2024/25 DATES REVEALED FOR AUSTRALIA, NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND
​AU PRESALE STARTS MAY 1 & GENERAL ONSALE BEGINS MAY 3

THIRD STUDIO ALBUM
​HIT ME HARD AND SOFT OUT ON MAY 17
​[DARKROOM/INTERSCOPE RECORDS]

Following the news of her highly anticipated third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, set for release on May 17 (pre-order/add/save here), Billie Eilish has announced Australian arena dates, produced by Live Nation and Frontier Touring, for her HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR. Starting in North America in September 2024, Eilish will embark on an Australian leg in February 2025, ahead of her European, U.K., and Ireland arena shows. For a full list of tour dates, see below or visit billieeilish.com.

Tickets for BILLIE EILISH: HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR will go on sale Friday 3 May – times staggered per market (see below in tour dates for full details).

American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning next Wednesday 1 May (while supplies last) – this is one of the many entertainment benefits American Express Card Members can access. Presale start + end times will vary by market, check your local listings at billieeilish.com for more information.

Vodafone customers can secure early tickets during a pre-sale commencing Thursday 2 May (times staggered, refer below). Head to Vodafone.com.au/ticket for more information.

In keeping with her commitment to making a difference in the environmental impacts of her music and touring, a limited number of Changemaker Tickets will be available for the Australia dates. A portion of the proceeds from the Changemaker Ticket will support OzHarvest and other not-for-profit organisations in collaboration with Support + Feed addressing the impacts of food insecurity and the climate crisis.

Please note all shows have been announced and will go on sale on Friday 3rd May – no further Australian shows to be added. Get in fast to avoid disappointment!

SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS
​Billie Eilish will continue her long-standing partnership with environmental nonprofit REVERB on this tour, building on the success of previous efforts, which resulted in over $1 million donated to environmental, greenhouse gas reduction, and climate justice projects, more than 150,000 fan actions, and much more. Sustainability efforts on this tour will include reducing greenhouse gas pollution, decreasing single-use plastic waste, updating concession offerings to promote and encourage plant-based food options with Support+Feed, and supporting climate action.

ECO-VILLAGE
​The Billie Eilish REVERB Eco-Villages will be set up at 2 locations in the main concourse of every show where fans can take part in the tour’s sustainability efforts, connect with nonprofits, and take meaningful action for people and the planet.

TRANSPORT
​Fans are encouraged to join the effort to make the HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR more sustainable. Where possible, take public transportation and carpool to and from the shows to help reduce greenhouse gas pollution and encourage more public transportation options. Fans will receive information via email about public transportation options before the show.

VENUES
​Venue partners are also helping to lessen the environmental footprint of the tour. In addition to efforts to decrease waste through reducing or eliminating single-use plastics and diverting landfill waste with compost and recycling, venues will be offering plant-based food options at all shows.

FAN PARTICIPATION
​Bring an EMPTY reusable water bottle or donate for a custom RockNRefill Nalgene bottle to fill up at the free water refill stations located at each venue. The RockNRefill bottles and refill stations are located at the Eco-Villages located in the main concourse at all shows. Fight fast fashion by opting for thrifted, upcycled, or borrowed clothes instead of buying new clothing to wear to shows.

Billie Eilish’s forthcoming album, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT was written by Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, her brother and long-time collaborator, who also produced the album. HIT ME HARD AND SOFT will be available on all digital platforms, and in a continued effort to minimise waste and combat climate change; across all physical formats in limited variants on the same day, with the same track-listing and using 100% recyclable materials. For more information on all sustainable practices for this album release, please visit HERE.

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is out everywhere on May 17.
​Pre-order/add/save here.

BILLIE EILISH
​HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR
​AUSTRALIA
​FEBRUARY & MARCH 2025
​Presented by Live Nation and Frontier Touring

AMERICAN EXPRESS MEMBERS PRE-SALE  ​ ​ ​
​via www.Amex.com.au/Experiences
​Wednesday 1 May – Thursday 2 May
​Or until presale allocation exhausted
​Presale timings staggered per show, visit website for more details

FRONTIER MEMBER PRESALE ​
​via frontiertouring.com/billieeilish
​Thursday 2 May – Friday 3 May
​Or until presale allocation exhausted
​Presale timings staggered per show, visit website for more details

LIVE NATION PRESALE ​
​via livenation.com.au
​Thursday 2 May – Friday 3 May
​Or until presale allocation exhausted
​Presale timings staggered per show, visit website for more details

VODAFONE PRESALE
​via Vodafone.com.au/ticket
​Thursday 2 May – Friday 3 May
​Or until presale allocation exhausted
​Presale timings staggered per show, visit website for more details

TICKETS ON SALE
​Begins: Friday 3 May (times staggered, see below)

ALL SHOWS ALL AGES

NO FURTHER SHOWS TO BE ADDED – GET IN FAST!

