Australia’s Laneway Competition is not going to go to Adelaide or Perth in 2027, organizers introduced Monday (Aug. 10), scaling again the long-running touring competition’s footprint for its subsequent version.
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In a message shared on social media, organizers instructed followers in South Australia and Western Australia that “in 2027, Laneway will probably be taking a break in your cities,” acknowledging the information as “disappointing” whereas framing it as a strategic choice slightly than a everlasting exit.
“For over twenty years, we’ve had the pleasure of bringing Laneway to Australia and New Zealand, with stints in Singapore and Detroit too,” the assertion learn. “Working so many reveals, so shut collectively, throughout a lot floor is a logistical feat we’re pleased with, but it surely additionally asks a number of our lineup and crew.” The organizers added {that a} pause would permit them “to deal with making the competition the perfect it may be, whereas releasing up time for extra artists to convey headline reveals to cities past our competition stops,” earlier than signing off: “Adelaide and Perth, we love you! This isn’t goodbye, simply see you quickly.”
There was higher information for Queensland followers. After a one-off 2026 version on the Gold Coast — held at Southport Sharks, the competition’s first time within the area — Laneway’s northern leg will return to the Brisbane Showgrounds in 2027.
“Thanks to Southport Sharks for welcoming us in 2026 and giving us the chance to share Laneway with the Gold Coast’s unbelievable music group,” organizers stated. The Brisbane version first launched in Fortitude Valley in 2007 and was a fixture there earlier than relocating to the Showgrounds in 2013.
Laneway has grown from modest beginnings into some of the vital touring festivals within the area. It started in 2005 as a Melbourne-exclusive occasion — an offshoot related to The Avalanches — held within the metropolis’s laneways, from which it takes its identify. It expanded to Sydney in 2006, Brisbane in 2007, Adelaide in 2008 and Perth in 2009, earlier than going worldwide with an Auckland version in 2010. A seven-year run in Singapore launched in 2011, and a one-off Detroit occasion in 2013 stays the competition’s solely North American date.
In 2027, the competition will run throughout 4 cities: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, with venues, dates and lineup particulars promised quickly.
The choice to trim two cities comes at a precarious second for Australia’s competition sector, which has seen a wave of cancellations and collapses lately. Splendour within the Grass, one of many nation’s largest festivals, cancelled its 2024 version, whereas Falls Competition, Groovin the Moo and others have scrapped occasions amid rising prices, softening ticket gross sales and mounting logistical pressures. In opposition to that backdrop, Laneway’s framing of the transfer as a deliberate “pause” slightly than a retreat is notable — the competition stays one of many extra resilient gamers in a strained market, having simply come off a milestone version.
That 2026 version marked Laneway’s twenty first 12 months and was headlined by Chappell Roan, whose debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess turned a worldwide breakout, alongside a invoice that included Moist Leg, Wolf Alice, PinkPantheress, Geese and Lucy Dacus.
