Katy Perry has taken time out of her current Australian tour to appear at a Melbourne nightclub celebrating her music.

Perry’s onstage appearance occurred at Chasers Nightclub on Saturday (June 14) following the final Melbourne date of her Lifetimes Tour at Rod Laver Arena. As part of the club’s LGBTQIA+ Poof Doof night, that evening also featured its Katy Club event, where attendees celebrated the music of the pop icon.

However, following a similar event in Brisbane the previous evening, the Melbourne edition featured a special guest by way of Perry herself, who bought the club an evening of free drinks.

“You guys raised me,” footage of the event shows Perry telling the crowd. “I thank you and I love you, you are my chosen family.”

“Because you are my chosen family, a mother must provide for her children,” she added. “So as a provider, I would like to open the bar for one hour. The drinks are on me, baby!”

Notably, Perry’s crashing of her own themed event follows on from a similar instance in Sydney where Lorde appeared at local venue Mary’s Underground while it was hosting an evening dubbed What Was That – after the New Zealand musician’s recent single.

Perry’s Australian tour launched in early June and has so far featured four sold-out dates in Melbourne and three in Sydney. During a recent show at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on June 9, Perry’s performance gained attention after she was joined by a stage invader during her set.

Footage of the incident showed an individual appearing onstage, putting his arm around Perry, who instinctively turns away as the fan continues to dance. “There’s never going to be another show like this, so just enjoy it!” Perry told the audience in response.

The individual was later identified as Johnson Wen, a “serial prankster” known for posting videos of stage invasions to TikTok under the username @pyjamamann. Wen was later arrested and taken to Auburn police station where he was subsequently charged with “entering enclosed land and obstructing a person in performance of work or duties.” 

Wen has since been granted conditional bail ahead of a court appearance on June 23, and has been issued a six month ban from the Sydney Olympic Park precinct which houses Qudos Bank Arena.

Perry’s tour continues on Tuesday (June 17) with the first of two sold-out dates in Brisbane, before shows in Perth and Adelaide.