Gen Z bedroom pop king Conan Gray returns to Australia in 2026.
The 'Heather', 'Maniac' and 'Memories' hitmaker is bringing his Wishbone world tour to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth next September-October.
"WISHBONE. WORLD. TOUR. I am thrilled to announce that the wishbone pajama shows are sailing worldwide – and now even bigger and better. :,)
"Bringing this album on tour to you has been the greatest joy of my life, and I can't believe I get to keep 'Wishbone''s story continuing through next year!!"
These tour dates follow Conan's record-breaking year with 'Wishbone', which debuted at #1 on Billboard's Album Sales chart and Top 3 on the Billboard 200 – marking the highest chart debut and biggest sales week of his career.
"Over the past two years, I've been secretly writing songs. After shows in the basements of the venues, in the sheets of my hotel beds, in narrow gaps between tours – I'd come back home and write all the things I felt nobody wanted to hear. Maybe even the things I didn't want people to hear.
"I didn't tell my friends. I didn't tell my label. After all, I didn't know I was making anything, and I had no plan to release any of it, but over time, I began to feel something I'd never felt before.
"I started to need the music. I listened in airports, in long cab trips, blaring in the shower. In heartbreak, then in joy. I started to play it for my friends, and they started to need it too.
"In car ride requests with the windows down, in a split pair of wired headphones on the subway home. It became an egregiously niche soundtrack to our own lives in real time, singing just for us.
"It felt like the music was reminding me who I am, at an experimental time in my 20s where 'who I am' had no definition at all. My driftwood childhood in Texas. My lucid summers in London. My blue striped bed sheets in my college apartment.
"I played the songs to the very first person I'd ever made music with, Dan Nigro, and I began to record. I didn't know why I was recording, I just was. I didn't know what story I was telling, I was just living in it.
"Slowly I started to see myself in full picture. The slivers of myself I'd always been, but never faced. The songs I'd always been writing, but never singing. Before I knew it I was surrounded by an album. That album is 'Wishbone'."
Read our review of Conan's 2024 Melbourne concert.
Released in August, the album features the singles 'This Song', 'Vodka Cranberry' and 'Caramel' as well as fan favourites like 'Actor', 'Nauseous' and 'Eleven Eleven'.
Joining Conan at all dates will be special guest, emerging Australian indie folk singer-songwriter, Esha Tewari ('You Were Mine', 'Beautiful Boy'). "Hii Tewarians I cannot believe I'm even saying this but I am opening for Conan Gray around the WORLDDDD!!! ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ ᯓ ✈︎.
"I'm so so grateful for Conan for giving me this amazing opportunity and I of course have to thank all of you guys for supporting me along this journey.
"I will also be playing with my band which I'm sooo excited for. I look forward to going to so many new cities and seeing all your faces!!! ₊˚⊹ ᰔ."
Tickets on sale from 9am (local time) on 24 October.
Conan Gray 2026 Tour Dates
Tue 29 Sep - Brisbane Entertainment CentreThu 1 Oct - Qudos Bank Arena (Sydney)
Sat 3 Oct - Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne)
Mon 5 Oct - Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Thu 8 Oct - RAC Arena (Perth)
