Grammy-winner Pi’erre Bourne announces Australian tour
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25.07.2022

Grammy-winner Pi’erre Bourne announces Australian tour

Pi'erre Bourne

Grammy Award-winning producer and acclaimed hip-hop artist Pi’erre Bourne will embark on an Australian tour this December.

The tour follows on from his critically acclaimed 2021 album The Life of Pi’erre 5 and the release of Yo!88 in collaboration with TM88.

Returning to Australia and New Zealand after opening for superstar Drake on his massive sold-out Boy Meets World arena tour in 2017, this is Pi’erre Bourne’s first headlining tour Down Under.

Pi’erre Bourne Australian tour dates and venues

  • Tuesday 13 December: The Triffid | Brisbane, QLD
  • Wednesday 14 December: 170 Russell | Melbourne, VIC
  • Friday 16 December: Metro Theatre | Sydney, NSW
  • Saturday 17 December: Powerstation | Auckland, NZ

Check out Melbourne’s most comprehensive gig guide here. 

 

The celebrated artist and highly sought-after hip-hop producer says he will “bring the energy to his fans around the world like never before”, with shows in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland on his global Good Movie tour.

The Australian and New Zealand dates include shows at Brisbane’s The Triffid on Tuesday 13 December; Melbourne’s 170 Russell on Wednesday 14 December; Sydney’s Metro Theatre on Friday 16 December; and Auckland’s Powerstation on Saturday 17 December.

Emerging as one of the leading rap producers of the late 2010s, scoring major hits with Playboi Carti’s breakout hit Magnolia, 6ix9ine’s Gummo and topping the album charts with Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake – in addition to working with Kanye West, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Young Thug and Young Nudy – Pi’erre Bournehas reshaped the sound of modern hip-hop and become one of rap’s most in-demand producers. Along the way, he’s amassed more than 220 million streams on Spotify with more than 2.6 monthly listeners.

Also active as a rapper, he is known for his mixtapes showcasing his atmospheric beats and auto-tuned crooning. He grabbed the hip-hop world’s attention when he produced Magnolia, shifting the landscape of hip-hop production. He later received acclaim for Sli’merre, his 2019 mixtape with frequent collaborator Young Nudy and recently collaborated with the legendary Juicy J on Space Age Pimpin’.

In 2021, Pi’erre won his first Grammy Award for his production work on Kanye West’s Jesus Is King album. Later that year, he hit number 35 on the Billboard200 with his second studio album, the lauded The Life of Pi’erre 5(released on Interscope via Pi’erre’s label imprint SossHouse), featuring appearances by Playboi CartiLil Uzi Vert, and Sharc.

Frontier Members in Australia will have access to pre-sale tickets on Tuesday 26 July from 10.00am local time for 24 hours, before tickets go on sale to the general public on Wednesday 27 July from 12pm AEST via frontiertouring.com/pierrebourne.