Australian Crawl

Australian Crawl return to New Zealand for the first time in over 40 years.

James Reyne, David Reyne and John Watson, with a band of nine will bring The Crawl show to Auckland's Powerstation on March 5th..

This is the same show that is selling out nationally across Australia as a part of the 2026 Red Hot Summer Tour.

Between 1978 and 1986, Australian Crawl somehow managed to cram an entire cultural legacy into less than a decade, soundtracking beach towns, road trips and pub speakers with songs that still feel genetically encoded.

Reflecting on the reunion, James Reyne looked back on the band’s accidental beginnings.
“We ran our own shows on the Pen and a following grew,” he said. “We decided we should perhaps give this thing a year before we returned to our studies… just to see what happens. What a ride.”

Meanwhile David Reyne delivered perhaps the most Australian origin story ever committed to a press release. “A bunch of us from the beaches of the Mornington Peninsula twanged some guitars, banged some drums, blended together some tunes and played a gig or two for the local board riders’ club,” he said. “They swung from the rafters, stomped the floorboards and drank an Army’s worth of beer… Australian Crawl was born.”

Buckle up for a night of nothing but Australian Crawl.