Counting Crows The Complete Sweets! Tour
For more than three decades, Grammy and Academy Award-nominated rock band Counting Crows have enchanted listeners worldwide with their intensely soulful and intricate take on timeless rock and roll. Next month they return to Australia and New Zealand with The Complete Sweets! Tour – bringing decades of sing‑along moments, deep cuts, and fresh energy to iconic theatres across both countries for 8 massive shows.
Counting Crows have today announced local Australian favourites Kingswood (Australian tour dates), and acclaimed Auckland based singer-songwriter MACEY (Auckland only) as special guests. Four-piece rock band Kingswood is widely regarded as one of our hardest working bands, with ten years and six studio albums under their belt!
Counting Crows will commence The Complete Sweets! Tour in Auckland at Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 March, before heading to Australia for a show at Festival Theatre, Adelaide on Friday 27 March, followed by Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Sunday 29 and Monday 30 March, then heading to Melbourne for shows at Palais Theatre on Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 April, wrapping up in Sydney on Monday 6 April at Enmore Theatre.
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au and livenation.co.nz.
Having delivered some of the world’s most beloved rock songs, from “Mr Jones” and “Round Here”, to their cover of “Big Yellow Taxi” and the Shrek movie/soundtrack hit, “Accidentally in Love”, Counting Crows returned earlier this year to drop an album of new material, Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! featuring single “Spaceman In Tulsa”.
COUNTING CROWS
The Complete Sweets! Tour
Australia & New Zealand 2026
With special guests KINGSWOOD (Aus dates) and MACEY (NZ dates)
KIRI TE KANAWA THEATRE, AUCKLAND – SOLD OUT
MONDAY 23 MARCH
KIRI TE KANAWA THEATRE, AUCKLAND
TUESDAY 24 MARCH
FESTIVAL THEATRE, ADELAIDE
FRIDAY 27 MARCH
ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY – SOLD OUT
SUNDAY 29 MARCH
ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY – SOLD OUT
MONDAY 30 MARCH
PALAIS THEATRE, MELBOURNE – SOLD OUT
WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL
PALAIS THEATRE, MELBOURNE
THURSDAY 2 APRIL
ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY
MONDAY 6 APRIL
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au & livenation.co.nz
About Counting Crows
Counting Crows exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with their multi-platinum breakout album, August and Everything After. Since then, the band has gone on to release seven studio albums, selling more than 20 million records worldwide, and is revered as one of the world’s most pre-eminent live touring rock bands.
In October 1996, the band’s double-platinum sophomore studio album, Recovering the Satellites, debuted at number one and further solidified their growing reputation as one of the leading American alternative rock bands in the world. A follow-up to their early success, Counting Crows went on to release This Desert Life (1999), Hard Candy (2002), Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (2008), Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) (2012), Echoes of the Outlaw Roadshow (2013), and Somewhere Under Wonderland (2014).
In 2004, Counting Crows recorded the chart-topping “Accidentally in Love” for the animated motion picture Shrek 2. The instant success of the track earned them an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 2005 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song, and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
In 2021, Counting Crows ranked #8 on Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time: Adult Alternative Artists” 25th-anniversary chart.
After seven years, Adam Duritz and Counting Crows released Butter Miracle: Suite One in May 2021 to rave reviews. The band also kicked off their first tour since 2018, “The Butter Miracle Tour,” from 2021 through 2023, with sell-out performances across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. In May last year, the band released an album of new material, Butter Miracle: The Complete Sweets!
About Kingswood
KINGSWOOD is an award winning four-piece good times country and good times rock’n’roll band from Melbourne Australia. The release of album HOME saw KINGSWOOD re-enter the ARIA Charts, debuting at #2 on the ARIA Australian Vinyl and #1 on the ARIA Australian Country charts – the latter of which stayed atop for an impressive 8 weeks in a row. With their record-breaking ‘Hometowns Tour’ taking in 100+ shows right around the country, KINGSWOOD hit venues of all sizes, in locations in each corner of Australia, on their purpose-constructed tour bus ‘Peggy’. Ten years and six studio albums on, Kingswood remain one of Australia’s hardest working bands playing festivals nationally and playing with acts like ACDC, Aerosmith to touring the US and Europe.
About Macey
Raised in a musical family, MACEY draws inspiration from a wide range of sounds—from classical to The Beatles to Green Day and My Chemical Romance. His music blends these influences into raw, heartfelt storytelling that captures the essence of the human experience. After making his mark in New Zealand and abroad, MACEY broke through in 2023 with his debut album THE LOVERS, debuting at #3 on the NZ Album Chart and #13 on the Official Top 40. MACEY now steps back out into 2026 to showcase a more uptempo, mature approach to living with loss with his latest ‘Clementine’ seeing him at his most candid and conflicted.
