Rifflandia Music Festival is a four-day multi-venue music festival held at the Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, British Columbia. With no fixed date, the festival has occurred in the month-long span between the last weekend of August and the last weekend of September. Rifflandia was first launched on August 29, 2008. In 2019 it was canceled due to "economic instability in the festival market," with the hope of returning in 2020 which did not happen either due to coronavirus.
Rifflandia also includes Artlandia, the War Child Lounge, and publishes an annual magazine. Local brewery and sponsor Phillips Brewery also produces a Rifflandia beer, Rifflandabrau, sold around the festival's time. The festival is staged by a local production company, Atomique Productions, and is sponsored by local businesses and various members of the media.
History
2016
Line-up Thursday, September 15 Night Stages:
Illvis Freshly The Good Guys The Beatnuts De La Soul Andrew Judah Goodwood Atoms Little India The Tourist Company DJ Wood Vespers Shylow Moontricks DJ Jetts DJ Surgery DJ All Good Bryx Lovecoast Joy District Baskery The Windowlickers Spaceport Union Wishkicker No Liars Dante Hadden Maverick Cinema Familiar Wild Terence Jack Yuk Yuk's Comedy Winners
Friday, September 16 Night Stages:
Sweetleaf Pigeon Hole Bomba Estéreo Keys N Krates En Noir Miami Nights 1984 Hodge Goldfish Jeremy Loveday DJ KWE Shane Koyczan Hello Moth Groenland We Are The City Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Vince Vaccaro I M U R Windmills Youngblood Hot Panda Rafferty Funksmith Burning Rainbow The Gaff Dunks Akela + Tedder Kirtay Bullet Bill Kid Kurse Grizzly Timbers San Felix Dralms Peach Pit The Villanovas The Prettys Malahat Mesa Luna Bocce Avocado Mu Caveboy Stetson Road Fintan O'Brien Genevieve and the Wild Sundays Relaxation Sounds + Lil Halo Neon Annex Hermit Noscar Kyross Zoo Riots Mouth Breather Kermode Astrocolor Ivan Decker
Main Stage: The Choir Bomba Estéreo X Ambassadors Michael Franti & Spearhead Rifftop Tent: Grossbuster The Elwins Lee Scratch Perry
Saturday, September 17 Night Stages:
A DJ Called Malice Lucas Dipasquale John River Classified Vortoozo Levi Hawk + Jay Somethin' Dirty Radio Prozzäk Pif Paf Groenland Caveboy Operators DJ KWE Daniele Mereu Rennie Foster Aux 88 Derrival Kaylee Johnston Fake Shark JPNSGRLS DJ Low Applecat Juice DJ Shub DJ Arktic Primitive Ganjoid Ghostwhip Big Little Lions Morning Show The Katherines Royal Wood Railtown Sound System Wooden Horsemen Dope Soda Entagados Phonosonics Frankie Khari Wendell McClelland Sohpia Danai Tami Neilson Madness Blooms Big Little Lions Eshe Nkiru Fvde bbno$ Immerze Czech Royalty The Carlines Lovers Touch Zoubi and the Sea The Wild Romantics Leland Klassen Main Stage: The Choir No Sinner The Zolas Coleman Hell Band of Skulls Jurassic 5 Rifftop Tent: Fox Glove Moontricks Band of Rascals Tennyson The Beatnuts
Sunday, September 18 Main Stage: The Choir Chance Lovett & the Broken Hearted Fruit Bats Jesse Roper Wolf Parade Rifftop Tent: Fallbrigade Astrocolor Darcys Shane Koyczan & the Short Story Long Del the Funky Homosapien
2015
Line-up
Thursday, September 17
Night Stages:
Jazz Cartier Post Malone Flatbush Zombies Walshy Fire Torro Torro Jillionaire Guests Max Renn Philthkids Sinistarr Cascadia Sound Daniele Mereu Rennie Foster Righteous Rainbows of Togetherness Wild Ones Frog Eyes Coleman Hell Spaceboots Tower of Dudes Rugged Uncle Seven Year Old Poets Labs Stray Cougar Highs Storyhive Winner Alberta Big Goose Blackwood Kings Bodies Ben Rogers Drew Farrance & Morgan Cranny Darcy Collins James Ball
Friday, September 18
Night Stages:
