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\n\tKesha has announced she will be returning to Australia for a run of headline dates in support of her new album, . (Period)<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tPart of her wider T\u2013ts Out Tour<\/a>, the four-date trek of the country will see Kesha performing headline dates in the Australian capital cities of Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in late February, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tNotably, the announced run does not include a stop in Sydney, though her visit to Australia coincides with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. No announcement as to Kesha\u2019s potential involvement in the festivities has been released, however.<\/p>\n \n\tThe upcoming shows will be the musician\u2019s first in the country since an appearance at the Australian Open in Melbourne in January, which was coupled with her House of Kesha<\/a> event in Sydney. Previously, she had also performed as part of the Sydney Mardi Gras in early 2020.<\/p>\n \n\tThe tour has been marketed as Kesha\u2019s first headline tour of Australia in over a decade, seemingly referring to her previous visit as part of the Get Sleazy Tour. This, however, appears to overlook her rescheduled<\/a> 2018 visit for the Rainbow Tour.<\/p>\n \n\tThe announcement of these new dates comes just weeks after Kesha officially released her sixth album, . (Period)<\/em>, which also marks her first record as an independent artist.<\/p>\n \n\tPrior to the arrival of . (Period)<\/em>, Kesha has been under contract to Kemosabe Records, despite her yearslong legal battle with label owner Dr. Luke, whom she accused of drugging her and raping her at a 2005 party in 2014. The producer has always vehemently denied the allegations, and the two parties reached a settlement<\/a> in 2023 before Kesha was released from her deal with Kemosabe in March 2024.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI really do feel like it\u2019s been a homecoming in a lot of ways \u2014 not only legally, to the rights of my voice, but to letting go of that internalized shame, of letting all that go and coming home to my own body, my joy, myself,\u201d Kesha told Billboard<\/em><\/a> recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAnd part of that has been healing my relationship with the records that I\u2019ve put out that were difficult to make \u2014 that were perceived in a way that wasn\u2019t the way I intended, that were tied to events that I don\u2019t stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n