The Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced they’ll be returning to Australia for their first headline tour Down Under in 12 years. Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer will be playing six arena shows across Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2019, as well as a side show at Day On The Green on march 2.

The electro-funk band will be playing shows in Hobart, Sydney, the Hunter Valley, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Full details are below.

The band — who have sold more than 60 million albums, won six Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 — were last in Australia to headline Big Day Out in 2013. Their last headline tour was in 2007.

“We can’t wait to see all our fans in Australia and New Zealand – it has been too long. The fact that we get to play in Tassie for the first time makes this tour even more special,” the band said in a press release this morning.

Ticket pre-sales will begin next week, before general release at midday AEDT on Monday, November 26.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Australia Tour

DERWENT ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, HOBART
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17

QUDOS BANK ARENA, SYDNEY
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19

HOPE ESTATE WINERY, HUNTER VALLEY
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23

BRISBANE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
MONDAY FEBRUARY 25

ROD LAVER ARENA, MELBOURNE
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28

NIB STADIUM, PERTH
TUESDAY MARCH 5

Also Performing At:
A DAY ON THE GREEN
MT DUNEED ESTATE, GEELONG
SATURDAY MARCH 2
presented by A Day On The Green, visit: adayonthegreen.com.au

For more details, visit livenation.com.au.