Bassinthegrass

BASSINTHEGRASS
Genre	Rock, Hip hop, Electronic, Indie
Dates	mid-to-late May
Location(s)	Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Years active	2003 - present
Website
http://bassinthegrass.com.au

BASSINTHEGRASS is an Australian music festival. It is the largest music festival in the Northern Territory, and has been held annually since 2003 at the Darwin Amphitheatre in the territory capital. The festival is operated by the Northern Territory Government through the Northern Territory Major Events Company, part of a project of the previous Martin government to bring prominent bands to the territory and showcase local talent. BASSINTHEGRASS has grown rapidly since its inception, resulting in the imposition of cap on ticket numbers in 2007. A sister festival, BASSINTHEDUST, has been held in Alice Springs since 2004, replacing an Alice Springs leg of BASSINTHEGRASS.

The festival was first held in 2003, to fulfill a campaign promise by the government to hold a Big Day Out-style youth concert in the territory. It was held in both Darwin and Alice Springs in its inaugural year, with the Alice Springs leg later becoming the Bassinthedust festival. 5000 people attended the Darwin leg, with a further 1500 in Alice Springs, listening to headline acts The Living End, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, and NoKTuRNL. It became an annual event.

It became a Darwin-only festival in 2004 with the creation of Bassinthedust, and a crowd of 6000 turned out to a hear a larger lineup. Radio personality Jackie O had been meant to MC the event, but arrived nine hours late, and stormed off stage after being booed by the crowd and played over by Frenzal Rhomb in an incident that received national media coverage.You Am I, Little Birdy, Evermore, Regurgitator and Anthony Callea headlined the festival in 2005.

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