Tuesday 18 February
​Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Brisbane, QLD
​On sale: Friday 3 May (2pm AEST)
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Wednesday 19 February
​Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Brisbane, QLD
​On sale: Friday 3 May (2pm AEST)
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Friday 21 February
​Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Brisbane, QLD
​On sale: Friday 3 May (2pm AEST)
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Saturday 22 February
​Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Brisbane, QLD
​On sale: Friday 3 May (2pm AEST)
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Monday 24 February
​Qudos Bank Arena | Sydney, NSW
​On sale: Friday 3 May (1pm AEST)
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Tuesday 25 February
​Qudos Bank Arena | Sydney, NSW
​On sale: Friday 3 May (1pm AEST)
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Thursday 27 February
​Qudos Bank Arena | Sydney, NSW
​On sale: Friday 3 May (1pm AEST)
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Friday 28 February
​Qudos Bank Arena | Sydney, NSW
​On sale: Friday 3 May (1pm AEST)
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Tuesday 4 March
​Rod Laver Arena | Melbourne, VIC
​On sale: Friday 3 May (3pm AEST)
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Wednesday 5 March
​Rod Laver Arena | Melbourne, VIC
​On sale: Friday 3 May (3pm AEST)
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Friday 7 March
​Rod Laver Arena | Melbourne, VIC
​On sale: Friday 3 May (3pm AEST)
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Saturday 8 March
​Rod Laver Arena | Melbourne, VIC
​On sale: Friday 3 May (3pm AEST)
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TOUR INFORMATION

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‘Fragile as Humans’

“Fragile as humans and made of who we love…”

LISTEN TO

FRAGILE AS HUMANS ALBUM

“Barker’s writing has never been so pin sharp”  —MOJO ★★★★

The first song Emily Barker recorded for her latest record, Fragile as Humans, was its title track. To capture the “hyper-real recording” he desired, producer Luke Potashnick surrounded Barker with microphones at The Wool Hall, an impressive sixteenth century stone building converted into a studio by Tears For Fears in the early ’80s. She accompanied herself on Potashnick’s 1938 Gibson L37 archtop guitar. They recorded six takes, but the first was the best.

Written and recorded as her time living in the UK was coming to a close, Fragile as Humans sees Barker turn her lyrical gaze inwards. The expansive themes of her previous album, A Dark Murmuration of Words (released 2020), are replaced by an empathetic concern for matters more personal, familial, closer to home.

Feathered Thing was written while she navigated cumulative grief following a miscarriage. “It’s basically about grieving an idea or imagined future,” she clarifies of the song, the central image inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’. Commencing gently, with oscillating piano and distant drums, the arrangement gradually transforms into an instrumental dervish of vibrant strings and cymbal crashes. Throughout, Barker’s vocals float and hover like a slipstreaming feather.

“I had this idea of putting Emily out front, diving further into what her voice could do and exploring much quieter parts of her voice,” Potashnick explains. “Every single line had to be faultless, otherwise the illusion and the contract between her and the listener would collapse.”

Barker’s introduction to Potashnick had come via their mutual friend, producer and engineer Dom Monks (Big Thief, Nick Cave, Laura Marling). Barker shared some demos she’d been working on and fondly recalls, “Luke noted my harmonic choices and lyrics – two aspects I’d worked particularly hard at – and asked what sort of album I’d like to make.”

Potashnick set about placing each song under the microscope, line by line. “I’d never spent so long working on the songs with a producer before and really trusted Luke with his background in songwriting,” Barker reflects. “The songs were made stronger through him pushing me to dig deeper, to tweak a part, to substantiate a choice.”

Barker worked on editing the songs while touring the States with Mary Chapin Carpenter, performing and refining them on the road. On her return she was ready to begin recording.

The album’s calling card, the filmic single Wild to be Sharing This Moment, introduced the production ideas: “We wanted to push the dynamics, so it could be intimate in parts and cinematic in others,” Barker reveals, “whilst also exercising restraint; creating tension.”

