Influential rock musician and 12-time Grammy Award winner Jack White has announced a last-minute Australian tour. The Seven Nation Army musician will embark on a seven-date run across Australia and New Zealand in December 2024, with shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane and a smattering of regional performances. The Jack White Australian tour will see the artist perform tracks from across his extensive career, including new singles from his recently released sixth solo album, No Name.
Jack White 2024 Australia Tour Dates
- Thursday, 5 December 2024
Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, QLD - Friday, 6 December 2024 – SOLD OUT
Civic Hall, Ballarat, VIC - Saturday,7. December 2024 – SOLD OUT
Corner Hotel, Melbourne, VIC - Monday, 9 December 2024
The Forum, Melbourne, VIC - Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Odeon Theatre, Hobart, TAS - Friday, 13 December
Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW - Tuesday, 17 December
Auckland Town Hall, Auckland, NZ
The full Australian tour announcement follows the release of an initial two-date run back in August. Those preliminary dates, at the Civic Hall in Ballarat and Melbourne’s Corner Hotel, sold out within minutes, but the latest news confirms that fans won’t miss out on seeing the multi-instrumentalist at work.
Widely regarded as one of music’s greatest guitarists, White is responsible for pioneering the garage rock revival of the early 2000s. Along with ex-wife Meg White, Jack White formed The White Stripes in 1997 in Detroit, releasing a string of singles and two studio albums to relative success. The band’s third release, however, would skyrocket them into global fame.
White Blood Cells, a 16-track explosion of raw sound typified the band’s stripped-back, chaotic approach and received both critical and commercial success. It peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200 and became their first album to sell over a million copies, spurring a widespread indie rock revival. From there, tracks such as Seven Nation Army, Icky Thump and Hotel Yorba went on to become cult classics for the band until they disbanded in 2011.
A prolific composer, Jack White also founded the award-winning rock band The Raconteurs (who went under the name The Saboteurs in Australia for legal reasons) and supergroup the Dead Weather before launching a solo career in 2012. White’s debut self-produced solo album, Blunderbuss, was released on April 24, 2012 and immediately landed at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Subsequent releases Lazaretto, Boarding House Reach, Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive achieved similar success, with 2024 marking the artist’s first new release in two years.
White’s sixth solo album, No Name, was released earlier this year through Third Man Records, the independent label White owns alongside Ben Blackwell and Ben Swank. Whilst only being out for a matter of weeks, the LP has already received critical acclaim, with Exclaims!‘s Alex Hudson noting White’s “sharp return to blues”, championing the same raw simplicity that made The White Stripes so successful.
The Jack White 2024 Australian tour will mark the first time local audiences will have the opportunity to hear new tracks from No Name live. The iconic musician was last in Australia in 2022 for the Adelaide Harvest Rock Festival and, prior to that, performed a final tour with his band The Raconteurs in 2022.
How Much Are Jack White Tickets?
According to the official Ticketmaster, Ticketek and Moshtix websites, ticket prices for Jack White’s Australian shows are:
- General Admission Standing – AUD$127.50
Jack White ‘No Name’ Pre-Sale
With dates at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel and Ballarat’s Civic Hall already sold out, interest is at a fever pitch for the upcoming Jack White Australia tour. For fans wanting to get their hands on tickets, the best place to start is through the Frontier Touring website. The event organisers have confirmed that Frontier Members will have early access to tickets, with the presale beginning on Monday, 18 November (10am local time). After that, general public tickets will then go on sale Friday, 22 November (10am local time) via Frontier, Ticketek, Ticketmaster and Moshtix, depending on the venue.
Importantly, Frontier has capped pre-sale tickets at four per person. The allocation is strict, meaning that persons who exceed the ticket limit may have “any or all of their orders and tickets cancelled without notice”. For the general public, allocations are capped at six tickets per customer.
Where to Buy Jack White Australia 2024 Tickets
- Pre-Sale: Monday, 18 November 2024 at 10:00 local time via Frontier Touring
- General Public: Friday, 22 November 2024 at 10:00 local time via Ticketek, Ticketmaster or Moshtix
The upcoming Jack White Australian tour will mark the first time the iconic rock artist has played Down Under since 2022, when he performed as part of Adelaide’s Harvest Rock Festival. The short-lived appearance came a few years after his final tour with the band The Raconteurs/Saboteurs, which represented his last true Australia-wide run of dates. This time around, tickets are being sold through the Frontier Touring website with the Sydney and Melbourne shows available through Ticketek. The Brisbane and New Zealand performances are available exclusively through Ticketmaster, while Hobart fans can score tickets through Moshtix.
