title: Offshore Festival
text: # 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
  
  