Pulp have announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand for 2026. Find all the details below.
The Sheffield band are due to head Down Under early next year in support of their Mercury-shortlisted album ‘More’, which was released this summer.
Jarvis Cocker and co. will take to the stage in Auckland, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney throughout February and March.
The trek is set to conclude with two shows at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt on March 6 and 7. The group’s Adelaide date will be a free gig, held as part of Adelaide Festival in Elder Park.
Tickets for the tour go on general sale at 9am local time this Friday (November 7) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale at the same time tomorrow (Wednesday November 5) by signing up to Pulp’s mailing list.
Pulp’s 2026 Australia and New Zealand tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
21 – Spark Arena, Auckland
24 – Riverstage, Brisbane
27 – Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
MARCH
03 – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
06 – Sydney Opera House Forecourt, Sydney
07 – Sydney Opera House Forecourt, Sydney
‘More’ marked Pulp’s first studio album in 24 years, following on from 2001’s ‘We Love Life’. In a four-star review, NME wrote: “Drenched in synths and strings and aided by producer James Ford’s knack for making the music feel alive and omnipresent, ‘More’ is everything you’d want a Pulp album to be, made richer from some lived experience.
“Just as Blur did with ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ and Suede have managed on their immaculate run of post-reunion albums, Pulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital.”
Speaking to NME at the Mercury Prize 2025 ceremony last month, Pulp’s Nick Banks and Candida Doyle said they were “not itching” to make another record, despite the success of ‘More’.
“An EP, maybe, or a single,” Doyle explained.
Speaking about being shortlisted for the prize, which was this year won by Sam Fender’s ‘People Watching’, Banks told us: “It’s always really nice to get on the shortlist, because, you know, a hell of a lot of music gets released every year, so to be picked out as one of the 12 to look at, then that’s really great.
“We never expect it, you never do a record saying you’re aiming to get on the shortlist this year or next year.”
During an interview with NME in June, frontman Cocker reflected on Pulp getting back into the studio together to make their comeback album. “As soon as we tried it, it was surprisingly easy,” he said.
“When you play music with other people, you build up a weird and intimate relationship, but you’re not really saying owt to each other. You become an organism with no one really in control of it. That’s a nice feeling. You produce something that you wouldn’t be capable of doing on your own.”
Meanwhile, Pulp recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of ‘Different Class’ by hosting an album playback and Q&A in London.
They went on a UK arena tour this summer, played a triumphant and badly-kept “secret” set at Glastonbury 2025, and concluded a North American leg of their tour in September.
In a glowing, five-star review of Pulp’s return to Glastonbury, NME wrote: “In this somewhat humble secret set that’s momentous and joyous enough to be a headline set (not least for the warm reception for Number One album ‘More’, let alone the relentless bangers that make up the setlist), Pulp give themselves over to Glasto and make it all about the people and the moment.”
