{"id":2337646,"date":"2026-03-19T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2337646"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:40:21","slug":"khalid-announces-2026-australia-and-new-zealand-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/khalid-announces-2026-australia-and-new-zealand-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Announces 2026 Australia and New Zealand Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/?s=khalid\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khalid<\/a> has announced he is heading to Australia and New Zealand this year for a headline tour.<\/p>\n<p>The US singer-songwriter will arrive in November for arena dates in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Khalid will be joined on all stops of the tour by US singer, Lauv.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018It\u2019s Always Summer Somewhere\u2019 tour marks Khalid\u2019s first shows in Australia and New Zealand since 2019, excluding two shows at Sydney Opera House in 2024 in support of the world premiere of his third album,\u00a0<em>Sincere<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 tour comes in support of Khalid\u2019s latest LP,\u00a0<em>After the Sun Goes Down<\/em>, released last October.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Khalid - out of body (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jrXXgp8XP1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/khalid-interview-after-the-sun-does-down-85139\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking to\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em><\/a> ahead of the record\u2019s release, Khalid described the music as a new era for the Texas-born artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so inspired by the Rihanna\u2019s and the Britney\u2019s and the Janet\u2019s, and I\u2019m discovering music on my own, and I\u2019m discovering pop, and I\u2019m just discovering monster records for the first time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[\u2026] that was one of the the most major time periods of pop music and pop culture in general \u2013 the late \u201900s and the early \u201900s and \u201910s. It was the age where the digital era started to be intertwined with music\u2026 the makings of me as an artist, I feel like [they] reside in that time period.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI feel like with this album, I knew that I wanted to go back to pop, but I wanted to do it in the way that I felt connected to it the most. I look at this as more like an homage or just thanks to the icons that paved the way for me to be able to do this, and, a more current lens, as a now openly gay black man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>General public tickets for all stops of the 2026 tour go on sale from midday local time on Friday, March 27th. Click <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiertouring.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more details and check out all of the dates below.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">KHALID 2026 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tuesday, November 10th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Spark Arena, Auckland<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday, November 11th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Riverstage, Brisbane<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, November 13th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sunday, November 15th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday, November 18th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RAC Arena, Perth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalid has announced he is heading to Australia and New Zealand this year for a headline tour. The US singer-songwriter will arrive in November for arena dates in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Khalid will be joined on all stops of the tour by US singer, Lauv. The \u2018It\u2019s Always Summer Somewhere\u2019 tour marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2337647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[345629,391304,452816,452817],"class_list":["post-2337646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-khalid","tag-khalid-australia","tag-khalid-new-zealand","tag-khalid-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Khalid-Announces-2026-Australia-and-New-Zealand-Tour.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337648,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337646\/revisions\/2337648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}