Westlife are coming back to Australia and New Zealand in July 2027 with Westlife 25 – The Anniversary World Tour. The Irish group play nine arena shows in seven cities, starting at RAC Arena in Perth on Friday 16 July and finishing with two nights at Wolfbrook Arena in Christchurch on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 July 2027. Tickets have been on sale since Friday 15 May 2026.
For Australian fans it is a long-awaited return. The setlist archive and Wikipedia show only one full Westlife concert tour of Australia, The Love Tour, which opened in Perth in February 2007 and played five arenas in eight days. New Zealand saw the group in concert for the first time in May 2008, on the Back Home Tour. Since then the documented visits have been promotional ones, which makes 2027 the first Westlife arena run in either country in roughly two decades.
The line-up has changed too. Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne and Kian Egan have been touring as a trio since Mark Feehily stepped away for health reasons in February 2024, and Brian McFadden left the band back in 2004. This page sets out the 2027 dates and venues, how tickets were sold, and the full story of Westlife's concerts in Australia and New Zealand.
Westlife 25 celebrates a quarter of a century of hits, counted from 'Swear It Again' in 1999. According to Wikipedia, the tour began with two orchestral nights with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Albert Hall in October 2025, then moved through East Asia in early 2026 and the UK and Ireland in the autumn of 2026. The 2027 schedule includes Asia and the Pacific, Mexico and northern Europe, with Australia and New Zealand closing the Pacific part of the run in July.
The Australian leg runs west to east. Perth's RAC Arena opens it on Friday 16 July 2027, followed by the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena on Sunday 18 July, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Tuesday 20 July, Afterpay Arena in Sydney on Friday 23 July and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Monday 26 July. Each Australian city has one night, so there is no second chance in the same city if a show sells out.
New Zealand gets four of the nine shows. Auckland's Spark Arena has two shows, on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 July, and Christchurch's Wolfbrook Arena closes the leg with two more, on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 July 2027. That is a notable change from 2008, when the group played single nights in Christchurch, Wellington and New Plymouth and two shows in Auckland; Wellington and New Plymouth are not on the 2027 route.
No support act had been named for the Australian and New Zealand shows as of 9 October 2026. The group's anniversary collection, 25: The Ultimate Collection, came out on 8 May 2026, a week before the general sale, and includes the singles 'Chariot' and 'Your Love Amazes Me' as well as the older hits that are likely to make up most of the set.
Opened on 10 November 2012 as Perth Arena, the venue on Wellington Street in central Perth has carried the RAC name since 2018. It holds up to about 15,500 people, has a retractable roof and a design inspired by the Eternity puzzle, and Elton John played its opening concert.
The Adelaide Entertainment Centre opened on 20 July 1991 at Hindmarsh, on Port Road, replacing the smaller Apollo Stadium as the city's main concert venue. The arena holds about 11,300 people for general-admission shows and was rebuilt with a new foyer and 8,000 new seats in a $52 million upgrade finished in 2010.
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.
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 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.
Spark Arena opened on 24 March 2007 at Quay Park in Parnell, close to Britomart station, and was called Vector Arena until 2017. It holds about 13,000 people and is New Zealand's main arena for international tours.
Christchurch's arena in Addington opened on 12 September 1998 as the WestpacTrust Centre, built for the 1999 Netball World Championships, and has had several names since, including Westpac Arena and Horncastle Arena; it became Wolfbrook Arena in 2023. With up to 9,000 places for concerts it is New Zealand's second-largest indoor arena.
Friday 16 July 2027 — RAC Arena, Perth. Their most recent documented Perth show was at Challenge Stadium on 21 February 2007. The tour starts here.
Sunday 18 July 2027 — Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena, Adelaide. Westlife last played Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 23 February 2007 (The Love Tour).
Tuesday 20 July 2027 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. In Melbourne, the last documented Westlife concert was at Vodafone Arena (26 February 2007).