Pigeon Hole The Underachievers Doomtree DJ Shrew AppleCat Onra A Tribe Called Red Jay Malinowski + the Deadcoast Chad VanGaalen Hayden MF Jones Marshall A DJ Murge The Stockers Class of 1984 The Vicious Cycles Punk Rock Karaoke Big Body Sean Evans and Bokeh The Librarian Xxxy Bugatti Boys Bogman Mr. Moe Miami Nights 1984 Secret Sun Emilie and Ogden Seoul Plants and Animals Sticky Fingers Slim Sandy Market East Little Hurricane Random Citizen Illvis Freshly LIINKS Storyhive Winner BC Fans and Motor Supply Co Chersea The Archers Steve McMath and Shane Priestly Evan Mumford and Myles Anderson
Main Stage:
The Choir The Dears Arkells
Rifftop Tent:
Blonde Redhead A Tribe Called Red
Saturday, September 19
Busty and the Bass Five Alarm Funk J Feud Lori the HiFi Princess Mat the Alien Longwalkshortdock Ria Mae Leisure Cruise Moon King The Zolas Marshall A Jansom Wood N Soo Marshall A Justin Brave + Ishkan Hip Hop Karaoke Emplicit Hi-Q Soundsystem Self-Evident Mumdance Phrase DJ Low J.F.Killah The Helio Sequence Aegis Fang Gang Signs Vogue Dots Man Made Lake Chris Ho Brothers Justine Drummond and Wes Borg Chelsea Lou Uphoff and Shawn Ohara
Main Stage:
Young Empires Brave Shores Plants and Animals Big Data Tokyo Police Club Modest Mouse
Rifftop Tent:
The Choir Dirty Radio Sticky Fingers The Zolas Neon Indian Kiesza
Sunday, September 20
Main Stage:
Vic High R&B Band The Walkervilles Jesse Roper Hollerado Joey Bada$$ Mother Mother
Rifftop Tent:
The Choir Grounders Tacocat Emancipator Julian Casablancas + The Voidz
2014
Line-up
Thursday, September 11
Night Stages:
The Numero Group Ratking Danny Brown Sinesthetix Dead Air Vaski Zeds Dead Oliver Swain's Big Machine Choir Choir Choir The Choir Adam Cohen Davenport The Wild Romantics The Shilohs Paper Lions Little Wild Smash Boom Pow Mark Mills Dralms Chet Wintermitts Little India Derrival Willhorse Letr B Avalon Emerson Max Ulis Tessela Electric Oak Twin Bandit Luca Fogale Fox Glove Noah Edwards Pax Battery Poacher Grossbuster BnW (Blondtron & Waspy) Darcy Collins Rob Pue
Friday, September 12
Night Stages:
The Beatnuts Kool Keith Del The Funky Homosapien G.I. Blunt Sabota Hrdvsion Tiger and Woods Kalle Mattson Old Man Canyon Rising Appalachia Jon and Roy Shaprece Ivan & Alysosha Horse Feathers Born Ruffians Pickwick MF Jones Miami Nights 1984 Humans (DJ Set) DJ Stallion Speed Control Ellice Blackout We Hunt Buffalo JPNSGRLS Kate Kurdyak Thieves Good For Grapes Rococode Zerbin Fall Fair Car Lola Parks Paperboys and the Messengers Devon Coyote The Roper Show Shawn Mrazek Lives! Cool Cowards Needs Single Mothers Skye Wallace Jasper Sloan Yip Damn Fools Mindil Beach Transient Hashman Deejay Rennie Foster Graze Jackie Trash Punkerslut eXam Acab Rocky Sydney York Riiivr Emplicit Hi-Q Soundsystem Taal Mala Shawn O’Hara Mike Delamont
Main Stage: Reuben and the Dark We Are Scientists Airbourne Serena Ryder
Rifftop Tent: The Glorious Sons Born Ruffians Dragonette
Saturday, September 13
Night Stages:
Sims (of Doomtree) Zion I Hilltop Hoods DJ Applecat Poirier Addison Groove Paper Diamond DJ Tim Horner The Valuables The Ballantynes The Skatalites Windmills Mozart's Sister Kandle and the Krooks The Franklin Electric Half Moon Run DJ Trever DJ Wood Neon Steve DJ Stallion Astral Swans Raleigh MANcub Napalmpom Chersea Isobel Trigger Sam Weber Coyote Rich Aucoin 222 Ruby Karinto Annie Becker The New Groovement Bocce Avocado Dead Soft Minto Wimps Maniac PS I Love You Jody Glenham Hunting Liinks Humans (DJ Set) Laggards Monolithium Michael Red Visionist Cocahala Close The Bombay Doors Bodies Rosie June David Vertesi Jacques Porveau DJ Primitive En Noir and Natron Wax Romeo Myles Anderson Ivan Decker
Main Stage:
Choir Choir Choir The Choir Head of the Herd Le Butcherettes The Airborne Toxic Event The New Pornographers Death Cab For Cutie
Rifftop Tent:
Kytami Bum Latyrx Dum Dum Girls Rusko
Sunday, September 14
Main Stage: Zeus Dear Rouge SonReal To Be Announced Girl Talk
Rifftop Tent:
Vic High R&B Band Lowell Lightning Dust Keys N Krates Half Moon Run
2013
Line-up
