AWARD-WINNING CANADIAN ARTIST PATRICK WATSON ANNOUNCES SPECIAL GUEST LA FORCE FOR AUSTRALIAN TOUR SUPPORT
FIRST AUS SHOWS IN OVER A DECADE TAKE PLACE NEXT MONTH IN SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & BRISBANE
Ahead of his first Australian shows in over a decade, acclaimed musician, songwriter and composer PATRICK WATSON today announces he will be joined by fellow Canadian artist LA FORCE on all dates.
La Force is the mesmerising solo project of one of Canada’s most sought-after musical collaborators, Ariel Engle. Her debut self-titled album,La Force, earned a Polaris Prize long-list nomination alongside global praise, and caught the attention of The National’s Aaron Dessner, who recruited Engle to appear on the 2021 Big Red Machine LP alongside Bon Iver, Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes and Sharon Van Etten.
Having previously collaborated on the lead single ‘Height of the Feeling’ from Watson’s 2022 album Better in the Shade, the Australian run brings the two acts together once again, offering fans the opportunity to see two of Canada’s most brilliant acts live on stage.
Kicking off at Sydney’s Metro Theatre on 26th November, Watson’s three-date east coast run continues on 28th November at Melbourne’s Northcote Theatre before wrapping up on 29th November at Brisbane’s Princess Theatre.
Blending genre lines of cabaret pop, classical and indie rock music, Watson’s music has reached global audiences for two decades; his flair for experimenting with form coming together beautifully with nuanced lyricism and ambition.
Watson’s latest album, 2025’s UH OH, reintroduced him as one of the finest musicians of his generation and also was positioned as a comeback album of sorts. Made after Watson suffered a vocal cord injury that resulted in him losing his voice for a months-long stretch, UH OH features his music performed by a number of guest vocalists including Martha Wainwright, Charlotte Oleena, MARO and Charlotte Cardin. The record earned Watson a Juno Award nomination for ‘Adult Alternative Album Of The Year’, while the Martha Wainwright collaboration ‘House On Fire’ was shortlisted for the 2026 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize.
Watson’s career milestones have included winning the prestigious Polaris Music Prize for Close To Paradise (2007), as well as achieving over 1 billion streams on Spotify for his 2010 song ‘Je te laisserai des mots’ – the first French song to achieve the feat. Watson’s music has also been featured on a number of television projects that have become part of the pop culture zeitgeist (Grey’s Anatomy, Orange Is The New Black, This Is Us), while as a live performer his shows have continued to win new audiences around the world.
PRAISE
“An intimate album that becomes a chronicle of resilience, it offers a powerful ode to collaboration. This is the culmination of his work over the last twenty years. And it reminds us that sometimes the most difficult moments can generate the most essential art.”
PANM360
“Uh Oh is a masterful work from beginning to end foregrounding the work of one of Canada’s top musical auteurs.”
KURATED MUSIC
“What could have been a career-ending catastrophe becomes instead a meditation on vulnerability, collaboration, and the strange alchemy that transforms fear into art.”
MONTREAL ROCKS
PATRICK WATSON AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
with special guest La Force
THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER Metro Theatre SYDNEY *SELLING FAST*
SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER Northcote Theatre MELBOURNE *SELLING FAST*
SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER The Princess Theatre BRISBANE
For tickets and more information visit threekingstouring.com.au and sbmpresents.com
