Nine-time Grammy and two-time Oscar winner Billie Eilish will return to Australia in February 2025 to tour her next album. Hit me hard and soft.
The pop superstar's new studio album will be released on May 17. He will perform 12 dates on the East Coast.
Billie Eilish at the 66th Grammy Awards.Credit: vision
These include Brisbane Entertainment Center on February 18, 19, 21 and 22, Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park on February 24, 25, 27 and 28 and Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena on February 4, 5, 7 and March 8).
The Hit me hard and soft the tour, promoted by Live Nation and Frontier Touring in Australia, will kick off in North America this September, then head to Australia, before Europe, the UK and Ireland.
Eilish, 22, first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single Ocean eyeswritten and produced by his brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom he still collaborates in music and live shows.
Billie Eilish last toured Australia in 2022.Credit:
It was 2019 bad boythe song whose chorus features a sample of the sound a Sydney traffic light makes when the light turns green at a pedestrian crossing, which changed his career.
The song, from his debut album When we all fall asleep, where do we go?it won her a Grammy and debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 1 in 2019, making her the first artist born in the 21st century to top the US album charts.
In Australia, the song won the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019, making Eilish the first female solo artist and the youngest act (she was 18) to top the fan-voted poll.
