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Camera IconLiam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Niall Horan in their early days. Credit: Dominic Lipinski – PA Images\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\nLouis Tomlinson is set to return to Australia this year, but his Perth fans will be forced to fly interstate to see him live after the former One Direction star left WA off his itinerary.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old singer announced the Aussie leg of his How Did We Get Here World Tour on Tuesday, which will stop off in Melbourne on October 20, Sydney on October 22, and Brisbane on October 24.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Perth fans miss out on a hometown concert and will instead have to fork out airfares if they want to see their idol perform his most loved hits.<\/p>\n
Some fans took to social media with reactions of disappointment to the tour announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cA quick reminder that this is the map artists look at when planning an Australian tour,\u201d one fan said on Facebook, posting a map of Australia that only showed the east coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cNO PERTH \ud83d\ude41 (not surprised, just sad),\u201d another fan said on Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re missing out again,\u201d a third added.<\/p>\n
It comes after the former boy band heartthrob last performed in Perth on July 29, 2022, as the final stop of his Australasian leg of the Louis Tomlinson World Tour.<\/p>\n
He returned to Australia in early 2024, with those dates not including a Perth concert.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s tour comes in support of his third album, How Did I Get Here?, released in January, which debuted at number one on the UK Album Charts and number three on the ARIA Album Charts.<\/p>\n
Camera IconLiam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Niall Horan in their early days. Credit: Dominic Lipinski – PA Images\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n
While promoting the album last year, Tomlinson teased Australian fans during interviews of his impending visit, saying excitedly: \u201cAs long as I\u2019ve been touring, I\u2019ve always come to Aus. It\u2019s inevitable. I love it there. So yeah, I\u2019ll definitely be there!\u201d<\/p>\n
The Aussie dates round out a huge world tour consisting of more than 50 shows, which kicks off in Europe this month before hitting the UK, Canada, and the US.<\/p>\n
Former bandmates Harry Styles and Niall Horan recently announced updates to their solo music careers, with Styles also set to tour Australia (you guessed it, no Perth) and Horan to release his fourth album Dinner Party on June 5.<\/p>\n
Another British superstar, Robbie Williams, was also one to leave Perth fans upset after he left WA off his Aussie tour set to kick off later this year.<\/p>\n
Tickets for Tomlinson\u2019s tour go on sale at 9am on March 31, following a presale from 9am on March 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louis Tomlinson is set to return to Australia this year, but his Perth fans will be forced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-560546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560546","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=560546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}