Men At Work Announce 2026 Australian Tour

Who can it be now? Well, it’s Men At Work, heading back to work on home soil this spring.

Colin Hay is bringing the current incarnation of Australian rock icons Men At Work down under for a run of headline shows this October and November, celebrating 45 years since the creation of their blockbuster debut album, Business As Usual.

Men At Work – ‘Who Can It Be Now?’

The tour will see Hay and his LA-based Men At Work band hit Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Fremantle, revisiting the songs that helped catapult Australian rock onto the global stage.

Released in 1981, Business As Usual spawned enduring classics including ‘Down Under’, ‘Who Can It Be Now?’ and ‘Be Good Johnny’, ultimately spending a staggering 15 weeks atop the US Billboard 200 and five weeks at #1 on the UK Albums Chart.

And four-and-a-half decades later, Hay reckons the real proof of the album’s legacy is pretty simple: the songs are still bloody everywhere.

“What has clearly stood the test of time, are the songs,” Hay says. “Forty-five years on, I still hear them in the street, on the radio, in supermarkets, they are still going strong…”

Following Men At Work’s original run, Hay went on to forge a prolific solo career while also becoming a longtime member of Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.

More recently, he’s assembled a crack team of LA-based musos to perform under the Men At Work banner, taking the band’s catalogue back on the road and discovering there’s still a sizeable – and increasingly intergenerational – appetite for those songs.

“I would never have predicted back in 1985, that 40 years on, I would still be fronting Men At Work, this version featuring Cubans, a Peruvian, an American, and me,” Hay reflects.

“Over the last few years, I have gone out on tour as Men At Work, on a quest of discovery. To discover whether or not we still have an audience.”

“Turns out we do, people of all ages, of all different backgrounds, who find something in the songs that brings them joy.”

The forthcoming Australian tour promises a career-spanning setlist, saluting the meteoric success of Business As Usual alongside enduring favourites from across the wider Men At Work catalogue.

And in a particularly choice bit of Australiana, the tour will wrap with a show inside Fremantle Prison. Because apparently regular venues simply aren’t sufficiently down under.

Catch all the details below.