Guns N’ Roses’ one-off concert in Australia has expanded into a full-blown stadium tour.
The rock heavyweights will bring their World Tour 2026 to Australia and New Zealand later this year for a run of open-air shows, kicking off with the previously-announced headline date Nov. 29 at the bp Adelaide Grand Final.
Then, Axl Rose and Co. head north to Townsville’s Queensland Country Bank Stadium (Dec. 2), Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium (Dec. 5), Newcastle’s McDonald Jones Stadium (Dec. 8), Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium (Dec. 11) and Sydney’s Engie Stadium (Dec. 14), before travelling east to New Zealand for the final date Dec. 17 at Auckland’s Eden Park Stadium, for what should be Kiwi fans’ ultimate early Christmas present.
Aussie rockers Airbourne are special guests on the forthcoming Australasian tour, produced by Live Nation.
The Rock Hall-inducted band will head down under precisely four years after their last tour of these parts, back in November and December 2022 for the Australasian leg of their We’re F’N’ Back! stadium trek.
With the new leg, announced Friday, March 6, the rockers expand on a world tour that got underway in 2025 and visited Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, and follows the release in December of two new songs, “Nothin’” and “Atlas,” their first new music since 2023’s one-off singles “The General” and “Perhaps.”
In a recent interview with Sylvia Alvarado of Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3, guitarist Slash said it was “good to have a couple of songs that we’re promoting and then a tour that’s really a long tour.”
Slash also promised that the outfit would play new and old songs on their upcoming 2026 world tour, which is slated to start March 28 at Monterrey, Mexico’s Tecate Pa’l Norte festival, and includes dates in Europe and North America (summer) and Latin America (spring).
Tickets for the GN’R shows in Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle and Sydney go on sale next Friday, March 13 at 1pm local, with Melbourne and Auckland on sale at 12pm local.
Visit gunsnroses.com, livenation.com.au, livenation.co.nz and adelaidegrandfinal.com.au for more on the ANZ shows.
Guns N’ Roses The World Tour 2026 Australia And New Zealand
Sunday, Nov. 29 — bp Adelaide Grand Final, Adelaide
Wednesday, Dec. 2 — Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville
Saturday, Dec. 5 — Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Tuesday, Dec. 8 –McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle
Friday, Dec. 11– Marvel Stadium, Melbourne
Monday, Dec. 14 — Engie Stadium, Sydney
Thursday, Dec. 17 — Eden Park Stadium, Auckland