Overcranked

Established

2001

Website

www.overcranked.com

Venue (s)

Woolongabba Hotel, Brisbane RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane

History

Overcranked was a Brisbane festival featuring primarily metal and punk bands from Australia and overseas. The event began as a modest local metal/hardcore festival featuring local underground acts but soon became a large scale event featuring prominent Australian and international touring bands, performance art and skateboard demos. The focus later shifted toward punk and hardcore although metal bands still featured in the line-ups. Overcranked was usually held in late March, although for the first couple of years it was in July. The event was not held in 2005 but returned the following year when the headline act was Clutch. Frenzal Rhomb was booked for the 2007 event but cancelled. Applications from bands were being taken for the 2008 event but an announcement was later made that the event would not take place until 2009, however it would appear that there are now no plans for the festival to return.

• 2001 line-up
  • Misery, Dreadnaught, Post Life Disorder, Sakkuth, Hollow, Astriaal, Frankenbok, Subsyde, Devolved, D-Nine, Invocation, Sausage Chopper, Kyser, Koil, Green Steam, Tribal Clown, Cursed Earth, Excruciate, Phial, Filler, Blunt Object, Brain Resin, Mapped in Scars, Transfear, Lynch Mada Xperiment

• 2006 line-up
  • Clutch, Karnivool, Blood Duster, I Killed the Prom Queen, Alchemist, Behind Crimson Eyes, Frankenbok, Grand Fatal, Psycroptic, Against, Daysend, Japunga, The Disables, Wishforwings, Infernal Method, Lynchmada, Giants of Science, Astriaal, Minus Life, Voodoo Trash Dolls, The Amity Affliction, Lump, Asecretdeath, Alarum, Pod People, King Mungi, From These Wounds, Nunchukka Superfly, Avalon Drive, Five Star Prison Cell, Empyrean, The Crisis Therapy, Motormoth, The Daylight Curse, This Collision, Blunt Object, The Black Market, Headkase, Perference, MSBI, In-cyde

• 2007 line-up
  • Helmet, The Butterfly Effect, Shihad, God Forbid, After the Fall, The Hot Lies, Behind Crimson Eyes, Sunk Loto, Horsell Common, Psycroptic, Against, 8Ft Sativa, Hard Ons, Jobson's Dreamkillers, Terrorust, The Rivalry, Dawn of Azazel, Blowhard, Pathogen, Mourningtide, LORD, Wishforwings, The Daylight Curse, The Amity Affliction, Minus Life, Rollerball, Melodyssey, Mammal, Fort, Ruins, 50 Lions, Repeat Offender, Dyscord, Art Vanderley, Western Decay, Vicious, Regular John, City in Panic, Beijing Tank, Dead Letter Circus, The Quickening, Severed Link