List of Edgefest lineups explained

This is a list of Edgefest lineups, sorted by year. Edgefest was a rock festival that occurred annually in Canada (most frequently at Molson Park in Barrie and in Toronto) from 1987 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2015.

Line-ups

1987

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: July 1, 1987.

• Teenage Head
• The Pursuit of Happiness
• The Saints
• Blue Rodeo
• Carole Pope
• Breeding Ground
• Images in Vogue
• The Northern Pikes
• Sattalites
• Pukka Orchestra
• The Spoons
• Vis A Vis
• Eight Seconds

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1988

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: July 1, 1988.

• • Parachute Club The Razorbacks
• The Pursuit of Happiness
• Eugene Ripper
• 54-40
• The Mighty Lemon Drops
• Manteca
• Underworld
• Andrew Cash
• Timbuk 3
• Chalk Circle
• Hugh Marsh

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1989

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: July 1, 1989.

• • Jeff Healey Band The Tragically Hip
• Dalbello
• Chalk Circle
• Sass Jordan
• National Velvet
• Andrew Cash
• Sarah McLachlan
• Spoons
  • Sons of Freedom Jeffrey Hatcher and the Big Beat
• Carole Pope

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1990

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: July 1, 1990.

• • The Box Skydiggers
  • Lava Hay The Tragically Hip
• Satallites
• 54-40
• Crash Vegas
• The Pursuit of Happiness
• The Northern Pikes
• The Grapes of Wrath
• National Velvet

1991

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: July 1, 1991.

• Blue Rodeo
• Violent Femmes
• Dream Warriors
• Crash Test Dummies
• Skydiggers
• Spirit of the West
• Teenage Head
• Bootsauce
  • King Apparatus Skaface

1992

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: July 1, 1992.

• • Spinal Tap 54-40
• Leslie Spit Treeo
• Bootsauce
  • Slik Toxik Amanda Marshall
• The Tragically Hip
• Sass Jordan
• Sons of Freedom

1993

Location: Ontario Place Forum, Toronto.

Dates: July 1-2, 1993.

July 1:

• • Rheostatics The Lowest of the Low
  • The Waltons Crash Vegas
  • The Watchmen hHead
  • Odds Change of Heart
• Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
• Me Mom & Morgentaler
• Corky and the Juice Pigs
• Sara Craig
• Ginger
• Gregory Hoskins and the Stickpeople
• 13 Engines
• King Apparatus
• Wild Strawberries (second stage)
• Rymes with Orange (second stage)
• Scott B. Sympathy (second stage)
• The Lawn (second stage)
• One (second stage)
• 49 Acres (second stage)
• Jale (second stage)
• The Smalls (second stage)

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July 2:

• Radiohead
• Ned's Atomic Dustbin
• Judybats
• Furnaceface
• Stereo MC's

1994

Location: Ontario Place Fourm, Toronto.

Date: July 1, 1994.

• The Lemonheads
• The Proclaimers
• 13 Engines
• hHead
• The Watchmen
• One
  • The Killjoys Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Lost Dakotas Wild Strawberries
• Brett Brothers
• King Cobb Steelie
• The Gandharvas
• Moist

Second Stage:

• Project 9
• Venus Cures All
• Adam West
• Wooden Stars

1995

Location: Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto.

Dates: May 21 (Edgefest I), July 1 (Edgefest II), August 5 (Edgefest III).

Edgefest I:

• Our Lady Peace
  • Elastica Ned's Atomic Dustbin
• Blur

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Edgefest II:

• 54-40
• The Watchmen
• Odds
• Crash Vegas
  • Junkhouse Headstones
  • Treble Charger hHead

Edgefest III:

Main Stage:

• Sloan
• 13 Engines
• Treble Charger
• The Killjoys
• Change of Heart
• Rusty
• The Super Friendz
• Ma
• Jale
• The Hardship Post
• Pluto
• Thrush Hermit
• Adam West
• Sugar Ray
• Mystery Machine
• Zumpano
• Glueleg
• Made

Side Stage:

• Project 9
• Smoother
• Six Finger Satellite
• The Morganfields
• Shallow
• Huevos Rancheros
• Stinkin' Rich
• The Monoxides
• Local Rabbits
• Plumtree
• Subtractor

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1996

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: June 30, 1996.

