Rock Rebels on a Mission: Sarah McLeod & Dallas Frasca Bring Sustainability Centre Stage
Powerhouse vocalists Sarah McLeod and Dallas Frasca have locked in 15 dates across February and March 2026. Ahead of their tour, the two spoke with The Note about touring sustainability and raising funds for the charity organisation Seed Mob.
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Sarah McLeod and Dallas Frasca are a riot over Zoom - they must be sensational beneath the stage limelight.
Joking and bickering with each other like an old married couple, they are clearly the perfect fit for a joint tour. Specifically for The Green Electric Tour, which represents both rockers’ commitment to touring sustainability and sustainability in general. The 15-date run will see both McLeod and Frasca using inset emissions strategies to reduce and offset their impact within the operations around live touring.
“My days are filled with trying to keep up with Dallas,” Sarah says. “And trying to learn about climate change. And trying to do the right thing with her standing over me with a stick.”
“The stick is just next to me,” Dallas says with mock warning. “Just in case she misses a note.”
“It’s an eco-friendly stick. It’s made out of wood,” Sarah quips.
Dallas was the one to propose a joint tour to Sarah, who jumped at the idea. “I was like, yeah, let’s rock! You’ve got a great voice, we’re two powerhouse singers, our fans are devious, let’s fuse… And then suddenly it’s all about climate change. I’ve hit the ground running, and I’m trying to learn as fast as I can under Dallas’s careful yet heavy-handed guidance.”
Dallas grins. “Sarah and I joining forces, it’s going to be really fun. I love being around Sarah, she’s an uplifter. Female energy on the road - there’s not many opportunities like that because it’s such a male-dominated genre. I guess the thing I was thinking about was, how can we make this even more meaningful?”
The tour involves waste-minimising strategies like selling recycled merchandise, using sustainable travel routes, meat-free catering and eco-certified accommodation. Supported by Music Australia, The Harbour Agency, Spank Betty Records and Green Music Australia, the tour will be strenuously documented as a means of encouraging others to learn from both the duo’s successes and failures.
“We’ll both be learning,” Dallas says. “I’m a little bit of an activist at heart. There is a lot to learn. But I think we can make a couple little small changes within this tour and hopefully we will inspire other people and artists.”
“Everybody wants to do the right thing, but nobody really knows what they’re supposed to be doing,” Sarah chimes in. “People are just trying to survive, so they’re not really thinking about the future. But we need to be thinking about the future, even if we just do tiny little things collectively. If we can inspire people to incite conversation… You never know, that might do a lot.”
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The Green Electric Tour will also be raising funds for Australia's First Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth-led climate justice network, Seed Mob.
“I think their voices are really important,” Dallas says. “The levy that we’ve put on the ticket, that will go to things like helping them get to the big climate summits so they can talk about these issues. They definitely know more than us. And we have invited Seed Mob to come along to a lot of our shows. Because we want to hear what they have to say.”
Rock and roll, Sarah explains, “repackages” environmental activism and “makes it more relatable.”
“I think we’ve all noticed the changing in weather patterns over the last few years, you know what I mean?” Dallas says. “I think there’s just so much denial going on about this. And we’ve already seen the devastating effects going on in our lifetimes. And where that’s headed is fucking scary. And I think, fun aside - which we definitely will have on this tour - we can make some small changes.”
“I’m quite terrified at how far we’ve come,” Sarah says solemnly. “We have to try and turn the clock back.”
“We just can’t ignore it anymore.” Then Dallas’s face lights up and she adds, “We’re also open to ideas from people! Hit us up.”
“That’s half the fun,” Sarah agrees.
“Slide into our DMs,” Dallas says, sincerely.
Overall, the duo are trying to make sustainability, as a notion, less daunting.
“If we do it in small increments, it’s going to be less overwhelming,” Sarah explains. “Who knows? Some other bozos might decide this is a good idea and try their hand at it too.”
Though they are both preternaturally self-deprecating, Frasca and McLeod have forged mighty careers in the fickle world of music. Dallas gained national recognition after winning triple j’s Light Your Fuse competition in 2006, and has gone on to be nominated for APRA and AWMA awards and has released ARIA-charting albums. Sarah, ARIA-winner and frontwoman of beloved rock outfit The Superjesus, has launched a revered solo career, and additionally happens to be the Chair of Australian Women in Music.
“I go to many meetings,” she sighs.
Dallas squints. “Do you wear a suit to those meetings?”
“I’ve got a fucking briefcase, bro.”
The two have a natural, electric charisma.
“We’re both pretty full-on,” Sarah admits. “We’re both big performers, vocally. Although in terms of her voice Dallas leaves me for dead, she’s my favourite singer. I listen to her and just go, oh my god, are you kidding?”
“No, I love Sarah’s voice. She has got the most incredible fricking range. And sustained for days. I don’t know how you do it.”
Sarah blushes. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Dallas cringes. “This is turning into a love fest now.”
At the end of the day, the dynamic duo are propelled by an indomitable work ethic and a commitment to enacting change - and they are making strides every day.
Catch Sarah McLeod and Dallas Frasca at The Gov on Friday 6 May. Tickets on sale now via moshtix.com.au.
