Home · Entertainment · Sep 14 archive
The Fray to Return to Australia and New Zealand in 2027
Confirmed
In Short: The Fray are set to embark on the 'Summer of Light Tour' in February 2027, adding New Zealand to their Australian dates.
After selling out all six dates of their 2025 Australian tour, The Fray is returning to the region in February 2027 for the 'Summer of Light Tour', which will include New Zealand for the first time.
The tour will feature a mix of traditional headline shows and outdoor performances at the Lookout Festival, with Dashboard Confessional joining The Fray for the indoor dates in Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland.
The timing of the tour coincides with The Fray's ninth album, 'All The Truth That I Can Tell', and their Grammy and Billboard Music Award nominations, highlighting the band's enduring popularity.
The tour kicks off at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena on February 5 and will conclude with The Fray's first-ever performance in New Zealand at Auckland’s Eventfinda on February 17.
Chris Carrabba and co. expressed their excitement about the tour, stating, 'We had such an incredible time touring in Australia in 2025. The energy from those crowds was unbelievable.
The indoor run, presented by TEG Live, will also include Wollongong, where The Fray and Fahim will perform without Dashboard Confessional, making the tour a unique experience for fans in different cities.
Background
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It comprises two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 700 smaller islands.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world, and is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent.
What's confirmed
- After selling out all six dates of their 2025 Australian tour, The Fray is returning to the region in February 2027 for the 'Summer of Light Tour', which will include New Zealand for the first time.
- The tour will feature a mix of traditional headline shows and outdoor performances at the Lookout Festival, with Dashboard Confessional joining The Fray for the indoor dates in Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland.
- The timing of the tour coincides with The Fray's ninth album, 'All The Truth That I Can Tell', and their Grammy and Billboard Music Award nominations, highlighting the band's enduring popularity.
- The tour kicks off at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena on February 5 and will conclude with The Fray's first-ever performance in New Zealand at Auckland’s Eventfinda on February 17.
- Chris Carrabba and co. expressed their excitement about the tour, stating, 'We had such an incredible time touring in Australia in 2025. The energy from those crowds was unbelievable.
- The indoor run, presented by TEG Live, will also include Wollongong, where The Fray and Fahim will perform without Dashboard Confessional, making the tour a unique experience for fans in different cities.
What's still developing
- The Lookout Festival dates bring an even bigger bill, with Bastille, Dashboard Confessional, Killing Heidi and Little Birdy joining the party, although Killing Heidi won’t appear in Perth.
- The Fray have picked up four Grammy nominations and three Billboard Music Awards along the way, but it’s the longevity of songs like this that explains why they can still sell out Australian shows two decades into their career.
- Chris Carrabba and co. have been back in full swing following ninth album ‘All The Truth That I Can Tell’, making the pairing with The Fray a pretty neat collision of two bands whose songs soundtracked a lot of messy bedrooms, burned CDs and complicated relationships.
- The Fray clearly enjoyed themselves Down Under last time.
- Related My Chemical Romance Tease Possible New Album During Tour-Closing Show Pink Addresses Backlash Over Comments About Macklemore's Pro-Palestine Stance: 'Standing Up for My Own People' Drake Shares 'Fear of Missing Out' Teaser: 'A Not So Short Film' The indoor run, presented by TEG Live, opens at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena on Feb.
- The Lookout Festival dates, presented by Face to Face Touring, add British indie-pop act Bastille to the bill alongside Dashboard Confessional and local acts Killing Heidi and Little Birdy, running across Torquay, Perth, Lake Macquarie and Sandstone Point.
- The tour supports A Light That Waits, the Denver band’s first full-length album in more than a decade, released in March.