Main Stage:

• • The Tea Party 54-40
• Our Lady Peace
• Ashley MacIsaac
  • I Mother Earth 13 Engines
• The Killjoys
• Big Sugar

Second Stage:

• Rusty
• Weeping Tile
• The Mahones
• Limblifter
• Sunfish
• Sandbox
• Barstool Prophets

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1997

Dates: June 26 (London, Ontario), June 28 (Barrie), June 29 (Montreal), June 30 (Ottawa), August 25 (Vancouver), August 27 (Calgary), August 29 (Edmonton), August 30 (Saskatoon), September 1 (Winnipeg).

Main Stage:

• Our Lady Peace
• The Tea Party
• I Mother Earth
• Collective Soul
• Dodgy (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg)
• The Philosopher Kings (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg)
• Holly McNarland (London, Barrie, Montreal, Ottawa)
• Silverchair (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton)
• BTK (Barrie, Ottawa)
• The Verve Pipe (Barrie)
• Groovy Aardvark (Montreal)
• Plume (Montreal)
• Nancy Dumais (Montreal)

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Second Stage:

• Glueleg
• The Age of Electric
• Finger Eleven
• Sara Craig (all except Montreal)
• Econoline Crush (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg)
• Zuckerbaby (Barrie, Ottawa)
• Mollies Revenge (Barrie, Ottawa)
• Les Secretaires Volantes (Montreal)
• Go Van Gogh (Montreal)
• Holfader (Montreal)
• Mrs. Torrance (Montreal)

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Cake, Kinnie Starr and Redd Kross were originally scheduled to perform on the tour but cancelled their performances.^{[13] [12]}

1998

Dates: June 29 (Ottawa), June 30 (Montreal), July 1 (Barrie), July 4 (Winnipeg), July 5 (Saskatoon), July 8 (Edmonton), July 9 (Calgary), July 11 (Vancouver).

Main Stage:

• The Tea Party
• Green Day
• Foo Fighters
• Sloan
• Econoline Crush
• Holly McNarland (Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver)
• Moist (Ottawa, Montreal, Barrie)
• Bif Naked (Ottawa, Barrie, Calgary)
• Local Rabbits (Vancouver)

Second Stage:

• The Watchmen
• Creed
• Matthew Good Band
• The Killjoys
• Copyright (Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver)
• Local Rabbits (Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary)
• Sandbox (Ottawa, Montreal, Barrie, Winnipeg)
• The Inbreds (Ottawa, Montreal, Barrie)
• Bif Naked (Montreal, Vancouver)
• Refuel (Montreal)
• Rusty (Barrie)

Other bands who performed on the tour:

• New Meanies (Ottawa, Montreal)
• Tripping Daisy (Ottawa, Montreal)

Lineups varied for each show. Headstones were originally scheduled to perform on the tour but ended up not performing.

1999

Dates: July 1-2 (Barrie), July 3 (Ottawa), July 7 (Winnipeg), July 9 (Calgary), July 10 (Saskatoon), July 11 (Edmonton), July 14 (Vancouver).

Main Stage:

• Moist
• Matthew Good Band
• Wide Mouth Mason
• Big Wreck
• Edwin
• Hole
• Silverchair

The Village Stage:

• Finger Eleven
• Treble Charger
• Serial Joe
• Vertical Horizon
• Len
• Gob (July 1-3)
• Bodega (July 1)

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A show in Montreal was originally scheduled but was cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.^[19] Eve 6 were originally scheduled to perform on the tour but cancelled due to lead singer Max Collins having throat problems.^[20]

2000

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: July 1, 2000.

Main Stage:

• Filter
• Creed
• The Tea Party
• Matthew Good Band
• Goldfinger
• Serial Joe
• Headstones
• Limblifter

The Village Stage:

• 3 Doors Down
• The Flashing Lights
• Dunk
• Jet Set Satellite
• Pocket Dwellers
• J Englishman
• Flicker
• Nickelback
• Odin Red

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2001

Dates: July 1 (Barrie), August 18 (Vancouver), August 21 (Calgary), August 22 (Edmonton), August 25 (Toronto), August 26 (Ottawa), August 28 (Quebec City), August 29 (Montreal).

