presented by triple j, Select Music Tours & Rage More Management

Fresh off her Cry Forever arena tour, adored pop singer songwriter, Amy Shark has today announced she’ll be hitting the road for a mammoth 42 date regional tour of Australia across May, June, July and August this year, presented by triple j, Handsome Tours and Select Music. 

With one show still remaining on her national run (Perth’s RAC Arena set for May 13), and having sold over thirty thousand tickets so far at some of the country’s largest venues, Amy Shark will now bring her critically acclaimed Cry Forever and Love Monster albums, plus faves from her Night Thinker EP to regional fans right across Australia.  The tour will kick off at Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre on May 19 before taking in a further 9 dates in WA (supported by Dulcie), and will then move through NT (supported by Prayer Corby), NSW (supported by Adam Newling), ACT, VIC (supported by Yorke), SA (supported by Jess Day) and TAS (supported by Tyler Richardson), then heading north for 7 shows in her home state of QLD (supported by Cult Romance), finishing up at Tanks Arts Centre in Cairns on August 29.

“A lot of Aussie artists are taking off and playing shows around the world, understandable seeing as we've all been grounded for so long - it's definitely something I am looking forward to doing myself,” explains Amy, “but I just felt like our country has missed out on a lot of live music too. So before I cater to the US or the UK, I thought I should pay a visit to as many Aussies as humanly possible. And I’ve mentioned to my team that I’d like to allow some time in certain places to explore.” 

After bursting on to the global music scene in 2016, Amy Shark’s 6 x Platinum single Adore put her on the map as one of Australia’s most formidable emerging songwriters. This was followed by APRA award winning (Song Of The Year) 6 x Platinum and number one Australian airplay chart hit,  I Said Hi and the 2019 3 x platinum single Mess Her Up. Shark’s debut/breakthrough #1 ARIA album and Platinum-certified LOVE MONSTER was recognised in 2018 with four ARIA awards (Album of the Year, Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release, Best Producer [Dann Hume]) and was nominated for another five. LOVE MONSTER went on to become the highest selling album by an Australian artist for 2018. Not one to slow down, even in a global pandemic, 2020 saw Amy release her ARIA award winning, 2 x Platinum accredited single, Everybody Rise, which is nearing 37 million streams globally and spent 12 weeks in the top 10 Australian airplay chart. Amy’s latest album, CRY FOREVER was her second #1 ARIA debut holding the top spot for two weeks consecutively. Shark teamed up with blink 182’s Travis Barker on Gold accredited single C’MON and global superstar Ed Sheeran to co-write platinum single Love Song’s Ain’t For Us featuring Grammy award winning artist Keith Urban. Today Amy has amassed 798 Million combined global streams. 

The upcoming Australian regional tour might well be the last chance for fans to see Amy live in such intimate-capacity venues, and tickets will move fast.  Thrilled to be performing such an epic run of shows around Aus, and showing her endless gratitude for the huge love from her regional fans, Amy enthuses, “I'm still buzzing from the Rod Laver show, it was a very special night. We're going to have to scale back the show a tiny bit for the regional run only because we are playing in towns that can't handle the amount of production I took on the Cry Forever tour. But don't for a second think I won't be giving it everything I have on stage every single night. I play the same show, with the same level of energy no matter what the capacity, and I don't know when I'll get the chance to do a huge Australian run like this again so if I'm coming to your town you are mine that night! No excuses.”