Hayley Williams is taking her solo material on the road down under for the very first time, and Melbourne is on the list.
Emo kids and Paramore lifers, mark your calendars: Hayley Williams is finally bringing her solo show to Australia.
The Hayley Williams Show gathers up tracks from all three of the singer’s solo records, along with what’s being teased as a handful of surprises. It kicked off in Florida this month and has already sold out marquee US spots including New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, part of a wider run of North and Central American dates stretching into 2026 and 2027.
This won’t be Williams’ first Australian visit. She was last here in 2023 fronting Paramore’s east coast dates, including a Domain show in Sydney that pulled upwards of 25,000 heads, the band’s biggest headline crowd to date.
For the Australian leg, Williams is keeping the rooms small. Rather than the arenas Paramore filled last time round, the show heads into the Forum in Melbourne and the Enmore in Sydney, a pair of theatres that top out well short of stadium capacity.
The Hayley Williams Show
- 10 February – Enmore Theatre, Sydney (licensed, all ages)
- 17 February – Forum, Melbourne (18+)
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Tickets aren’t going the usual way for this one. Frontier Touring has set up a verified registration to keep seats out of the hands of bots and resellers, and it’s live right now. Registration opened at 8am AEST on 18 September and shuts at 8am AEST on 20 September, with every entry weighted the same no matter when it comes through.
Fans picked at random will be sent a unique unlock code by 5pm AEST on 21 September, and anyone who misses out will hear back by the same deadline. From there, the chance to purchase opens at 10am AEST on 22 September. Registration is happening over at hayleywilliams.hq.fan/thws-australia.
Away from Paramore, Williams has three solo albums to her name. The latest, Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, arrived on her own Post Atlantic Records (through Secretly Distribution) and its 20 tracks picked up four nominations at the last GRAMMYs. She’s a three-time GRAMMY winner across her Paramore years, and once ranked 13th on Billboard’s 50 Greatest Rock Singers list.
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