Cub Sport will be joining 5 Seconds of Summer on the EVERYONE’S A STAR! World Tour. The global run, already underway across Europe and the UK, will roll through the US before heading to New Zealand and Australia, where it will close on home soil with arena-sized intent. For Cub Sport, it marks another step in a trajectory that has steadily shifted from cult indie beginnings to something far more expansive.
There are few Australian bands who have reshaped themselves as fluidly. From early indie textures to the widescreen emotional pop of Jesus At The Gay Bar and LIKE NIRVANA, the Meanjin four-piece have built a catalogue that feels both personal and increasingly universal.
Backseat Mafia caught Cub Sport in 2023 at the Enmore Theatre, where their live show landed with a clarity that translated every quiet lyric into something communal. That sense of connection should scale easily to the larger rooms this tour demands.
Across more than 300 million streams, multiple platinum and gold records and a string of ARIA accolades, Cub Sport have become one of Australia’s most consistent independent success stories. Frontperson Tim Nelson’s songwriting continues to anchor the band, balancing vulnerability with melodic instinct.
Meanwhile, 5 Seconds of Summer arrive in a different kind of orbit. Formed in Sydney and now firmly global, the quartet have spent over a decade expanding their reach, from early pop-punk beginnings to a genre-blurring catalogue that has delivered multiple Billboard No.1 albums and billions of streams.
Their upcoming sixth album, EVERYONE’S A STAR!, signals another pivot, with singles ‘NOT OK,’ ‘Boyband’ and ‘Telephone Busy’ pointing toward a band still reshaping its identity in real time.
Together, the pairing makes sense. Both acts have built careers on evolution rather than repetition. One started in bedrooms and small rooms, the other in arenas. Now they meet somewhere in the middle, under lights big enough for both.
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