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Queen + Adam Lambert

The soaring success of the film Bohemian Rhapsody , the highest grossing music biopic of all time, has proven that the love for Queen remains as strong as ever. Queen original band members Brian May and Roger Taylor are teaming up once more with long time front man Adam Lambert on lead vocals and returning to Australia with a brand-new, spectacular production.

Completing the tour line-up are long-term collaborator Spike Edney on keyboards, Neil Fairclough on bass, and Tyler Warren on percussion.

Next summer, the stadium stages of Australia will be well and truly rocked again!

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The Rhapsody Tour: Queen (ft Adam Lambert) Stadium Tour Australia

Queen is headed to australia for 6 giant stadium shows with a brand-new, spectacular production..

Queen Australia Tour – Off the back of Bohemian Rhapsody success lifelong Australian fans and new converts will be thrilled with the news that Queen original band members Brian May & Roger Taylor are teaming up once more with longtime frontman Adam Lambert for 6 giant stadium shows with a brand-new, spectacular production.

Watch: Queen + Adam Lambert – We Will Rock You & We Are The Champions (Live From The Oscars)

Queen Australia Tour Dates

• Thursday 13th February – Brisbane, Suncorp Stadium
• Saturday 15th February – Sydney, ANZ Satdium
• Wednesday 19th February – Melbourne, AAMI Park
• Sunday 23rd February – Perth, Optus Stadium
• Wednesday 26th February – Adelaide, Adelaide Oval
• Saturday 29th February – Gold Coast, Metricon Stadium

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Buoyed by the massive success of Oscar-winning biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, rock band Queen will embark on a massive tour of Australian stadiums in early 2020.

The iconic group will once more enlist singer Adam Lambert as their frontman, singing the songs made famous by the late, great Freddie Mercury.

Expect ‘The Rhapsody Tour’ to be quite possibly the band’s biggest Australian tour ever, with Queen ruling the charts again, almost 50 years after they first formed: Including the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack, the band has three albums inside the ARIA top 10 this week.

Bohemian Rhapsody has so far earned $55 million at the Australian box office, making it one of the top-grossing films of all time in this country.

“We have a brand-new visual spectacle that will reframe these iconic songs and we are excited to reveal the show to Australian fans,” said Lambert in a statement.

The tour’s set designer Ric Lipson said fans could expect something truly spectacular from The Rhapsody Tour.

“Queen + Adam Lambert’s Rhapsody tour will, once again for them, expand the parameters of what a live music experience can be. This new show promises to be their most spectacular yet, an innovative and interactive celebration of the continued power of Queen’s music,” he said.

Queen + Adam Lambert — Australian Tour 2020

Feb 13: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

Feb 15: ANZ Stadium, Sydney

Feb 19: AAMI Park, Melbourne

Feb 23: Optus Stadium, Perth

Feb 26: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide

Feb 29: Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast

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News: Queen Returns To Tour Australia With Adam Lambert

(AUS)  Legendary superstar band QUEEN + Adam Lambert have just announced they will visit Australia.  “Let’s ROCK those beautiful arenas JUST ONE MORE TIME!” said Brian May.

This is the first Queen tour of Australia since 1985.

Queen + Adam Lambert received glowing reviews for their performance together at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas last September, triggering a conversation between Adam, Roger and Brian to take the show on the road.

The threesome first shared the stage during American Idol in May 2009 for a performance of “We Are The Champions”. They teamed up again in 2011 at the MTV European Music Awards in Belfast, Ireland for an electrifying eight-minute finale of “The Show Must Go On”, “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions” and in the summer of 2012, Lambert performed a series of shows with Queen across Europe as well as dates in Russia, Ukraine and Poland.  They also performed three sold-out gigs at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.

Promoter Paul Dainty said of this momentous tour “Since I have started promoting and producing concert tours, one of my biggest dreams has been to bring Queen back to Australia and now this dream is a reality.  This may be the last chance Australian fans have to see one of the greatest rock bands in history and, as Rolling Stone recently said ‘’Adam Lambert fronting Queen will astound audiences.”

