{"id":458807,"date":"2026-06-03T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458807\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:24:13","slug":"saint-etienne-sets-farewell-tour-of-australia-and-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458807\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Etienne Sets Farewell Tour of Australia and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSaint Etienne<\/a>\u2019s goodbye lap will make it to Australia and New Zealand later this year. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe beloved British indie electronic-pop act will get their final Australasian tour underway with a concert Nov. 20 at Auckland\u2019s Powerstation, followed by a show Nov. 21 in the New Zealand capital, Wellington. <\/p>\n

\n\tPresented by Destroy All Lines, the jaunt then skips the Tasman for shows in each of Australia\u2019s five capital cities: Adelaide (Nov. 23), Melbourne (Nov. 26), Sydney (Nov. 27), Brisbane (Nov. 29) and a tour closer Dec. 1 in Perth. The general onsale starts Friday, 9am local time at destroyalllines.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAcross a career spanning more than 35 years, Saint Etienne earned a reputation for creating the creamiest, classiest of pop, with electronic touches and swinging \u201960s flair. Saint Etienne is one for the connoisseurs.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe farewell tour follows the release of their final studio LP, International, via Heavenly Recordings, which dropped in September 2025. International has an Australian connection, a collaboration with Brisbane electronic-pop act Confidence Man on the track \u201cBrand New Me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThat collection peaked at No. 8 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, one of the act\u2019s three career top 10 appearances, and 11 entries in the top 40. The group also landed 17 tracks on the top 40 of the Official U.K. Singles Chart, including a top 10 appearance with their year 2000 collaboration with Paul Van Dyk on \u201cTell Me Why (The Riddle)\u201d (reaching No. 7). <\/p>\n

\n\tSaint Etienne bandmates Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have known each other since childhood, and turned that friendship into a band in 1990 with their cover of Neil Young\u2019s \u201cOnly Love Can Break Your Heart.\u201d The first thing they ever recorded, which they completed in just two hours in a bedroom studio in Pollards Hill, north of Croydon, also gave Saint Etienne their first and only appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, topping out at No. 97 in 1992.<\/p>\n

\n\tSinger Sarah Cracknell completed the lineup when she joined for their third single \u201cNothing Can Stop Us\u201d and the 1991 album Foxbase Alpha. <\/p>\n

\n\tSaint Etienne \u201caren\u2019t splitting up as such,\u201d reads a statement from the band. They \u201cstill remain the best of friends after 35 years recording together \u2013 but they don\u2019t feel like they want to go on forever and wanted to go out with a bang.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore making the long haul, Saint Etienne will criss-cross the United Kingdom and Europe for a run of summer festival shows and headline concerts.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaint Etienne Final Australia and New Zealand Tour:
Nov. 20 \u2013 Powerstation, Auckland
Nov. 21 \u2014 Meow NUI, Wellington
Nov. 23 \u2014 The Gov, Adelaide
Nov. 26 \u2013 Forum, Melbourne
Nov. 27 \u2014 Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Nov. 29 \u2014 The Tivoli, Brisbane
Dec. 1 \u2014 Freo Social, Perth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint Etienne\u2019s goodbye lap will make it to Australia and New Zealand later this year. The beloved British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[17979,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-458807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bbnews","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}