Hot Chip: Joy in Repetition Sydney Festival 2026

  • Contemporary Music
  • Electronic
  • Indie
  • Pop
  • Concert Hall
  • Run time: 150 minutes, including 1 interval Subject to change
  • Seating map

Synth-pop magicians Hot Chip bring you one of modern music's most life-affirming live experiences

Few acts have stayed at the top of their game like indie-dance magicians Hot Chip. Across more than two decades and a deep discography, the London quintet have perfected a dancefloor-ready sound that is by turns melancholy, soul-stirring and all-out euphoric. 

Beloved by Australian audiences, their return for Sydney Festival–playing two nights in the iconic Concert Hall–arrives at a crowning moment. In 2025, the band unveiled Joy In Repetition, a greatest-hits collection celebrating their 25years of music making with depth and durability. Their roof-raising catalogue, alongside a new single,“Devotion”, that wraps listeners in a warm hug.

Steeped in classic house and shimmering synth-pop, and illuminated by frontman Alexis Taylor’s unmistakable voice, Hot Chip remains one of modern music’s mostlife-affirming live acts. Come ready to dance, laugh and lose yourself in the music.

Presented by Sydney Festival

Event details

Hot Chip’s best-of collection highlights the group’s deadpan humour, winning tenderness, and remarkable consistency.

Pitchfork

One of the most consistently entertaining electro-pop outfits of their generation

NME

They can make everyone dance on a school night; harder and more bruised than their mild-mannered reputation suggests.

The Guardian

Attending this event

Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Concert Hall

The Concert Hall is located beneath the largest of Sydney Opera House’s roof sails, filling the upper levels of the west side of the building. Best accessed through the covered concourse. 

All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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