Tame Impala Bring Deadbeat Home for 12 Australian Arena Shows
Tame Impala’s Deadbeat tour reaches Australia this week. The run opens at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday 9 October and closes with two shows at Perth’s RAC Arena on 24 and 25 October. That is 12 arena dates in four cities, with Ninajirachi as special guest on every one.
It is Tame Impala’s first tour of Australia since 2022, according to Billboard. It is also the home leg of a world run built around Deadbeat, the fifth Tame Impala album, which Kevin Parker released in late 2025. Here is the full schedule, how four shows became twelve, and what fans can expect from the band Parker has put together for it.
The Dates, City by City
Brisbane comes first, with three nights at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 9, 10 and 11 October. Melbourne follows with four nights at Rod Laver Arena on 14, 15, 16 and 17 October.
Sydney has three nights at Qudos Bank Arena on 19, 20 and 21 October. Perth closes the run at RAC Arena on 24 and 25 October.
The tour is presented by Frontier Touring, Chugg Entertainment and Laneway Presents. Frontier Touring’s tour page lists ticketing and VIP packages, which include early entry, an exclusive tour merchandise item and a commemorative laminate. The promoter says set times will be published closer to each show.
Several dates sold out early in the run’s life, and Billboard flagged low ticket counts for others at the time of the final expansion. Fans still looking for tickets should check the official page rather than resale listings, as the promoter advises buying only through authorised sellers.
From Four Shows to Twelve
The tour was first announced in February as four arena shows: Brisbane on 10 October, Melbourne on 14 October, Sydney on 19 October and Perth on 24 October, according to Australian Musician. Tickets went on general sale on Friday 27 February.
Demand changed the plan quickly. Billboard reports that seven arena dates sold out immediately during the general sale, and the promoter added further shows in response. The final round of additions put new dates in Brisbane on 9 October, Melbourne on 17 October and Sydney on 21 October, taking the total to 12.
Frontier Touring put the additions down to overwhelming demand. For a tour by one songwriter’s project, 12 arena nights in a single country is a large run of shows by any measure.
The Record Behind the Run
Deadbeat arrived in late 2025, led by three singles: “Loser”, “End of Summer” and “Dracula”. It opened at number two on the ARIA albums chart last October, Billboard notes, which keeps a streak going: all five Tame Impala studio albums have reached the national top five. Innerspeaker and Lonerism peaked at number four, and Currents and The Slow Rush both went to number one.
Parker made most of the record between Fremantle and his studio, Wave House, in Injidup in Western Australia, according to Australian Musician. Noise11 describes a shift toward a house-adjacent sound that draws on the energy of the Western Australian rave scene.
The singles travelled. “Dracula” landed at number three in the triple j Hottest 100, almost 20 years after Tame Impala first appeared in the poll with “Half Full Glass of Wine” in 2008. In February, “End of Summer” won the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Recording, Parker’s first solo win in the category, a year after he won it with French duo Justice for “Neverender”. The same song was shortlisted for song of the year at the 2026 APRA Music Awards.
The tour announcement describes Deadbeat as the work of a famous perfectionist embracing spontaneity, with a distinct minimalism and crunch to its textures and a more playful vocal range than before. “Dracula” also gave Parker his biggest debuts yet at US radio, according to Australian Musician. For Australian audiences, these shows are the first chance to hear the new songs in an arena at home.
A New Six-Piece Band
In the studio, Tame Impala is Parker alone: as Noise11 puts it, he writes, performs and produces every note. On stage it is a band, and for this tour Parker has put together a new six-piece line-up, Billboard reports.
Noise11 lists the touring band as Parker alongside long-time collaborators Dominic Simper, Jay Watson, Cam Avery, Julien Barbagallo and James Ireland.
The band arrives with much of the world tour behind it. The Deadbeat run started with 12 sold-out shows across North America in October and November last year, a tour of the UK and Europe followed from April, and an arena run in the US and Canada with Djo and Dominic Fike as guests was scheduled for the summer, according to Billboard and Australian Musician.
By the time the band reaches Brisbane, the show will have played North America, the UK and Europe. Australian fans get the run late in its life, when the band has had the most time with the new songs.
Ninajirachi on Every Date
The special guest is Ninajirachi, the electronic artist, songwriter and producer raised on the Central Coast of New South Wales. She plays all 12 shows.
She comes to the tour off a big 2025. Her debut album, I Love My Computer, won the Australian Music Prize, NSW Music’s Breakthrough Artist Prize, two J Awards, including Album of the Year, and three ARIA Awards, according to Australian Musician.
The pairing makes sense for this record. A house-leaning Tame Impala album and an electronic producer on the same bill give the night a consistent thread from the first set to the last. It also puts her in front of arena crowds in her home country.
The First Australian Tour Since 2022
Tame Impala’s last Australian arena visit, in 2022, supported The Slow Rush from 2020, and had been delayed by the pandemic, according to Billboard.
Parker has not been absent since. He played arenas in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in the final weeks of 2025, but in a different role: he was the opening DJ for Justice on that run. The Deadbeat dates are his first Tame Impala tour at home in four years.
His profile has grown in the meantime. The Slow Rush debuted at number one in multiple territories and became, at the time, Tame Impala’s highest-charting album in the US, the UK and Canada, reaching the top 10 in 14 countries, according to Australian Musician. Billboard counted 13 ARIA Awards, one BRIT Award and two Grammys for Tame Impala when the tour was expanded. “The Less I Know the Better”, from 2015, has passed two billion streams. As a writer and producer, Parker has worked with Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, SZA, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, among many others, according to Australian Musician.
Perth to Close the Run
The last two nights belong to Perth. Billboard refers to the RAC Arena shows on 24 and 25 October as hometown dates, and Noise11 traces the project back to the Perth music scene in 2007, when Parker was a bedroom recording artist.
That arc is part of the appeal of this leg. A project that started as one person’s home recordings now plays four nights at Rod Laver Arena and closes the tour with two nights in the city where it began, with a Grammy-winning record behind it.
“Twelve arena nights at home is the clearest measure yet of how far Tame Impala has travelled from a bedroom in Perth, and closing in that city is the right way to end it,” said the IndieMusic.News curator team.
For another Australian act who made a record close to home, read how Julia Jacklin made The Gem upstairs from a Melbourne dive bar. Tame Impala’s Deadbeat tour opens in Brisbane on Friday 9 October.
