# JOHN BUTLER ‘Prism Tour’ On Sale This Friday!

**Tour Announcement** — On Your Markus  
**Venues:** Her Majesty's Theatre  
**Published:** 17 June 2025  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/tour-announcements/john-butler-prism-tour-on-sale-this-friday/

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**Intimate Capital City and Regional Tour Dates Announced To Coincide with Release of Candid New Studio Album PRISM**  
*With special guest **[Emma Donovan](https://vmpr.cmail20.com/t/y-l-qmfdl-hiuidjghu-r/)*** **

**Tickets on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from ****[johnbutlertrio.com](https://vmpr.cmail20.com/t/y-l-qmfdl-hiuidjghu-y/)**  
*Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records*

**New Studio Album ‘PRISM’ – Released September 5**  
*Pre-save and Pre-order **[here](https://vmpr.cmail20.com/t/y-l-qmfdl-hiuidjghu-t/)*

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The release on September 5 of **John Butler**’s deeply personal new studio album ‘PRISM’, will also mark the first date this prolific independent artist begins his Australian ‘PRISM Tour’ – a national run of shows in intimate city venues and across regional towns, with special guest Emma Donovan and for two shows only in Cairns and Darwin, The Waifs.** **

Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records, the tour will begin in Bunbury on September 5, and include shows in Perth, Adelaide (part of Adelaide Guitar Festival), Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat, Thirroul, Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane (part of Brisbane Festival), Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Darwin and Cairns before finishing in Townsville on October 5.

**Tickets are on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from ****[johnbutlertrio.com](https://vmpr.cmail20.com/t/y-l-qmfdl-hiuidjghu-k/)**

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Butler said, *“I am really looking forward to touring Oz again with the band for the Prism album launch. Loving playing with Ian Peres, Michael Boase and  reuniting with Michael Barker on the drums. We’ve been having such a great time bringing these new songs to life on stage and the older songs are sounding BETTER THAN ever. Sorry couldn’t help myself!”*

Joining Butler as special guest on the tour is highly celebrated, ARIA-nominated, award-winning singer and songwriter **Emma Donovan**, whose new solo album ‘Til My Song Is Done’ is out now. For Darwin and Cairns, Butler will be joined by his fellow independent folk loving friends, **The Waifs. **

Significantly, ‘PRISM’ marks a formal departure from the John Butler Trio moniker. It’s an album that is contemplative and explosive, joyous and free, funk-filled, cinematic and unapologetic, with singles ‘Trippin On You’ and ‘So Sorry’ already released.

‘PRISM’ is Season Three of Butler’s Four Season roll-out – following Season One’s album of meditations (‘Running River’) and Season Two’s fully instrumental album (‘Still Searching’).

Aside from solo shows in 2024 to support his two instrumental albums ‘Running River’ and ‘Still Searching’, Butler hasn’t toured Australia with a band since 2019.

Butler is widely celebrated for his epic guitar instrumentals and pedal board wizardry, and the Australian tour follows an extensive two-month North American summer tour, with Dispatch, Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love & Special Sauce and Illiterate Light, including shows in Nashville, Red Rocks, NYC’s Rooftop at Pier 17, Ravinia and more.

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**JOHN BUTLER**  
**‘PRISM Tour’**

***Presented by Double J and Jarrah Records***

**BUNBURY REGIONAL ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, BUNBURY, WA**  
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5

**METROPOLIS FREMANTLE, PERTH, WA**  
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6

**HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE, ADELAIDE, SA**  
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10  
*Presented in association with the Adelaide Guitar Festival*

**NORTHCOTE THEATRE, MELBOURNE, VIC**  
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11

**ULUMBARRA THEATRE, BENDIGO, VIC**  
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12

**CIVIC HALL, BALLARAT, VIC**  
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13

**ANITA’S THEATRE, THIRROUL, NSW**  
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16** **

**METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY, NSW**  
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17

**THE STATION, SUNSHINE COAST, QLD**  
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18

**PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE, QLD**  
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19  
*Presented in association with the Brisbane Festival*

**THE EMPIRE THEATRE, TOOWOOMBA, QLD**  
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21

**MONCRIEFF THEATRE, BUNDABERG, QLD****  
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30

**DARWIN SKI CLUB, DARWIN, NT***  
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2

**MUNRO MARTIN PARKLANDS, CAIRNS, QLD***  
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4

**TOWNSVILLE CIVIC THEATRE, TOWNSVILLE, QLD****  
SUNDAY OCTOBER 5  
*Presented in association with Northern Australian Festival of Arts*

**Tickets on sale Friday June 20 at 12pm local time from ****[johnbutlertrio.com](https://vmpr.cmail20.com/t/y-l-qmfdl-hiuidjghu-u/)**

**With The Waifs*  
***Emma Donovan not playing, special guests to be confirmed*

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