23 October 2024 - 0 Comments

Paul Kelly today announces his biggest shows in Australia and New Zealand to date, and his only live shows for 2025: nine huge arenas in Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland in August/September 2025… proudly presented by Frontier Touring, Triple M (AU) and Stuff (NZ).

Today’s tour news comes in the lead up to Kelly’s forthcoming studio album, Fever Longing Still, to be released November 1 and available for pre-order now. His first album of new original material since 2018’s Nature, Fever Longing Still delivers 12 additions to a superb catalogue of love songs spanning more than 40 years. The title comes from a line in Sonnet 147 by Shakespeare, whose writing has thrilled and inspired Kelly ever since schooldays. Led by singles Taught By Experts and Houndstooth Dress, it’s an album driven by a band in peak form – who fans can witness live onstage next year.

Awarded the Order of Australia in 2017 and with 17 ARIAs and five APRAs, few songwriters find ways to keep that creative fever burning for as long and as brightly as Kelly. The country of his birth, its emotional interior and geographical landscape, its heroes and villains, our hopes and failings, have all been a constant in Kelly’s long list of Australian-set songs: To Her Door, Leaps and Bounds, From St Kilda To King’s Cross, How To Make Gravy, When I First Met Your Ma, Dumb Things, Before Too Long… the list is endless. He has written about the country’s greatest cricketer, Bradman, and its most infamous bushranger, Ned Kelly, in Our Sunshine. From Little Things Big Things Grow, co-written with Kev Carmody, has taught more Australians about the history of the battle for land rights than newspaper headlines ever could.

From live recordings and compilations albums, Christmas standards and originals, variety has long been a key to Kelly’s recording career, which includes albums ranging from bluegrass and country (Smoke and Foggy Highway) to funk and soul (Professor Ratbaggy, The Merri Soul Sessions), alongside classic records such as Gossip, and Post. Kelly’s decades of touring have seen him play the kind of shows fans never forget.

In New Zealand, support act singer/songwriter Reb Fountain invokes a blend of folk, art-pop and rock unrivalled in Aotearoa. After standout performances at WOMADelaide and extensively touring in Europe with Marlon Williams, Fountain’s reputation for an exceptional live show has gone global, her new single Come Down out now.

Tickets to all shows will go on sale Wednesday 30 October (3pm local time) via frontiertouring.com/paulkelly. Frontier Members can get early access via the Frontier Members presale, which starts Monday 28 October (3pm local time) – see website for full details.

With his incredible live band by his side – including members Peter Luscombe (drums), Bill McDonald (bass), Dan Kelly (guitar), Cameron Bruce (keys), Jess Hitchcock (vocals), and Ash Naylor (guitar) – Paul Kelly live is not to be missed. Tickets on sale next week!

PAUL KELLY
+ Reb Fountain (NZ)
NEW ZEALAND TOUR
SEPTEMBER 2025
Presented by Frontier Touring, Triple M (AU) and Stuff (NZ)

FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE
via frontiertouring.com/paulkelly
Runs 24 hours from: Monday 28 October (3pm local time)
or until presale allocation exhausted

TICKETS ON SALE
Begins: Wednesday 30 October (3pm local time)

ALL SHOWS LICENSED ALL AGES

Tuesday 9 September
Christchurch Town Hall, Christchurch, NZ
ticketmaster.co.nz

Wednesday 10 September
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, NZ
ticketmaster.co.nz

Friday 12 September
Auckland Town Hall, Auckland, NZ
ticketmaster.co.nz

Patrons are advised to purchase tickets only through authorised ticket sellers.

We cannot guarantee any ticket purchase made through any means other than the official ticketing agents listed on the Frontier website.

Photo Credit: Joe Brennan

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