from five songs at Caloundra in 2023 to around a dozen, and usually ended with 'Regular Touch' and 'Rushing Back'.

The orchestral night at Hamer Hall in July 2026 showed another side, with 'Heart Still Works', 'Maze' and 'Teardrop' rearranged for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Covers are a habit: 'Like a Prayer', 'Paparazzi', 'Orinoco Flow' and 'Sail Away' have all appeared in Australian sets.

Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no Vera Blue tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. Any site already listing 2027 seats or selling a 'presale code' is not official.

For her past tours, tickets were sold through the official outlet for each venue and through venue box offices, often with a fan presale before the general sale. When a new tour is announced, buy only from those official channels, register for any artist presale, expect mobile tickets in your own name, and be wary of anyone offering access codes.

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Vera Blue Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is Vera Blue touring Australia in 2027?

Nothing has been announced. As of 9 October 2026 there are no 2027 dates in Australia or New Zealand.

When was the Modern Rituals Tour?

In August 2026: Brisbane's Princess Theatre on 21 August, City Recital Hall Angel Place in Sydney on 22 August, the University of Canberra Refectory on 23 August, the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on 26 August, the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide on 27 August and the Rechabite in Perth on 28 August.

Will there be more Modern Rituals dates?

No further dates had been announced as of 9 October 2026.

Has Vera Blue played New Zealand?

There is no Vera Blue concert in New Zealand in the setlist archive, and no New Zealand dates are announced for 2027.

What was her orchestral show?

A sold-out concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Leonard Weiss at Hamer Hall, Melbourne, on Saturday 11 July 2026.

When did Vera Blue last play Sydney?

At City Recital Hall Angel Place on Saturday 22 August 2026, on the Modern Rituals Tour.

How long is a Vera Blue concert?

Recent headline shows ran to 20-21 songs, ending with 'Regular Touch', 'Rushing Back' and covers of 'Jolene' and 'Creep'.

Which festivals has she played in Australia?

Splendour in the Grass, the Falls Festival sites at Marion Bay, Byron Bay and Fremantle over 2019-20, and the Big Chill Festival in Armidale in 2025, among other outdoor events.