“I’m completely in awe of the Queen phenomenon,” added Lambert. “The thought of sharing the stage for a full set in Australia is so beautifully surreal. I’m honoured to be able to pay my respects to Freddie’s memory; he’s a personal hero of mine, and I am deeply grateful for the chance to sing such powerful music for fans of this legendary band. I know this tour will be a huge milestone for me, and with the support of Brian, Roger and the rest of the band, I feel like magic will be on display.”

In a career spanning over 40 years Queen has amassed a staggering list of sales, awards, and hall of fame inductions that is second to none.  Record sales in the hundreds of millions of units, including an unprecedented string of number one albums and top-charting singles that continue to put Queen in the top ten of all-time iTunes sales, seven Ivor Novello Awards, an MTV Global Icon Award, two songs enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame –  “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions” – which also remain the most played songs at sports events and arenas around the world.  The statistics show Queen has the highest selling back catalogue in Australia, outselling even the Beatles.  Even with the tragic loss of their uniquely talented singer Freddie Mercury, Queen remain one of the most revered bands in rock and pop history, able to claim one of the most enduring song catalogues of all time. Just think: “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, “Radio Ga Ga”, “Killer Queen”, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, “Bicycle Race”, songs that form the backdrop to the lives of generations of fans across all ages. With their sterling song craft, virtuoso musicality,  and colossal spectacle of their live performances, Queen – Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon – captured hearts and conquered charts like no other band in history, a legacy that continues to live through the ongoing work and concert performances by May and Taylor. Their musical We Will Rock You , co-created with writer Ben Elton, is approaching its 12th year on stage in London’s West End and is currently touring North America.

Adam Lambert’s stunning performances on the eighth season of American Idol are still widely regarded as some of the most riveting moments in the show’s history. His debut album For Your Entertainment earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. His second album, Trespassing , debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The subsequent tour took Lambert from Australia to South Africa, throughout Asia and Eastern Europe and culminated in a sold-out arena show in Helsinki, Finland. In 2013, Lambert appeared as a guest star on the hit TV series, GLEE. He is currently writing and recording for his third album, which will be released this year

Tickets to the general public will go on sale at 10am on Wednesday 28 May.

Queen + Adam Lambert Tour Dates: 

PERTH – Friday 22 August – Perth Arena

SYDNEY – Tuesday 26 August – Allphones Arena

MELBOURNE – Friday 29 August – Rod Laver Arena

BRISBANE – Monday 1 September – Brisbane Entertainment Centre

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Australian audiences will be in for a treat with Lambert as frontman for Queen. I’ve seen them in concert and they’re terrific.

Australia, you’re in for a real treat. I saw 2 performances at London’s Hammersmith-Apollo theater. Adam won over a very skeptical London audience. By the midway thru ea performance, they were cheering as crazily as a bunch of Glamberts for him. The London newspaper reviews were glowing. Adam was born for this type of show. He loves Austrailia, and audiences there will love him with the venerable Brian May and Roger Taylor! Get your tickets fast, and have a ball!

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“Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth” has died. Given her advanced years, this has long been expected, yet it still seems incredible this woman who has been Australia’s queen for the duration of most Australians’ lives is no longer with us.

While the focus of the formalities and ceremony of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II will centre on London and the UK, there is no doubt it will be keenly observed by many Australians.

The queen liked Australia and Australians. She came here 16 times throughout her reign and was, famously, on her way to our shores in 1952 when she learned her father had passed on and she was now queen.

Her visits to Australia – from her first in 1954 through to her last in 2011 – offer a snapshot of the changing relationship Australians have had with their sovereign and with the monarchy.

An enthusiastic nation

The queen’s 1954 tour took place during a time described by historian Ben Pimlott as the age of “ British Shintoism ”. Deference to the Crown was paramount in Britain and the Commonwealth, and many Australians were madly enthusiastic about their queen.

