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Jet announce 11 new Australian regional dates for their Rumblin’ Regional Revue, running October 22 to November 14, 2026
Jet have announced Part 2 of their Rumblin’ Regional Revue Tour, adding 11 new dates across regional Australia in October and November 2026, with tickets going on general sale Friday, June 12 at 12pm local time via Live Nation. The newly announced leg kicks off at UC Refectory in Canberra on October 22 and closes at Pier Bandroom in Frankston on November 14, covering Wollongong, Erina, Hobart, Forth, Toowoomba, Coolum Beach, the Gold Coast, Traralgon, and Ballarat in between. A Live Nation presale opens Thursday, June 11 at 12pm local time. The announcement extends a 2026 touring campaign that has already taken the Melbourne band through a successful first run of east coast regional centres in April and May.
The Rumblin’ Regional Revue’s explicit commitment to towns outside Australia’s major capitals is a deliberate statement from a band that has spent the past few years operating on its own terms. Part 1 moved through venues in places like Mackay, Townsville, Ellis Beach, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, and Barwon Heads. Part 2 pushes into Hobart, Ballarat, and the ACT, among others. These are not the rooms that generate festival headlines. They are the rooms where the relationship between a band and its long-term audience gets maintained, up close and without spectacle.
Support Acts, Catalogue Muscle, and a Band at Its Peak
Joining Jet across all mainland dates on Part 2 are Sydney five-piece alt-rockers Liquid Zoo, a band that emerged last year with a self-described sound of “20% rock, 80% roll,” citing The Rolling Stones and The Strokes as reference points and building a following on singles including “Taste,” “Tell Me,” and “Can’t Afford It.” For the Tasmanian dates, Hobart’s own acid-psych blues-rock quartet Spooky Eyes will open the shows. The support lineups reflect the kind of curation a band takes seriously when it has been doing this long enough to know what a well-constructed bill actually means.
The broader context around Jet in 2026 is substantial. Twenty-five years after forming in Melbourne’s southeastern suburbs, the band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame earlier this year, a formal recognition of a catalog that has remained commercially and culturally durable well beyond the lifecycle most guitar bands of their era managed. Their 2003 debut Get Born, nine times platinum in Australia and certified more than 6.5 million copies worldwide, produced “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” and “Rollover DJ,” which placed first and nineteenth, respectively, on the triple j Hottest 100 that year.
BMG Deal and Renewed Momentum Signal a Longer Game
In May 2026, BMG expanded its longtime relationship with the band by acquiring the publishing interests in Jet’s catalog, covering original members Nic Cester, Cam Muncey, and Mark Wilson. The deal places Jet’s songwriting assets under one of the world’s most significant independent music companies at exactly the moment the band is demonstrating its live drawing power most clearly. It is a convergence of catalog value and active touring that gives the Rumblin’ Regional Revue a commercial significance beyond ticket sales alone.
The band also opened for Lenny Kravitz during his recent Australian run and completed New Zealand dates in Auckland and Christchurch earlier in 2026, maintaining a touring frequency that matches the momentum the ARIA induction created. For a band that went on hiatus from 2012 before returning in 2023 for the twentieth anniversary of Get Born, this level of sustained activity represents a second chapter rather than a victory lap.
Part 2 of the Rumblin’ Regional Revue runs October 22 through November 14. Full dates are available at livenation.com.au.