Ahead of the Fragile as Humans songwriting sessions, Barker wrote the word ‘EXPERIMENT!’ on a postcard and pinned it to a cork board in her writing room alongside family photos, postcards of Aretha Franklin and Red-tailed black cockatoos, and “a strip of paper from my niece wishing me a happy day”. This word, in all caps, served as a reminder for Barker to challenge herself creatively and actively pursue the unknown: “I wanted to favour the odd and less obvious lyric, chord progression, melody.”

The closing track, Acisoma, began as an imagined question to Sir David Attenborough about life and death, but soon metamorphosed into something completely different. “I sat at the piano and moved my fingers around trying not to think about it too much,” she recounts. “Some chords fell into a loose order, I set my voice free to roam and hit record on my iPhone. Listening back to my sketch, it didn’t sound like anything I’d written before – my word [EXPERIMENT!] had infiltrated my process.”

When it came to recording Acisoma, Potashnick revealed—just before hitting RECORD—that the microphone he’d set up was the one Dom Monks had used on Nick Cave’s vocals at Alexandra Palace. “I loved the sound of Idiot Prayer – using that very same mic lent me an appropriate mood for capturing the song.”

Potashnick’s vision is present throughout the album: the meditative, introverted Loneliness was a song Barker had envisioned with full-band production, but Potashnicks’s instinct was to keep it minimal: a felted piano, a dulcimer and a trio of strings to add haunting textures. Barker acknowledges, “Luke got it right…it’s lonelier this way.”

Half of the album’s tracks are solo, Barker accompanying herself either on guitar or piano. These songs were recorded first and then she was joined by the session players – Tim Harries (electric and double bass/piano/string arrangements), Tom Visser (drums) and Richard Causon (keys) – at The Wool Hall, tracking the remaining songs in a matter of days.

Album opener With Small We Start showcases the band, the song’s warm acoustic aesthetic drawing the listener into Barker’s discourse on the benefits of concentrating on the simple things in life.

Call it a Day chronicles Emily’s positive experiences – friendships, music connections – from two-plus decades spent living in the UK.

“Making this record was a beautiful way to wrap up my 21 years of living in the UK before heading home to WA,” she points out.

As a teenager, Barker left Western Australia, with an acoustic guitar and a backpack, first arriving in England in the summer of 2000. She has previously written entire albums about longing for home, but Fragile as Humans was inspired and written in both hemispheres: during a writing residency in Stroud, while people-watching at London’s Kings Cross station and upon returning to WA following the state’s strict, pandemic-related border closures.

The ten songs on Fragile as Humans take us on a deep dive into the human condition, an unflinching self-examination of grief, pain, loneliness and loss, at the same time sparkling with hope, optimism and connection.

“If I could choose one word for people to hold in their minds as they listen to this album,” Emily muses, “that word would be: compassion.”  

Fragile as Humans is scheduled for release on 3 May through Everyone Sang / Kartel Music Group.

EMILY BARKER LIVE SHOWS

Sat 15^th  June 4:30pm Junction Records, Fremantle

Sat 15^th June 7pm Vinyl Cafe, Leederville

Sat 29^th  June – Bridgetown-Pottery Restaurant

Sun 30^th  June – The Marritree presents @ Live in the Chapel, Witchcliffe

Sun 7^th  July – Lyric’s Underground, Maylands (Perth)

60,000 tickets for this year’s “France Edition” have already been snapped up by eager AIRBEAT ONE fans, and now organizers are excited to release the full lineup for this year’s festival.

An incredible 228 artists are on the festival lineup including DJ MAG TOP 100 headline acts such as Afrojack, Alok, Angerfist, Techno Queen Charlotte de Witte, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Oliver Heldens, R3HAB, Tiesto, Timmy Trumpet, Vini Vici and W&W among hundreds of other DJ superstars.

This year’s exciting theme is “Vive La France”, and from 10th to 14th July 2024, AIRBEAT ONE will be transporting the aura of France to the Neustadt-Glewe airfield. The electronic music world will join together to celebrate the 21st edition of one of Europe’s largest and most eagerly anticipated festivals. With more than 70,000 music fans per day, and over 225,000 fans across the five-day event, the festival city being built in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, will for five days become the fourth largest city across the region.

More than 60,000 tickets have already been sold for a festival that’s still months away, and to add excitement to anticipation, and reward fans, organizers now release the full 228-artist lineup.

