Saint Etienne farewell tour lands in Australia and New Zealand this November

Saint Etienne farewell tour heads down under

Saint Etienne, one of the most quietly influential British indie electronic-pop acts of the last three decades, have confirmed a farewell tour of Australia and New Zealand for late 2025. According to Billboard, the run kicks off November 20 at the Powerstation in Auckland and wraps December 1 at Freo Social in Perth, covering seven cities across both countries.

The tour is presented by Destroy All Lines. General tickets go on sale Friday at 9am local time via destroyalllines.com.

The full run

• Nov. 20 - Powerstation, Auckland
• Nov. 21 - Meow NUI, Wellington
• Nov. 23 - The Gov, Adelaide
• Nov. 26 - Forum, Melbourne
• Nov. 27 - Enmore Theatre, Sydney
• Nov. 29 - The Tivoli, Brisbane
• Dec. 1 - Freo Social, Perth

A career worth celebrating

The farewell follows the release of International, their final studio album on Heavenly Recordings, which dropped in September 2025 and peaked at No. 8 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. It is one of three career top-10 appearances on that chart, and the band has also placed 11 records in the top 40 overall. On the singles side, 17 tracks reached the top 40 of the Official U.K. Singles Chart, with their year 2000 collaboration with Paul Van Dyk on "Tell Me Why (The Riddle)" climbing to No. 7.

International carries an Australian thread: the album includes a collaboration with Brisbane electronic-pop act Confidence Man on the track "Brand New Me."

Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have known each other since childhood and formed the band in 1990 with a cover of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," recorded in two hours in a bedroom studio in Pollards Hill, north of Croydon. That track gave Saint Etienne their only appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 97 in 1992. Singer Sarah Cracknell joined for the third single "Nothing Can Stop Us" and the 1991 debut album Foxbase Alpha.

The band's statement puts it plainly: they are not splitting up, but after more than 35 years they simply do not want to go on forever. Before the Australasian leg, they will play a run of U.K. and European summer festivals and headline dates.