Barrie:

• 3 Doors Down
• Bif Naked
• Big Wreck
• Billy Talent
• Blurtonia
• Beach of Trust
• By Divine Right
• DJ Serious
• Finger Eleven
• Flybanger
• Gob
• Joydrop
• LiveonRelease
• Mudmen
• Project Wyze
• Puddy
• Rocket Science
• Rubberman
• Sevendust
• Smoother
• Staggered Crossing
• Static in Stereo
• The Black Halos
• The Dears
• The Tea Party
• Tool
• Tuuli

August Tour:

• Blink-182
• New Found Glory
• Sum 41
• Jimmy Eat World
• Good Charlotte
• Millencolin
• Project Wyze
• Simple Plan
• Shocore (Vancouver)
• Flu (Calgary)
• Crushing Jane (Edmonton)

2002

Dates: Edgefest: July 1 (Barrie). Edgefest II: July 23 (Edmonton), August 22 (Ottawa), September 1 (Grand Bend), September 2 (Montreal), September 13 (London), September 13 (Vancouver), September 13-14 (Halifax).

Edgefest:

Main Stage:

• Nickelback
• Cake
• Finger Eleven
• Goldfinger
• Default
• Sevendust
• Simple Plan
• Jerry Cantrell

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Silverchair were originally scheduled to perform but cancelled because of lead singer Daniel Johns' reoccurring reactive arthritis.^[23]

Second stage:

• Danny Michel
• The Dears
• The Full Nine
• Grade
• Headstrong
• Melissa Auf Der Maur's Hand of Doom
• Mudmen
• Not By Choice
• Robin Black and The Intergalactic Rock Stars
• The Weekend
• GrimSkunk
• Tuuli
• Custom

Third Stage:

• • 30 Seconds to Mars Billy Talent
• Joel Plaskett
• Grindig
• Three Days Grace
• Trouser
• Theory of a Deadman
• Flashlight Brown
• Flicker
• Epidemic
• The Trews
• Greenwheel
• Injected
• One 976
• Jersey

Fourth Stage:

• Sudden
• Microbunny
• Al Okada
• Alistair
• Abs & Fase
• Ghetto Concept
• MistaCronks
• G Stokes
• Graph Nobel
• Toy Box

Edgefest II:

Edmonton:

• Simple Plan
• Gob
• Bif Naked
• LiveonRelease

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Ottawa:

• Bif Naked
• Simple Plan
• Tuuli
• Flashlight Brown

Grand Bend:

• The Watchmen
• Sam Roberts
• Crush
• The Weekend

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Montreal:

• Slayer
• Soulfly
• In Flames
• Downthesun

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London:

• Matthew Good
• Bif Naked
• Flashlight Brown

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Vancouver:

• Slayer
• Soulfly
• In Flames
• Downthesun

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Halifax:

• Matthew Good
• Sloan
• De La Soul
• The New Deal
• Crush
• Rascalz
• Swollen Members
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Lowest Of The Low
• Blackout 77
• Creeper
• Project Wyze

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An Edgefest II in Toronto featuring Jimmy Eat World, Gob, Constantines, Midtown, Hot Rod Circuit, Moneen and Hot Hot Heat was scheduled but was cancelled due to scheduling difficulties.^[27]

2003

Location: Molson Park, Barrie.

Date: September 6, 2003.

• The Tragically Hip
• Our Lady Peace
• Stereophonics
• Sloan
• Fefe Dobson
• Finger Eleven
• Thornley
• Jersey

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2004

Location: Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto.

Date: July 2, 2004.

• Good Charlotte
• Finger Eleven
• Billy Talent
• Jet
• Alexisonfire
• Something Corporate
• Jersey
• The Salads

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2005

Location: Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto.

Date: July 1, 2005.

Main Stage:

• Billy Talent
• Alexisonfire
• Rise Against
• Story of the Year
• Coheed and Cambria

2006

Location: Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto.

Dates: July 1 (Edgefest I), July 16 (Edgefest II).

