Katie Noonan returns with single 'This Isn’t What I Signed Up For’ and announces 30th album will drop in June

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Published: 6 March 2026

Multiple award winning Australian music icon Katie Noonan today returns with her new single ‘This Isn’t What I Signed Up For’.

An emotional, moving ballad, it sees Noonan reminisces about and ultimately farewell a marriage that ended suddenly and acrimoniously. ‘Now we speak via legalese / And trivial discussions of possessions and shit that means nothing / So i try to stay in my heart and remember the man I love,’ Noonan sings in a gentle restrained vocal, that serves to make the moments the anger and frustration bubble over in her voice all the more devastating.

The song mirrors Noonan’s own life experience after her marriage to Isaac Hurren ended last year after over 20 years,.

“No one goes into marriage thinking it will end,” says Noonan. “This is a simple meditation on the profound sadness of realising the vows you made did not last the test of time.  I am so grateful for our relationship as it led to the birth of our two extraordinary sons and some special music making with our trio elixir, but I really hoped we could make it work.”

'This Isn’t What I Signed Up For’ is the first taste of Noonan’s 30th studio album Alone But All One, due to be released on 26 June. Featuring The River Suite String Quartet and Noonan’s first ever songwriting collaboration with acclaimed author Trent Dalton, the album is an intimate and poignant exploration of love in all of its stages. Recorded live in her lounge room, Noonan’s piano and the string quartet are the only musical accompaniment on the album, allowing Noonan’s stunning voice to take centre stage.

“This album is for anyone who’s gone through a life shift - not just separation, but grief, uncertainty, or quiet reinvention,” Noonan says. “It’s music for sitting with things. For remembering we’re not alone, even in solitude. It’s personal, but I hope it will resonate in a way that becomes collective.”

To celebrate the album’s release, Noonan will touring from July, performing seven shows across Australia. Kicking off in Brisbane on 10 July, the show will wrap in Melbourne on 1 August. Tickets on sale today from 11am AEDT.

Noonan first came to prominence as the lead singer of the band George, who formed in 1996 and scored a massive, number 1 album with Polyserena in 2002. Over the following decades, she has become one of Australia’s greatest living artists, a true genre-defying singer who has performed everything from opera to pop to jazz to rock, with an extraordinary, once heard never forgotten voice that will regularly take your breath away.

Alone But All One sees Noonan at a crossroad in her life where everything has changed, and acts as the bridge between the past and the future - a quiet moment to reflect, honour, mourn and rail against what has been, but with an intention to move forward into the next chapter with acceptance, grace and a new perspective on life. It is guaranteed to be a beautiful listening experience that will not only form part of Noonan’s healing journey, but also your own.

‘This Isn’t What I Signed Up For’ is out now. You can download and stream here.
Alone But All One will be released on 26 June.
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ALONE BUT ALL ONE TOUR DATES

10 July – Old Museum – Concert Hall, Brisbane, QLD
11 & 12 July - Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
16 July – The Rechabite, Perth, WA
17 July – Camelot Arts Club, Mosman Park, WA
18 July – Miss Chow’s, Margaret River, WA
30 July – The Gov, Adelaide, SA
1 August – Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne, VIC

Tickets on sale Friday March 6 from 11:00am AEDT at www.katienoonan.com.au