nimino is heading to Australia for two headline shows in April 2026, and tickets are moving fast after his recent North American run.
Fresh off a sold-out North American headline tour, nimino is touching down in Melbourne and Sydney with a live show that’s picked up serious word of mouth across the global circuit.
Melbourne is up first on April 3 with a swift journey over to Sydney for Saturday night (April 4).
His thing is blending emotional songwriting with full-on club energy, sitting in that sweet spot where music works just as well on headphones at 2am as it does in a room full of sweaty strangers.
Most people found nimino through I Only Smoke When I Drink, a track that’s now sitting at over 80 million streams. It landed on the UK Singles Chart, spent more than 20 weeks on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Chart, and got cosigned by Pete Tong, Diplo and Danny Howard along the way.
@niminowayjose And i only drink when i overthink 🤔 #newmusic #electronicmusic ♬ Only Smoke (Live) – nimino
Out on Ninja Tune’s Counter Records (label home to ODESZA, Maribou State and Roosevelt), nimino’s music resists easy categorisation. It moves between introspective and euphoric within the same four minutes, which probably explains why it works equally well at a festival and in a 500-cap room on a Tuesday night.
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- When: Friday 3 Apr 2026
- Where: 170 Russell, Melbourne / Naarm
- Sydney – Saturday 4 Apr 2026
- Tickets: here
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Before the streams and the sold-out shows, nimino was Milo Evans, a teenager in the UK using music to deal with his ADHD.
He started out loop-stitching on an Asus laptop, got obsessive about it, studied music technology in Brighton, and had quietly amassed the equivalent of eight albums worth of material before most people knew his name.
His first release under the nimino moniker in 2013, a slow, bass-heavy rework of Pixies’ Where Is My Mind, racked up hundreds of thousands of SoundCloud plays and landed him Huffington Post’s Artist of the Month.
There’s something quietly poetic about an artist who started making music to manage his own neurodivergent brain and ended up making something that does the same thing for thousands of strangers, with comment sections full of people saying his music makes their brain tingle in the best possible way.
By 2020 he’d built a proper community online and launched songs for people you may know, a series where fans would pitch him ideas on Instagram and he’d turn them around into finished tracks, jumping across styles and tempos to see what stuck.
It’s a good window into how nimino actually operates, less concerned with maintaining a lane than with finding the right feeling for a moment.
That instinct produced Opening Credits. Someone in the series asked for the ultimate festival opener, with a long build and a big emotional payoff. He made it, debuted it live not long after, and it’s been a setlist fixture since its 2022 release.
It’s the kind of track that makes sense of the whole project: a song built out of a specific ask, for a specific feeling, that ended up meaning something much bigger to a lot of people.
Live, nimino has form that backs up the reputation.
Headline sets at Village Underground in London, Racket in New York and El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles have all sold out, with festival slots at Lightning in a Bottle and Leeds Festival rounding out a schedule that reflects years of quiet, consistent work. These aren’t passive sets either. nimino builds shows with a clear emotional arc, the kind where people are still processing it on the walk back to the car.
Tiff Cornish and Rubisco are joining the night.
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