Courtney Barnett Expands 2026 ‘Creature of Habit’ Tour, Adds Australia Swing

Courtney Barnett’s Creature of Habit tour is growing new limbs.

The award-winning singer and songwriter adds an Australia leg to her 2026 world tour, an east coast run that includes dates in Brisbane (​The Tivoli, Nov. 4), Sydney (Opera House, Nov. 6) and Melbourne (Palais Theatre, Nov. 7).

Produced by Frontier Touring, Barnett’s homecoming tour is her first in four years, and follows an extensive jaunt on both sides of the Atlantic.

“Courtney Barnett is a truly singular artist,” comments Sydney Opera House head of contemporary Music, Ben Marshall, “a songwriter whose wry, observant voice and magnetic stage presence have cemented her as one of Australia’s most distinctive artists of her generation. To welcome her back to the Concert Hall with such a poignant new body of work promises a performance that is both expansive and intimate – one that draws you in and holds you there.”

Before heading home, Barnett will work the crowds in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and across North America, a stretch that expands with her first solo concert in Hawaii (June 12 at Blue Note in Honolulu) and a third San Francisco show (Aug. 28 at The Fillmore).

The acclaimed songwriter is supporting her fourth studio album, Creature of Habit, written after her relocation from Melbourne to Los Angeles and the closure of her long-running, award-winning indie label Milk! Records. Creature of Habit is the result of Barnett reaching that junction, processing it, and shaping music from all the confusion.

In her homeland, Barnett has collected six ARIA Awards, multiple AIR Awards, the J Award for best Australian album and collected the 11th annual Australian Music Prize (AMP) in 2016 for her debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, which crashed the top 20 in the United States and United Kingdom, and went to No. 4 in her homeland. That breakthrough earned Barnett a Grammy Award nomination for best new artist.

Her followup, Tell Me How You Really Feel from 2018, peaked at No. 2 in Australia, No. 9 in the U.K., and No. 30 in the U.S., and her third solo effort, Things Take Time, Take Time, cracked Australia’s top 10, and impacted the Official U.K. Albums Chart and the Billboard 200.

Courtney Barnett’s “Creatures of Habit” Australian Tour 2026:

Nov. 4 — ​The Tivoli, Brisbane

Nov. 6 — Sydney Opera House Concert Hall 

Nov. 7 — Palais Theatre, Melbourne