Offshore Festival
# Offshore Festival

The Offshore Festival was a camp-out rock and alternative music festival held during Easter at a farm near Torquay, Victoria, Australia from the late 1990s to 2001. It was run by the same organisers as the Falls Festival, held at nearby Lorne on New Year's Eve. It interlinked with the Rip Curl Pro surfing event, held at nearby Bells Beach and festival ticketholders had free admission to the surfing event.

The festival reached its peak in 2000, when it sold a capacity of 20,000 tickets. The organizers moved the event to the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds (home of the Big Day Out) the following year.

## Artist lineups

Over the years, the Offshore Festival featured a large range of artists including Blink 182, Silverchair, Tool, Rollins Band, NOFX, Pennywise, L7, Primus, Cosmic Psychos, The Living End, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals , The Wailers Band and more.

## 1995

Silverchair

## 1997

Friday 28 March

Snout

The Living End

The Mark of Cain

Blink 182

Saturday 29 March

Def FX

Grinspoon

Sunday 30 March

The Sloths

Silverchair

Tool

## 1998

Friday 10 April

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Pre Shrunk

Stereophonics

The Avalanches

The Living End

The Mavis's

Violetine

Saturday 11 April

Everclear

Front End Loader

Moler

MxPx

No Fun at All

Painters and Dockers

Sandpit

Snout

The Superjesus

Sunday 12 April

Good Riddance

L7

Mr Blonde

Primus

Sick of It All

The Cruel Sea

The Tea Party

The Wailers Band

Tomorrow People

## 1999

Friday 2 April

28 Days

99 Reasons Why

Area-7

Beaverloop

Cosmic Psychos

Custard

Gerling

Guttermouth

John Abrahams

Moler

Pollyanna

Reel Big Fish

Shihad

Sonic Animation

The Celibate Rifles

The Cruel Sea

The Fauves

Saturday 3 April

Something for Kate

Blink 182

Sunday 4 April

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals

Regurgitator

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

## 2000

Friday 21 April

28 Days

Grinspoon

Ozomatli

Saturday 22 April

Area-7

Michael Franti & Spearhead

NOFX

Pennywise

Royal Crown Revue

Testeagles

Sunday 23 April

Primus

Rollins Band

The Living End

## 2001

Friday 13 April

Augie March

Ben Harper

Bomfunk MC's

Fatboy Slim

Frankenbok

H-Block 101

Machine Gun Fellatio

Resin Dogs

Superheist

You Am I

Sonic Jihad