After her arrival at Farm Cove in Sydney on February 3 1954, Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to set foot on Australian soil. The royal tour lasted nearly two months and consisted of a gruelling schedule taking in visits to every state and territory apart from the Northern Territory.

During the tour, the queen greeted over 70,000 ex-service men and women; drove in cavalcades that took in massive crowds; attended numerous civic receptions; and opened the Australian Parliament in Canberra. The tour saw Elizabeth travel 10,000 miles by air and 2,000 miles by road – including 207 trips by car and by appointed royal trains.

It is estimated as much as 75% of the population saw the queen and Prince Philip during this tour.

No Australian prime minister has ever had a reception on this scale or exposure to so many of the country’s citizens.

A “new” and prosperous country

During her first two tours in 1954 and 1963, the Australia laid-out for display for the queen was depicted as having gone from being a small colonial settlement to a thriving economy that had ridden to prosperity “ on the sheep’s back ”.

The queen was treated to endless displays of sheep shearing, surf carnivals, wood chopping, whip cracking, and mass displays of dancing and singing by school children. Federal and state dignitaries, mayors and civic leaders from across the political divide jostled to meet and be seen with her; the country’s florists were emptied of flowers for the hundreds of bouquets presented to her by dozens of shy, nervous school children nudged gently forward by awe-struck parents.

During the early tours, Aboriginal Australians were kept at a discreet distance. Apart from a demonstration of boomerang and spear throwing, the closest the queen came to experiencing anything of Indigenous Australian culture was a ballet performed by the Arts Council Ballet titled Corroboree, with no Aboriginal dancers but dancers with blackened faces.

During the 1970 visit, the queen witnessed the re-enactment of Captain James Cook’s arrival at Botany Bay, with Cook and his crew meeting “the resistance of the Aborigines with a volley of musket fire”.

By 1973, Indigenous Australians were given a more significant role in the royal tours. Aboriginal actor Ben Blakeney, one of Bennelong’s descendants, gave the official welcome during the opening of the Sydney Opera House, and the then unknown actor David Gulpilil was among those performing a ceremonial dance.

Invited guest, not ruler of the land

As early as the 1963 tour, the nation-wide royal fervour had dimmed a little. The 1963 visit witnessed smaller crowds and fewer mass public events. When Prime Minister Robert Menzies courted the queen with the now-famous line, “I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die”, the ensuing blushes – including the queen’s own – reflected many Australians’ growing sense of embarrassment at public displays and unquestioning expressions of deference.

Despite this, Menzies’ displays of public ardour saw him being granted The Order of the Thistle shortly after, a bestowal which must surely remain the envy of some subsequent prime ministers.

The 1977 Silver Jubilee and 1988 Australian bicentenary visits perhaps marked the end of a period of royal tours as overt celebrations of Australia’s ties to Britain. This new flavour of tours positioned the sovereign as an invited guest to an independent, modern and multi-cultural nation.

On her 10th tour in 1986, the queen returned to sign the Australia Act , which brought to an end the ability of the UK to create laws for Australia.

Her role as our sovereign subtly transformed from cutting ribbons and opening Parliament to signing the documents that slowly, by degrees, contributed to the cutting of Australia’s ties to the UK and the Crown.

A question of the republic

By the 12th tour in 1992, the cost of the queen’s visits to Australia were increasingly scrutinised by a public feeling largely indifferent about the royal family. The prime minister of the day, Paul Keating, was seen not so much as an entranced liege lord revelling in the opportunity to see his sovereign “passing by” as one who instead – unthinkingly – committed an act of lèse majesté by placing his bare hand on the royal back and waist as he guided her through the crowd.

The gloves, it seemed, were coming off.

The queen made it clear in her last visits to our shores that whether or not Australia should become a republic was a decision for its own citizens to make. Her official announcement after she learned of the result of the 1999 Republic Referendum confirmed this:

I have always made it clear that the future of the Monarchy in Australia is an issue for the Australian people and them alone to decide, by democratic and constitutional means. … My family and I would, of course, have retained our deep affection for Australia and Australians everywhere, whatever the outcome.

