Ecca Vandal Announces 2026 Australian Tour

Ecca Vandal returns to Australia following the release of a new album, making her late-night television debut, and touring with Deftones.

Ecca Vandal

Genre-bending phenom Ecca Vandal is coming home this November for an intimate, highly anticipated headline tour.

The singer-songwriter was in Australia last month, when she opened for Deftones alongside Interpol in arenas. However, this time, it’s her turn to shine. The shows mark Vandal’s first headline tour in Australia since 2019.

Following the recent release of her new album, LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW—which debuted in the Top 20 of the ARIA Australian Albums Chart—Vandal will present her new music in intimate venues across the East Coast later this year.

Her tour begins at Brisbane’s The Brightside on Friday, 6 November, followed by Melbourne’s Howler on Saturday, 7 November, and Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on Friday, 13 November. Pre-sale tickets will be available on Wednesday, 10 June, with the general sale opening on Friday, 12 June, at 11 am AEST. You can find more ticketing information on Ecca Vandal’s website.

LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW was recorded and produced by Ecca Vandal and her frequent collaborator, Richie Buxton, in the latter’s childhood bedroom in Melbourne.

Featuring songs that explore hardcore, alt hip-hop and more, Vandal said, “I find empowerment in being loud and noisy, especially as a woman in this global moment who grew up in a culture that told me I could not be those things.”

The resulting album was the product of nearly two years of deliberate disconnection with the online world, with Vandal channelling inward inspirations for her first album since 2017. “We cut out everything that didn’t serve us — the timelines, the metrics, the pressure to ‘stay visible’ online,” she explained.

She added, “We tuned out of the feed and turned inwards. In Richie’s childhood bedroom, we built a tiny home studio, four walls that became a universe. The internet was painfully slow, so we were truly disconnected from the online game… that little room became our whole world for nearly two years.

“It held all our chaos and all our clarity, a little ‘playpen’ where we could live, play and experiment like teenagers again. We wanted to celebrate long-form, the idea of an album as a whole body of work, while the world was chasing 15-second snippets and algorithm-friendly noise.”

Vandal’s message, gritty soundscapes, and fiercely DIY representation have won her fans and tour slots alongside Deftones and Limp Bizkit, among others, plus a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where she made her late-night television debut.

To find out more about LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW, check out The Music’s recent cover story interview with Ecca Vandal.