Rick Price Announces ‘Call On Me’ Tour

Rick Price: The Songs Change, the Connection Remains

Some songs belong to a particular moment. Others somehow follow you around for half your life. Rick Price has written a few of those. More than three decades after “Heaven Knows” and “Not a Day Goes By” first found their way onto Australian radio, he’s still writing songs, making records and finding reasons to get back out on the road.

In 2026, Rick Price will do exactly that with his Call On Me Tour, a national run that brings together the songs audiences have carried with them for decades and the music he's making today.

At the centre of it is “Call On Me,” the latest single from his album Hometown. It's a song about connection and being there for someone when they need you — simple territory perhaps, but the sort of territory Price has always understood particularly well.
His songs have rarely needed to be complicated to make their point.

Love, loss, hope, distance, home and the people we choose to share those things with have been recurring themes throughout his career. It's probably one of the reasons songs he wrote more than thirty years ago still mean something to the people who first heard them back then.

When Heaven Knows arrived in 1992, Price suddenly found himself with one of those records that changes everything.
“Not a Day Goes By” became a major hit, the title track followed, and before long that unmistakable voice was coming out of radios across Australia and well beyond it.

For plenty of people, those songs are attached to a particular time in their lives. A first relationship. A breakup. A long drive. A cassette in an old car. Maybe somebody they haven't thought about in years. That's what happens when songs hang around long enough. 

But Price's story didn't finish when the '90s did. He kept writing, recording, producing and playing, building a career that has taken him around the world while continuing to quietly add new chapters to the catalogue.

Hometown feels very much like one of those chapters. There's an obvious sense of reflection running through the record, but it doesn't sound like an artist trying to recreate what worked thirty years ago. Instead, it comes from someone with considerably more road behind him, looking at where he came from and what still matters.

“Call On Me” fits comfortably into that world. It's unmistakably Rick Price, but it's Rick Price now. That balance between then and now will sit at the heart of the 2026 tour. The shows will be stripped back and acoustic-driven, leaving plenty of room for the voice, the songs and the stories behind them. New material from Hometown will sit alongside the familiar songs people have been waiting to hear.

There's something about that format that suits Price particularly well. Take away the big production and you're left with the thing that mattered in the first place — whether the song works. A guitar. A voice. A lyric. Maybe a story about where it came from.

After decades of performing, Price understands that connecting with an audience doesn't necessarily mean making everything bigger. Sometimes the opposite works better. These days, he's also finding another way to put those years of experience to use.
Through his label Clarice Records, Price has been working with emerging artists, taking the knowledge gathered from decades of songwriting, recording and touring and bringing it into the studio with a new generation.

One of those artists is issi, whose forthcoming EP secret heart has been produced by Price and is due later this year.
There's a nice circularity to that.

The young songwriter who once had to figure out recording studios, record companies, touring and everything else that arrives when a song suddenly takes off is now helping other artists find their own way through it. Perhaps that's where the story of the Call On Me Tour really sits. It's not a comeback. Rick Price never really went anywhere.

And it's not simply a nostalgia tour, because he's still making new music and still interested in what comes next.
Instead, it's the story of an artist who's been doing this long enough to understand that careers change, audiences change and life certainly changes.

But a good song can have a remarkably long memory. More than thirty years after Heaven Knows, Rick Price is still writing them.
And people are still listening.

08 Oct — Bowral Bowling Club, Bowral NSW
09 Oct — Avoca Beach Theatre, Avoca Beach NSW
10 Oct — Flamingos Live, Lambton NSW
11 Oct — Oaks Hotel Motel, Albion Park Rail NSW
16 Oct — South West Rocks Country Club, South West Rocks NSW
17 Oct — Wooli Hotel Motel, Wooli NSW
18 Oct — Jetty Beach House, Coffs Harbour NSW
21 Oct — Leichhardt Hotel, Rockhampton QLD
22 Oct — Horseshoe Bay Cafe, Bowen QLD
23 Oct — Lux Noir, Townsville City QLD
24 Oct — Hinchinbrook Shire Hall, Ingham QLD
25 Oct — The Clink Theatre, Port Douglas QLD
26 Oct — Macalister Brewing Company, Smithfield QLD
30 Oct — Trinity Sessions at the Church of the Trinity, Clarence Park SA
31 Oct — The Loxton Club, Loxton SA

NOVEMBER

01 Nov — Beach House Cafe, Encounter Bay SA
06 Nov — Norton Music Factory, Caloundra West QLD
07 Nov — Wynnum Manly Leagues Club, Manly West QLD
12 Nov — Club Ipswich, North Ipswich QLD
13 Nov — Sound Lounge, Currumbin QLD
14 Nov — The Royal, Nundah QLD
15 Nov — Tonic Lounge & Bar, Toowoomba City QLD
20 Nov — Don Russell Performing Arts Centre, Thornlie WA
21 Nov — Duke of George, East Fremantle WA