For countless years, the AIRBEAT ONE Main Stage with its unforgettably monstrous dimensions, 180 meters wide and 50 meters tall, has been an eye-catching mesmerizing sight, with festival fans often visibly stunned by its sheer size. Along with its incredible scale, the Main Stage every year welcomes the world’s biggest DJs and acts onto the stage to perform for the sell-out crowd. This year is no different, of the 25 artists due to play over three days on the Main Stage, 15 of them place highly on industry-renowned DJ MAG TOP 100 ranking: Music icons such as Afrojack, ALOK, Armin van Buuren, Boris Brejcha, Charlotte de Witte, Deborah de Luca, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Kölsch, Martin Horger, Oliver Heldens, R3HAB, Tiësto, Timmy Trumpet, Vini Vici and W&W will all be performing on the Main Stage this year. Along with these international stars, as one of Germany’s most influential electronic music festivals, homegrown superstar heroes such as Kevin de Vries, Neelix, Paul Kalkbrenner, and Scooter, will also be joining the main stage lineup. Two Ukrainian superstars Artbat and Korolova will be making their AIRBEAT ONE debut this year. Whilst Argy, Mau P, SKIY, and Will Sparks complete the unmissable Main Stage lineup.

For the previous two years, techno has boasted of having its own stage, and this year is no different, the 2024 ARENA techno headliners are 999999999, Alfred Heinrichs, Ann Clu, BIIA, Danny Avila, HI-LO, I hate models, Indira Paganotto, Joyhauser, LEVT, Lilly Palmer, Nusha, Paula Temple, Sara Landry, Shlomo and Umek b2b Heerhorst. Anfisa Leytago, Basswell, Cera Khin, Charly Sparks, Clara Cuve, Fatima Hajji, and Parfait and Space92 complete the lineup.

Like a Paris fashion show by way of superstar hardstyle, a parade of harder music stars is set to appear on our hardstyle stage. This year’s incredible lineup features Angerfist, Brennen Heart, Coone, Da Tweekaz, D-Block & S-te-Fan, Deadly Guns, Dr. Peacock live, D-Sturb, Miss K8 b2b Anime, Paul Elstak, Ran-D, SEFA, Sickmode, Sub Zero Project, Warface and Zatox icons of the harder sound, and all are performing at Neustadt-Glewe. Other iconic acts such as 3 Blokes, Ace of Rage, Aftershock b2b Wildstylez, Atmozfears b2b Adrenalize, B-Frontliner, Creek, Dimitri K, GPF, Jebroer, Lil Texas, Mandy, Rebelion and Rooler are on the stellar lineup. For fans of a harder style of music, ARENA is a stage not to be missed.

In celebration of our 21st year, we’re introducing a brand new AIRBEAT ONE festival stage, and it’s one that fans have requested for years, the CLASSICS ARENA. Fans have asked for electronic music icons of the last few decades, as well as their unforgettable anthems, to be given a stage, and we’re happy to provide it. Some of the most influential electronic music stars from across the decades, across three full days, are set to play on this year’s inaugural Classics Arena.

DJ Sammy is celebrating his comeback after more than a decade away from the German festival scene. With two previous consecutive appearances in the DJ MAG TOP 100 in 2012 and 2013, the No1 hitmaker is also responsible for all-time classics such as “Heaven” and “Boys of Summer”, as well as producing pop star Loona’s smash hits “Bailando” and “Hijo de la Luna”, DJ SAMMY will be bringing the Latin Queen herself to perform on the Classics Stage. Other headliners for the exciting new stage addition include Brooklyn Bounce DJ, Charly Lownoise, CJ Stone, Da Hool, DJ Dean, DJ Dune, DJ Quicksilver, Ian van Dahl, Jay Frog, Mellow-D, Kai Tracid, Krid P, Niels van Gogh, Rocco b2b Pulsedriver, Special D, Starsplash, Talla 2XLC, The Hitmen, Woody van Eyden, Ziggy X – in what is sure to be an unforgettable atmosphere, filled with three days of unmissable classic tracks.

The Second Stage is sponsored and presented by the Indian Spirit Festival delivers, once again, the biggest artists from the world of Goa, Psy-Trance and Trance: The amazing lineup includes music legends headliners such as Alchimyst, Astrix, Atype, Berg, Blazy, Captain Hook, Claudinho Brasil, Cloud 7, Durs, Fabio Fusco, Ghost Rider, Hatikwa, Morten Granau, Omiki, Phaxe, Querox, Ranji, Rising Dust, Sajanka, Pacemaker, Vegas, Zyrus 7, plus many more stars still to be confirmed.

