Frontier Touring is hyped to announce 19-year-old, alternative-pop artist sombr will make his Australia and New Zealand headline debut this December.
Also in the country for shows at Spilt Milk festival, sombr will perform unmissable headline shows at Auckland Town Hall, Melbourne’s Festival Hall, Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion and Brisbane’s The Fortitude Music Hall.
Frontier Members can access the presale which begins Wednesday 21 May from 3pm local time, before tickets go on sale Thursday 22 May from 4pm local time. Tickets and tour information via frontiertouring.com/sombr.
Shane Boose became sombr via a make-shift recording studio in his bedroom. The 19-year-old Lower East Side native honed his talents at New York’s performing arts school, LaGuardia High, spending his days studying classical music and late nights dabbling in young romance, skateboarding, and generally getting into trouble.
When COVID hit, his own music became an escape for the young artist from the physical and social isolation brought on by the pandemic. sombr taught himself music production and immersed himself in obsessively recording emotional indie-rock tracks.
His song ‘Caroline’ (released in 2022) became a sad girl anthem, taking the internet by storm. The track was self-produced, self-written and self-released when sombr was just 16, it has since been streamed on Spotify over 45 million times.
Watch: sombr – undressed
Continuing to drop EPs and singles ever since, sombr now has over 28 million monthly listeners. His songs ‘would’ve been you’, ‘do I ever cross your mind’, ‘back to friends’ and latest single ‘undressed’ have become indie-rock hits, with the latter two certified Gold in Australia and currently in the top 10 of the ARIA singles chart. sombr also teamed up with Rachel Chinouriri (2025 Britt Nominee and support for Sabrina Carpenter’s tour) to release a remix / collab of Rachel’s hit ‘All I Ever Asked’.
It’s the kind of trajectory that feels once in a generation. Between his remarkable aural instincts and an insatiability for experimenting with new sounds, sombr exudes staying power. This became more evident during his headline 2024 North American tour. Concert Chronicles stated, “sombr did not disappoint, delivering a performance that was both mesmerizing and electrifying” of his live show, with My Life In Sound adding, “If you have the chance to see sombr live, seize the opportunity – his performance is not to be missed.”
Earlier this year sombr toured North America and will soon support Nessa Barrett in the UK and Europe, before embarking on his very own world tour. Australia and New Zealand don’t miss sombr’s first visit to our shores, grab your tickets when they go on sale this Thursday!
SOMBR
THE LATE NIGHTS & YOUNG ROMANCE TOUR
AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND
DECEMBER 2025
Presented by Frontier Touring
FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE
via frontiertouring.com/sombr
Runs 24 hours from: Wednesday 21 May (3pm local time)
or until presale allocation exhausted
TICKETS ON SALE
Begins: Thursday 22 May (4pm local time)
Tuesday 2 December
Auckland Town Hall | Auckland, NZ
Lic. All Ages
ticketmaster.co.nz
Thursday 4 December
Festival Hall | Melbourne, VIC
Lic. All Ages
ticketmaster.com.au
Tuesday 9 December
Hordern Pavilion | Sydney, NSW
Lic. All Ages
ticketek.com.au
Thursday 11 December
The Fortitude Music Hall | Brisbane, QLD
Lic. All Ages
ticketmaster.com.au
Patrons are advised to purchase tickets only through authorised ticket sellers. Frontier cannot guarantee any ticket purchase made through any means other than the official ticketing agents listed on the Frontier website.
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