AURORA Announces 2025 Australian Tour

Norwegian alt-pop singer, songwriter, and producer AURORA will return to Australia in February 2025, officially announcing Part 4 of her What Happened To The Earth? world tour. A frequent visitor to Australia, AURORA last toured down under in March 2023.

Touring in support of her stunning new album, What Happened To The Heart?, AURORA begins her Australian dates at Fremantle Prison on Thursday, 6 February, followed by Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on Sunday, 9 February, Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena on Tuesday, 11 February, and Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Thursday, 13 February.

AURORA is touring Europe, the UK, and North America before her Australian dates. Pre-sale tickets will be available from 11 am local time on Thursday, 15 August, with general sale tickets available from 11 am local time on Friday, 16 August. You can sign up to access pre-sale tickets here and purchase general sale tickets via Secret Sounds.

What Happened To The Heart? was born with the title first, and the songs followed.

AURORA described her latest album as her “most personal and cathartic” release to date. After reading a letter co-written by Indigenous activists titled, We Are The Earth that “changed her life”, she found the album’s title and concept in the letter’s description of the Earth as “the heart that pulsates within us”.

In a recent cover story interview with The Music, AURORA revealed that the album helped her process grief, anger, and pain.

“It started out as pain and grief, and then it became anger – not a blind anger – and eventually after the grief was processed, it became the focus, I would say,” she said.

“First, you grieve whatever you find so hopelessly wrong and unworthy in this world that we live in. So many people deserve so much more than what this world is giving them, and it's just completely heartbreaking to think that we deserve so much more as people, such a better world.”

Eventually, AURORA explained, she got focused on the task of doing something. Sharing the importance of giving yourself time to “sulk, cry, grieve” and “go a bit numb,” what comes next is essential: “You woman up, and you do something about it. That's how I'm thinking about it.”

You can read the interview here.

What Happened To The Heart? follows an impressive string of albums, including 2016’s All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend, 2018’s Infections Of A Different Kind (Step 1), 2019’s A Different Kind Of Human (Step 2) and 2022’s The Gods We Can Touch.

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What Happened To The Earth? Part 4 - Australian Tour

Thursday 6 February – Fremantle Prison, Fremantle

Sunday 9 February 2025 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney

Tuesday 11 February 2025 – MCA, Melbourne

Thursday 13 February 2025 – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane