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 References Rock festivals in Australia