# Homebake

Homebake was an annual Australian rock festival, featuring an all-Australian lineup (with the occasional artist from New Zealand). The festival was first held on 3 January 1996 at Belongil Fields in Byron Bay, on the far north coast of New South Wales. The same year saw a second event held at the grounds of the University of Sydney.
The festival returned in January 1998 as an East Coast event happening in Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Sydney. In December of the same year, it was held again in Sydney this time at the Domain. In late 1999 the event went on the road again, but this time to only the Gold Coast and Sydney. In 2000 the festival reverted to just Sydney, and was held at the Domain every December until 2012.
Tickets for the festival regularly sold out in advance, the fastest sell out was the 2006 event which sold out on the first day of sale, but this was then dwarfed with the 2008 show selling all 20,000 tickets in less than 10 minutes.
The 2007 Homebake took place on Saturday 8 December, once again at The Domain. It was announced that the event would be 18+ for the first time in its history. Despite some protests, Homebake organisers explained on Triple J's Hack' program that each year the all ages liquor licence was becoming harder to obtain, and compared to their research showing that attendance for the event by underagers was between 5 and 8% influenced the decision to go 18+.
The last Homebake was held in 2012, and the following year's event was unexpectedly cancelled. The festival has not been held since, and as of now, it is unlikely to be resurrected.

## Artists lineups by year
### 1996
#### Byron Bay

| Hardware Fur Grinspoon Magic Dirt Powderfinger Regurgitator Screamfeeder | Sidewinder Silverchair Spiderbait The Mark of Cain Tumbleweed You Am I (Did not play due to Rusty being injured) |

#### University of Sydney

| Ammonia Anne Gibbons Crow Custard Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes Def FX Dirty Three Flyspeak Frenzal Rhomb | John Reed Club Jebediah Lodestar Magic Dirt Pollyanna Powderfinger Rebecca's Empire Regurgitator Screamfeeder Shihad | Sidewinder Smudge Something for Kate Spiderbait Swirl The Fauves The Mark of Cain The Porkers Tumbleweed Underground Lovers |

### 1998
#### January - Sydney, Gold Coast, Melbourne

| Ammonia Big Heavy Stuff Bluebottle Kiss Custard Emporium Frenzal Rhomb Gaslight Radio Grinspoon | Headless Chickens Jebediah Not From There Pangaea Pollyanna Powderfinger Screamfeeder Shihad | Sidewinder Skunkhour Spiderbait The Superjesus Tiddas Toothfaeries Tumbleweed Underground Lovers You Am I |

#### December - Sydney

| Ammonia Bodyjar Custard Endorphin Eskimo Joe Even Fini Scad Frenzal Rhomb Frontside Grinspoon | Jebediah Karma County Nancy Vandal Not From There Pauline Pantsdown Primary Ratcat Screamfeeder Sidewinder Something for Kate | Spiderbait The Avalanches The Feelers The Living End The Mavis's Resin Dogs The Teeth Suckers The Whitlams TISM Toe To Toe Vapourware |

### 1999
#### Sydney and Gold Coast

| | | Gold Coast only | Sydney only |
| Alex Lloyd Area 7 Dirty Three Frenzal Rhomb Gerling Grinspoon iOTA Jebediah | Josh & Amiel Powderfinger Resin Dogs Shihad Silverchair Something for Kate sonicanimation The Avalanches | Custard Gota Cola Not From There Pretty Violet Stain Rollerball Screamfeeder Soma Rasa Sunk Loto The Whitlams | Big Heavy Stuff Bluebottle Kiss Deadstar Del-Emmas Killers on the Loose The Monarchs Neil Hamburger Pound System Rumanastone Shihad The Porkers 51 Monday 78 Saab 28 Days |

### 2000

| Main Stage | Big Top | Juice Stage | Hopetoun Stage |
| The Living End Spiderbait Resin Dogs Frenzal Rhomb Jebediah Regurgitator Bodyjar Magic Dirt Sunk Loto Not From There Superheist Sick Puppies | Sonicanimation DJ Abel Alex Lloyd Something for Kate Friendly Bexta Endorphin Pnau Toby Neal Wicked Beat Sound System 78 Saab John Butler Trio | Testeagles Tumbleweed Skulker On Inc. Machine Gun Fellatio Screamfeeder Nokturnl H-Block 101 Waikiki Pound System | Rocket Science Full Fathom Five Augie March Art of Fighting Soma Rasa Gersey The Anyones |

