Tour News - The Beths announce Aotearoa tour + debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! - 30th October 2025

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Globetrotting local four-piece The Beths are thrilled to announce their return home; playing seven shows throughout Aotearoa next March in celebration of their recently released fourth album, Straight Line Was A Lie.

Released in August this year, Straight Line Was A Lie is their first album released via American label ANTI-, debuting at #1 on the Aotearoa Album Chart and receiving glowing reviews from press around the world.

The Beths made their late night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! performing Straight Line Was A Lie’s standout opening title track, praised by Stereogum as a “total slam dunk of an opener.”

The performance is a taste of what to expect on the band’s homecoming tour, which kicks off at Meow Nui in Wellington with two nights on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th of March 2026. The band then head south to Dunedin, playing Glenroy Auditorium on Friday 20th March, James Hay in Christchurch on Sunday 22nd March and Theatre Royal in Nelson on Monday 23rd March. The tour wraps up with two shows at the iconic Powerstation in Auckland on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th March.

These shows follow three solid months of touring the world, which kicked off last month in Europe and the UK. The North American leg begins this week and includes some of their biggest venues to date in the US and Canada, including The Wiltern in Los Angeles, The Fillmore in San Francisco, The Salt Shed in Chicago, Brooklyn Paramount in New York City, Union Transfer in Philadelphia, 9:30 Club in Washington, DC and more. Following their New Zealand dates, the band head to Australia where they play their biggest Australian headline shows thus far.

The path from The Beths’ critically celebrated and year-end-list-topping 2022 album Expert In A Dying Field to Straight Line Was A Lie was anything but straightforward. For the first time, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter Liz Stokes was struggling to write new songs beyond fragments she’d recorded on her phone. She’d recently started taking an SSRI, which on one hand made her feel like she could “fix” everything broken in her life, from her mental and physical health to fraught family dynamics. At the same time, writing wasn’t coming as easily as it had before.

With Straight Line Was A Lie, Stokes broke down the typical Beths writing process, opening themselves up to a wave of creative input, with Stokes’ free-flowing writing routine proving to be therapeutic. Already a celebrated lyricist, Stokes has long impressed fans and critics with catchy, instant-classic turns of phrase that capture the personal and ladder up to the universal. But Stokes’ intentional deconstruction and rebuilding of her relationship to writing, however, has resulted in a complete renewal. Her songwriting has achieved startling new depths of insight and vulnerability, making Straight Line Was A Lie the most sharply observant, truthful, and poetic Beths project to date.

Tour Dates:

Fri 13th Mar 2026 - Wellington, NZ @ Meow Nui
Sat 14th Mar 2026 - Wellington, NZ @ Meow Nui
Fri 20th Mar 2026 - Dunedin, NZ @ Glenroy Auditorium
Sun 22nd Mar 2026 - Christchurch, NZ @ James Hay
Mon 23rd Mar 2026 - Nelson, NZ @ Theatre Royal
Thu 26th Mar 2026 - Auckland, NZ @ Powerstation
Fri 27th Mar 2026 - Auckland, NZ @ Powerstation

Ticket Sales:

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For a full list of tour dates visit thebeths.com

Australia Tour - April 2026
Fri 17th April – Adelaide, SA @ The Gov
Sat 18th April – Perth, WA @ Astor Theatre
Thu 23rd April – Brisbane, QLD @ The Tivoli
Fri 25th April – Sydney, NSW @ The Roundhouse
Sat 26th April – Melbourne, VIC @ Forum Theatre

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