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Franz Ferdinand

3 December 2025

On the Forecourt

Contemporary Music

Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand have announced their return to Sydney, Wednesday, December 3 for On The Steps at Sydney Opera House Forecourt. The band will be joined at one of the world’s most spectacular outdoor venues by special guests Teenage Dads and Delivery. 

Last touring Australia in 2018, todays exciting announce follows the release of their sixth studio album, The Human Fear, earlier this year. 

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Franz Ferdinand announce their return to Sydney

Ever since their beginnings, throwing illegal parties in condemned Glasgow buildings, Franz Ferdinand have been defined by a fresh, unfading, forward-facing outlook. Their sixth studio album, The Human Fear, stays true to this, coursing with an energy that makes you feel very much alive. 

The release was produced with Mark Ralph, a familiar collaborator who the band worked with on their 2013 album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. This is also the first studio album to feature members Audrey Tait and Dino Bardot and sees Julian Corrie step forward to collaborate with Alex Kapranos and Bob Hardy on song writing and creative duties. 

Recorded at AYR studios in Scotland, the 11-songs on The Human Fear all allude to some deep-set human fears and how overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives. Receiving widespread acclaim since its release, the album showcases an era-defining band continuing their unquestionably living legacy.

From the moment 2023 ARIA Breakthrough Artist Teenage Dads stepped out with their early singles, it’s been clear they were in a league of their own going from playing sub-200 rooms to booking some of Australia’s finest theatres in just two years. 2024 was the band’s biggest yet with festival appearances at Party in the Paddock, National Laneway Festival tour & The Great Escape (UK), 25 international headline dates, and a nomination for Best Australian Live Act of the Year at the 2024 J Awards.

Since their first show in March 2021, Melbourne garage-punk group Delivery have spent the last two years marking themselves as one of the hardest and fastest working bands in town -with a debut album and two 7” releases, a spot at Golden Plains, performances alongside TFS, Party Dozen and Body Type, and a 20+ date tour of Europe. The band are currently working on a second full-length, expanding on their one clear mission… to rock.

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