Music luminaries and budding talents: We explore the 2021 Wanstock festival lineup
Boom Crash Opera
Words by August Billy
From The Black Sorrows to Boom Crash Opera and beyond, we unpack this year’s Wanstock bill.
The Shoppingtown Hotel has become an unlikely leader in the pub rock revival in recent years. Located in Doncaster, the hotel’s Cabaret Room not only hosts regular tributes to the likes of Fleetwood Mac and ABBA, but has fast become a favoured tour-stop for many Australian guitar bands of yesteryear.
In the last few years, The Shoppingtown has welcomed everyone from The Angels, Dragon and Rose Tattoo to You Am I and Jebediah. Given the venue’s budding reputation as a bulwark of Oz rock worship, the calibre of acts at the 2021 Wanstock festival makes perfect sense.