Cut Copy Lock In Sydney & Byron Bay Headline Dates

Australian electronic pop outfit Cut Copy have just added two shows to their national tour dates, returning to NSW for two special nights.

In addition to their appearances at Victoria’s Meredith Music Festival and Melbourne’s live entertainment series Live At The Gardens, Cut Copy will perform at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Thursday, 5 March, and Byron Bay’s Beach Hotel on Friday, 6 March.

For the newly announced gigs, the pioneering electronic group will be joined by special guests Harvey Sutherland and Drifting Clouds.

Tickets for Cut Copy’s Enmore Theatre show will be on sale from 9 am AEDT on Friday, 9 January, while tickets for the Byron Bay gig are available now. You can find out more via the band’s website.

Cut Copy are touring in support of their latest album, Moments, which was released in September 2025. Their first album in five years, Moments received critical acclaim in Australia and abroad, landing at #35 on Double J’s Best Albums of 2025 list and being nominated for the Australian Music Prize (which was ultimately taken out by Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer).

Upon announcing that Moments was on the way last June, Cut Copy unveiled the single When This Is Over. The group’s long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s Freeze, Melt captures “a series of sonic vignettes and moments in time” for an epic homecoming.

Moments is free-wheeling and embraces all ideas. The band then expertly mined genres from electronic to synth pop, from trip-hop to a little bit of rock, all while working to make sense of life’s ups and downs.

“When This Is Over is one of those songs that instantly felt special as soon as it came into being,” said vocalist Dan Whitford. “We had talked for years about the idea of making a song featuring a children’s choir, and after writing the first half of the song in my studio on synths and a drum machine, I drove from Melbourne into the country to a primary school where a friend was a music teacher and spent a day recording a choir idea that became the basis of the second half of the song.”

Whitford added, “Suddenly, with the addition of the children’s voices, the song had gone from a sketch into something magical. The song is about a relationship that has started to unravel. But also a bit more globally about trying to find empathy when parties are facing in seemingly opposite directions.

“Over the course of the song, the mood progresses from conflict to a sort of truce-like resolution. As humans, sometimes it’s hard to find common ground when hurt runs deep, but as the song says, ‘we’re more the same than you’ll ever know’.”