### 2001

| Main Stage | Big Top | Juice Stage | Hopetoun Stage |
| Hoodoo Gurus Alex Lloyd You Am I Something for Kate 28 Days The Superjesus Bodyjar Gerling Superheist One Dollar Short Commissioner Gordon | TISM DJ Love Tattoo Sonicanimation Resin Dogs DJ Declan Pnau Paul Mac DJ Bexta Skunkhour Endorphin Primary The Hive | John Butler Trio Kasey Chambers George Augie March Machine Gun Fellatio Eskimo Joe Big Heavy Stuff Speedstar Lash | On Inc. Pound System 1200 Techniques Art of Fighting Bluebottle Kiss Dan Brodie & The Broken Arrows MC Trey The Pedestraians Decoder Ring |

### 2002

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage | Acoustic Pavilion |
| Alex Lloyd Grinspoon You Am I Radio Birdman Machine Gun Fellatio Shihad Wilcannia Mob Jebediah Eskimo Joe Superheist Serpahs Coal For Amusement Only | Sonicanimation Kid Kenobi Pnau 1200 Techniques James De La Cruz Gerling Salmonella Dub Mark Dynamix Wicked Beat Sound System Katalyst Offcuts Sneaky Sound System | Kasey Chambers George Paul Kelly Rocket Science The D4 Bluebottle Kiss Dan Brodie & The Broken Arrows The Sleepy Jackson Jet Antiskeptic | Waikiki Decoder Ring David McCormack & The Polaroids Gersey Gelbison Rhubarb The Butterfly Effect Crank Isherwood | Paul Dempsey Killing Heidi Speedstar Tim Rogers Stiff Gins Darren Hanlon Simon Day Shane Nicholson Laura Imbruglia |

### 2003

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage |
| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Vines Something for Kate The Superjesus 1200 Techniques Magic Dirt John Butler Trio The Sleepy Jackson For Amusement Only Best Kept Secret | Pnau DJ Ben Korbel Resin Dogs Gerling DJ Bexta Katalyst Amiel DJ Alex Taylor Downsyde The Bumblebeez Zephyr Timbre Maya Jupiter | Frenzal Rhomb Beasts of Bourbon The Church The Cat Empire Pete Murray The Butterfly Effect Screamfeeder The Casanovas Offcuts Blindspott | The Mess Hall Little Birdy Dallas Crane Peabody Spod The Morning After Girls Riff Random Second Dan |

### 2004

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage |
| Jet Grinspoon Eskimo Joe Spiderbait Rocket Science The D4 After the Fall Gyroscope Wolfmother Ground Components | Hilltop Hoods DJ Bexta Sonicanimation Regurgitator DJ Sharif Wicked Beat Sound System Spod (DJ Set) Machine Gun Fellatio Katalyst Cut Copy Koolism Dei Hamo | Pete Murray Kasey Chambers Missy Higgins Xavier Rudd Gelbison End of Fashion 78 Saab Sarah Blasko The Morning After Girls The City Lights | Art of Fighting Gerling (DJ Set) The Panics The Cops The Spazzys Theredsunband The Tremors The Camels Die!Die!Die! The Golden Age |

### 2005

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage |
| The Finn Brothers The Living End Something for Kate Ben Lee Wolfmother Evermore Cog End of Fashion The Mess Hall Kisschasy | Dirty Three P-Money Cut Copy Pnau Katalyst & RUCL Decoder Ring DJ Peril & Suburban Intellect The Rogue Traders The Herd The Presets Sneaky Sound System Local Knowledge | The Cat Empire Alex Lloyd The Saints The Beautiful Girls Sarah Blasko The Go-Betweens Architecture in Helsinki Amiel Expatriate British India | The Morning After Girls Die!Die!Die! The Grates Wolf & Cub Dappled Cities Fly The Hot Lies The Scare N'fa The Golden Age Beau Young Pomomofo |

