Contemporary off the again of latest album Willoughby Tucker, I’ll All the time Love You, Ethel Cain has expanded her international tour into 2026 with dates in Australia and New Zealand.
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Happening all through February 2026, the forthcoming exhibits will likely be Cain’s first of the yr and can launch with a headline date at Auckland City Corridor in New Zealand earlier than heading west to Australia. The five-date tour will function two headline dates in Melbourne earlier than one-off exhibits in Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle.
Cain’s go to to New Zealand will mark her first look within the nation, whereas will probably be her second time in Australia, having made her debut in 2023 as a part of the RISING, Vivid Reside and Darkish MOFO festivals.
The announcement of latest tour dates comes simply days after the discharge of Cain’s second studio album, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll All the time Love You on Friday (Aug. 8).
The album is a thematic prequel to Cain’s 2022 debut, Preacher’s Daughter, which reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200 in April following its first vinyl launch. Its current physical issue additionally resulted in peaks atop the Top Alternative Albums chart, the all-genre Top Album Sales record, the Vinyl Albums chart, and No. 2 placings on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts.
The musical moniker of Hayden Anhedönia, a current interview revealed that the Ethel Cain mission has reached a thematic conclusion with the discharge of the nascent file.
“Preacher’s Daughter was talking on my experiences within the church and as a baby, and coping with an surroundings you might be subjected to and may escape from and all these fears,” Anhedönia informed Popcast final month. “Willoughby Tucker is extra of my insecurities and frustrations and fears and inadequacies and all of that in love. And so it’s simply as private, simply on a special tip.
“However all of this, for the reason that debut, has to do with Ethel Cain, the granddaughter’s character. So we are actually, after this file is over, formally closing that chapter.
“I constructed Ethel Cain, the granddaughter’s character, now primarily based off of, now, 27 years of life,” she added. “I’ve to return out now and stay and get extra expertise.”
Cain will launch the Willoughby Tucker Endlessly Tour in Seattle on Tuesday (Aug. 12) forward of dates all through North America, the U.Ok. and Europe, that are scheduled till mid-November.
Ethel Cain: The Willoughby Tucker Endlessly Tour, Australia & New Zealand Dates
Feb. 14 – Auckland City Corridor, Auckland, NZ
Feb. 16 – Palais Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
Feb. 17 – Palais Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
Feb. 21 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, NSW
Feb. 25 – The Fortitude Music Corridor, Brisbane, QLD
Feb. 28 – Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA