Tour News - Train announces Australia & New Zealand Shows for 2025
Presented by: Destroy All Lines
TRAIN 2024 - Image Credit: Jasper Graham
Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning, diamond-selling band Train is fresh off the heels of an epic summer tour that took in nearly 50 U.S. cities, and today, announces their long-awaited return to Australia and New Zealand in May 2025. The national tour kicks off Sunday 18 May in Perth, which marks Train’s first Australian show in eight years, and will travel through Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane before concluding in Auckland on Wednesday 28 May.
Train’s highly anticipated 2025 Australasian Tour will bring fans across the globe an epic night of music filled with the band’s most iconic, chart-topping hits including ARIA 15x platinum certified, #1 best-selling smash “Hey, Soul Sister,” ARIA 12x platinum certified, double-GRAMMY-winning breakout song “Drops of Jupiter,” ARIA 2x platinum certified tracks “Drive By” and “Play That Song,” and many more from their critically-acclaimed catalog spanning three decades.
Joining Train on the road as direct support on all Australian dates is Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, best known for her 2004 multi-platinum debut, Eye to the Telescope, which spawned the hit “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and the world-wide smash “Suddenly I See.” Jason Wade of Lifehouse , will also join as support on the tour, performing the band’s biggest tracks including “Hanging By A Moment,” “You and Me,” “Whatever It Takes,” and more.
Early bird ticket presales begin Wednesday 11 December at 10am local time, and tickets for the general public will be on sale beginning Friday 13 December at 11am local time via destroyalllines.com. Sign up for access to early bird presale tickets HERE.
Since their formation in 1994, Train has had 14 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, 13 albums on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide. In 2024, the band celebrated the 15th anniversary of their iconic album Save Me, San Francisco, featuring GRAMMY-winning, global hit “Hey, Soul Sister,” which continues to reach new milestones – it was the #1 best-selling smash and most downloaded single of 2010, achieved RIAA Diamond status in 2021 and now 11x platinum, and in 2022 surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.
TRAIN AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2025 TOUR
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Sunday May 18 - Perth - Red Hill Auditorium
Tuesday 20 May - Adelaide - AEC Theatre
Thursday 22 May - Melbourne - John Cain Arena
Saturday 24 May - Sydney - ICC Theatre
Sunday 25 May - Brisbane - Riverstage
Wednesday May 28 – Auckland, New Zealand – Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall
Early Bird Pre-sales Begin Wednesday December 11am
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