Alex Cameron comes off a Strokes tour and opens his West Coast run at the Deer Lodge

The Australian songwriter's first U.S. headline date after European arenas is a 200-capacity room on the Maricopa Highway, Tuesday, Nov 3.

A week before he walks into the Deer Lodge, Alex Cameron is wrapping up a run of arena dates in Europe opening for The Strokes. On Tuesday, Nov 3, he trades all that for a 200-capacity roadhouse on the Maricopa Highway in Ojai, and that's the gig to get.

The show starts at 8pm, with doors at 7, and tickets are $29. It's 21+. The Deer Lodge's own listing bills it as a double bill with Josh Da Costa, and notes the venue doesn't send digital tickets for online purchases; your name is held at the door instead. Tickets are on Eventbrite, and the listing says they're final sale.

Ojai isn't a random stop. It's the first night of Cameron's West Coast run, the first of ten dates we have listed for him, ahead of San Diego on Nov 5, Los Angeles on Nov 6, San Francisco on Nov 7, Santa Cruz on Nov 9, then Seattle and Portland. In our records, it's also his first show in Santa Barbara and Ventura County. Anyone in the 805 who has wanted to see him in a small room has, until now, had to drive to LA.

What he's touring is Late to Set, his fifth studio album, which Secretly Canadian released on July 24. It's his first record in four years, following 2022's *Oxy Music*, and it arrived with the singles "Statue Down," "Red Hook Rain" and "Stepdad." Mark Perkins, Zach Dawes and Maxim Ludwig are among the producers credited. When the album was announced in May, Cameron's fall plans were laid out together, as BrooklynVegan reported: headline dates in New York in September, the Strokes support slots in the UK and Europe through October, and this West Coast swing right after.

That sequence is what makes Tuesday interesting. Cameron is a performer whose songs lean on character and delivery, and a room the size of the Deer Lodge puts you close enough to catch all of it. After weeks of warming up arena crowds who came for someone else, this is a night in front of people who came for him.

On a Tuesday in early November, with the valley cooling off after dark, it should feel about right.

After weeks of warming up crowds who came for someone else, this is a night in front of people who came for him.

Get your name on the list, get there by 7, and order something before Josh Da Costa starts.

Sources: Deer Lodge: Alex Cameron 11/3/26 8pm (deerlodgeojai.com); Deer Lodge: Live Music (deerlodgeojai.com); Eventbrite: Alex Cameron :: Deer Lodge :: Ojai 11/3 (eventbrite.com); Secretly Canadian: Alex Cameron shares new single Stepdad (secretlycanadian.com); BrooklynVegan: Alex Cameron announces new album, tour, shares Red Hook Rain (brooklynvegan.com); Stereogum: Alex Cameron announces new album Late to Set (stereogum.com); The Line of Best Fit: Alex Cameron announces new record Late to Set (thelineofbestfit.com); JamBase: Alex Cameron at Deer Lodge (jambase.com); Alex Cameron (musician) – Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)