Last but in no way least, The Terminal Stage, which for many has been an unofficial second main stage for the last few years, on account of the quality of headliners, this year’s lineup includes; Bassjackers, Blasterjaxx, Fedde Le Grand, Le Shuuk, Maddix, Mariana BO, MATTN, Sam Feldt and VIZE, regularly feature highly on the annual DJ Mag top 100 list. Established and highly respected German headliners on the Terminal Stage lineup include Anstandslos & durchgeschnellt, AXMO, Die Gebrüder Brett, Gerostert aber GeiL, HBz, Housekasper, Jerome, Komacasper, Ostblockschlampen, Pretty Pink, twocolors and YouNotUs. However, the undeniable local hero of AIRBEAT ONE Festival is Schwerin’s KXXMA, who has been carving an impressive path through the hard techno scene for the past two years.

Another 41 acts will be appearing exclusively on the decks in the VIP floors, including No.Mads, Daniel Ledwa, Jaques Raupe and Pair Glasses.

Tickets for AIRBEAT ONE Festival 2024 are available at www.tickets.airbeat-one.de. Standard advanced sale 3 Day tickets cost €179.99 plus fees.

AIRBEAT ONE 2024 Full Line Up

MAINSTAGE:

Afrojack

Alok

Argy

Armin van Buuren

ARTBAT

Boris Brejcha

Charlotte de Witte

Deborah de Luca

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike

Kevin de Vries

Kölsch

Korolova

Marten Horger
Mau P

Neelix

Oliver Heldens

Paul Kalkbrenner

R3HAB

Scooter

SKIY

Tiësto

Timmy Trumpet

Vini Vici

W&W

Will Sparks

ARENA STAGE:

999999999

Alfred Heinrichs

Anfisa Letyago

Ann Clue 

Basswell

BIIA

Cera Khin

Charlie Sparks

Clara Cuve

Danny Avila

Fatima Hajji

HI-LO

I hate models

Indira Paganotto

Joyhauser

LEVT

Lilly Palmer

Nusha

Parfait

Paula Temple

Sara Landry

Shlomo

Space92

Umut b2b Herrhorst

TERMINAL STAGE:

Anstandslos & Durchgeknallt

AXMO

Blasterjaxx

Blvck Crowz & Rewi

Christian Lidsba

Die Gebrüder Brett

Fedde Le Grand

Gestört aber GeiL

HBz

Housekasper

Jerome

Justin Pollnik

Junstin Price

Komacasper

KXXXMA

Le Shuuk

Madixx

Marianna BO

MATTN

Nicolas Binder

Ostblockschlampen

Öwnboss

Pretty Pink

Sam Feldt

The Disco Boys

Thomas Lizzara

Twocolors

Uwe Worlitzer

VIZE
YouNotUs

ZEUZ

HARDSTYLE:

3 Blokes

Ace of Rage

Aftershock b2b Wildstylez

Angerfist

Atmozfears b2b Adrenalize

Audiotricz

B-Frontliner

Brennan Heart

Clockartz

Coone

Creek

Da Tweekaz

D-Block & S-te-Fan

Deadly Guns

Dimitri K

Dr. Peacock live

D-Sturb

GPF

Hard Driver

Jebroer

Lil Texas

Mandy

Mish

Miss K8 b2b Anime

Noisecontrollers

Paul Elstak

Ran-D

Rebelion

Rooler
SEFA

Sickmode

Sub Zero Project b2b Phuture Noize

Thyton b2b Mutilaor

Vertile

Villain DJ Set

Warface

Zatox

CLASSIC AREA:

Bamba
Brooklyn Bounce DJ

Charly Lownoise

Chris Nitro

CJ Stone

Creek b2b Mira

Da Hool 

DJ Bomba

DJ Dean

DJ Dune

DJ Falk

DJ Gollum

DJ Lee

DJ Quicksilver 

DJ Sammy 

DJ Yanny

Eric SSL

Franky B

Ian van Dahl

Jay Frog

Kai Tracid

Krid P

Martink
Mellow-D
Money-G

Niels van Gogh

Revil O

Rocco b2b Pulsedriver

Sideout b2b Pacemaker

Special D.

Starsplash

Talla 2XLC

The Hitmen

Woody van Eyden

Ziggy X

SECOND STAGE:

Ace Ventura

Alchimyst

Astrix

Atype

Babalos

Berg

Blastoyz
Blazy 

Captain Hook

Claudinho Brasil

Cloud 7

Durs

Fabio Fusco

Ghost Rider

Hatikwa

Incognito

LsDirty

Morten Granau

Omiki

Phaxe

Plus One

Querox

Ranji

Rising Dust

Sajanka

Schrittmacher

Vegas

Zyrus 7

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