It’s been a long wait — but Scottish alt-rock lifers Travis are finally returning to Australia. For the first time since their sell-out 2001 run, the BRIT-winning band will hit our stages in January 2026, performing their breakthrough album The Man Who in full alongside highlights from a career that has defined a generation.
The tour kicks off at Metropolis Fremantle on Thursday 8 January, before rolling into Melbourne’s Festival Hall (10 Jan), Hindley Street Music Hall in Adelaide (12 Jan), Sydney’s ICC Theatre (14 Jan) and wrapping at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall (16 Jan). Tickets land first via artist presale on Tuesday 23 September at 2pm.
Formed out of Glasgow’s School of Art in the ’90s, Travis broke through with their platinum debut Good Feeling (1997) before changing the course of UK guitar music with The Man Who (1999). That record not only topped charts for nine weeks and went nine-times platinum in the UK, it also shifted over 110,000 copies in Australia, embedding songs like “Why Does It Always Rain On Me?” into the DNA of post-Britpop indie. Their follow-up The Invisible Band (2001) cemented them with classics “Sing” and “Flowers in the Window”, while their ten-album run up to 2024’s L.A. Times has kept them mainstays at festivals from Glastonbury to Fuji Rock.
Along the way, they’ve bagged BRITs for Best Band and Best Album, an NME Artist of the Year gong, and even an Ivor Novello. Critics have long credited Travis with paving the way for Coldplay and Keane to dominate the 2000s — a fact underlined by Keane once supporting them, and Chris Martin guesting on their 2024 track “Raze the Bar”.
This Australian return is more than nostalgia. It’s a rare chance to hear one of the era’s most influential albums in its entirety — delivered by the four men who wrote it, still intact and still thriving on the road.
TRAVIS – THE MAN WHO IN CONCERT AUSTRALIA 2026
THURSDAY JANUARY 8 – METROPOLIS, FREMANTLE
SATURDAY JANUARY 10 – FESTIVAL HALL, MELBOURNE (All Ages)
MONDAY JANUARY 12 – HINDLEY ST. MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE (All Ages)
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 14 – ICC SYDNEY THEATRE, SYDNEY (All Ages)
FRIDAY JANUARY 16 – FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL, BRISBANE (All Ages)
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