Party: Boom Crash Opera - Live & Free with support entertainment from 9pm
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Upcoming: 7
Date: 03.01.2015 00:00
Address: 570-582 Olive Street, Albury, Australia | show on the map »
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Boom Crash Opera are a pop-rock band who formed in early 1985 in Melbourne.
With a line up of Peter Farnan on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals (ex-Urtle Urtle Urtle, Serious Young Insects); Peter Maslen on drums, percussion and backing vocals (ex-One Hand Clapping); Greg “Spock” O’Connor on keyboards and guitar; Richard Pleasance on bass guitar, guitar and backing vocals (ex-Government Drums, Serious Young Insects, Bang, One Hand Clapping); and Dale Ryder on lead vocals.
Their top 20 albums are Boom Crash Opera (September 1987), These Here Are Crazy Times (October 1989), and Fabulous Beast (March 1993). Their top 20 singles are “Great Wall”, “Hands up in the Air” (both 1986), “Onion Skin” (1989) and “Gimme” (1994). In the United States “Onion Skin” reached No. 8 on the Billboard component chart, Modern Rock Tracks. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, noted that the group had a “strong visual image and the uncanny ability of its principal songwriters to pen catchy, commercial songs ensured a string of successful releases”.
Invited: Nicole Rodriguez, Kerry Bryan, Michael Sidoti, Richard Quinn, Fiona Quinn, Tammy Murray, Lauren Collins, Matt Drab, Michelle Healey, Mark Fair, Ashley Chettleburgh, Christopher Romeril, Graeme Thomas, Ebony Romeril, Matthew Garoni, Lauren Patchett, Josh Bridle, Jason Woodhouse, Linda Oates, Melanie Vanderwerf, Sherri Gardiner, Scott Thompson, Ashley Shay, Jess N Murray Eames, Vicky Collings, Grant Kimball, Scott Jackson, Shane Butler, Shane Vanderwerf, Neil Condron, Chris Gilcrist, Natalie Klippel, David Thomas, Sarah Negrin, Kane Mcmenamin, Pauly Davies show more »
