30 Facts About Hilltop Hoods

Hilltop Hoods is an Australian hip hop group that formed in 1996 in Blackwood, Adelaide, South Australia.

Hilltop Hoods have toured both in Australia and overseas, including playing at music festivals: T in the Park, Oxegen, the Big Day Out, Clipsal 500, Southbound, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Bassinthegrass, Groovin' The Moo, Falls Festival, Pyramid Rock Festival, Rollercoaster, Come Together Festival and Make Poverty History.

Hilltop Hoods regularly competed in the local DMC World DJ Championships tournaments, winning the South Australian DMC championships multiple times.

Hilltop Hoods recorded a demo, Highlanders, which was released on cassette tape only.

Hilltop Hoods founded the Certified Wise Crew – a hip-hop collaborative – with local groups Terra Firma, Cross Bred Mongrels and After Hours.

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Hilltop Hoods received two nominations for the Hip Hop Act of the Year Award at the Australian Dance Music Awards and again at the 3D World Music Awards in 2001 and 2002.

On 22 September 2003, Hilltop Hoods released their third album, The Calling, which became a commercial breakthrough.

Hilltop Hoods' chart and commercial success was a turning point in the Australian Hip Hop scene because it demonstrated widespread support for the genre that reached beyond an underground fan base.

The Hilltop Hoods received the inaugural Australian Independent Record Award for Independent Artist of the Year and Best Performing Independent Album for The Hard Road in 2006.

Late that year, Hilltop Hoods released their third single from the album, "What a Great Night".

On 12 May 2007, Hilltop Hoods released their next album The Hard Road: Restrung which is a remix of their previous studio album, The Hard Road, featuring the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Okwerdz.

Hilltop Hoods left their longtime home of Obese Records to start their own label, Golden Era Records, to release their future material.

In early 2009 the Hilltop Hoods performed at the Groovin the Moo festival in Townsville, Maitland and Bendigo.

On 28 July 2010, Hilltop Hoods completed work on a zombie movie, Parade of the Dead, that the group wrote, filmed, and starred in.

In November 2012, Hilltop Hoods performed a live show on UStream and announced that the title of the group's next album would be Walking Under Stars—this was then confirmed on the official Hilltop Hoods Twitter and Facebook pages, following their Best Urban Album win at the 2012 ARIA Awards ceremony.

On 30 April 2016, Hilltop Hoods performed their final concert of the 'Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under the Stars' at Perth Arena.

On 13 July 2018, Hilltop Hoods released single "Clark Griswold" with Adrian Eagle, an ode to the character from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies.

On 23 November 2018, Hilltop Hoods released the single "Leave Me Lonely" and announced their forthcoming 2019 album The Great Expanse.

In March 2022, the Hilltop Hoods have released a new single with US soul singer Eamon "Show Business".

In 2022, Hilltop Hoods reunited with Montaigne and Tom Thum and released the song "A Whole Day's Night" on 26 August 2022.

Hilltop Hoods have toured both in Australia and overseas, including playing at music festivals: T in the Park, Oxegen, the Big Day Out, Adelaide 500, Southbound, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Bassinthegrass, Groovin' The Moo, Falls Festival, Pyramid Rock Festival, Rollercoaster, Come Together Festival and Make Poverty History.

On 8 December 2012, the Hilltop Hoods were one of two headlines acts for the 2012 "Global Edition" of the popular Australian music, film, comedy and arts festival, Homebake.

The Hilltop Hoods were one of the bands on the "Concerts" roster for the V8 Clipsal 500 Adelaide car racing event, held between 28 February 2013 and 3 March 2013—other Australian hip hop artists, such as Drapht and Vents, performed at the event.

Hilltop Hoods will be touring 5 states in Australia in the later part of 2022.

Hilltop Hoods received nominations for the 'Best Hip Hop Act' in 2001 and 2002 at the 3D World Dance Music Awards, they won the Australasian Performing Right Association Award for 'Best Up-coming Group' as well as receiving number-one positions in independent charts all around Australia.

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In December 2020, the Hilltop Hoods were listed at number 27 in Rolling Stone Australias "50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time" issue.

In 2006 Hilltop Hoods were nominated for five ARIA Awards – the first ever for an Australian hip hop group – winning in two categories: 'Best Urban Release' and 'Best Independent Release'.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2012, Hilltop Hoods won its fourth award in the 'Best Urban Album' category for Drinking from the Sun; as of November 2012, the group has won six awards from twenty nominations.

In 2005 the annual "Hilltop Hoods Initiative" was established in association with Arts SA, made possible by a donation from the Hilltop Hoods.

On 11 November 2016 Hilltop Hoods released an interactive film called Through the Dark, which featured their song of the same name.