“This album honestly started on fuckin’ Smith Street,” Troye Sivan tells the crowd of his adopted hometown, Melbourne. We’re only a few kilometres south of the queer party hub – and while the grassy, classy Sidney Myer Music Bowl isn’t exactly Sircuit, Sivan certainly brings the same vibes. “We’re gonna turn this place into a fuckin’ club,” he continues. “I’ve partied here – I know how feral you get.”
It’s a homecoming (or “home cumming”, according to one of the T-shirts on sale) for one of Australia’s biggest pop exports. The Perth-raised musician has gone from posting teen YouTube vlogs to sweeping the globe with his electro-pop bangers, working with Charli xcx and Ariana Grande on record, and even being spoofed by Timothée Chalamet on Saturday Night Live. And the night before the concert, he took home three Aria awards, including album of the year for 2023’s Something to Give Each Other.
