Tour dates: Crowded House and their loyal Australian crowd choir to reunite at shows next year

Crowded House has long ignited the planet’s loudest crowd choirs. Warm up, because the band’s set to tour Australia.

Beloved pop rockers Crowded House will tour Australia for the first time in 12 long years next April.

The kings of loud crowd karaoke are mixing it up for the Dreamers Are Waiting tour, with arena, winery and festival gigs.

The tour kicks off in Perth’s Kings Park on April 1, and then heads to Adelaide Entertainment Centre on April 5, Melbourne’s Myer Music Bowl on April 8, Sydney’s Aware Super Theatre on April 12, Centennial Vineyards in Bowral on April 16 and the Byron Bay Bluesfest on April 17.

Crowded House (from left) Nick Seymour, Elroy Finn, Mitchell Froom, Neil Finn and Liam Finn. Picture: Kerry Brown

While both Neil Finn, as a solo artist, and Crowded House have played one-off shows and festival appearances in Australia over the past decade, they haven’t booked a national tour here since 2010, off the back of the release of their sixth studio album Intriguer.

The band quietly went on an indefinite break for several years after that tour, but reunited to perform two shows on the Sydney Opera House forecourt in November 2016 to mark the 20th anniversary of their Farewell To The World concert.

About 18 months later, Finn joined Fleetwood Mac in the wake of Lindsey Buckingham’s sacking from the legendary band for its final world tour.

The band toured New Zealand in March this year before Delta struck. Photo: WireImage.

Just before the pandemic struck last year, Finn confirmed Crowded House was heading back into the studio, with co-founder Nick Seymour and a new line-up which featured Liam and Elroy Finn and producer and keyboardist Mitchell Froom.

“Liam and Elroy have come in as great songwriters, arrangers and are really good players. They’ve both had a tremendously good experience of music and life,” Finn said when the band released Dreamers Are Waiting in June.

“There’s no questions of their credentials. They have to be able, in their own minds and for everybody, rise above any feeling like they’re just there because they’re my family. That’s not at all in our internal narrative.”

Their tour plans shifted from 2020 to 2021 and are now confirmed for 2022 as the Dreamers Are Waiting record was recognised last week with the ARIA award for Best Adult Contemporary Album.

The music video for their latest single Love Isn’t Hard At All doesn’t feature the band but instead Kelly Slater. Finn edited footage of the champion surfer in action as a “visual tribute to his power and grace” to match the song’s summer vibe.

Tickets go on sale on December 10, with all ticketing and pre-sale details via crowdedhouse.com