Hilltop Hoods will headline Australia’s Castaway Pageant throughout three cities this summer season, extending a run for the Adelaide hip-hop trio that has made them probably the most adorned act within the historical past of the ARIA Albums Chart.
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The group holds a document seven No. 1 albums on the chart — greater than another Australian act, surpassing AC/DC, Powderfinger, Chilly Chisel and Silverchair — a streak that almost all lately prolonged with 2025’s Fall From the Mild.
Castaway will run at Whitfords Nodes Park in Hillarys, Western Australia, on Saturday, Nov. 21; Mornington Racecourse in Victoria on Saturday, Dec. 12; and Wollongong, New South Wales, on Saturday, March 20, 2027. Becoming a member of Hilltop Hoods on the invoice are Brisbane rock band Violent Soho and ARIA-winning singer-songwriter Amy Shark, alongside supporting acts Playlunch, Trials, Lyric and Birdland. Basic tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 28, with artist, promoter and Telstra Plus presales opening Wednesday, Aug. 26.
Hilltop Hoods have constructed one of the crucial substantial catalogs in Australian hip-hop over greater than twenty years. The trio — Suffa, MC Strain and DJ Particles — have logged 23 entries on Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown and have received 10 ARIA Awards. Their chart dominance dates to 2006’s The Arduous Highway and has continued by State of the Artwork (2009), Consuming From the Solar (2012), Strolling Beneath Stars (2014), a 2016 remix compilation of these two albums, The Nice Expanse (2019) and Fall From the Mild (2025), which marked their sixth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 in Australia.
Violent Soho, identified for anthemic pageant units and albums together with WACO and All the pieces Is A-OK, have additionally topped the ARIA Albums Chart throughout their profession. Amy Shark broke by with 2018’s Love Monster, which reached No. 1 in Australia and helped set up her as one of many nation’s most recognizable pop songwriters. “I’m an enormous fan of Hilltop Hoods and Violent Soho, I used to be very happy to affix the boys on the street!” Shark mentioned in a press release saying the pageant. “I don’t assume you would get a greater lineup. Hip-hop, rock and pop — I can’t wait!”
The three-city run continues Castaway’s format of pairing main nationwide headliners with rotating supporting payments throughout Australia’s west, southeast and east coasts.
