Australian singer-songwriters Ben Lee and Georgia Maq will join forces for a national co-headline tour in September and October 2026, bringing a shared stage format that collapses the usual divide between headline sets and collaboration.
Titled Two Most Annoying People You Love, the tour will see the pair perform a continuous two-hour set, weaving together songs from across their catalogues, trading harmonies, reworking older material, and debuting new songs from upcoming projects. Rather than splitting the bill, both artists will remain on stage together throughout each performance.
Melbourne fans will be able to catch the show at the Melbourne Recital Centre on 24 September 2026.
“Georgia is one of my favorite songwriters, and favorite people. Can’t wait to invite the audience into our friendship, into our world,” Ben Lee said.
Georgia Maq added: “I love Ben so much and I’m so excited to interpolate our songs together in a new and weird way.”
The format signals a shift away from traditional co-headline touring, instead focusing on collaboration as the centrepiece. Audiences can expect reinterpretations of familiar tracks, deep cuts resurfacing in unexpected arrangements, and early glimpses of unreleased material shaped in real time on stage.
Lee brings more than three decades in Australian music, from early 90s beginnings in Noise Addict through to solo breakthroughs like Awake Is The New Sleep, alongside a career defined by stylistic reinvention across indie rock, folk and experimental pop.
Maq’s trajectory has moved from fronting Camp Cope to a growing solo catalogue, with releases including Pleaser and Live At The Sydney Opera House expanding her reputation for direct, emotionally charged songwriting and creative risk-taking.
The tour bridges two eras of Australian independent music, pairing one of its long-standing figures with a contemporary voice shaped in the streaming age. Tickets for Two Most Annoying People You Love will go on sale later this month.
