Kevin Bridges has set his Here If You Need Me stand-up tour across Australia and New Zealand next year, starting in Perth on Sunday 28 February. The run moves city by city through 11 shows before ending with two nights in Melbourne on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 March.
Perth to Melbourne
The schedule begins at Perth HPC, then moves to Sydney's Opera House on Wednesday 3 March, Newcastle's Civic Theatre on Thursday 4 March and Canberra's Royal Theatre on Friday 5 March. Bridges then plays Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre on Sunday 7 March, Christchurch's Town Hall on Tuesday 9 March and Auckland's Te Paepae Theatre on Wednesday 10 March before returning to Australia for Sydney's TikTok Entertainment Centre on Saturday 13 March.
Brisbane's Convention Centre follows on Monday 15 March, then Adelaide's Thebarton Theatre on Friday 19 March and the two Melbourne dates at Hamer Hall. For anyone mapping the route, the practical point is simple: the production is built for one moving circuit, not separate regional legs, so the same show travels intact through Australia and New Zealand in a little more than three weeks.
Box office history
Bridges has already spent 63 sold-out shows across Glasgow's OVO Hydro and SEC venues, the most by any performer in that venue's history. He also shattered box office records with A Whole Different Story in 2015, Brand New Tour in 2018 and Overdue Catch-Up in 2022, and his past two tours drew over 2 million fans across the globe.
That scale is why this new run lands as a business story as much as a comedy tour: a performer who has already moved audiences in the millions is now testing the same draw across Perth, Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. The pressure point is not whether the title is new; it is whether the itinerary can turn that established demand into another clean sell-through across two countries.
Here If You Need Me route
The only immediate action for readers is to check the city they can actually reach, because the dates are fixed and the tour is moving fast from one market to the next. Perth opens the run, Melbourne closes it, and the middle dates give New Zealand and Australia the same production in one continuous sequence.
