What So Not Australia Tour 2027

What So Not has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no headline tour, club run or festival booking published for the Australian producer and DJ Chris Emerson, who performs as What So Not, in either country. His most recent Australian date in the setlist archive is the Kingscliff Beach Hotel in northern New South Wales on Friday 8 May 2026.

New music is moving again. On 29 May 2026 he released "Everest", a cinematic single with Alina Pash, his latest since the four-track Motions EP of August 2024. No album or tour has been announced to go with it, and his 2026 calendar has included dates in the United States.

What So Not's Australian story stretches from the Massive Universe Tour of 2013, when the project was still a duo with Flume, to the theatre shows of 2023 and the pub-and-beach-hotel runs of 2024. This page collects that history — venues, cities, festivals and New Zealand visits — and will be updated as soon as anything is confirmed for 2027.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027: what is announced so far

There is no official information about What So Not concerts in Australia or New Zealand in 2027. The last headline tour of the capitals was Anomaly: Live Mode in August 2023, and the shows since then have been a scatter of beach hotels, regional venues, club nights and one-off parties rather than a national tour.

The current release cycle is still taking shape. "Everest" came out on 29 May 2026, but no new album, EP or accompanying tour had been announced by 9 October 2026. In the past, tours have followed records: the Beautiful Things World Tour visited Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in June 2018 after Not All the Beautiful Things, and Anomaly: Live Mode came the year after Anomaly.

History also shows long gaps. Anomaly: Live Mode was described at the time as his first Australian tour since 2018, and in February 2020 he announced a break from the project before returning in 2021. Nothing in that pattern tells us when the next tour will come, only that it is likely to be announced alongside new music.

In New Zealand, the most recent show in the archive is The Mothership in Auckland on Thursday 21 September 2023. No New Zealand date has been announced since.

Before the What So Not Australia Tour 2027: Australia/NZ concert history

What So Not began as a duo of Emoh Instead (Chris Emerson) and Flume, and in early 2013 the pair played the Massive Universe Tour in venues around Australia. Flume left in February 2015, and the setlist archive's Australian rows begin with the solo project in April 2016, on a run of regional festival grounds: Oakbank Racecourse in South Australia on Anzac Day, the Prince of Wales Showgrounds in Bendigo, the Townsville Cricket Grounds and Hay Park in Bunbury on 7 May 2016.

In mid-2016 he co-headlined an Australian tour with A-Trak, which opened at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 30 June and continued to the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, Metro in Perth, two nights at the Prince Bandroom in Melbourne and Max Watt's in Brisbane on 9 July. Later that month came North Byron Parklands, then the Open Air Stage in Jindabyne in September, Lardner Park in Warragul on 30 December, Claremont Showground in Perth on New Year's Eve and The Domain in Sydney on New Year's Day 2017, where his set included "Divide & Conquer", "Lone" and "Jaguar".

Spring 2017 brought outdoor dates at Catani Gardens in Melbourne, HBF Arena in Perth, Centennial Park in Sydney and Victoria Park in Brisbane, followed by Cairns Showgrounds and the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens in October. After Not All the Beautiful Things came out in March 2018 he played Brisbane Showgrounds that month, and the Beautiful Things World Tour visited Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in June 2018, with Max Watt's House of Music in Sydney on 29 June in the archive.

In February 2019 he played the Laneway sites — Brisbane Showgrounds, Sydney College of the Arts, Harts Mill in Adelaide, the Footscray Community Arts Centre and the Esplanade Reserve in Fremantle. North Byron Parklands followed in July 2019, Brisbane Showgrounds on 28 December and Wellington Square in Perth on New Year's Day 2020. In early March 2020, just before the pandemic shut venues, he toured the Prince Bandroom in Melbourne, Fiction Club in Canberra, the Fat Controller in Adelaide, 256 Wickham in Brisbane and the Roundhouse in Sydney on 14 March, after Centennial Park in February.

