Crime & the City Solution Plot 2026 Australian Tour

This marks Crime & the City Solution’s first Australian tour in over a decade.

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Post-punk icons Crime & the City Solution are hitting the road next year on their first Australian tour in over a decade.

After performing a special show at this year’s Dark MOFO in Hobart, the band have announced an Aussie tour supporting their 2023 album, the killer.

Formed in Sydney in 1977 by Simon Bonney, Crime & the City Solution have spent stints based in Melbourne, Berlin and Detroit across a career spanning nearly 50 years.

Performing six shows around the country in January next year, Crime & the City Solution’s tour will feature core members Simon Bonney, Bronwyn Adams and Joshua Murphy, with additional contributions from Ballarat-based musicians Tim Bignell and Corey Keem.

The tour commences in Ballarat at Trades Hall on Saturday 10 January and continues with dates at Sydney’s The Lansdowne (Friday 16 January), Brisbane’s Season Three (Saturday 17 January), Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal (Friday 23 January) and Melbourne’s Brunswick Ballroom (Saturday 24 January), with the final show of the tour in Adelaide at Ed Castle on Saturday 31 January.

Tickets for all six shows are on sale now via solitarycount.com.au.

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Singer-songwriter Simon Bonney started Crime & the City Solution in 1977 before disbanding the group two years later after relocating to Melbourne.

Bonney moved to London in 1983 and started a new version of the band that survived for almost a decade and included Rowland S. Howard on guitar, before Bonney moved to Berlin and formed another incarnation of Crime & the City Solution that eventually ended in 1991 after he went solo and moved to LA.

Crime & the City Solution was resurrected once again in Detroit in 2012 for several years before Bonney got the current lineup together in Berlin in 2023, leading to the release of the band’s sixth album, the killer.

Released by Mute Records, the killer is the first album from Crime & the City Solution in over a decade. Recorded in Berlin with producer Martin J. Fiedler, marking the first time the band had used an outside producer, the killer was critically acclaimed, with the band excited to perform tracks from the release for their Aussie fans next year.

Catch Crime & the City Solution at Ed Castle on Saturday 31 January. Tickets on sale via solitarycount.com.au.

Crime & the City Solution 2026 Australian Tour Dates

Saturday 10 January - Trades Hall, Ballarat, VIC

Friday 16 January - The Lansdowne, Sydney, NSW

Saturday 17 January - Season Three, Brisbane, QLD

Friday 23 January  - Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, VIC

Saturday 24 January - Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne, VIC

Saturday 31 January - Ed Castle, Adelaide, SA

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