Handsome Tours are proud to present the return of indie rock royalty Broken Social Scene to Australian shores for the first time in 17 years this March as they announce their world tour in support of their critically acclaimed new album Remember The Humans - their first in nine years - out now on Arts & Crafts.
The highly decorated and celebrated musical collective from Toronto, Canada will perform a headline show in Boorloo / Perth, alongside their shows on the All The Feelings Tour with Metric and Stars in Naarm / Melbourne, Gadigal Land / Sydney and Magandjin / Brisbane.
For many bands, there are long stretches when nothing seems to happen, at least from the outside. Years pass, the culture shifts, and the audience waits for a signal, unsure whether the silence marks exhaustion, reinvention, or simply life happening offstage. Broken Social Scene has always maintained a distinct release cadence: neither a band of relentless abundance, nor of contemporary monastic scarcity. They surface when the conditions are right, and fall quiet when they aren't. Yet their silence never feels like absence - it feels like building pressure, as if the next surge of sound is assembling itself offstage, gathering mass, waiting for the right moment to break. 2026 is such a moment.
Long-heralded as darlings of the 00s/10s indie-era and credited with paving the way for contemporaries like Feist, Metric, Stars, and Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene have released six studio albums - Feel Good Lost (2001), You Forgot It in People (2002), Broken Social Scene (2005), Forgiveness Rock Record (2010), Hug of Thunder (2017), Remember The Humans (2026) - that have been praised by Pitchfork, The Guardian, The New York Times, featured performances on late night shows with Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brian and David Letterman, among many, many others supporters. This will be Broken Social Scene’s fourth tour of Australia, having previously toured with Splendour In The Grass, Laneway Festival, Perth Festival and a string of headline shows to accompany each.