### 2006

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage |
| Silverchair Eskimo Joe Hilltop Hoods You Am I The Butterfly Effect Scribe Little Birdy Parkway Drive Something With Numbers The Vaine | Björn Again The Presets Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock The Vines Gotye Wolf & Cub Infusion Midnight Juggernauts N'fa Macromantics Mountains in the Sky | Something for Kate Augie March Models Youth Group Bob Evans Toni Collette And The Finish Jen Cloher and The Endless Sea British India Angus & Julia Stone Young & Restless | Red Riders Ground Components Die!Die!Die! The Valentinos Children Collide Tucker B's Whiskey Go Go's Tom Cooney The Basics Regular John |

### 2007

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage |
| Divinyls Missy Higgins Gotye Scribe The Beautiful Girls Kisschasy Operator Please British India Behind Crimson Eyes Mammal | Pnau Architecture in Helsinki Muscles Cut Copy Midnight Juggernauts The Bumblebeez Blue King Brown Wicked Beat Sound System Expatriate Red Eye Society Foreign Heights | Paul Kelly Paul Dempsey Sarah Blasko Josh Pyke Angus & Julia Stone The Mess Hall Ed Kuepper & The Kowalski Collective Art of Fighting Kid Confucius Number Station | The Scare Old Man River Belles Will Ring Pivot The Brunettes The Checks SubAudible Hum Bridezilla Bridgemary Kiss |

### 2008

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage |
| Crowded House Sneaky Sound System PNAU Karnivool British India The Getaway Plan Bluejuice Eddy Current Suppression Ring Die!Die!Die! Numbers Radio | Cut Copy Bliss N Eso Drapht The Potbelleez Headless Chickens Infusion Snob Scrilla Bag Raiders Pegz The E.L.F. | You Am I Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson Gabriella Cilmi Died Pretty End of Fashion Little Red SubAudible Hum Dash and Will The Holidays | Grafton Primary Sparkadia Children Collide Mercy Arms N'fa 78 Saab Violent Soho Hamish Macleod Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! Deep Sea Arcade |

### 2009

| Main Stage | Big Top | The Dome | Hopetoun Stage |
| Powderfinger Jet Hilltop Hoods Eskimo Joe Tumbleweed Funkoars Short Stack Closure in Moscow The Scare Philadelphia Grand Jury | Midnight Juggernauts Daniel Merriweather Shockone Decoder Ring Phrase The Aston Shuffle The Bumblebeez Tiki Taane Record Producer Catcall | Sarah Blasko Tim Finn Sia Paul Dempsey Underground Lovers Gin Wigmore with The Cardinals Dappled Cities The Middle East Sugar Army | Eddy Current Suppression Ring Yves Klein Blue Howling Bells Red Riders Die!Die!Die! Bridezilla Parades Jonathan Boulet Boy And Bear Kyu |
Rowland S. Howard was advertised to play but was forced to cancel citing health concerns. Dappled Cities played in his allotted timeslot.

### 2010

On 25 August 2010, the organisers of Homebake announced the festival would not take place in 2010, and would instead return in 2011. The organisers cited "not being able to have the 'planets align' to a standard we feel appropriate" as a reason for cancelling the festival in 2010.

### 2011

| Grinderman Pnau Gotye Gurrumul Yunupingu Cut Copy Icehouse Ladyhawke Drapht Daniel Merriweather The Triffids | Eskimo Joe Architecture in Helsinki The Church The Vines Illy The Jezabels Kimbra CW Stoneking Kids of 88 Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Papa vs Pretty Hungry Kids of Hungary Passenger Killaqueenz Avalanche City Vents Noah Taylor and the Sloppy Boys 360 Ratcat Bleeding Knees Club | Damndogs Owl Eyes Gold Fields Big Scary Split Seconds Rüfüs Seeker Lover Keeper Lanie Lane Daniel Lee Kendall |

### 2012

Event organisers announced that the 2012 Homebake would be a "Global" edition. While the line-up for the event, scheduled for 8 December 2012, is predominantly Australasian, American band Blondie has been selected as the headlining act. Pond, Tame Impala, Kimbra, Something For Kate, Hilltop Hoods, Sonic Animation, and Birds of Tokyo are some of the other performing artists.

## After 2012

The event was cancelled in 2013. Organizers acknowledged that there was a hiatus for 2014. It is unlikely the festival will ever return.