Current Status
Boom Crash Opera are still together. In 2009, Boom Crash Opera released an acoustic album entitled "Dancing in the Storm" as part of the Liberation Blue series. This new album contains acoustic re-workings of their best known songs. The CD release also features a DVD of footage from the Fabulous Beast tour performed in 1993 for MTV Australia in Melbourne. The acoustic disc also featured Richard Pleasance, guesting with the band for the first time in over a decade.
In 2008 Hook N Sling released a dance re-make of the 1989 hit "The Best Thing" featuring on Ministry of Sound Sessions 5.
Boom Crash Opera appeared on Sunday 5 April 2009 in Alistair Knox Park in Eltham for "A Day Of Healing" benefit concert to support the CFA following the February 2009 Victorian bushfires
The band's song "Dancing in the Storm" is currently (2010) being used in the Mt Franklin Water advertisement.
The band's song 'Get out of the House' has been partially used as the theme tune to the UK's ITV show I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
On 12th February 2012, the band performed a 1 hour set as part of the St Kilda Festival, in Melbourne, Australia.
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