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Gloria Brancatisano / May 26, 2021

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Louis Tomlinson announces 2022 Australia tour dates, reschedules 2021 shows

Hey Aussie fans, Louis Tomlinson is coming back to you in 2022.

**Update 26/05/2021: Due to overwhelming demand, Louis Tomlinson has added an extra Brisbane show to his 2022 run – taking place at Fortitude Music Hall on Tuesday 19 July. Tickets go on sale at Wednesday 26 May @ 3pm.

**Update 11/05/2021: In very very exciting news, British popstar Louis Tomlinson has announced rescheduled shows for his 2021 Australian tour, as well as adding two brand new dates in Brisbane and Perth. The tour will now see Tomlinson on our shores in late July 2022.

Tomlinson will now begin his Australian tour at Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley and end the tour at Perth’s HBF Stadium. His Melbourne shows, originally set to take place at Palais Theatre, have also been upgraded to Margaret Court Arena.

For current Melbourne ticketholders: Tickets purchased via Ticketmaster for 21 & 22 June will be automatically refunded (if you’re card is still valid. If your card has expired, please submit a Ticketmaster Help Form here). You will given an opportunity to purchase tickets before the public during the past purchaser’s pre-sale from Wednesday 19 May @ 12pm until Sunday 23 May @ 10pm via TICKETEK. All current ticket holders will recieve an email from Ticketmaster with details on how to access this presale.

**Update 19/10/2020: Due to phenomenal demand, Louis Tomlinson has expanded his World Tour 2021 dates with an additional Melbourne show at Palais Theatre.

**Update 17/07/2020: Louis Tomlinson has rescheduled his debut solo Australian tour dates. Originally locked in for April 2020, the tour will now take place in June 2021 – all current tickets are valid for the new dates.

With the announce of his debut solo album Walls dropping in January, we are absolutely excited to learn that British popstar Louis Tomlinson is making his first-ever solo trip to Australia.

Tomlinson has just released the Britpop-tinged banger ‘We Made It’ and with the song still freshly stuck in our heads the excitement of his impending visit is palpable.

The new track is inspired by nights out in Manchester in the early days of One Direction. “Any time off I had, I’d go to Manchester for nights out with my mates. It made me realise I didn’t live in the real world anymore and I missed it. I loved being normal, reckless and stupid. It was the best escape,” Tomlinson says.

“The chorus of ‘We Made It’ is also about me and the fans. Between us, it has taken a lot to get here. I feel as though only when I get out to tour, to sing these songs directly to the fans, will I have cemented the start of my solo career.”

Since he last landed on our shores with his One Direction bandmates in 2015, we have had celebrated solo visits from most of the boys – now it’s Louis’ turn.

Last week he announced he has a whole world tour locked in, beginning in Spain in March and ending in Canada in July, and fans Down Under were very excited to see a couple of Aussie shows on the list. Now we’ve got all the juicy details.

Before ‘We Made It’, Tomlinson had already delivered two slices of his debut solo album. The first, ‘Two of Us’ landed in March – a deeply personal ballad in response to the passing of his mother, and the perfect way to spearhead his return to music as a solo artist. Just last month, Tomlinson gave us ‘Kill My Mind’, the two tracks adding to his solo repertoire which also includes his 2016 club-ready collaboration with Steve Aoki called ‘Just Hold On’ and the brooding Bebe Rexha duet ‘Back to You’ released the following year.

Even before putting out a record, his solo career has gotten off to a flying start. In 2017, Tomlinson won an EMA Award for Best UK & Ireland Act, in 2018 he won the iHeart Radio Award for Best Solo Breakout and was ranked number five on Billboard’s emerging artists of the year. This year, his single ‘Two of Us’ scored the Teen Choice Award for Choice Single: Male Artist.

Louis Tomlinson will bring his world tour to Australia in July 2022. Tickets are on sale via Ticketmaster.com.au.