Lorde Announces 2026 Australian Tour

After Ultrasound tour posters appeared in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth, it’s official: Lorde is bringing her Ultrasound tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2026.

The tour begins in the Shapeshifter singer’s home of New Zealand. She will perform at Spark Arena, Auckland, on Wednesday, 11 February, and Wolfbrook Arena, Christchurch, on Friday, 13 February, before heading to Australia.

Beginning at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Monday, 16 February, Lorde then performs at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Wednesday, 18 February, Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Saturday, 21 February, and concludes the Ultrasound AU/NZ run at Perth’s RAC Arena on Wednesday, 25 February.

Pre-sale tickets will be available to American Express Card Members from 1 pm local time on Tuesday, 15 July, via the AMEX website. Frontier Members can access pre-sale tickets next at 2 pm local time on Thursday, 17 July, followed by the general sale at 2 pm local time on Friday, 18 July, via the Frontier Touring website.

The six-date arena tour is in support of Lorde’s latest album, Virgin, released in late June. Her fourth album and the follow-up to 2021’s Solar Power, Virgin debuted at #1 on the Australian and New Zealand album charts and features the hit singles What Was That, Man Of The Year, and Hammer.

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Lorde co-produced Virgin alongside collaborators Jim-E Stack and Dan Nigro. The 11-track collection represents a bold sonic evolution that balances maximalist production with her signature lyrical intimacy, with the New Zealand singer-songwriter sharing her most personal music to date.

“A big part of this album for me, and part of why I call it Virgin, is because I really had this sort of feeling of rebirth at some point in 2023,” Lorde explained in a recent cover story interview with The Music.

She added, “I changed a lot about my life, and I took away a lot of the structures that I had relied upon to be like, ‘This is my life and I know what I'm doing.’ My vibe for a long time had been: I got this. I think a lot about this album is choosing to not know where it’s going to go, and let it happen to you.”

Lorde last toured Australia in March 2023 in support of Solar Power. That tour marked her first shows Down Under in six years.

Presented by Frontier Touring