360 Back N Forth Tour 2026 Will Bring Australian Hip Hop Back To Sydney’s Outer Edges

360 Back N Forth Tour 2026 will bring the rapper and PEZ across regional NSW and Sydney surrounds, with shows in Avalon, Caringbah and Kellyville Ridge.

In the thick of a Sydney summer, music tends to spill outward. Beyond the city’s established venues and inner-city circuits, the sound of touring artists drifts into surf clubs, suburban pubs and regional halls where crowds gather early and stay long after the final encore. In 2026, 360’s Back N Forth Tour will follow that familiar Australian road – not through arenas and polished entertainment precincts, but through the quieter corners of the country where live music still feels deeply local.

For Sydney audiences, the tour will arrive less like a singular event and more like a moving story unfolding across the state. From Avalon on the Northern Beaches to Caringbah in the Sutherland Shire and Kellyville Ridge in the city’s north-west, the 360 Back N Forth Tour will trace a loose orbit around Sydney while reconnecting with the regional communities that helped shape Australian hip hop over the last two decades.

The scale of the tour is difficult to ignore. Across 43 dates between February and June 2026, 360 and long-time collaborator PEZ will move steadily across the country, carrying with them a catalogue that has become stitched into the memory of a generation of Australian listeners.

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360 Back N Forth Tour Revisits Familiar Roads

There is something fitting about the name Back N Forth. Touring in Australia has always demanded movement – long drives between towns, changing coastlines outside van windows, late-night arrivals at pubs glowing softly beside highways. The tour’s route reflects that rhythm, winding through places often overlooked by larger international acts.

For Sydney and New South Wales audiences, the 360 Back N Forth Tour will begin nearby at Avalon RSL on Thursday 12 February before continuing through Newcastle, Gosford, Albury, Wagga Wagga, Ulladulla, Wollongong, Caringbah, Kellyville Ridge, Dubbo, Bathurst, Kingscliff, Coffs Harbour and Broken Hill.

Rather than centring solely on metropolitan prestige, the tour appears built around proximity and familiarity. Many of the venues are places where audiences stand close to the stage, where performers remain visible after the lights come up, and where live music still feels conversational.

That atmosphere suits 360’s music. Since emerging in Melbourne’s hip hop scene in the 2000s, the ARIA Award-winning rapper has often balanced sharp lyricism with an openness that resonated beyond genre boundaries. Albums like Falling & Flying and Utopia carried emotional candour into mainstream Australian music without losing the grounded storytelling that first defined his work.

By the time his latest record Out of the Blue arrived earlier this year, there was less sense of reinvention than continuation – a reminder that longevity in Australian music often depends not on spectacle, but on persistence.

The 360 Back N Forth Tour Will Reunite 360 And PEZ

Part of what will give the 360 Back N Forth Tour its emotional weight is the return of PEZ alongside 360. Their creative history stretches back years, through collaborations, festival stages and earlier projects under the name Forthwrite.

Australian hip hop has always carried a strong sense of locality. Scenes developed city by city, often through word of mouth and small venues long before streaming flattened geography. For many listeners, tracks like The Festival Song or Live It Up became tied to a particular era of Australian nightlife – house parties, university bars, summer road trips along the coast.

The upcoming tour seems likely to lean into that shared memory. According to 360, audiences can expect older material alongside newer songs from Out of the Blue, creating performances that move between nostalgia and present-day reflection.

That balance matters. Legacy tours often rely too heavily on replaying the past, but the most compelling live performances tend to acknowledge time rather than resist it. In regional venues especially, audiences arrive carrying their own histories with the music.

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Sydney’s Outer Venues Will Shape The Atmosphere

The Sydney dates on the 360 Back N Forth Tour will unfold far from the city’s major entertainment precincts. Avalon RSL, Caringbah Hotel and Ettamogah Pub at Kellyville Ridge each carry distinct suburban identities shaped more by locals than tourism.

In Avalon, the February show will arrive while the Northern Beaches are still caught in the haze of late summer. Salt air drifts inland after dark, and the roads empty early except for groups heading toward the coast’s small cluster of venues and bars.

By May, Caringbah will offer a different atmosphere entirely. The Sutherland Shire has long supported live Australian music, with pubs and band rooms that attract crowds less interested in industry trends than the experience of a strong live set.

Kellyville Ridge, meanwhile, reflects Sydney’s outward expansion – newer suburbs where live touring events often feel rare enough to become communal occasions. These are the kinds of places where audiences tend to arrive in groups, where familiar songs are shouted back toward the stage, and where performers can still feel the texture of a room changing in real time.

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