Could Bruce Springsteen Return To Australia In 2026?
“I’m doing my best as we speak to get down there, hopefully next year sometime.”
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ AAMI Park (Credit: Kane Hibberd)
Bruce Springsteen recently caught up with Rolling Stone and chatted about his new box set, Tracks II: The Lost Albums. He also teased a new album and shared some good news for his Australian fans: he hopes to return Down Under in 2026.
In the interview, Springsteen noted that his last shows of the year are the “official end” of his 130-date tour with the E Street Band. An exhausting tour schedule that booked so many shows due to being away from audiences for six years, the Born To Run star said that in the future, the plan is to “play more often and less dates.”
Responding to music journalist Andy Greene, who (rightly) said Bruce Springsteen fans in Australia are “dying” to see him, Springsteen said: “I’m doing my best as we speak to get down there, hopefully next year sometime.”
He added, “And I feel bad. I apologise to my Australian fans for not getting down on this stretch, but I want them to know that we are planning to get down there as soon as feasible, probably in the next year sometime.”
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You can read the interview here.
Bruce Springsteen last toured in Australia in January and February 2017, with dates in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and the Hope Estate Winery.
Reviewing his concert at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, The Music’s Will Oakeshott wrote: “After three hours of arena rock and 28 unbelievable anthems, the storm left a path of destruction, but no suffering was endured, only elation.”
The Music’s Steve Bell added of their show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, “This writer saw Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in their mid-'80s pomp as a 15-year-old during the Born In The USA tour and was absolutely blown away by the potential power of rock'n'roll as a unifying force, and it's testimony to this mighty band's indubitable legacy that they can still elicit that exact same response more than three decades later.”
In 2023, former AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan revealed that Springsteen was his bucket list artist to headline the 2023 AFL Grand Final.
“I can rule him out – we offered him the kitchen sink, and he's not available,” McLachlan shared on Neil Mitchell’s morning 3AW show. “So we're working back from Bruce Springsteen this year.”
Mitchell, in apparent shock, responded, “Seriously? Did you offer a return or not?”
McLachlan replied, “He was certainly sounded out, and they offered him money we couldn't afford, and that still didn't tick the box.”
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