Friday 23 July 2027 — Afterpay Arena, Sydney. Their most recent documented Sydney show was at Acer Arena on 27 February 2007.
Monday 26 July 2027 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane. Their previous show at this venue was on 28 February 2007, on the The Love Tour.
Wednesday 28 July 2027 — Spark Arena, Auckland. Night 1 of 2 at this venue. In Auckland, the last documented Westlife concert was at ASB Auditorium (12 May 2008).
Friday 30 July 2027 — Wolfbrook Arena, Christchurch. Night 1 of 2 at this venue. In Christchurch, the last documented Westlife concert was at Westpac Arena (7 May 2008). The run finishes here.
Westlife's earliest documented appearances in Australia were promotional. The setlist archive records a performance of 'You Raise Me Up' on the Sunrise breakfast programme in Sydney in March 2006 and further television spots that November, as the group promoted The Love Album, their collection of love-song covers. They did not tour the country with the Face to Face Tour of 2006, whose dates were in Europe and Asia.
The first and so far only full Australian tour followed in February 2007. The Love Tour, the group's eighth tour, opened at Challenge Stadium in Perth on Wednesday 21 February 2007. It then played the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 23 February, the Vodafone Arena in Melbourne on 26 February, Acer Arena in Sydney on 27 February and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Wednesday 28 February, before moving on to South Africa, the UK and Ireland. Melbourne's venue is now John Cain Arena, and Acer Arena is the building now called Afterpay Arena, where Westlife play on 23 July 2027.
Those five nights used the same 18-song set from start to finish. It opened with a cover of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' and leaned heavily on covers from the period, including 'Mandy', 'Uptown Girl', 'You Raise Me Up' and 'The Rose', alongside a short tribute to other boy bands with 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)', 'You Got It (The Right Stuff)' and 'Everything Changes'. Original hits such as 'World of Our Own', 'Unbreakable', 'Amazing' and 'Flying Without Wings' completed the night.
New Zealand had to wait until May 2008. The Back Home Tour, for the 2007 album of the same name, played the Westpac Arena in Christchurch on Wednesday 7 May, the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington on 9 May, the brand-new Vector Arena in Auckland on 10 May, a second Auckland show on 12 May at the ASB Theatre (listed by Wikipedia as the ASB Auditorium) and the TSB Stadium in New Plymouth on Tuesday 13 May 2008. Wikipedia notes that this was the first time the group had performed in New Zealand. The Christchurch venue of 2008 is the same building as the Wolfbrook Arena that hosts two shows in 2027, and Vector Arena is now Spark Arena.
The New Zealand set was longer than the Australian one a year earlier, at 25 songs. It opened with 'Hit You With the Real Thing' and 'World of Our Own', included a medley that took in 'SexyBack', 'Blame It on the Boogie', 'Get Down on It' and 'Let Me Entertain You', and ended with 'Flying Without Wings', 'When You're Looking Like That' and 'You Raise Me Up'. During the same trip the group also made short promotional appearances in Melbourne and Sydney in early May 2008.
Between 2008 and 2027 the documented record has no Westlife concerts in Australia or New Zealand. The group split in 2012 and reunited in 2018; the reunion tours of 2019 to 2024 concentrated on the UK, Ireland, Europe and Asia, and in 2024 they played their first dates in North America. The July 2027 shows are therefore the first in Australia since February 2007 and the first in New Zealand since May 2008.
