The Forever Enz Tour is gathering pace, with Split Enz announcing additional New Zealand dates and a brand new Brisbane show in response to growing demand. What began as a tightly mapped run has quickly expanded into something more fluid, a tour stretching to meet its audience across both sides of the Tasman, with Hamilton and Christchurch added alongside an extended Australian leg.
The expanded run sees the band, featuring Tim Finn, Neil Finn, Eddie Rayner andNoel Crombie, deepen their return across both sides of the Tasman. Opening in Hamilton, a city tethered closely to the Finn brothers’ origins, the tour folds back into its own history, before extending to Christchurch following renewed demand. It’s a gesture that feels less like expansion and more like response, a band meeting its audience where the connection still runs strongest.
In Australia, the addition of Brisbane sits comfortably within a run that moves through Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide, a sequence of arena shows that mirrors the scale Split Enz have long operated within. But scale here isn’t just logistical, it’s historical. Formed in 1972, relocating to Australia in the mid-’70s, the band helped shape what antipodean pop could look and sound like, theatrical, melodic, and slightly askew.
That legacy is anchored in a catalogue that still feels structurally sound decades on. Songs like ‘I Got You’, ‘I See Red’, ‘Message To My Girl’ and ‘Six Months In A Leaky Boat’ don’t function as relics so much as reference points, markers of a period when pop could be both eccentric and immediate. The success of True Colours only cemented that reach, its impact stretching well beyond Australasia into the UK and Europe.
For complete tour and ticket information, head to livenation.com.au and livenation.co.nz
