Chris de Burgh returns to Australia
- British-Irish singer, songwriter and musician Chris de Burgh announces 50LO Tour 2025 Australia
- Touring in May 50LO Tour 2025 will play Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth
- Classics include ‘The Lady In Red’, ‘A Spaceman Came Travelling’, ‘Don’t Pay The Ferryman’, ‘So Beautiful’ and ‘Missing You’
- Frontier Member presale commences Thursday 24 October 12pm local time ahead of the general on sale Monday 28 October, 12noon local (Perth), 3pm local (all other shows)
- Tickets and tour information via frontiertouring.com/chrisdeburgh
Frontier Touring and Act 3 Presents are thrilled to announce the return of Chris de Burgh as he celebrates a remarkable and rare career milestone – half a century as a recording artist – by bringing his 50LO Tour 2025 to Australia in May!
“After my 50-year career, I’m thrilled to be returning to Australia after 16 years – some of my exciting tours and lasting memories are from being in Australia and I can’t wait to get there again.” – Chris de Burgh
The unmissable voice of ‘The Lady In Red’, ‘Missing You’ and other timeless classics, kicks off his 50LO Tour 2025 at Hamer Hall Melbourne on Thursday 1 May before Brisbane’s Convention & Exhibition Centre on Saturday 3 May, The Star Gold Coast, on Sunday 4 May, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Thursday 8 May before a special Mother’s Day show winding up the tour at Riverside Theatre Perth on Sunday 11 May.
Frontier Member presale commences Thursday 24 October 12pm local time ahead of the general on sale Monday 28 October, 12noon local (Perth), 3pm local (all other shows). Tickets and tour information via frontiertouring.com/chrisdeburgh
The tour is currently weaving its way through Europe, with extensive dates in the United Kingdom before de Burgh returns to our shores in May 2025.
‘De Burgh’s performance was more than just a concert; it was a testament to his dedication to his craft and his love for music. Even as he joked with the audience and engaged in little bursts of comedy, he never lost sight of what was most import: the music’ – 519 Magazine
When Chris de Burgh signed his first recording contract in 1974 and his debut album, Far beyond These Castle Walls, was released by A&M Records that same year, Chris did not look beyond the immediate future.
“As I held a copy of that record in my hands, I had absolutely no idea that this would even go any further,” he recalls. “I was incredibly naive about the music business but I was full of hope and dreams and, spectacularly, my dreams not only came true, they came truer than true. I had no concept that I was going to last as long as this. Fifty years? Wow!”
A song from that first album offered a very early glimpse of what might lie ahead for Chris; the single ‘Flying’ spent 17 straight weeks at No.1 in Brazil. “I thought ‘Right, I’m off! A world star, overnight!’,” Chris remembers. “Not a chance. From then on, it was a real, real slog and a hard, hard time, but the grounding that I’d had in my parents’ hotel, Bargy Castle, performing for the guests there made me believe that I did have something that I could give to people.”
Gradually, market after market – Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lebanon , to name a few – tuned into his music with the release of each new album and a solid foundation for a lasting and meaningful international career was built.
“What I was trying to achieve was looking at a globe of the world and turning lights on within it,” says Chris. “Some of them took longer to come on, some of them never came on, some of them have dimmed subsequently, which is of course entirely natural.
“I put in a huge amount of travelling and work because, at the end of it, there’s only one me. I’m the engine. I write all the songs, all the lyrics, do all of the TV shows, all the radio shows, all of the interviews.”
Over the course of five decades, Chris has achieved worldwide album sales in excess of 45 million, performed approaching 4,000 concerts globally and, perhaps more remarkably than anything else, continued to make his music, his way for his loyal followers. “Without the love and support of my audience I would never have had such a long career,” Chris acknowledges.
To celebrate that relationship and his musical longevity, Chris will be releasing a new album, 50, in 2024 and embarking on a solo tour throughout Europe, United Kingdom and Australia in 2025.
“I will select my favourite songs for the new album from each one of my previous studio albums”, he says, “and I will also write and record three new songs. That will be a great way of going out there and saying ‘This is what I’ve done.’ It’s just a taste of what I’ve done, of course, because I’ve written some 330 songs and counting.”
“The tour will be about referring back to when I started out, as a single guy with a guitar and piano. So it will be me performing and talking about the music, talking about the origin of the songs and their background.”
Chris continues to be creative and enjoys new challenges.
RONTIER MEMBER PRESALE
via frontiertouring.com/chrisdeburgh
Runs 24 hours from: Thursday 24 October (12pm local time)
or until presale allocation exhausted
TICKETS ON SALE
Begins: Monday 28 October, 12noon local time (Perth), 3pm local time (all other shows)
| Thursday 1 May Hamer Hall | Melbourne, VIC Lic. All Ages ticketek.com.au |
| Saturday 3 May Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre | Brisbane, QLD Lic. All Ages ticketek.com.au |
| Sunday 4 May The Star Gold Coast | Gold Coast, QLD Lic. All Ages Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult ticketek.com.au |
| Thursday 8 May Sydney Opera House Concert Hall | Sydney, NSW Lic. All Ages sydneyoperahouse.com |
| Sunday 11 May Riverside Theatre | Perth, WA Lic. All Ages ticketek.com.au |