The table below lists 10 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Westlife between 2007 and 2008, with the most shows in Auckland (2), New Plymouth (1), Wellington (1), Christchurch (1), Brisbane (1), Sydney (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2008 | New Plymouth | TSB Stadium | Back Home Tour |
| 12 May 2008 | Auckland | ASB Auditorium | Back Home Tour |
| 10 May 2008 | Auckland | Vector Arena | Back Home Tour |
| 9 May 2008 | Wellington | TSB Bank Arena | Back Home Tour |
| 7 May 2008 | Christchurch | Westpac Arena | Back Home Tour |
| 28 February 2007 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | The Love Tour |
| 27 February 2007 | Sydney | Acer Arena | The Love Tour |
| 26 February 2007 | Melbourne | Vodafone Arena | The Love Tour |
| 23 February 2007 | Adelaide | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | The Love Tour |
| 21 February 2007 | Perth | Challenge Stadium | The Love Tour |
Across the 10 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (21 February 2007 to 13 May 2008), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Westlife were formed in Sligo in 1998 from a school group that had performed in a production of Grease at Summerhill College. Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan were joined by Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden after auditions in Dublin, and the new five-piece signed to RCA under Louis Walsh, with Ronan Keating as co-manager. Their first live television performance, on The Late Late Show in November 1998, was 'Flying Without Wings'.
The debut single 'Swear It Again' went to No. 1 in the UK in 1999, and the group's first seven UK singles all reached the top. The albums Westlife (1999), Coast to Coast (2000) and World of Our Own (2001) made them one of the biggest pop acts in the world; in Australia the debut album reached No. 15. McFadden left in March 2004, and as a four-piece they released the swing album ...Allow Us to Be Frank, Face to Face, The Love Album, Back Home, Where We Are and Gravity, before splitting in 2012.
They reunited in 2018 as a four-piece and released Spectrum (2019) and Wild Dreams (2021), with stadium tours in the UK and Ireland. In February 2024 Feehily announced a temporary departure for health reasons just before their first American shows, and Filan, Byrne and Egan have toured as a trio since. Feehily still recorded vocals for the new songs on 25: The Ultimate Collection, released on 8 May 2026.
In Ireland and the United Kingdom Westlife have 16 number-one singles and 11 number-one albums, and they have sold more than 55 million records worldwide. They hold four Guinness World Records and have won two Brit Awards, four MTV awards and four Record of the Year awards.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Westlife | 1999 | AUS 15 |
| Coast to Coast | 2000 | AUS 40 |
| World of Our Own | 2001 | AUS 80 |
| Turnaround | 2003 | — |
| ...Allow Us to Be Frank | 2004 | — |
| Face to Face | 2005 | — |
| The Love Album | 2006 | AUS 11 |
| Back Home | 2007 | AUS 14 |
| Where We Are | 2009 | — |
| Gravity | 2010 | — |
| Spectrum | 2019 | — |
| Wild Dreams | 2021 | — |
The gap between Westlife's two Australian arena tours is unusually long. The Love Tour of February 2007 came at the height of the four-piece era, three years after McFadden's departure, and the group then toured New Zealand in 2008. After that came the 2012 split, the 2018 reunion and a run of tours that kept them in Europe and Asia for most of the following six years.
That makes the 2027 leg a reunion of sorts for many fans who saw them as teenagers. The venues are bigger and more modern than in 2007: Challenge Stadium in Perth has been replaced as the city's main concert room by RAC Arena, which opened in 2012, and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre was rebuilt in a major upgrade finished in 2010.
The line-up is smaller. In 2007 there were four voices on stage; in 2027 there will be three, unless Feehily's situation changes, which had not been announced as of 9 October 2026.
New Zealand is the only part of the 2027 leg with repeat nights. Spark Arena in Auckland hosts Westlife on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 July, and Wolfbrook Arena in Christchurch on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 July 2027. That is four arena shows in four days to end the run.
The pattern echoes 2008, when New Zealand also got more shows than expected, with five dates in a week including two in Auckland. Wellington and New Plymouth, both visited in 2008, are not on the 2027 schedule; fans in the lower North Island will need to travel to Auckland or cross to Christchurch.
Christchurch has a particular link with the group: the first Westlife concert in New Zealand, on 7 May 2008, was at the Westpac Arena, the building now called Wolfbrook Arena, where the 2027 tour ends.
