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Australian Headline showsReturns following
triumphant dates in 2022Presales commence October 7
General onsale Thursday October 9 at 9am
New album
‘JUNIPER’
out now
Praise for JOY CROOKES
“Joy Crookes is only 26, but the south Londoner ’s music already feels omnipresent…the perfect combination of pop and politics.” – The Observer New Review, 4*
“The Lambeth-born singer-songwriter is firmly back on our radar after stealing Glastonbury Festival and achieving sultry pop perfection” – CRACK
“Juniper is the evolution of everything that made Crookes special in the first place: urgent commotions of layered instrumentation, heartfelt soul-pop lyricism with sprinkles of dry wit.” – Rolling Stone UK
South London singer, songwriter and cultural powerhouse JOY CROOKES returns to Australia for the first time since 2022 for two special headline shows in Sydney and Brisbane in January 2026. The announcement follows the recent release of her breathtakingly candid sophomore album Juniper.
Heartbreaking, humorous, provocative and provoking in equal measure, Juniper continues to establish Joy Crookes as one of the UK’s most outstanding vocalists and gifted songwriters, a once-in-a-generation artist.
Joy Crookes’ Juniper 2026 Tour includes a Sydney show at Enmore Theatre on Friday January 2 followed by Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Saturday January 3.
General public tickets go on sale on Thursday October 9 at 9am.
An artist presale will commence on Tuesday October 7 at 9am. For info head to joycrookes.com.
Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets from Tuesday October 7 at 9am. Plus, Preferred ticket access to some of the best tickets is available from Thursday October 9 at 9am. Check out priceless.com/music for details.
Secret Sounds members may also secure tickets first during the pre-sale beginning Wednesday October 8 at 9am
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: secretsounds.com. All times are local.
New album Juniper followed hot on the heels of Joy’s outstanding performance on Glastonbury’s Other Stage on the Sunday afternoon of the festival. A packed crowd joined Joy for a powerful rip through her catalogue including lots of new music and she was lauded with praise from the likes of Vogue, The Guardian, The Times, Dazed, The Independent, The BBC, ELLE + more. She returns to the live stage at the backend of this year for a full UK & EU headline tour in all major cities including Dublin, Manchester, Bristol and London where she’ll play two shows at the much coveted O2 Academy Brixton for the first time, before heading to Australia for New Year’s At The Bowl and her Sydney and Brisbane headline shows.
.JOY CROOKES
JUNIPER TOUR 2026
AUSTRALIAFRIDAY JANUARY 2
ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEYSATURDAY JANUARY 3
FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL, BRISBANEGeneral public tickets go on sale on Thursday October 9 at 9am.
An artist presale will commence on Tuesday October 7 at 9am. For info head to joycrookes.com.
Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets from Tuesday October 7 at 9am. Plus, Preferred ticket access to some of the best tickets is available from Thursday October 9 at 9am. Check out priceless.com/music for details.
Secret Sounds members may also secure tickets first during the pre-sale beginning Wednesday October 8 at 9am
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: secretsounds.com. All times are local.
Joy Crookes will also play
New Year’s At The Bowl
Sidney Myer Music Bowl,
Melbourne
on
Thursday, January 1, 2026Tickets are on sale now.
.About JOY CROOKES:
Joy’s debut album Skin was a lyrical statement of selfhood, putting the London singer/songwriter firmly on the map. Sophomore album Juniper was written in two mind states: high and low. The early stages of the record began to take shape in 2022 as Joy was enjoying the success of Skin. “I wrote most of the lyrics when I was really happy. When I say happy, I mean, I was quite hedonistic. I was impulsive and having a really fun time. A bit too much fun.” She began with the melodies, “snatches of something that would repeatedly spin around”, spending months or more shuffling thoughts and sounds in her mind, taking long walks to make sense of the words and ideas that were tumbling out.
Then, at the beginning of 2023, Joy met someone and began to fall in love. What should have been a happy time instead triggered a mental health crisis. “I’ve never been this scared to fall in love. I felt really traumatised. It made me realise how little trust I had in people at that time. This relationship wasn’t based in ego or vanity; this was true love. He met me when I was full of feelings of inadequacy, worthlessness and defectiveness – yet chose to love me for who I actually was. He was choosing the truest, the ugliest form of me. Which made me terrified. It brought up all my deep and dark insecurities and I had to face that, a little bit, in falling in love with him.” Joy was ill for almost two years, recovering in Autumn 2024, around the same time the album neared completion. There were times when recording Juniper that she would be physically sick from anxiety; but the booth remained her space of solace. “I just couldn’t be left alone in my thoughts. I needed to be in the studio. What you hear was what was going on because I was unwell. I was in the fucking trenches so I’m live and direct from the trenches.”
Written with a stripped-back approach and produced by long-time collaborators including Blue May (Kano, Jorja Smith), Tev’n (Stormzy) and Harvey Grant (Arlo Parks), Juniper features standout guest appearances from Vince Staples on the incendiary ‘Pass The Salt’ and Kano on the bittersweet confessional ‘Mathematics’. Lead singles like ‘Pass The Salt’ and ‘I Know You’d Kill’ showcase Crookes’ lyrical agility – blending poetic detail with razor-sharp wit. Meanwhile, the euro-pop inspired ‘First Last Dance’ channels euphoric melodies to mask deep emotional struggle, and the cinematic ‘Perfect Crime’ sees Joy fully self-actualise in the style of a Western showdown. On ‘Paris’, the closing track, Joy reflects on a formative queer relationship: “Something I feared so much finally, actually felt like love.” It’s a sentiment echoed across Juniper – a record that captures the beauty and brutality of emotional openness.
Joy Crookes was recently announced as an ambassador for War Child.
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