News: Dylan announces intimate Australian headline shows for May 2027

British pop-rock singer Dylan is heading back to Australia in May 2027, announcing three intimate headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as part of her biggest international tour yet.

The Are We Playing Live Yet? World Tour kicks off its Australian leg at Melbourne’s Night Cat on May 4, before hitting Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on May 6 and Brisbane’s Crowbar on May 8. It’s a welcome return for the singer, who last visited in 2024 for her own headline shows and as support for Maisie Peters on The Good Witch Tour.

Born Natasha Woods, Dylan has spent the past few years carving out a place in British pop with her combination of guitar-driven hooks, sharp songwriting and energetic live performances. Since emerging in 2021, she’s clocked up more than 100 million streams, released three EPs and scored a UK Top 20 mixtape with The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn.

But her latest material finds her exploring darker territory. New single ‘grief and all his friends’, due November 16, confronts the death of her mother and the complicated emotions that follow. It comes after September’s ‘to love and to lose’, which has already passed eight million streams and attracted support from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 and Capital.

Both tracks offer an early glimpse of her forthcoming debut project, signalling a more personal direction for an artist previously celebrated for her rebellious pop anthems.

Having toured alongside Yungblud, Ed Sheeran and Tate McRae, and sold out London’s Eventim Apollo, Dylan is now taking her biggest headline tour across the UK, Europe and North America before returning Down Under.

Australian fans will get the chance to hear her new material up close when she hits the country’s smaller venues next May.