Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band Concert History

If asked to name the most entertaining and best-loved Australian band of the early '70s, it's a fair bet that most young people who lived through that period would nominate The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band. This crazily brilliant Melbourne-based ensemble played a uniquely Aussie brand of jug-band blues, spiced with jazz, swing, popular standards, cabaret, sideshow alley schtick and vaudeville routines including slapstick, tap dancing, juggling, magic and even fire-eating.

Date Concert Venue Location
Apr 25, 2011
Bluesfest (Byron Bay, AUS)
"Bluesfest" (Byron Bay, AUS) / Bob Dylan / Elvis Costello / Jethro Tull / Irma Thomas / Diesel / Trinity Roots / Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery Band / Joe Louis Walker / Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band / Tony Joe White / Saltwater Band / Kate Miller-Heidke / The Snowdroppers / Barrence Whitfield & The Savages / B.B. & The Blues Shacks / The Secret Sisters / Buffy Sainte-Marie / Peter Rowan Show all bands
  Setlists
Byron Events Farm Tyagarah, New South Wales, Australia
Apr 24, 2011
Bluesfest (Byron Bay, AUS)
"Bluesfest" (Byron Bay, AUS) / Gurrumul / Tedeschi Trucks Band / The Cat Empire / Pete Murray / Blind Boys of Alabama / Robert Randolph & The Family Band / Mavis Staples / Irma Thomas / Trinity Roots / Megan Washington / Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band / Ash Grunwald / Jeff Lang / Saltwater Band / Phil Jones & the Unknown Blues / The Snowdroppers / Barrence Whitfield & The Savages / Peter Rowan / Dale Watson Show all bands
  Setlists
Byron Events Farm Tyagarah, New South Wales, Australia
Apr 21, 2011 –
Apr 26, 2011
Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011 @ Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011
John Legend / Bob Dylan / ZZ Top / Wolfmother / Imogen Heap / Jethro Tull / Michael Franti & Spearhead / Funkadelic / Xavier Rudd / Grace Jones / Rodrigo y Gabriela / The Cat Empire / Toots & The Maytals / Indigo Girls / Los Lobos / Luciano / Mavis Staples / Irma Thomas / B.B. King / Paul Kelly / The Secret Sisters / Pete Murray / The Bamboos / Robert Randolph & The Family Band / Warren Haynes / Tony Joe White / Fishbone / Kasey Chambers / Kate Miller-Heidke / The Blind Boys of Alabama / Diesel / C.W. Stoneking / Washington / Ernest Ranglin / Eric Bibb / Buffy Sainte-Marie / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue / The Aggrolites / Ben Harper and Relentless7 / Leon Russell / Parliament-Funkadelic / Ash Grunwald / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / michelle shocked / Ruthie Foster / Tim Finn / Joe Louis Walker / Clare Bowditch / Fistful of Mercy / Buddy Knox / Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu / Warrior King / Raghu Dixit / Shane Nicholson / Rockwiz / Funky Meters / Trinity Roots / Jeff Lang / Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band / The Dingoes / Little Bushman / Frank Yamma / Saltwater Band / Jackson Firebird / Barrence Whitfield / Ray Beadle / Microwave Jenny / Dale Watson And His Lone Stars / Collard Greens And Gravy / B.B. & The Blues Shacks / Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band / Transvaal Diamond Syndicate / Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery Band / Nat Col and the Kings / Nga Tae / Phil Jones & the Unknown Blues / The Old Spice Boys / Louis King and the Liars Club Show all bands
  Setlists
Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011 Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Show Duplicates for Apr 21, 2011
Jul 03, 1983
Redgum / Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band / The Bushwackers Sydney Town Hall Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Feb 13, 1983
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band / The Bushwackers Pier One Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Oct 20, 1981
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band Cloudland Ballroom Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Folk Rock
Polka
Vaudeville
2011 3 concerts
1983 2 concerts
1981 1 concert
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