In the last decades of her life, the queen retained the affection of many. Her popularity seemed to grow in line with Australians’ increased disenchantment with their home-grown political leaders: the former prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Julia Gillard are right to have sensed that any discussion about an Australian republic would have to wait until after Elizabeth II’s death.

Queen Elizabeth II reigned across seven decades and her tours to Australia served as a marker of Australia’s changing relationship with the Crown as well as with its own colonial past and national identity.

Almost certainly, Elizabeth II’s reign as the stalwart, loyal, dutiful, and most cherished and admired of “Glorianas” is one we are unlikely ever to see again.

Correction: the article previously stated the queen was on her way to Australia in 1953 when she learned of her father’s death. This has been corrected to 1952.

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Queen + Adam Lambert – The Rhapsody Tour - Heading to Australian Stadiums in February 2020!

Tickets On Sale from Monday 15 April From 10.30am AEST - All Shows Reserved Seating

The soaring success of the film Bohemian Rhapsody, the highest grossing music biopic of all time, has proven that the love for Queen remains as strong as ever. Lifelong Australian fans and new converts will be thrilled with the news that Queen original band members Brian May and Roger Taylor are teaming up once more with longtime frontman Adam Lambert on lead vocals and returning to Australia in February 2020 for 6 giant stadium shows with a brand-new, spectacular production.

Produced in Australia by TEG Dainty, the epic 6-date Rhapsody Tour is set to run from February 13 to February 29, 2020, with an all-new stadium concert experience, the tour dates are:

Thursday 13 February - Brisbane - Suncorp Stadium Saturday 15 February - Sydney - ANZ Stadium Wednesday 20 February - Melbourne - AAMI Park Sunday 23 February - Perth - Optus Stadium Wednesday 26 February - Adelaide - Adelaide Oval Saturday 29 February - Gold Coast - Metricon Stadium

Tickets go on sale from www.ticketek.com.au on Monday 15 April with staggered on sale times from 10.30am AEST.  

A Telstra Thanks presale starts Wednesday 10 April, with staggered times from 9.30am AEST and is open until Friday 12 April. Go to www.telstra.com/queen for further details including local market times. 

Announcing their Rhapsody Tour of Australia Roger Taylor said: "We are ready for Australia and raring to get back with our new show.”

Adam Lambert said: “We have a brand-new visual spectacle that will reframe these iconic songs and we are excited to reveal the show to Australian fans!” 

The Rhapsody Tour will debut a brand new larger-than-life production. Set designer Ric Lipson says: “Queen + Adam Lambert’s Rhapsody tour will, once again for them, expand the parameters of what a live music experience can be. This new show promises to be their most spectacular yet, an innovative and interactive celebration of the continued power of Queen’s music.”

Indicative of Australia’s enduring passion for Queen – the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack spent four weeks at #1 on the ARIA chart and now enjoys Platinum status.  Queen additionally achieved the rare feat of boasting three separate albums in the ARIA Top 5 – for five weeks this year. 

The Australia dates are expected to be part of a wider tour of the region taking in also several East Asia dates.

QueenOnline mailing list subscribers and Queen Fan Club members will be sent pre-sale information via e-mail shortly.

Tickets for the RHAPSODY tour go on sale on Monday 15 April with staggered on sale times from 10.30am AEST @  www.ticketek.com.au .

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Following the success of last year's Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody – which took almost $55 million at the Australian box office – the band has announced a national tour in 2020.

Playing six different venues across the country, the band will perform classic hits including Bohemian Rhapsody , Don't Stop Me Now , We Will Rock You and Another One Bites the Dust .

Queen's iconic original frontman Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991. The band now has only two original members, lead guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. The band will be fronted by former American Idol singer Adam Lambert, who first performed with the band in 2009.

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Tickets go on sale Monday April 15 at staggered times beginning at 10.30am. Tickets here .

