Holly Humberstone is heading back to Australia in 2027, stepping into the biggest Australian headline rooms of her career following the release of second album Cruel World.
The British singer-songwriter was only here last year, but her relationship with Australian audiences has been building quickly. Backseat Mafia caught Humberstone twice during that visit, at her own headline show and again supporting Sam Fender, two very different settings that showed just how comfortably her songs can move between the intimacy of a smaller room and the scale demanded by a major support slot.
This time she returns with Cruel World, the follow-up to her 2023 debut album Paint My Bedroom Black. Released in 2026, the record continues Humberstone’s knack for pulling apart relationships, anxiety and the less tidy corners of growing up without turning those experiences into oversized pop melodrama.
It has been a relatively rapid climb. Humberstone first attracted wider attention with her 2020 debut EP Falling Asleep at the Wheel, followed by The Walls Are Way Too Thin in 2021. A BRIT Award for Rising Star followed in 2022, before Paint My Bedroom Black established her beyond the early promise of those EPs.
Her songs have always worked through contrast: bedroom-sized confessionals given enough electronic texture and pop architecture to reach considerably further than the bedroom. Cruel World pushes that approach into its next phase, arriving as Humberstone herself moves into larger venues.
Joining her across the Australian dates will be Melbourne singer-songwriter Holly Hebe, who also appeared on Humberstone’s previous Australian tour and proved a natural fit with those audiences. Bringing her back for 2027 gives the tour a welcome thread of continuity, even as the venues get bigger.
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