{"id":1871331,"date":"2026-04-08T02:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1871331"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:41:17","slug":"courtney-barnett-expands-2026-creature-of-habit-tour-adds-australia-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1871331","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Barnett Expands 2026 \u2018Creature of Habit\u2019 Tour, Adds Australia Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/courtney-barnett-1800-2026-cr-lindsey-byrnes.jpg?w=1024&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-content lrv-a-floated-parent lrv-a-glue-parent a-font-body-m u-font-size-19\">\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\" data-pmc-adm-ad-id=\"10140328\">\n<h3>\n\t\t\tTrending on Billboard\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCourtney Barnett\u2019s <em>Creature of Habit<\/em> tour is growing new limbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe award-winning singer and songwriter adds an Australia leg to her 2026 world tour, an east coast run that includes dates in Brisbane (\u200bThe Tivoli, Nov. 4), Sydney (Opera House, Nov. 6) and Melbourne (Palais Theatre, Nov. 7).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tProduced by Frontier Touring, Barnett\u2019s homecoming tour is her first in four years, and follows an extensive jaunt on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-display-inline-block lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-margin-t-2 u-margin-t-26@mobile-max u-margin-b-0.875@mobile-max u-margin-b-150@tablet u-border-t-12 lrv-u-padding-t-025 u-padding-b-1.313 lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-border-color-black\">\n<div class>\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-whitespace-nowrap u-font-weight-700 lrv-u-display-inline-block u-line-height-18px a-font-accent u-letter-spacing-0225 u-font-size-16 lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-article-badge-underline a-article-esp u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-margin-b-1@mobile-max u-margin-b-9@tablet\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story-wrapper lrv-u-flex lrv-u-justify-content-space-between lrv-u-padding-tb-050@desktop a-children-border-vertical a-children-border--grey a-children-border-width-050\">\n<div class=\"o-card \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-00@mobile-max u-width-130px@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-6x4 a-crop-3x2@mobile-max\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P1144OIF.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Neal Schon from Journey\" height width><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content \">\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-basic-fancy u-font-size-15 u-font-size-15.5@mobile-max u-line-height-22px u-padding-r-0.188@desktop u-word-spacing-0013 u-line-height-22.5px@mobile-max a-truncate-ellipsis-4line@mobile-max a-truncate-ellipsis-3line\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tJourney&#8217;s Neal Schon Responds to Arnel Pineda Claims He Was Stopped From Leaving the Band\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card \">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-00@mobile-max u-width-130px@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-6x4 a-crop-3x2@mobile-max\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aubrey-o-day-2025-billboard-1800.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Aubrey O\u2019Day of Danity Kane performs in concert at Webster Hall on December 19, 2025 in New York City.\" height width><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content \">\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-basic-fancy u-font-size-15 u-font-size-15.5@mobile-max u-line-height-22px u-padding-r-0.188@desktop u-word-spacing-0013 u-line-height-22.5px@mobile-max a-truncate-ellipsis-4line@mobile-max a-truncate-ellipsis-3line\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAubrey O&#8217;Day Defends Her Decision to Attend Ye&#8217;s L.A. 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To welcome her back to the Concert Hall with such a poignant new body of work promises a performance that is both expansive and intimate \u2013 one that draws you in and holds you there.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBefore heading home, Barnett will work the crowds in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and across North America, a stretch that expands with her first solo concert in Hawaii (June 12 at Blue Note in Honolulu) and a third San Francisco show (Aug. 28 at The Fillmore).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe acclaimed songwriter is supporting her fourth studio album, <em>Creature of Habit<\/em>, written after her relocation from Melbourne to Los Angeles and the closure of her long-running, award-winning indie label Milk! Records. <em>Creature of Habit<\/em> is the result of Barnett reaching that junction, processing it, and shaping music from all the confusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn her homeland, Barnett has collected six ARIA Awards, multiple AIR Awards, the J Award for best Australian album\u00a0and collected the 11th annual Australian Music Prize (AMP) in 2016 for her debut album, <em>Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit<\/em>, which crashed the top 20 in the United States and United Kingdom, and went to No. 4 in her homeland. That breakthrough earned Barnett a Grammy Award nomination for best new artist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHer followup, <em>Tell Me How You Really Feel<\/em> from 2018, peaked at No. 2 in Australia, No. 9 in the U.K., and No. 30 in the U.S., and her third solo effort, <em>Things Take Time, Take Time<\/em>, cracked Australia\u2019s top 10, and impacted the Official U.K. Albums Chart and the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \"><strong><span>Courtney\u00a0Barnett\u2019s \u201cCreatures of Habit\u201d Australian Tour 2026<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNov. 4 \u2014 \u200bThe Tivoli, Brisbane<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNov. 6 \u2014 Sydney Opera House Concert Hall\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNov. 7 \u2014 Palais Theatre, Melbourne<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/courtney-barnett-expands-2026-creature-of-habit-tour-1236217555\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/courtney-barnett-1800-2026-cr-lindsey-byrnes.jpg?w=1024&#8243;] Trending on Billboard Courtney Barnett\u2019s Creature of Habit tour is growing new limbs. The award-winning singer and songwriter adds an Australia leg to her 2026 world tour, an east coast run that includes dates in Brisbane (\u200bThe Tivoli, Nov. 4), Sydney (Opera House, Nov. 6) and Melbourne (Palais Theatre, Nov. 7). 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