Details of Lily Allen’s Australia & NZ Tour: excitement abounds
Lily Allen delivers the news of her Australian/NZ tour, but not before getting in a bit of grocery shopping.
Racing to top of mind in even the most conservative of magazine editors, Lily Allen’s album West End Girl has been receiving a great amount of rotation on the international music circuit.
Themes of the record are mainly relationship-based: a kind of musical tell-all about the ups and downs (primarily the downs) of her former relationship with Stranger Things actor David Harbour (he plays Jim Hopper, doncha know).
Actually, Allen’s record is quite a scathing, candid account of the breakdown of her four-year marriage to the guy.
Now, the artist has announced her ‘Lily Allen Performs West End Girl’ tour for Australia, with a quick duck-over to New Zealand to put on a show for our outer antipodean friends. The NZ concert is on Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at Spark Arena in Auckland, before the tour moves to Australia, playing Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday, 23 October; TikTok Entertainment Centre in Sydney on Sunday, 25 October; Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday, 28 October; and RAC Arena in Perth on Sunday, 1 November.
Despite the lyrical content being a bit c*nty in a lot of the songs on West End Girl, all shows are licensed all-ages events (best block the kiddies’ ears for some of the cheekier lyrics).
West End Girl — first released digitally in October 2025 — marked Allen’s first album in seven years and has been widely praised for its emotional honesty, narrative depth and autobiographical themes, particularly reflecting her move to New York and personal life changes.
The album has amassed hundreds of millions of streams worldwide as have many of the music videos and visualisers. I particularly like the clip for Pussy Palace in which Lily dons a nun’s habit and a sharp pair of stilettos while singing about the debaucherous life of her ex. Lily sits there calmly, Mona Lisa-style, a look in her eye knowing that the best revenge is served cold, and in style.
The last time I made a classic Renaissance art reference in connection to a pop star was with Charli Xcx, but I so love the way Lily’s tied this sense of classicism into her visualiser. And something tells me – I don’t know why exactly – that a Lily/Charli collab could be appearing somewhere down the 2026 pipeline.
Watch this space.
Tickets to ‘Lily Allen Performs West End Girl’ go on general sale Monday 9 February at 1 pm local time, with pre-sales earlier in the week. Visit for more information or for ticket purchases.
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