{"id":470999,"date":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470999\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","slug":"niall-horan-appears-to-skip-new-zealand-on-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/470999\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Horan Appears to Skip New Zealand on World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Niall Horan is bringing his world tour to Australia \u2014 but no Aotearoa New Zealand dates have been announced.<\/p>\n

Announced yesterday morning, the Irish singer-songwriter will play shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane next February, accompanied by Jude York (see full dates here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cI always love coming back to Australia, so I\u2019m absolutely buzzing to finally announce \u2018Dinner Party Live On Tour\u2019 for February 2027,\u201d the former One Direction member shared in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe support from Australian fans has always been amazing, and I can\u2019t wait to get back over there and play these new songs for you. We\u2019ve got a bigger and better show planned, four albums worth of tunes to get through, and a few surprises up our sleeves. It\u2019s going to be a really special run.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was no place for any New Zealand city, not even \u014ctautahi Christchurch with its shiny new One NZ Stadium<\/a>, in his ANZ tour announcement.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, Horan has no confirmed tour dates, apart from his newly announced Australian shows, between November 16th and March 17th, which would indicate there\u2019s enough time in his schedule for a New Zealand visit.<\/p>\n

Horan\u2019s tour promoter and publicist did not respond to Rolling Stone AU\/NZ\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Horan was last on these shores in 2024, when he played a well-reviewed show at T\u0101maki Makaurau Auckland\u2019s Spark Arena.<\/p>\n

Former One Direction member and \u2018Slow Hands\u2019 hitmaker Niall Horan\u00a0brought fun-loving beats and smooth vocals to the Spark Arena stage \u2013 and induced a boy-band craze in his loving fans,\u201d praised the New Zealand Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There was no mention of New Zealand on the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Uncut podcast<\/a>, but Horan did fondly express his love of Australia while speaking with Editor-in-Chief Neil Griffiths.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be down early next year for sure,\u201d he said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t got to the announcement part of it yet, but there\u2019s no doubt I\u2019ll be down, [and] I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horan added that Australia is his \u201cfavourite place in the world\u201d as he\u2019s \u201calways felt very much at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a very similar sense of humour, we\u2019re quite similar people and I just always felt love considering how far we are away from Australia,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou just feel right at home the minute you get there and I genuinely like, no jokes, I just love being there, I love playing the shows down there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Australians have always been really good to me, taking me under their wing. So I\u2019ll be down early next year. Tell your mother, tell your sister, tell your auntie and uncle, I\u2019m coming down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niall Horan is bringing his world tour to Australia \u2014 but no Aotearoa New Zealand dates have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,30595,238068,238069,238070,238071,238072,69],"class_list":["post-470999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-niall-horan","tag-niall-horan-aotearoa","tag-niall-horan-aotearoa-tour","tag-niall-horan-new-zealand","tag-niall-horan-new-zealand-tour","tag-niall-horan-tour","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470999","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=470999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}