Melbourne-formed electronic favourites The Avalanches are heading back on tour in 2027, with six Australian shows announced alongside special guest HAAi. The national run will take the band to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in February and March, including a Melbourne performance at Live At The Gardens in the Royal Botanic Gardens. The tour will begin with two shows at Perth Festival’s East Perth Power Station on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 February, with the Sunday performance already sold out. A second show was added on Saturday following demand. The Avalanches will then head to Adelaide’s Hindley St Music…
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The Strokes are heading back to Melbourne in 2027, with the New York indie rock icons set to play two headline shows at Rod Laver Arena next February. The band will bring its Reality Awaits tour to Melbourne on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 February, with Australian indie favourite Courtney Barnett and high-energy project Promiseland joining the line-up for both shows. The Melbourne dates form part of a four-date Australian tour, beginning at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Saturday 13 February before heading south. The tour will finish at Sydney Summertime on Saturday 20 February, where Beck will join the support…
Avenue Q is returning to Melbourne in 2027, bringing its rude puppets, outrageous songs and very adult take on growing up to the Athenaeum Theatre from 10 June to 4 July. The Tony Award-winning musical follows Princeton, a fresh graduate with a useless degree and big ambitions, as he lands on New York’s Avenue Q and meets a collection of lovable misfits trying to survive adulthood. Created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, Avenue Q turns the innocent nostalgia of childhood puppets into something considerably more chaotic, tackling unemployment, relationships, rent, racism, sex and the internet along the way. The…
Melbourne independent opera company BK Opera is marking its 10th anniversary with its biggest production yet, taking on Richard Wagner’s notoriously demanding Tristan und Isolde at Northcote Town Hall this October. Founded by Kate Millett in 2016, BK Opera has spent a decade pushing opera into darker, more intimate territory, with more than 20 productions built around bold interpretations and a distinctly Melbourne independent arts spirit. Now, the company is tackling what Millett calls the “Mount Everest of opera”. Tristan und Isolde brings together dual Helpmann Award-winning tenor James Egglestone, acclaimed Wagnerian soprano Lee Abrahmsen and Heldenbaritone Warwick Fyfe as…
Victoria’s central west has gained three new national parks, protecting more than 64,000 hectares of bushland while keeping the landscapes open for recreation and nature-based tourism. The newly proclaimed parks bring together existing reserves, state parks and forest areas, creating some of Victoria’s newest protected landscapes. The largest is Wombat-Lerderderg National Park, spanning 44,000 hectares between Daylesford and Bacchus Marsh. It incorporates Lerderderg State Park and parts of Wombat State Forest. Near Beaufort, Mount Buangor National Park covers more than 5,300 hectares, bringing together Mount Buangor State Park and sections of Mount Cole State Forest. Further north-west, Pyrenees National Park…
Australian rock fans can look forward to a huge day of live music when the Red Hot Summer Tour rolls into Warrnambool, the Yarra Valley and Wodonga in 2027 with a stacked line-up led by Jimmy Barnes. The iconic singer will headline a bill featuring Jon Stevens, Birds Of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe, Baby Animals, Chocolate Starfish and Sarah McLeod, bringing decades of Australian rock history to Warrnambool Racecourse on Saturday 16 January. Barnes remains one of the country’s most enduring rock performers, with more than 40 years of music behind him as a solo artist and frontman of Cold Chisel.…
Riverboats Music Festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2027 with a stellar line-up of Australian and New Zealand artists set to soundtrack another riverside weekend in Echuca-Moama. Returning to the banks of the Murray River on Yorta Yorta country, the multi-award-winning festival will run across three days with one stage, no timetable clashes and plenty of live music beneath the river red gums. Opening night on Friday will feature Naarm-based rockers Floodlights and ethereal singer Milly Strange before Australian rock legends Spiderbait close out the evening. Saturday brings country star Fanny Lumsden, Kaitlin Keegan, Melbourne soul favourite Ella Thompson,…
More than 60 performers aged between 19 and 77 will take over Footscray this November as Women’s Circus celebrates its 35th anniversary with its biggest production yet. Murmuration brings together an intergenerational ensemble for a 90-minute circus and physical theatre work at The Drill Hall, drawing on three and a half decades of memories, movement and community. Directed by award-winning performance maker Christy Flaws, the production takes inspiration from the movement of thousands of starlings flying as one. Flaws developed the concept after seeing the ensemble’s natural connections during early workshops. “A movement felt by one rippled across the entire…
Prahran Square is set to become a spectacular outdoor stage this October, with CIRCUS FIRE Spectacular bringing acrobatics, fire, comedy and special effects to the heart of Melbourne’s Chapel Street precinct for four nights only. Presented as part of the Chapel Street partnership with Melbourne Fringe Festival, the free show will run from Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 October 2026, featuring internationally awarded ZAP CIRCUS. The 45-minute performance promises a high-energy mix of daring circus skills and fire-fuelled spectacle, making for an unusual night out whether you’re heading into the precinct with the family, meeting friends or starting a bigger…
Foo Fighters are giving Melbourne fans a rare chance to see the rock giants in a venue far smaller than the stadiums they usually command, with an intimate show added to their upcoming Australian tour. The band will play Crown LIVE on Monday 16 November, with the new venue holding just 1,250 people. It will be the only intimate show on Foo Fighters’ Australian trek, making tickets especially sought after for fans wanting to see the band from much closer quarters. The one-night-only performance will take place just one day before the band’s scheduled Marvel Stadium show on Tuesday 17…
Melbourne Star will officially reopen to passengers on Thursday 15 October, ending a 1,865-day closure and bringing one of Docklands’ most recognisable landmarks back into operation. The reopening follows more than 12 months of upgrades and preparations after Jay and Jane Jones took ownership of the attraction in August 2025. The work has included major mechanical and safety upgrades across the wheel, along with a refreshed visitor experience featuring new cabin interiors, a bar, cafe, gift shop and VIP cabins. Every cabin has had its clutches and motors inspected and remanufactured, while air-conditioning, CCTV and intercom systems have been replaced…
Melbourne Airport is overhauling the way passengers are picked up and dropped off, with new public zones for Terminals 1, 2 and 3 opening on 6 October in the biggest change to its road network since the airport opened in 1970. The new free drop off zone will be located on Level 3 of the T123 Transport Hub, replacing the current departures ramp and providing significantly more space for drivers and passengers. A new undercover pick up zone will open on Level 2, with more than 100 car spaces where drivers can wait close to toilets and shelter from Melbourne’s…