In Australia every city has a single show. Perth on a Friday, Adelaide on a Sunday, Melbourne on a Tuesday, Sydney on a Friday and Brisbane on a Monday: the spacing of two or three days between cities is typical for a production that travels by road and air across the country.
For fans in Sydney, the Friday 23 July show at Afterpay Arena is the largest room on the tour, with up to about 21,000 places. Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena and Perth's RAC Arena are in the 15,000 range, Brisbane slightly smaller and Adelaide around 11,000.
Hobart, Canberra, the Gold Coast and regional centres are not on the 2027 list. In 2007 the Australian tour also kept to the five mainland capitals, so the shape of the route is the same as twenty years ago.
Westlife's catalogue is built on ballads and covers that were also radio staples in Australia and New Zealand. The 2007 Australian set leaned on 'You Raise Me Up', 'The Rose' and 'Flying Without Wings', and the 2008 New Zealand set kept 'Swear It Again', 'Unbreakable', 'Home' and 'You Raise Me Up' near the end.
In New Zealand the group's albums charted strongly in the early years. In Australia the debut album was their highest-placed early record at No. 15, and The Love Album reached No. 11 in 2006, the year before The Love Tour.
The 2027 set has not been published. As an anniversary tour built around 25: The Ultimate Collection, it is expected to draw mostly on the hits, with room for 'Chariot' and the other new recordings.
Westlife shows are built around vocal harmonies and big ballads rather than dance routines. The Love Tour set in Australia in 2007 ran to 18 songs and the Back Home set in New Zealand in 2008 to 25, including a pop medley that had the group covering Justin Timberlake and Robbie Williams.
The anniversary tour began with orchestral nights at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2025, but the arena shows in Australia and New Zealand are standard full-production concerts. Expect a long hits set with 'Swear It Again', 'Flying Without Wings', 'Uptown Girl', 'You Raise Me Up' and 'World of Our Own' among the songs most likely to appear, though the exact set list for 2027 has not been published.
Because the group now tours as a trio, the 2027 shows will have three voices rather than the four heard in Australia in 2007 and New Zealand in 2008. Set lists from the Australian and New Zealand nights will be added to the archive after the shows.
Tickets for all nine Australian and New Zealand shows have been on sale since Friday 15 May 2026. Buy them only through the official ticketing outlets named for each venue or at the venue box offices; Australian and New Zealand arenas now mostly use name-locked mobile tickets that are tied to the purchaser's account.
There is no public Westlife presale code to buy or share in October 2026. Codes advertised on social media and 'guaranteed' tickets are the most common problems with long-sold arena tours. If your city is sold out, use the official resale service attached to the original ticket seller.
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When does Westlife's 2027 Australian tour start?
At RAC Arena in Perth on Friday 16 July 2027.
Which Australian cities are included?
Perth (16 July), Adelaide (18 July), Melbourne (20 July), Sydney (23 July) and Brisbane (26 July 2027), one night each.
Is Westlife playing New Zealand in 2027?
Yes. Two nights at Spark Arena in Auckland on 28 and 29 July, and two at Wolfbrook Arena in Christchurch on 30 and 31 July 2027.
Where is the Sydney show?
At Afterpay Arena at Sydney Olympic Park on Friday 23 July 2027. Westlife last played the same building, then called Acer Arena, on 27 February 2007.
When did Westlife last tour Australia?
On The Love Tour in February 2007, with five shows from Perth on 21 February to Brisbane on 28 February.
When did Westlife last play New Zealand?
In May 2008 on the Back Home Tour: Christchurch, Wellington, two shows in Auckland and New Plymouth.
Is Mark Feehily on the tour?
Feehily has been away from touring for health reasons since February 2024, and the group has performed as a trio of Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne and Kian Egan. No change had been announced as of 9 October 2026.
When did tickets go on sale?
Tickets have been on sale since Friday 15 May 2026.
Is there a support act?
No support act had been announced for the Australian and New Zealand shows as of 9 October 2026.
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