{"id":50415,"date":"2025-08-07T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50415\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:57:17","slug":"machine-gun-kellys-2026-australia-tour-all-but-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50415\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Gun Kelly\u2019s 2026 Australia Tour All But Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machine Gun Kelly appears set to return to Australia in 2026, with Universal Music Australia strongly hinting at his first visit in over eight years via social media this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cCALLING ALL AUSSIE MGK FANS!!,\u201d the label wrote in an Instagram post on Thursday night. \u201cReceive pre-sale access for the forthcoming @machinegunkelly 2026 Australian tour dates to be announced later this year! Order Lost Americana from the UMUSIC store to receive an exclusive pre-sale code.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post confirms that anyone who orders MGK\u2019s new album through the Universal store between June 11th and August 14th will receive early access to tickets for the still-to-be-announced tour. While no dates have been officially locked in, the announcement marks the clearest sign yet that an Australian tour is in the works.<\/p>\n

Love Music?<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n

Machine Gun Kelly last toured Australia in 2018 as part of his \u2018The 27 Tour\u2019, which included shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth. That\u00a0was his first Australian tour since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rapper-turned-rocker \u2014 real name Colson Baker \u2014 is set to drop Lost Americana, his seventh studio album, on Friday. It follows 2022\u2019s Mainstream Sellout, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and featured collaborations with Willow, Lil Wayne, and Bring Me the Horizon.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with People<\/a>, MGK said he hopes the new record will offer a deeper glimpse into the person behind the public persona. \u201cMaybe this time,\u201d he said of his critics, \u201cthey\u2019ll get to know the man-slash-broken-boy behind the moniker MGK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baker has long been a divisive figure, copping backlash for genre-hopping, his public relationship with Megan Fox, his beef with figures like Eminem and his polarising fashion choices. But he says the criticism no longer affects him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI became so hated for, what has become apparent to me, no reason,\u201d he told the magazine. \u201cJust because I artistically express myself \u2014 through fashion, music, whatever. Because I choose not to stay contained in a societal box.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that most of the hate seems to come from insecure men who \u201clet their insecurity rule their entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hate for me has become so pop culture that it\u2019s almost like that\u2019s automatically what you say to fit in,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat shit doesn\u2019t even mean anything to me. I\u2019ve let it go completely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The confirmation of \u201c2026\u201d tour dates seems to rule MGK out of Good Things lineup<\/a> speculation, which will drop next Tuesday, August 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Machine Gun Kelly appears set to return to Australia in 2026, with Universal Music Australia strongly hinting at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,42651,42652,42653,42654,44],"class_list":["post-50415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-machine-gun-kelly","tag-machine-gun-kelly-australia","tag-mgk","tag-mgk-australia-tour","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}