Ireland’s electronic indie pop queen Róisín Murphy is coming down under in March 2025 for her first Australian headline shows in over five years.   

TOUR DATES

  • 07 MAR Melbourne VIC
  • 08 MAR Adelaide SA
  • 11 MAR Brisbane QLD
  • 13 MAR Sydney NSW

With her indomitable artistic spirit, Róisín Murphy is one of electronic pop’s most ingenious and forward-thinking voices. Murphy first became known in the ’90s as part of the successful pop duo Moloko but has since forged an illustrious and critically acclaimed career as a solo artist.   

Murphy dove headlong into the music scene after her family decamped to Manchester when she was just a teen, and while she was there she discovered her own love of fashion through thrifting trips with her mother, who was an antiques dealer by trade.  

A chance meeting with local bassist Mark Brydon led the pair to form the celebrated group Moloko, and the first thing she said to him upon meeting — ”Do you like my tight sweater? See how it fits my body!” — became the title of the project’s unforgettable 1995 debut. After four albums and a career that included the indelible hit Sing It Back, Moloko split following the release of 2003’s Statues, Murphy moved to London and kick-started a new era of creativity, huddling with producer Matthew Herbert for the beguiling and glitch-tastic Ruby Blue in 2005. It was an indelible debut record that immediately set one rule in place when it came to her work: Expect the unexpected. 

There’s been the lush pop broad strokes of 2007’s ahead-of-its-time Overpowered, the rubbery electro of 2015’s Hairless Toys, and the hissing-steam exultations of Take Her Up To Monto from 2016 — and, of course, 2020’s utterly massive Róisín Machine, a deeply felt ode to dubby-disco, techno and house and finding her biggest audience yet in the process. With the release of her sixth solo album Hit Parade, a full-length collaboration with wily Hamburg producer DJ Koze, Murphy continues to surf her own musical waves with utter aplomb, as she’s done throughout her entire career. 

Murphy is an incomparable live performer. She was the first singer to play Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and has shared stages at the most prestigious festivals across the world, including headline appearances at Glastonbury West Holts Stage, Homobloc, Coachella and Primavera Sound.  

The Mercury Music Prize nominated artist will play The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane on Tuesday, 11th March and Enmore Theatre, Sydney on Thursday, 13th March. Tickets via frontiertouring.com/roisinmurphy. 

Róisín Murphy is also confirmed to play WOMADelaide, Adelaide South Australia on Saturday, 8th March. Tickets via womadelaide.com.au.

Murphy will also play Live at the Gardens, Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne on Friday 7th March. Tickets via liveatthegardens.com.au.