Meatstock 2020 — CANCELLED

Overview

UPDATE: MARCH 30, 2020 — Due to government restrictions on public gatherings, Meatstock's Sydney event has been cancelled. All tickets will be transferred to the 2021 event, which is scheduled for April 16–18, 2021.

If you're the sort of person who likes to eat meat until you start shaking with the meat sweats and can (m)eat no more, then a festival very relevant to your interests is coming to town. Meatstock Festival, a two-day celebration of all things animal, is setting up its smoky self in the Sydney Showgrounds on the weekend of Friday, May 1–Sunday, May 3.

Not just your regular food festival, bands on the Meatstock lineup include Tim Rogers, The Black Sorrows, The Screaming Jets and Cookin' on 3 Burners, with more to be announced. Sure, there'll be less music than there is at Woodstock, but there will be 200 percent more tasty meat-related foods. The food stars of the show are Burn City Smokers, Limp Brisket, Black Barrel BBQ, Hoy Pinoy and more. Try some of each, or make your way through all of the food stalls and then fall into a sweaty, cholesterol-heavy heap — don't say we didn't warn you.

Finally, for a little old-fashioned rivalry, the festival will be running its Butcher Wars, which will basically be a bunch of hopefully unbloodied people running around competing and wielding various knives. There's also Barbecue Wars too, heating up the grill in more ways than one. What a weekend.