ETHEL CAIN: new shows added in Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane for The Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour (Feb 2026)
Due to huge presale ticket demand, a fourth and final Melbourne show has been added to Ethel Cain The Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour - presented by Frontier touring and Penny Drop.
General tickets for all eleven shows on sale from 11am local time today, Monday 18 August via frontiertouring.com/ethelcain.
Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You serves as a prequel to Cain’s globally adored 2022 debut album Preacher’s Daughter and recounts the story of Ethel’s first love, Willoughby Tucker, and their humid, laden romance. Cain produced and recorded the album over the past year in her studios in Daleville, AL, Coraopolis, PA and Tallahassee, FL. The writing of the songs themselves spans her entire career as Ethel Cain, with some dating from the earliest days of the project and its mythmaking.
The North America and Europe leg sold out completely upon on sale in March, with 170,000 tickets sold in just a few weeks. Kicking off today, Tuesday 12 August, at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, Cain will headline her biggest tour to date with venues including New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, Berkeley’s Greek Theater, London’s Eventim Apollo, Paris’ L’Olympia and many more.
Ethel Cain is the creation of Florida-born multidisciplinary artist Hayden Anhedönia. After years spent teaching herself to produce at home in the Florida panhandle and releasing various projects, Cain moved to Indiana and singlehandedly wrote, produced, recorded and mixed her acclaimed 2021 EP Inbred from the basement of the old church where she lived.
Cain’s debut album Preacher’s Daughter, a multimedia work that took more than four years to assemble, was released in May 2022 to praise from The New York Times, NPR, Vogue, W Magazine, V Magazine and more, with many critics naming the album one of the best of the year. Cain has spent the years since playing sold out shows and packed festival sets around the world; walking in New York and Paris fashion weeks and collaborating with Givenchy, Miu Miu and Calvin Klein; and collaborating and sharing stages with Florence + the Machine, Mitski and more.
Ethel Cain’s new album Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, debuts this week in Australia at No.5 on the ARIA Album Chart and No.2 on the ARIA Vinyl Chart, equaling her No.5 album peak on Preacher’s Daughter. The album has debuted at No.5 on the Official Aotearoa Music Albums Chart in New Zealand and No.1 Vinyl – Ethel’s highest debut New Zealand chart entries to date!
'Ethel Cain’s debut was a feat of artistry. This is a feat of musicianship.’
- 9/10 The Line of Best Fit
One of the very best in storytelling and atmosphere.’
- ★★★★★ DIY Mag
‘...it’s a record about the inevitability of loss that never stops clinging to beauty, even when painful. It puts Anhedönia above all of her peers in terms of storytelling and artistic vision, and perfectly ends the Ethel Cain chapter before embarking on the next.’ - When The Horn Blows
ETHEL CAIN
AUStralian 2026 tour
Presented by Frontier Touring and Penny Drop
Fri 13 Feb – Auckland Town Hall, Auckland
Sat 14 Feb – Auckland Town Hall, Auckland*
Mon 16 Feb – Palais Theatre, Melbourne*
Tue 17 Feb – Palais Theatre, Melbourne*
Wed 18 Feb – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
Thu 19 Feb – Palais Theatre, Melbourne – NEW SHOW
Sat 21 Feb – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney*
Sun 22 Feb – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Wed 25 Feb – The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane*
Thu 26 Feb – The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
Sat 28 Feb – Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
*Presale Allocation Exhausted
ALL SHOWS
TICKETS ON SALE
Begins: Monday 18 August (11am local time)
via frontiertouring.com/ethelcain