Tour dates: Brisbane Feb 13 – Suncorp Stadium, Milton

Sydney Feb 15 – ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park

Melbourne Feb 19 – AAMI Park, Melbourne

Perth Feb 23 – Optus Stadium, Burswood

Adelaide Feb 26 – Adelaide Oval, North Adelaide

Gold Coast Feb 29 – Metricon Stadium, Carrara

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Billie Eilish is bringing her world tour to Australia next year.

The pop superstar has announced several shows in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, all of which will take place next February and March (see full dates below). The Australian leg of her world tour will follow her North American tour dates and will be proceeded by her European, UK, and Ireland shows.

Tickets to Eilish’s Australian shows go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 3rd at staggered times. There will also be several pre-sales taking place for the tour (see below).

According to a press release, these shows will be Eilish’s only Australian tour dates in 2025.

The US singer-songwriter is touring in support of her new album Hit Me Hard and Soft , which comes out on May 17th. It’s the eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s Happier Than Ever , which topped charts around the world including in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and US.

Read Eilish’s recent interview with Rolling Stone about her new album here .

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is out May 17th (pre-save/pre-order here ). 

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AMERICAN EXPRESS MEMBERS PRE-SALE via www.Amex.com.au/Experiences Wednesday 1 May – Thursday 2 May Or until presale allocation exhausted Presale timings staggered per show, visit website for more details

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Queen + Adam Lambert Return For The Rhapsody Tour Across North America

Tickets Onsale Starting Friday, March 31 at 10am Local on LiveNation.com

“visions fine and sound supreme   essence of a fiery queen   doyens of the paradigm   we will rock you one more time.”   brian may  .

Having first launched their universally acclaimed Rhapsody Tour with 25 epic shows across North America in 2019, Queen + Adam Lambert are bringing their highly acclaimed production, now expanded and updated, back to where it first began. After a 4-year long hiatus, Sir Brian May, Roger Taylor and their exceptional frontman Adam Lambert have announced they will set out on a spectacular North America run this fall. Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicks off on October 4 at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena making stops in Toronto, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and more before concluding at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. See full routing below. 

Brian May says, “Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever. So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious. Watch out world.”  

And Adam Lambert says: “I can’t wait to tour North America one more time with the Rhapsody tour alongside the two unbelievably talented legends that are Brian May and Roger Taylor.”  

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Queen + Adam Lambert’s 150-minute career-spanning set list celebrates the band’s extraordinary back catalogue, lining up wall-to-wall immortal anthems like “We Will Rock You”, “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Radio Ga Ga”, and “Somebody To Love” alongside classic deep cuts and vintage fan favourites. Featuring a dazzling state-of-the-art stage design, incredible special effects and set pieces, this sense-swamping extravaganza has been blowing critics and fans away the world over. 

As with last year’s UK and European dates, the 2023 North American tour will see Queen + Adam Lambert supported on stage by their regular band members, long-serving Queen keyboard player and musical director Spike Edney, bass guitarist Neil Fairclough and percussionist Tyler Warren.  

Having extensively toured over the last few years, the Rhapsody show is forever evolving. But it remains at heart a tribute to Freddie Mercury’s majestic legacy, a confirmation of Brian and Roger’s undimmed musical prowess, plus a magnificent showcase for Adam’s vocal skills and electrifying stage charisma, all of which adds up to a glorious full-blooded celebration of one of the greatest songbooks in rock history. Read more on the story of The Rhapsody Tour so far, including the special performance opening the Platinum Jubilee concert with the late Queen herself tea cup tapping to the beat of “We Will Rock You” HERE . 

TICKETS: Tickets will be available via a general onsale beginning Friday, March 31st at 10AM local time at LiveNation.com .  

MORE ON TICKETS:  

Queen + Adam Lambert appreciate that it is an enormous task to try and stop scalpers from taking advantage of fans wanting to purchase tickets for the tour. In an effort to help minimize resale and keep ticket prices at face value for fans, the band are collaborating with the venues’ ticketing partners to restrict the ability to transfer tickets for The Rhapsody Tour so that they may only be transferred between fans at the original price. 

