Perth’s premier live concert destination RAC Arena is all fired up for the summer with these huge international artists.

Boyz II Men

With more than 64 million albums sold Boyz II Men are recognised as the best-selling R&B group of all time. Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman’s trophy cabinet includes four Grammy Awards, nine each of American Music Awards and Soul Train Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and dual Hall of Fame inductions. They’re set to kick off their seventh Australia tour and the first since 2018 in November.

“Music is the driving force,” Wanya Morris recently told Sidewalks TV. “We love music. We were blessed to have great songs and songs that people remember. So, I mean, it really doesn’t hit us like how people say we’re legendary, you know? But we know this music is what people love, and as long as they love music, they’ll love Boyz II Men. So to be a part of that in history is a great feat.”

Boyz II Men are joined by first ladies of rap Salt-N-Pepa and felly R&B icons Bell Biv DeVoe at RAC Arena on November 26.

Bryson Tiller

Fresh from celebrating the 10-year anniversary of his culture-changing debut album, T R A P S O U L, and the release of the 2025 Solace & The Vices double-album, multi-platinum selling artist Bryson Tiller is set to embark on his first tour of Australia.

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Tiller is a polymath – a rapper, singer, musicians and producer who is also a video game designer. He maintains that all his creative motivations come from the same source.

“I’m a storyteller,” he told Apple Music Zane Lowe in 2025. “I’m a story writer. My grandma used to always tell me she felt like I was going to be a journalist or something, but I just really love to write stories, to create stories. Whether it’s through a comic book, whether it’s through a video game, whether it’s through music, any way I can kind of tell a story or build a world for somebody. Music is a cool way for me to build a world because I can build a world within a song.”

Bryson Tiller brings his stories to RAC Arena on January 19.

Fontaines D.C.

While the Laneway Festival is skipping Perth next year, Fontaines D.C. will bring their own party out West with a headline show at RAC Arena.

Currently on their biggest-ever tour across the UK and Europe, Fontaines D.C. also have a brand-new album, Dopamine Chamber, ready to bring to the stage. This, their fifth album, is the follow-up to 202?’s Romance.

“I think Romance was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling,” frontman Grian Chatten said. “This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted — the mask is wearing the face a little more.

“I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness, honestly. This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning.”

“Our albums have always questioned a sense of place,” bassist Conor Deegan continued. “First Dublin, then being away from Dublin, and then trying to find the romance elsewhere. On this record, the question became, ‘where do you escape to?’”

Supported by Irish post-punk outfit Gurriers, Fontaines DC escape to RAC Arena on February 9.

Simple Minds

Celebrating five decades as a band in the top tiers of the international music scene, Simple Minds will bring their V Tour 2027 to Australia in February.

The tour will also act as a launchpad for their new album, Sacrosanct, set for a January 29 release, with the first single, “Beginner Boys”, out now.

Having already played to a estimated 1.5 million people in the last 12 months Simple Minds are gearing up for what will be their biggest ever arena tour.

“Well, we do have the taste” vocalist Jim Kerr told Virgin Radio UK last week. “I mean, there’s that minute before you go up those stairs where it’s kind of like, ‘look, yeah you’ve got a new record. You get that, but at this stage of the game, what are you saying?’ You’re saying, ‘this is what we’ve done with our lives’, and when that’s at stake, you don’t want to, and you can’t, have a bad gig. Even like out of a 10, a nine is maybe acceptable because we’re all human… but nothing less.”

Simple Minds have always an acclaimed live band and it makes sense given Kerr’s high regard for the part the audience plays in the experience.

“I quite often go in if there’s an opening act. I go in and have a walk around because I love the body language, you see people meeting each other. If you sit in the hotel the whole day, you’re in this bubble. You’re still aware, but to go in and really see the body language, and it reminds you – you see it through their eyes, and onstage you can hear it.”

Simple Minds perform at RAC Arena on February 13.

Kehlani

US R&B superstar Kehlani has had a huge 2026, with her self-titled album securing the biggest debut for an R&B album by a woman this year, coming in at #4 on the Billboard 200.

The album of course features the massive hit, “Folded,” which earned Kehlani two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song. As an artist Kehlani is proud of her success, but of equal importance is the hope that she is connecting with her audience.

“I just want people to feel warmth,” she told collaborator Leon Thomas in an interview for Billboard. “Even if it’s a sad song. My favourite music is any song I hear that takes me back to being in my auntie’s house. It’s this certain nostalgia; this childhood thing that good music will just hug you.”

Joined by emerging US R&B singer Destin Conrad, Kehlani performs at RAC Arena on February 18.

Bryan Adams

Canadian music icon Bryan Adams returns to Australia with his Roll With The Punches in February-March 2027.

The award-winning artist who has had #1 hits in more than 40 countries, also has a new album, How’s It Goin’, set for release in November, which he describes as “a love letter to Canada.”

The first single, “51st State” was a protest against US President Donald Trump’s statements about annexing Canada. The second, “The Ballad of Terry Fox,” was a salute to the Canadian distance runner, written for the documentary, Run Terry Run. When Adams was asked to contribute to another documentary, Canada’s Wild Eastern Edge, the theme for a new album was well and truly set in motion.

“I was touring Africa and I got a request to write a song for it and I thought, ‘Well, I’ll see if I can knock something out’. I wrote a song based on the name of the documentary; I did quite a bit of research before I wrote the song, just looking at the eastern provinces and delving into the geography and the history,” he recently told Ultimate Classic Rock.

“In the process of doing that I started digging into the history of Canada and compiled quite a bit of stuff, and of course the current affairs being what they are, I felt compelled to write something that was of the time. So I had the song for the documentary and “51st State”. And “51st State” I thought would be perfect to put out on Canada Day (July 1), and so we did that. So now I’ve got a couple of other songs and a bunch of other stuff I was working on and I started going down the rabbit hole of writing this sort of love letter to Canada.”

Bryan Adams will bring that love letter plus all of his hits to RAC Arena on February 23, along with special guest, Natalie Imbruglia.

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