Shows resumed with two nights at Brisbane Showgrounds in December 2020, two nights at Metro City Concert Club in Perth in April 2021, Thomas Dalton Park in Wollongong, The Ivy in Sydney in June 2021 and North Byron Parklands in July 2021. Anomaly: Live Mode, the audio-visual show built on the album's 3D animated storyline with live synths, vocals and drums, played The Tivoli in Brisbane on Friday 4 August 2023, the Roundhouse in Sydney on 11 August and the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne on Saturday 12 August 2023.

Since then the archive shows Manning House in Sydney in October 2023, two dates at Barunah Plains in Victoria over the 2023–24 New Year, Shoal Bay Country Club in Port Stephens and Mindil Beach in Darwin in 2024, a winter run of the Torquay Hotel, New Brighton Hotel in Manly, The Station SC on the Sunshine Coast and The Beach Hotel in Byron Bay, then the Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts, Oxford Art Factory, The Whalers Hotel and Friendly Societies Park in Warrnambool and The Ivy in December 2024. In 2025 and 2026 he played The Station Resort in Jindabyne on 23 July 2025 and the Kingscliff Beach Hotel on 8 May 2026.

The table below lists 62 documented Australia/NZ concerts by What So Not between 2016 and 2026, with the most shows in Sydney (12), Brisbane (9), Melbourne (5), Perth (5), Byron Bay (4), Auckland (4). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.

Concert data: setlist.fm

What So Not Australia Tour 2027 and Australia/NZ festivals

Wikipedia notes What So Not's international festival career, including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Ultra Music Festival and Lollapalooza. At home, the setlist archive shows him on almost every kind of festival ground: North Byron Parklands in July 2016, 2019 and 2021, The Domain in Sydney on New Year's Day 2017, the February 2019 Laneway sites from Brisbane to Fremantle, and New Year runs at Lardner Park, Claremont Showground, Brisbane Showgrounds and Wellington Square in Perth.

In New Zealand he played Albert Park in Auckland on the Auckland Anniversary Day holiday in both January 2017 and January 2019. No festival booking in Australia or New Zealand had been announced for 2027 as of 9 October 2026.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027: career and records

What So Not started as a collaboration between producer Emoh Instead and Flume. Their debut EP, 7 Dollar Bill, came out on 13 November 2011, followed by remixes for Peking Duk, Tom Piper and Major Lazer, the Massive Universe Tour of 2013, The Quack EP on Owsla in May 2013 with Action Bronson, and "Jaguar" in December 2013. "Tell Me" with RL Grime followed in June 2014.

Flume left in February 2015. The Gemini EP, with the George Maple single "Gemini", which reached No. 52 on the Australian singles chart, was released as a free download in December 2015 and was downloaded more than 800,000 times. As a solo artist Emerson released the Divide & Conquer EP in September 2016, co-produced tracks for Tkay Maidza, and joined RL Grime and Skrillex on "Waiting". "Better" with LPX and "Be Ok Again" with Daniel Johns, recorded at Johns's Newcastle studio, followed in 2017.

The debut album, Not All the Beautiful Things, was released on 9 March 2018 with guests including Skrillex, Slumberjack, San Holo and Toto, and reached No. 14 in Australia. Singles included "Stuck in Orbit", co-produced with Jono Ma of Jagwar Ma, and "Beautiful" with Winona Oak. In February 2020 he announced he was taking a break from the routine of the project.

He returned in January 2021 with a remix for Run the Jewels, then "The Change" featuring DMA's. The second album, Anomaly, came out in 2022 and became the basis of the Anomaly: Live Mode show. The Motions EP followed on 16 August 2024, with Lucy Lucy, MNDR, IMANU, Habstrakt and Maiah Manser, and "Everest" with Alina Pash on 29 May 2026.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027: from Flume duo to solo act

Australian audiences first knew What So Not as a two-person project, and the Massive Universe Tour of 2013 was the duo's national run. Flume's departure in 2015 left Emerson as the sole member, and the setlist archive's Australian history effectively starts there, with the April 2016 festival grounds and the co-headline tour with A-Trak that June and July.