Fans will still have protection against unforeseen circumstances. Those who purchase tickets and are no longer able to attend their show will be able to sell their tickets at the price they paid using a face value ticket exchange, including the Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange – which is free to use for buyers and sellers. More information on how the Ticketmaster Exchange works is available here . 

Unfortunately, the states of NY, IL, and CO have laws in place which protect ticket scalpers – these laws prohibit artists from being able to restrict the transfer of their tickets to face value exchanges only. For shows in these states, Queen + Adam Lambert strongly encourage fans to only buy or sell tickets to one another on face value exchanges. More information can be found here , with more details to follow in the coming weeks.  

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT THE RHAPSODY TOUR 2023 DATES:   

Wed Oct 04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena 

Sun Oct 08 – Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena 

Tue Oct 10 — Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena 

Thu Oct 12 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden 

Sun Oct 15 – Boston, MA – TD Garden 

Wed Oct 18 — Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center 

Mon Oct 23 — Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena 

Wed Oct 25 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena 

Fri Oct 27 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center 

Mon Oct 30 — Chicago, IL – United Center 

Thu Nov 02 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center 

Sun Nov 05 — Denver, CO – Ball Arena 

Wed Nov 08 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center 

Sat Nov 11 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium 

About Live Nation Entertainment  

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MEDIA CONTACTS:  

Rhapsody Tour  

Cara Hutchison | [email protected]  

Queen  

Phil Symes | [email protected]   

Sharrin Summers – Hollywood Records | [email protected]  

Adam Lambert  

Kristen Foster | [email protected]   

Avery Robinson | [email protected]   

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Billie Eilish returns to Australia for major 2025 tour

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Fire up the group chat!! 22-year-old superstar Billie Eilish has announced a massive world tour with a whopping 12 shows set to pop off around Australia. 

The Hottest 100 of 2019 winner will be taking HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR to Meanjin/Brisbane, Eora/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne between February and March 2025. 

That gives us plenty of time to get familiar with her upcoming studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, set to drop on May 17. 

If you want hear those beautiful, angelic vocals live, tickets to each show will be available to purchase on Friday 3 May. American Express members can access the pre-sale from Wednesday 1 May, or you can hit up the Frontier Member, Live Nation or Vodafone pre-sales from Thursday 2 May. More details are over on the artist’s website . 

You’ll have to get in quick if you want to grab tickets because they won’t be adding any more shows! 

What if I want tickets…now? 

We’ve got our grubby little hands on a couple of tickets to Billie’s big tour! From Tuesday April 30 to Thursday 2 May, triple j Breakfast will be giving away ONE double-pass to each city, and once they're gone, we can't help you. 

To snag a ticket, all you need to do is text into 0439 757 555 before 7.30am AEST with your name, location and one sentence about your love of Billie and what makes you her biggest fan. 

Check out the details to Billie EIlish’s tour below. 

Billie Eilish HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR

Tuesday 18 February – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Turrbal Land, Brisbane QLD 

Wednesday 19 February – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Turrbal Land, Brisbane QLD 

Friday 21 February – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Turrbal Land, Brisbane QLD 

Saturday 22 February – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Turrbal Land, Brisbane QLD 

Monday 24 February – Qudos Bank Arena, Gadigal Land, Sydney NSW 

Tuesday 25 February – Qudos Bank Arena, Gadigal Land, Sydney NSW 

Thursday 27 February – Qudos Bank Arena, Gadigal Land, Sydney NSW 

Friday 28 February – Qudos Bank Arena, Gadigal Land, Sydney NSW 

Tuesday 4 March – Rod Laver Arena, Naarm, Melbourne VIC 

Wednesday 5 March – Rod Laver Arena, Naarm, Melbourne VIC 

Friday 7 March – Rod Laver Arena, Naarm, Melbourne VIC 

Saturday 8 March – Rod Laver Arena, Naarm, Melbourne VIC