Chappell Roan Will Headline Laneway Festival 2026

Chappell Roan volition caput down nether aboriginal adjacent year, for a spot headlining the Laneway Festival.

With her Laneway debut successful the confederate summer, the Midwest autochthonal volition people her first-ever nationalist circuit of Australia and New Zealand.

The traveling, day-long festival volition footwear disconnected astatine Western Springs successful Auckland connected Feb. 5, 2026 past caput westbound for dates connected the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and comes to a halt Feb. 1 astatine Perth’s Arena Joondalup.

Roan is untouchably blistery successful these parts close now. In January of this year, her deed “Good Luck, Babe” came successful astatine No. 1 connected triple j’s Hottest 100, with the top fig of votes ever for a winning way successful the countdown. Also, Roan became the archetypal solo pistillate creator to triumph with a debut and sole entry. 

From humble beginnings successful Melbourne’s New Caledonian Lane, to expanding with dates arsenic acold afield arsenic Singapore and Detroit, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival has the enviable estimation for booking the coolest acts earlier they spell supernova. For one, Billie Eilish played Laneway successful 2018, arsenic she was flying to the highest points of popular music.

Co-founded by Danny Rogers and Jerome Borazio, and present portion of TEG’s unrecorded amusement portfolio, Laneway Festival booked Charli XCX to play astatine the 2025 edition. That tally drew implicit 200,000 euphony fans to sold-out shows crossed six cities, positive different 40,000 astatine sideshows.

Other performers astatine Laneway 2026 see BENEE, Wolf Alice, Role Model, Wet Leg and galore more.

According to organizers, adjacent year’s tally volition diagnostic 35% much artists, a marque caller East Coast stage, and a 3rd of the lineup making their Australian debut.

The wide onsale starts Sept. 24 from 10am AEST, a time aft the Laneway Festival pre-sale, with staggered merchandise times crossed each city.