Rock It (music festival)
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March 2005 poster
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| Genre | Rock music & Alternative rock |
| Dates | Various |
| Location(s) |  Arena Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia |
| Years active | 1999 - 2000 2002 - 2006 2009 2012 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Rock It is an Australian music festival held at the Arena Joondalup in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The festival was first held in 1999, and mainly features modern rock music. Along with the nationally-touring Big Day Out, Rock It was one of the major rock concerts held regularly in Perth.
At the March 2009 event Western Australian Police trialled the use of drug amnesty bins for the first time at a rock concert.[1] The police restrictions resulted in long queues on entry and due to their public visibility little use by concert goers.[2][3]
Contents
Artist lineups by year
1999
5 December 1999
- Silverchair
- Powderfinger
- Beaverloop
- John Butler Trio
- Killing Heidi
- Jebediah
- Test Eagles
- Auto Pilot
- DJ Kingsize
- Kenny Bartley
- DJ Betamax
- DJ Dr Love
- Fourstroke
2000
22 October 2000
2002
13 October 2002
- Grinspoon
- John Butler Trio
- Pacifier
- Machine Gun Fellatio
- Motorace
- Bodyjar
- Superheist
- The Fergusons
- Spencer Tracy
2003
23 November 2003
2004
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14 March 2004 Blink-182 was scheduled, but cancelled due to drummer Travis Barker breaking an ankle. |
24 October 2004
This festival, featuring an all-Australian line up, was the first Rock It to sell out. |
2005
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13 March 2005 |
4 December 2005[4] |
2006
- Silverchair
- Grinspoon
- Shihad
- Cog
- Butterfingers
- Faker
- After the Fall
- The Hot Lies
- Snowman
- Katalyst
- Koolism
- Fdel
- Ru.C.L.
- Nathan J
2009
- Kings of Leon
- The Fratellis
- The Music
- Birds of Tokyo
- Faker
- The Stills
- Sparkadia
- Sugar Army
- Bob Log III
- The Devil
- Abbe May
2012
- The Black Keys
- John Butler Trio
- Birds of Tokyo
- The Panics
- Lanie Lane
- Last Dinosaurs
- San Cisco
- The Kill Devil Hills
- Abbe May
- Royal Headache
- Graveyard Train
- Brothers Grim
- The Toot Toot Toots
- Emperors
Spin-off events
Blackjack 2007
The 2007 event renamed Blackjack 2007 as Arena Joondalup was unable to host the event, so the festival was held at the Claremont Showgrounds on 5 April 2007.[10]
On The Bright Side Festival
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On The Bright Side is an annual Australian music festival held in Perth, Western Australia. Starting in 2010, the event is the result of collaboration between the promoters of Splendour in the Grass Festival held in Woodford, Queensland and Rock-It held in Joondalup, Western Australia.[11] In 2012, the festival was cancelled due to "conflicting artist schedules".
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External links
- Use dmy dates from August 2015
- Use Australian English from August 2015
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with dead external links from March 2013
- Culture in Perth, Western Australia
- Rock festivals in Australia
- Music festivals in Australia
- Music festivals established in 1999
