Fresh off the back of new album Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, Ethel Cain has expanded her global tour into 2026 with dates in Australia and New Zealand.
Taking place throughout February 2026, the forthcoming shows will be Cain’s first of the year and will launch with a headline date at Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand before heading west to Australia. The five-date tour will feature two headline dates in Melbourne before one-off shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle.
Cain’s visit to New Zealand will mark her first appearance in the country, while it will be her second time in Australia, having made her debut in 2023 as part of the RISING, Vivid Live and Dark MOFO festivals.
The announcement of new tour dates comes just days after the release of Cain’s second studio album, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always 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 release. Its recent physical issue also resulted in peaks atop the Top Alternative Albums chart, the all-genre Top Album Sales list, 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 recent interview revealed that the Ethel Cain project has reached a thematic conclusion with the release of the nascent record.
“Preacher’s Daughter was speaking on my experiences in the church and as a child, and dealing with an environment you are subjected to and can escape from and all those fears,” Anhedönia told Popcast last month. “Willoughby Tucker is more of my insecurities and frustrations and fears and inadequacies and all of that in love. And so it’s just as personal, just on a different tip.
“But all of this, since the debut, has to do with Ethel Cain, the granddaughter’s character. So we are now, after this record is over, officially closing that chapter.
“I built Ethel Cain, the granddaughter’s character, now based off of, now, 27 years of life,” she added. “I have to go back out now and live and get more experience.”
Cain will launch the Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour in Seattle on Tuesday (Aug. 12) ahead of dates throughout North America, the U.K. and Europe, which are scheduled until mid-November.
Ethel Cain: The Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour, Australia & New Zealand Dates
Feb. 14 – Auckland Town Hall, 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 Hall, Brisbane, QLD
Feb. 28 – Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
