For Paul Kelly fans, Christmas comes early.

With a new album out next month and a film adaptation of the Australian music legend’s hit How To Make Gravy due out in December, fans can now add tickets to his national tour to their wishlist.

On Wednesday the rock star, who turns 70 in January, announced his biggest Australian dates to date and his only live appearances in 2025.

Kelly will kick off her arena tour in Perth on August 26 at the RAC Arena before heading to Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide and Melbourne.

He will also fly to our neighbors in New Zealand, performing in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland in early September.

Kelly’s live band will be at his side and consists of members Peter Luscombe (drums), Bill McDonald (bass), Dan Kelly (guitar), Cameron Bruce (keyboards), Jess Hitchcock (vocals) and Ash Naylor (guitar).

The tour comes in anticipation of Kelly’s upcoming studio album, Fever Longing Still, which will be released on November 1st and which fans will be able to enjoy on stage next year.

This is his first album of new original material since 2018’s Nature. The new album is set to add 12 additions to a catalog of love songs spanning over 40 years.

The name comes from a line from Shakespeare’s sonnet 147, whose work has excited and inspired Kelly since her school years.

Awarded an Order of Australia in 2017, winner of 17 ARIA Awards and five APRA Awards, Kelly is a popular choice among Australian music fans and we all know at least one person who belts out the lyrics to his classic Christmas carol this holiday season.

How to Make Sauce has been adapted into a two-minute film, which will be released on Binge on December 1, and features Australian actors Daniel Henshall and Hugo Weaving.

Released in 1996, it is written from the point of view of a recently incarcerated Joe, who writes a letter home to his brother Dan on December 21 as his family prepares for their first Christmas without him.

Its popularity is still so huge that fans now call it Sauce Day on December 21st.

On the Australian leg of his tour, Kelly will be joined by special guest American rockers Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, armed with his latest release, 2023’s Weathervanes, which won Best American Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

Written while he was an actor in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the album is the rolling thunder of Isbell’s menacing live band The 400 Unit.

Tickets for all shows go on sale Wednesday, October 30th at 3:00 pm local time at frontiertouring.com/paulkelly.

Frontier members can get early access through the Frontier presale starting Monday, October 28 at 3:00 p.m. local time.