With a new album on the way and a string of anniversary shows in the pipeline, Delta Goodrem finds herself with a foot planted firmly in two eras.
The superstar Australian pop singer is making headway with her forthcoming LP, the followup to 2021’s Bridge Over Troubled Dreams, which opened at #1 on the ARIA Chart for her fifth leader.
Goodrem is now based in Los Angeles and the chief of her own independent label, ATLED Records (Delta spelled backwards, in case you missed it), which she launched in 2023 following a decades-long association with Sony Music.
The singer and songwriter gave fans a signal to her new sound with 2023’s retro synth-rock number “Back to Your Heart” and the 80s-inspired 2024 cut “Hearts on the Run,” both produced with John Shanks and Matthew Copley and issued through ATLED. She also found the time to drop the silly song “Artichoke” — recorded for an Optus campaign.
That’s a whole lot of heart.
“It only feels natural that ‘Artichoke’ would be the leading track,” Goodrem says with a laugh over Zoom. She is, however, taking her next album very seriously. “I’ve been so grateful with getting to jump from project to project. Live shows are my real passion and I’m enjoying just being on the road.”
From each performance, she’s drawing “inspiration from the crowds” and “taking it into the studio.”
Those projects Goodrem has bounced back-and-forth on include a TV special, “Christmas With Delta,” for which she duets with Men at Work frontman Colin Hay, and landing the lead in the Netflix rom-com “Love Is In The Air.”
Then, in April 2025, a special 20th anniversary live series celebrating her ARIA Chart-leading second album, Mistaken Identity.
Set for two dates at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 14th and 15th April 2025, produced by TEG, followed by a pair of shows at London Hackney Empire, Goodrem will play the record “top to bottom with some songs we’ve never sung before,” she confirms to Rolling Stone AU/NZ.
“For me to revisit them too, and just go back into where I was at as an artist in that moment, I can hear the different influences that were going on.”
She recounts, “I was in my real love of Tori Amos and, yes, it was such a complex time. I love going into the drama with the Mistaken Identity album and being able to then put some light and healing into that music through another lens, through this chapter where I’m at now.”
Delta peered into the past last year with shows tied to the anniversary of her debut album, Innocent Eyes, a collection that logged 29 weeks at No. 1 back in 2003, making it the highest-selling debut album in Australian history.
There’s a real “beauty in anniversary shows,” she admits. “It’ll take people back to where they were in that music, where they had that music in their lives, but they’ll be able to see it from a different viewpoint and we all will collectively. And be able to treasure life journeys.”
Delta Goodrem – Mistaken Identity – A Night Of Celebration
Tickets for both shows are available now through deltagoodrem.com
Monday, April 14th, 2025
Sydney Opera House
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Sydney Opera House
