Pyramid Rock Festival
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| The Pyramid Rock Festival | |
| Location(s) | Phillip Island, Victoria |
| Years active | 2004 - present |
| Date(s) | Late December - early January |
| Genre(s) | Rock |
| Website | http://www.thepyramidrockfestival.com |
The Pyramid Rock Festival is a New Year's Eve camp-out rock music festival at Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
It runs over two nights with two stages, a dance tent and market stalls. Beginning in 2004, it can be compared with the long-running Falls festival, which offers camping for two days over the New Year.
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[edit] Artist lineups and festival related information by year
[edit] 2004
Dallas Crane, Magic Dirt, The Butterfly Effect, Resin Dogs (list not complete)
Philip Island musician Christy Mahon organized a team of youths to attend the festival where they managed to collect $600 in one night for victims of the tsunami disaster.[citation needed]
[edit] 2005
John Butler Trio, Grinspoon, Stereo MC's, Scribe, The Datsuns, Cog, Butterfingers, DJ Format, The Butterfly Effect, The Herd, Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set, Sonic Animation, The Panics, Epicure, Airbourne, The Flairz, MO Black (list not complete)
The 2005 event was held over the hottest new year’s eve on record (based on Melbourne weather)[citation needed]. The event was heavily criticized for poor organisation, including:
- giant queues of cars to the distance of 15 kilometres past the San Remo-Phillip Island Bridge to get to and from the festival;
- an inadequate supply of food vendors causing waiting times of up to two hours to get food, of which only a small variety was available; and
- organisers failing to provide rubbish facilities, forcing campers to dump their rubbish at their camp sites.
[edit] 2006
Silverchair, The Living End, Ugly Duckling, Xavier Rudd, Evermore, The Freestylers, End of Fashion, Mylo Dj Set, The Grates, The Beautiful Girls, Brant Bjork and the Bros, Faker, Lior, Karnivool, Crazy Penis, Tzu, True Live, Mia Dyson, Ash Grunwald, That One Guy, Sunk Lotto, The Casanovas, Bomba, Bertie Blackman, Foreign Heights, K-Oscillate, Carus and The True Believers, Behind Crimson Eyes, The Josh Owen Band, Rob Sawyer, Jess McAvoy, The Loose Cannons, The Spazzy's, Bliss n Eso, Something with Numbers, The Red Eyes, Illzilla, Mammal, Sub Focus, Ben Quin, Durbeyfield, Lowrider, Digital Primate, Simon Sleiker, Bushido, The Legs, The Long Walk Home, Crimson Flames, Mushroom Giant, Des Peres, Dj Cecille
The 2006 festival was the largest to date, with estimates of the crowd being as high as 15,000. The catering facilities were largely improved for 2006, along with a wider variety of merchandise and general stalls.
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