Pop sensation Billie Eilish to tour Australia in 2025
The nine-time Grammy and dual Oscar winner will play 12 East Coast dates in support of her forthcoming third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
Pop sensation Billie Eilish is set to make a return to Australia in February next year, as she gears to release her highly anticipated third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
The nine-time Grammy and dual Oscar winner (for her contributions to the James Bond and Barbie soundtracks) will play 12 dates across Australia’s east coast — with four shows each in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.
The Hit Me Hard and Soft tour kicks off at the Brisbane Entertainment Center on February 18, 19, 21, and 22, then heads to Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park on February 24, 25, 27, and 28, before finishing at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on March 4, 5, 7, and 8. General public tickets go on sale May 3.
The last time Eilish toured Australia was in 2022, in support of her second album, Happier Than Ever. The 22-year-old star first wowed Australian audiences in 2017, when she was just 15, and played two packed pub shows in Sydney and Melbourne, at The Landsdowne and The Toff respectively.
It was her 2019 single ‘Bad Guy’ — which includes a sample of the sound made by a Sydney traffic light when it turns green — that turned the whisper vocal artist into an overnight, obscenely famous star. That track, from her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, won Eilish Song of the Year at the Grammy’s.
On home turf, it won triple j’s annual Hottest 100 countdown, making Eilish the first female solo artist and youngest act to top the fan-voted poll.
Hit Me Hard and Soft arrives on May 17. Eilish wrote the album with her brother, Finneas, who also produced the album. She confirmed in an Instagram post that she does not plan to release any singles from the 10-track LP ahead of its release. “I wanna give it to you all at once,” she wrote.
Eilish recently made headlines for saying “how wasteful it is” that artists release numerous physical editions of their albums. She is following suit by releasing “limited variants” of Hit Me Hard and Soft. In addition, all physical editions will use “100% recyclable materials.” A press release notes that this is part of her “continued effort to minimise waste and combat climate change.”
The upcoming tour will feature a number of sustainability efforts, according to a press release. Including the sale of a limited number of “Changemaker Tickets,” of which a portion of the proceeds will support OzHarvest, and other not-for-profit organisations “addressing the impacts of food insecurity and the climate crisis.”
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