American pop-punk emerging star, Taylor Acorn returns to Australia next week.
The 'Psycho' and 'Shapeshifting' hitmaker will headline concerts in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney – her first Australian shows since playing 2024 Good Things Festival.
"🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 It's OFFICIAL! I'm going back down under for a few shows this coming March, but this time with my besties Arrows In Action tagging along?!!!!?! 🎉🎉 See you so soon!!!!!!!"
Adds Arrows In Action who collaborated with Taylor on their 2021 mega hit 'Uncomfortably Numb': "AUSTRALIA! Ask and you shall receive! We are finally making the trip over with Taylor Acorn! It's been a long time coming and we can't wait to see all of you for the first time. See you soon!"
Here, Taylor shares a few anecdotes from her previous visits to Australia.
Making Life-long Friends
I feel like every time we come to Australia we have the most amazing time, and we get to work with some of the most amazing people.
Meeting Mackenzie Greene [Destroy All Lines] was definitely a highlight, we meshed with her so well. It was like finding a long lost family member from all the way across the world. Meeting her was definitely awesome, and I feel like I have a friend in her for life.
Airplane Fun
Obviously the flights are very memorable. I remember the very first time we flew out there, we flew to Los Angeles first and we had a 12-hour layover in Los Angeles before we ended up heading out to Australia.
So that was quite the time; and the turbulence sometimes is a bit crazy along the way. I remember landing, I believe we ended up in Sydney first and just being like, 'oh my gosh, I can't believe that this is what I get to do. I get to come all the way out here and perform for people and meet so many people that I've been able to chat with online, but I haven't actually ever physically met.'
That whole first plane ride flying over there is something I'll never forget, I was so anxious and excited and just so happy; and also I was getting to go play headline shows.
I think a lot of people would go over and support, but it was like: all right, we're doing this! We're just gonna rip the bandaid off and play these headline shows, and so many of them were sold out.
I remember the first show we played, I think merch sold out within minutes and we had to write on a cardboard sign 'sorry, no merch!'. That was really amazing.
You kind of feel like you're in a little bubble when you're in the US and then you see and meet people and you're like, 'oh my gosh, this is so much bigger than what I ever thought it would be, or so much bigger than me'. It was really cool to experience that.
Kangaroo Mates
A third thing was getting to meet and hang out with the kangaroos, that's just the coolest experience. I am such a lover of animals, all things.
I won't lie though, I was a little nervous heading out to Australia because you guys tend to have a few creatures that I don't think that I would love as much.
Of course before you head out, you talk about Australia and your phone picks all of that up, I saw the big snake that was all the way across the rooftops of the houses into the trees, and the spiders.
So I was anticipating those things, but it was really awesome to be able to see the koalas and hang out with the kangaroos. They're so sweet and you don't ever get to experience that in the US.
I'm such an animal lover, so it definitely warms my heart every time, and I will definitely be going to that animal sanctuary every time that we come out; and this time we get to bring Arrows in Action along and it's going to be their first time too.
So I'm really excited to see what they think of everything and their reactions to the animals and stuff like that.
Shoey Adventures
We were playing a show in Sydney, I believe it was the first time that we were out there, and it was our last show in Sydney.
God bless Ricky [RickyJab], my guitarist. I'm not a big beer drinker, and at that time I wasn't drinking alcohol at all, I was just taking some time away.
I will never forget that Sydney show we played, a shoe comes up to us, right up to the stage. I remember it was an all-black Van shoe, and it had been super weathered. There was a hole right in the toe and it was just spewing out beer because it was filled to the brim. It's spewing out beer and they're calling for the shoey.
I was like, 'oh my gosh, I don't know if I should do this'. There was a second where I contemplated doing it. I was like, 'okay, I could do this now. I may heavily regret it after the fact.'
Then at the last second I looked at Ricky and he gave me this look of like, 'oh god. . . it's me, isn't it?' So I turned it to him and I poured it down his mouth and it went all down the front of him. We both just looked at the shoe afterwards and we're like, 'oh gosh'.
I've apologised so many times, I'm like, 'I'm so sorry, Ricky'. I think I ended up giving him oregano oil or something after that, I was like, 'you have to clear out whatever was in that, purify your intestines after that one', but that was super funny.
On that same day, Connor [Allen, drums] and I joked because every single time we go to Australia, he wears these slip-on shoes that are shaped like a fish, we call them the fish flops; and Connor did a. . . I guess it would be like a fish shoey? Like a fish shoey but not because I poured the beer down and it slid down into his mouth through the fish flops. So that was funny also. The shoey moments were always so great.
Good Things Festival
Lastly, it's kind of a double whammy, but playing Good Things Festival for the first time was just incredible, and seeing so many people show up for our sets and singing all of the songs back too. They just seemed so excited.
Man, the show in Brisbane was so unbelievably hot. I think afterwards, all of us looked at each other like, 'how are we still alive?!'. I think Connor, our drummer, had to have a wet towel over his head for the majority of the set, so he was playing drums blind.
We were all really hurting, but everyone was so excited and that was so awesome. In that same breath, we got to tour and do some one-off shows with Bowling For Soup. Now I feel like Jaret [Reddick] is our tour dad, he is the best, he's just the absolute best.
Getting to meet them and share that with them was amazing. They're a band that I have been a huge fan of since I was a little kid, I quite literally remember watching the music video for a 'Girl All The Bad Guys Want' in my living room on TRL; getting to experience that but in another country was really cool.
Good Things Festival, definitely a highlight and getting to tour with Jaret and Bowling For Soup was so awesome. They're just the nicest people, and getting to chat with them about their career. . . they've had the same crew for their whole career.
Seeing the way that they work, it's been really awesome to see; and talking to them was a true testament of how I want to be able to run my business and run this career.
My crew has been the same for the last five years essentially, it's been the core people; and to hear that from a band I've loved for so long, it just felt really serendipitous. Definitely some very cool moments.
Taylor Acorn 2026 Tour Dates
Sun 1 Mar - 170 Russell (Melbourne)
Tue 3 Mar - The Triffid (Brisbane)
Thu 5 Mar - Lion Arts Factory (Adelaide)
Fri 6 Mar - Manning Bar (Sydney)
