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.
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Wanstock is an annual music festival showcasing Australian rock bands. This year, Wanstock is proud to present The Black Sorrows & Boom Crash Opera as headline acts.
Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows are one of Australia’s most prolific and enduringly popular bands renowned for their high-energy live shows, musicianship and infectious, rootsy rhythms. Joe will present the classic soul, blues and country hits you love from The Black Sorrows’ enormous back catalogue along with a selection from Jo’s 50th album release The Black Sorrows’ Saint Georges Road
(due out in early 2021).
Boom Crash Opera is an iconic Australian rock band, big in the mid ‘80s to the mid ‘90s and still writing and performing. They are known for their intense stage show that blends high energy, artful intent and boisterous humour. Their live performances draw on a string of hit singles, starting with Great Wall and Hands Up In The Air (1986