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.[1] 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.[2]
1995
1997
Friday 28 March
	  Snout 
	 The Living End
	 The Mark of Cain 
	 Blink 182
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
2000
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
References
- ↑ "Sticky Carpet - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au". Melbourne: theage.com.au. 2 September 2005. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
- ↑ "Offshore Festival lineup". Setlist.fm.