{"id":79673,"date":"2026-08-25T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79673\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:12:13","slug":"micky-dolenz-announces-60-years-of-the-monkees-australian-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/79673\/","title":{"rendered":"Micky Dolenz Announces ’60 Years of The Monkees’ Australian Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Dolenz is bringing six decades of The Monkees<\/a> history to Australia next year.<\/p>\n

The singer, drummer and last surviving member of the iconic pop-rock group will tour Australia in May 2027 with a new live show, \u2018Mickey Dolenz: 60 Years of The Monkees\u2019, kicking off at Brisbane\u2019s QPAC on May 6th before heading to the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney, Thirroul, Canberra, Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.<\/p>\n

The show will trace The Monkees\u2019 career chronologically, with Dolenz performing songs including \u201cLast Train to Clarksville\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m a Believer\u201d, \u201c(I\u2019m Not Your) Steppin\u2019 Stone\u201d, \u201cPleasant Valley Sunday\u201d, \u201cRandy Scouse Git\u201d, \u201cSometime in the Morning\u201d and \u201cDaydream Believer\u201d.<\/p>\n

The music will be accompanied by a multimedia presentation drawing on key moments from The Monkees\u2019 history, while Dolenz will share stories from his six decades connected to the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spent nearly my entire life either in front of or behind the cameras or microphones,\u201d Dolenz said. \u201cMuch of what I\u2019ve been able to share with the world has come from this thing called \u2018The Monkees\u2019 \u2014 this wacky musical-comedy TV show about a band struggling for success.\u201d<\/p>\n

The popular television series premiered in the US on September 12th, 1966, introducing Dolenz alongside Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones as a fictional band trying to make it in the music industry.<\/p>\n

The joke, of course, was that outside the show they became enormously successful for real.<\/p>\n

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\u201cInterestingly, on the show, The Monkees never actually made it,\u201d Dolenz said. \u201cOff screen, however, we sold out concerts all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also recalled Nesmith\u2019s description of the moment the group began performing as an actual live band. \u201cWhen we first played, all by ourselves, it was like Pinocchio becoming a real boy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

What began as a television concept quickly became one of the defining pop phenomena of the late \u201960s. The Monkees \u2014 the TV show \u2014 won two Emmy Awards, while the band sold millions of records and landed their first four albums at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n

Their run produced songs that have endured well beyond the television series itself, with \u201cI\u2019m a Believer\u201d and \u201cDaydream Believer\u201d among the tracks that helped turn The Monkees from manufactured TD band into genuine pop music history.<\/p>\n

Dolenz is now the sole surviving member of the original lineup, following the deaths of Jones in 2012, Tork in 2019 and Nesmith in 2021, making the 60th anniversary show as much a tribute to his former bandmates as a celebration of the songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remain proud of what I\u2019ve achieved in my time, particularly with my late great and still-beloved Monkee brothers Davy, Peter, and Michael,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I want to do, as the 60th anniversary of that wonderful moment is upon me, is to look back and share with the fans the sheer joy of what we accomplished \u2014 and what it all still means to so many.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Australian shows will also feature material from Dolenz\u2019s forthcoming six-track EP, Timeless<\/a>, due September 4th.<\/p>\n

Its first single, \u201cTerri\u201d, was written by The Replacements\u2019 Paul Westerberg and gives Dolenz some new material to place alongside the catalogue that has followed him for most of his life.<\/p>\n

Tickets for \u2018Micky Dolenz: 60 Years of The Monkees\u2019 go on sale Thursday, August 27th at 11am AEST via davidroywilliams.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Micky Dolenz: 60 Years of The Monkees\u2019 Australian Tour 2027<\/p>\n

Tickets on sale Thursday, August 27th at 11am AEST via David Roy Williams.<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 6th
QPAC, Brisbane<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 8th
HOTA, Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 12th
Civic Theatre, Newcastle<\/p>\n

Friday, May 14th
State Theatre, Sydney<\/p>\n

Sunday, May 16th
Anita\u2019s Theatre, Thirroul<\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 18th
Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 20th
Costa Hall, Geelong<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 22nd
Palais Theatre, Melbourne<\/p>\n

Monday, May 24th
AEC Theatre, Adelaide<\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 26th
Astor Theatre, Perth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mickey Dolenz is bringing six decades of The Monkees history to Australia next year. The singer, drummer and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[123201,123202,335,123203],"class_list":["post-79673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-mickey-dolenz","tag-micky-dolenz-australia-tour","tag-perth","tag-the-monkees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}