Friday, September 13
Night Stages:
Shrew Wood & Soo The Hood Internet The Funk Hunters Disco 3 Pat Mahoney James Murphy Grossbuster Anomie Belle Weird Party Humans Watsky Pigeon Hole Serengeti Jel Mykki Blanco Boots Of Mischief GodzBallz Rotterdam Spaceboots J-Feud Monolithium Hrdvsion Ikonika The Carlines The Archers The Belle Game Dusted Braids Olav Hi-Q Soundsystem Dead Air Murge Alexandria Maillot HRDWTR Fields of Green Prairie Cat Pompadoors Cleopatra & The Nile Juvenile Hall Bloody Wilma The Mants Peace Familiar Wild Hannah Epperson Carousels Wand Versa
Saturday, September 14
Main Stage:
No Mounties Classified Courtney Love
Side Stage: Easy Star All-Stars Z-Trip Current Swell
2012
For its fifth year, Rifflandia built on the success of the Royal Athletic Park as a flagship venue, while also using night stage venues, including the return of the Market Square stage. Rifflandia V occurred on September 13–16. Headlining the festival was the Flaming Lips, Sloan, Cake, and Mother Mother.Unknown
Line-up
Thursday, September 13
Night Stages:
Hundy Thou Royal Canoe Kids and Explosions Doldrums Austra
Lost Lander Bonehoof Wake Owl Rich Aucoin 5AM Okibi Graintable Grenier Kode 9 Christopher Arruda Northcote King Dude Frazey Ford Good for Grapes
Friday, September 14
Main Stage:
The Xylopholks Rich Aucoin Band of Skulls The Flaming Lips
Side Stage: Brasstronaut The Aggrolites Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Night Stages:
AFK Zara Taylor Lazy Rich Morgan Page Rooftop Runners Leisure Suit Rykka Humans Trust Measureless Needs White Lung Indian Handcraft Fucked Up Wolfheart The Washboard Union The Chantrelles The Stanfields Transient En Noir Nina Mendoza Lunice The Wicks Christopher Smith Snowblink The White Buffalo Young Pacific Horse Feathers Hayley Sales
Saturday, September 15
Main Stage: The Xylopholks Zerbin The Jezabels Dan Mangan Cake
Side Stage: Family of the Year Bright Light Social Hour The Stanfields The Dudes Sloan
Night Stage:
OKPK Mat the Alien Cold Blank Longwalkshortdock The June Fiasco Jinja Safari Krief Nightbox Rennie Foster The Old Wives Vicious Cycles Bright Light Social Hour Chixdiggit Natron Monolithium Kevin McPhee and Ronnie Falcon L-Vis 1990 Shayne Avec I Grec / Jeremy Loveday Kids and Explosions Jackson 2 Bears Saul Williams Carmanah
Sunday, September 16
Main Stage: The Xylopholks Jinja Safari Current Swell The Head and the Heart Reggie Watts Mother Mother
Side Stage: The Archers Grand Analog MC Yogi Hey Ocean! Everlast
2011
In 2011, the fourth-annual Rifflandia restructured its venues and the festival-going experience by including the Royal Athletic Park as the flagship venue, with eight additional evening venues. The new location allowed for a main stage and side stage, as well as a partnership with local food and drink vendors, and the introduction of Rifflandia Cinema. Rifflandia IV occurred from September 22–25. The night venues included Alix Goolden Hall, Phillips Brewery, Club 9One9, the Victoria Events Centre, Lucky Bar, Metro Theatre, Wood Hall and Sugar Nightclub. The line up included City and Colour, Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids and Mother Mother.
Line-up
Thursday, September 22
Night Stages:
Members of Gvyo Nik-Tex Painted Palms Nosaj Thing St. Christopher The Big Reds P.O.S The Coup City of 9s Jim-E Stack Jokers of the Scene LA Riots Circadian Kingdom Wool on Wolves Man Made Lake Young Rival Spilly Gs Monolithium Tokimonsta Eskmo The Tower of Dudes Freedom or Death Pepper Rabbit Braids Seaweed Head Kim Churchill The Archers We Are The City
Friday, September 23
Main Stage: Dinosaur Bones The Cave Singers Ra Ra Riot Mother Mother Broken Social Scene
Side Stage: Randy Ponzio Mike Edel Jon Middleton The Besnard Lakes Jakarta
Night Stages:
Provincial Archive Chains of Love Damien Jurado The Cave Singers DJ Anger Jeremy & Boitano