Please note: This event is a Standing Show on the Stage.

The Beths are proud to present their brand new album Straight Line Was A Lie for the first time in Northland for over six years!

The band’s homecoming tour, which kicks off at Meow Nui in Wellington with two nights on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 of March 2026. The band then head south to Dunedin, playing Glenroy Auditorium on Friday 20 March, James Hay in Christchurch on Sunday 22 March and Theatre Royal in Nelson on Monday 23 March. The tour wraps up with two shows at the iconic Powerstation in Auckland on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March. 

These shows follow three solid months of touring the world, which kicked off last month in Europe and the UK. The North American leg begins this week and includes some of their biggest venues to date in the U.S. and Canada, including The Wiltern in Los Angeles, The Fillmore in San Francisco, The Salt Shed in Chicago, Brooklyn Paramount in New York City, Union Transfer in Philadelphia, 9:30 Club in Washington, DC and more. Following their New Zealand dates, the band head to Australia where they play their biggest Australian headline shows thus far.

The path from The Beths’ critically celebrated and year-end-list-topping 2022 album Expert In A Dying Field to Straight Line Was A Lie was anything but straightforward. For the first time, Stokes was struggling to write new songs beyond fragments she’d recorded on her phone. She’d recently started taking an SSRI, which on one hand made her feel like she could “fix” everything broken in her life, from her mental and physical health to fraught family dynamics. At the same time, writing wasn’t coming as easily as it had before.

With Straight Line Was A Lie, Stokes broke down the typical Beths writing process, opening themselves up to a wave of creative input, with Stokes’ free-flowing writing routine proving to be therapeutic. Already a celebrated lyricist, Stokes has long impressed fans and critics with catchy, instant-classic turns of phrase that capture the personal and ladder up to the universal. But Stokes’ intentional deconstruction and rebuilding of her relationship to writing, however, has resulted in a complete renewal. Her songwriting has achieved startling new depths of insight and vulnerability, making Straight Line Was A Lie the most sharply observant, truthful, and poetic Beths project to date.

Doors open at 7pm
Support act 8pm - 8.30pm
Interval 8.30pm - 8.45pm
The Beths 8.45pm - 10.00pm