Courtney Barnett

The long-awaited return of Australia’s indie rock superstar

With her long-awaited fourth album Creature of Habit freshly released to the world, multiple ARIA Award-winning Australian singer, songwriter and indie rock superstar Courtney Barnett is returning to the Sydney Opera House for the first time since 2018.

An incomparable lyricist and virtuoso guitarist, the Sydney-born Barnett is one of the nation’s most beloved exports of the millennium, rising to fame via her 2014 smash Avant Gardener and her Grammy Award-nominated debut Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015), which featured the generational classics Pedestrian At Best and Depreston. She solidified her career with the Kurt Vile collaboration Lotta Sea Lice (2017), her sophomore solo album Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018), and Things Take Time, Take Time (2021), which was followed by the acclaimed film Anonymous Club (2023).

Led by the reflective single Site Unseen, featuring US singer-songwriter Waxahatchee, Barnett’s hotly anticipated fourth album Creature of Habit (2026) is her first studio record in five years, the sound – as The Guardian put it – “of a door being kicked off its hinges”.

A powerhouse live act who has performed everywhere from Coachella and Glastonbury to the biggest stages in Australia, Barnett is a home-grown indie rock legend not to be missed.