Since then the show has changed several times, from DJ sets on festival stages to the band-like Anomaly: Live Mode with live synthesis, vocals and drums. Which format a future Australian tour would use has not been announced.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027: beach hotels and the regions

What So Not's recent Australian shows have often been outside the capitals. In 2024 the archive lists the Torquay Hotel, the New Brighton Hotel in Manly, The Station SC on the Sunshine Coast, The Beach Hotel in Byron Bay, Shoal Bay Country Club in Port Stephens, Mindil Beach in Darwin and two Warrnambool dates at The Whalers Hotel and Friendly Societies Park.

The pattern continued with The Station Resort in Jindabyne in July 2025 and the Kingscliff Beach Hotel in May 2026. Earlier regional rows include Cairns Showgrounds and the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens in 2017, and Bunbury, Townsville and Bendigo in 2016.

No regional dates have been announced for 2027.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027: Sydney rooms over the years

In Sydney the archive follows him from the Enmore Theatre in 2016 to Max Watt's House of Music in 2018, the Roundhouse at UNSW in March 2020 and August 2023, Manning House in October 2023, Oxford Art Factory in September 2024 and The Ivy in June 2021 and December 2024.

Outdoor Sydney dates include The Domain on New Year's Day 2017, Centennial Park in 2017 and 2020, and Sydney College of the Arts in February 2019.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027: Auckland and New Zealand

Every New Zealand show in the archive has been in Auckland: the Powerstation on 30 July 2016, Albert Park in January 2017 and January 2019, Studio The Venue on Thursday 12 March 2020, days before the pandemic stopped touring, and The Mothership on 21 September 2023.

No New Zealand date has been announced for 2027.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027: what to expect live

Most What So Not rows in the setlist archive have no song list, which is common for electronic sets. The few that do show the mix of his own tracks and edits: on New Year's Day 2017 at The Domain the archive notes "Divide & Conquer", a Stranger Things remix, "Lone" and "Jaguar", and at Sydney College of the Arts in February 2019 "Freak" and "Be Ok Again".

Anomaly: Live Mode in 2023 was a different kind of show: an audio-visual production built around the album's 3D animated storyline, with live synthesis, vocals and drums rather than a straight DJ set.

His best-known tracks remain "Jaguar", "Gemini", "High You Are", "Tell Me" and his remix of RÜFÜS DU SOL's "Innerbloom", with newer material such as "Everest" now added to the catalogue; no set for a future show has been published.

What So Not Australia Tour 2027 tickets and presales

There are no What So Not tickets on sale for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no shows have been announced. Any site already selling seats or offering a "presale code" for 2027 is not official.

When dates are announced, buy from the outlet named in the official announcement, the venue's box office or the festival's own ticket page. Many tickets are now mobile and name-locked, so buy through the official outlet or its official resale service to make sure the ticket is in your name, and use the official resale option if you can no longer go.

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What So Not Australia Tour 2027: questions and answers

Is What So Not touring Australia in 2027?

Nothing has been announced as of 9 October 2026.

Is What So Not playing New Zealand in 2027?

No date has been announced. His most recent New Zealand show in the archive is The Mothership in Auckland on 21 September 2023.

When did What So Not last play in Australia?

At the Kingscliff Beach Hotel on Friday 8 May 2026, the latest Australian date in the setlist archive.

When was his last headline tour of Australia?

Anomaly: Live Mode in August 2023, with The Tivoli in Brisbane, the Roundhouse in Sydney and the Northcote Theatre in Melbourne.

What is What So Not's latest release?

The single "Everest" with Alina Pash, released on 29 May 2026.

Is Flume still in What So Not?

No. Flume left in February 2015; What So Not has been Chris Emerson's solo project since.

Which What So Not album charted highest in Australia?

Not All the Beautiful Things (2018), which reached No. 14.

Has What So Not played North Byron Parklands?

Yes, the archive lists North Byron Parklands in July 2016, July 2019 and July 2021.

Did What So Not tour with A-Trak?

Yes, a co-headline Australian tour from 30 June to 9 July 2016, including the Enmore Theatre in Sydney and two nights at the Prince Bandroom in Melbourne.