There’s a familiar cool running through the return of Baxter Dury, but it’s sharpened, pared back and pointed firmly forward. Following the release of his latest album Allbarone, Dury is bringing the Allbarone Tour to Australia in 2026, marking his latest chapter as one of the UK’s most idiosyncratic and quietly consistent voices.
That restraint has long been central to Dury’s appeal. The son of Ian Dury, Baxter grew up in the long shadow of British pop culture. As a child, he appeared on the cover of New Boots and Panties!!, an image that became iconic before he was old enough to understand it.
Australian audiences have already seen how that translates live. Backseat Mafia caught Dury as part of Dark Mofo in 2022, where his set leaned into atmosphere and attitude rather than volume, holding the room through tone, timing and presence. It’s a reminder that his performances rarely hinge on spectacle; instead, they draw you in through the space between lines as much as the lines themselves.
The Allbarone Tour promises a set shaped around this new material, but Dury’s back catalogue has always slipped neatly into the same world, bound together by voice and perspective rather than era.
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