{"id":1020418,"date":"2026-08-24T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020418\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T05:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:45:22","slug":"hilltop-hoods-to-headline-castaway-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020418\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilltop Hoods to Headline Castaway Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHilltop Hoods<\/a> will headline Australia\u2019s Castaway Festival across three cities this summer, extending a run for the Adelaide hip-hop trio that has made them the most decorated act in the history of the ARIA Albums Chart. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe group holds a record seven No. 1 albums on the chart \u2014 more than any other Australian act, surpassing AC\/DC, Powderfinger, Cold Chisel and Silverchair \u2014 a streak that most recently extended with 2025\u2019s Fall From the Light.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tCastaway 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. Joining Hilltop Hoods on the bill are Brisbane rock band Violent Soho and ARIA-winning singer-songwriter Amy Shark, alongside supporting acts Playlunch, Trials, Lyric and Birdland. General tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 28, with artist, promoter and Telstra Plus presales opening Wednesday, Aug. 26.<\/p>\n

\n\tHilltop Hoods have built one of the most substantial catalogs in Australian hip-hop over more than two decades. The trio \u2014 Suffa, MC Pressure and DJ Debris \u2014 have logged 23 entries on Triple J\u2019s Hottest 100 countdown and have won 10 ARIA Awards. Their chart dominance dates to 2006\u2019s The Hard Road and has continued through State of the Art (2009), Drinking From the Sun (2012), Walking Under Stars (2014), a 2016 remix compilation of those two albums, The Great Expanse (2019) and Fall From the Light (2025), which marked their sixth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 in Australia.<\/p>\n

\n\tViolent Soho, known for anthemic festival sets and albums including WACO and Everything Is A-OK, have also topped the ARIA Albums Chart during their career. Amy Shark broke through with 2018\u2019s Love Monster, which reached No. 1 in Australia and helped establish her as one of the country\u2019s most recognizable pop songwriters. \u201cI\u2019m a huge fan of Hilltop Hoods and Violent Soho, I was more than happy to join the boys on the road!\u201d Shark said in a statement announcing the festival. \u201cI don\u2019t think you could get a better lineup. Hip-hop, rock and pop \u2014 I can\u2019t wait!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe three-city run continues Castaway\u2019s format of pairing major national headliners with rotating supporting bills across Australia\u2019s west, southeast and east coasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilltop Hoods will headline Australia\u2019s Castaway Festival across three cities this summer, extending a run for the Adelaide…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1020419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,2126,975,5499,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1020418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-global","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117148906945569167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}