Edgefest I:

Main Stage:

• Our Lady Peace
• Keane
• Hot Hot Heat
  • Neverending White Lights Mobile
• Evans Blue

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Next Big Thing Stage:

• Magneta Lane
• Die Mannequin
• Jets Overhead
• Dearly Beloved
• Pedestrian
• The Illuminati

Edgefest II:

Main Stage:

• Yellowcard
• The All-American Rejects
• Hawthorne Heights
• Story Of The Year
• Matchbook Romance
• Illscarlett
• Anberlin

^[31]

Next Big Thing Stage:

• The Meligrove Band
• Magneta Lane
• The Miniatures
• Panic and The Rebel Emergency
• In-Flight Safety
• Tokyo Police Club

The Bedlam Society/Dine Alone/Distort Stage:

• The Junction
• Cancer Bats
• Attack in Black
• Johnny Truant

2008

Location: Downsview Park, Toronto.

Date: July 12, 2008.

• Linkin Park
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Sam Roberts
• The Bravery
• Ashes Divide
• Attack in Black
• Arkells
• The Coast
• Creature
• The Flatliners
• Hostage Life
• Modernboys Moderngirls
• The Stereohoax
• Sweet Thing
• Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker
• Alpha Galates

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2009

Location: Downsview Park, Toronto.

Date: June 20, 2009.

• Billy Talent
• AFI
• Alexisonfire
• Metric
• K-OS
• The Stills
• Arkells
• Beast
• Clothes Make the Man
• Dean Lickyer
• Dinosaur Bones
• Flash Lightnin'
• La Casa Muerte
• The Midway State
• Moneen
• Still Life Still
• The Waking Eyes

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2011

Location: Downsview Park, Toronto.

Date: July 9, 2011.

Main Stage:

• Rise Against
• A Perfect Circle
• The Weakerthans
• Tokyo Police Club
• Arkells
• The Reason
• Dinosaur Bones

Second Stage:

• Hollerado
• KO
• Gentlemen Husbands
• Harlan Pepper
• Michou
• Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
• Monster Truck
• Sandman Viper Command
• The Sheepdogs

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2012

Location: Downsview Park, Toronto.

Date: July 14, 2012.

Main Stage:

• Death From Above 1979
• Billy Talent
• Silversun Pickups
• The Pack A.D.
• The Sheepdogs
• Young the Giant
• The Dirty Heads
• Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker

Side Stage:

• The Darcys
• Said the Whale
• Library Voices
• The Balconies
• Acres of Lions
• The Coppertone
• Hacienda
• Indian Handcrafts
• Whale Tooth
• Yukon Blonde

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2013

Location: Downsview Park, Toronto.

Date: July 31, 2013.

Main Stage:

• The Lumineers
• Band of Horses
• The Neighbourhood
• Monster Truck
• Mother Mother
• Dinosaur Bones
• July Talk

Side Stage:

• Capital Cities
• Twin Forks
• Great Bloomers
• Hey Marseilles
• You Won't
• Imaginary Cities
• Lucius
• The Treble
• The Treasures

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2014

Location: TD Echo Beach, Toronto.

Dates: July 1 (Edgefest 1), July 18 (Edgefest 2), August 16 (Edgefest 3).

Edgefest 1:

• The Sheepdogs
• Monster Truck
• Matt Mays
• Head of the Herd

Emerging Artist Stage:

• The Zolas
• Royal Canoe
• Teenage Kicks

Edgefest 2:

• Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker
• MS MR
• Said the Whale
• Bear Hands

Emerging Artist Stage:

• Wildlife
• Dear Rouge

Edgefest 3:

• Our Lady Peace
• Sloan
• I Mother Earth
• Eve 6

2015

Location: TD Echo Beach, Toronto.

Dates: July 23 (Edgefest 1), July 29 (Edgefest 2), August 15 (Edgefest 3).

Edgefest 1:

• Milky Chance
• Elle King
• X Ambassadors

Emerging Artist Stage:

• The Zolas
• The Franklin Electric
• JJ and the Pillars

Edgefest 2:

• Incubus
• Deftones
• The Bots

Emerging Artist Stage:

• Brothers of North
• XPrime

Edgefest 3:

• Mother Mother
• Kongos
• Scott Helman

Emerging Artist Stage:

• Coleman Hell
• K.I.D
• Bestie
• Gray

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