Sweetwaters Music Festival

Sweetwaters Music Festival was a series of events held between 1980 and 1999, at venues such as a farm in Ngaruawahia, then further north on a farm near Pukekawa, and finally at South Auckland, New Zealand.

A related event, Sweetwaters South, was held in Christchurch in 1984

Elvis Costello, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music, Dragon, Mi-Sex, Split Enz, Jo Jo Zep, Cold Chisel, The Tigers, Midge Marsden, Th' Dudes, The Crocodiles, UB40,

1999 - The festival in 1999 was the largest festival event ever held in New Zealand,with a number of stages representing many genres/cultures of music, theatre, dance, comedy, and children's entertainment. The line-up - with a few exceptions and additions, shown on the back of the official T-shirt was as follows:

Main Stage: Rose Bayonet, UB40, Run DMC, Elvis Costello (with Steve Nieve), The Finn Brothers, The Melvins, Dogstar (Keanu Reeves), Grant Lee Buffalo, Paul Kelly, Ed Kuepper, The Stranglers, Headless Chickens, Cowboy Junkies, Donovan, Chris Starling, Pere Ubu, Mark Seymour, James Reyne, Men at Work, Colin Hay, Renee Geyer.

Sweetwaters Stage: Pitch Black, Lost Tribe, Head Like a Hole, Shona Laing, Spelling Mistakes, Moizna, Boom, Jordan Reyne, Eye TV, Southside Of Bombay, Aka Brown, Dei Hamo, Warratahs, The New Loungehead, Emma Paki, Ma-V-Elle, Shihad, Dead Flowers, The Clean, Hello Sailor, Paul Ubana Jones, Karen Hunter & Love Mussel, Chris Knox, Tadpole, Ardijah, Salmonella Dub, Stereo Bus.

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