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 The Falls Festival
 
 
 Location Australia
 Lorne, Victoria (since 1993)
 Marion Bay, Tasmania (since 2003)
 
 Years active 1993- present
 Date(s) December 29 - January 1
 Genre Blues & roots, Rock, Hip hop, Electronic
 The Falls Festival is a New Year's Eve music festival, held annually in Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania Australia since 1993. It lasts three days, from December 29 to January 1 each year. The headline acts play mostly over two evenings, December 30 and December 31. Both festivals run simultaneously and swapping line-ups over different days.
 
 
 Snout playing at the 2001 Falls FestivalThe festival started in 1993 with a small one day concert, held in Lorne, Victoria, then known as Rock Above The Falls. It attracted nearly 11,000 people, far exceeding the organisers expectations, requiring them to quickly negotiate with neighboring farmers for the use of their land to accommodate the crowd.
 
 In 1995 the event changed to a two day format, and in 1996 the name was changed to The Falls Festival for the first time. The 1999 festival was the first to be held off the Lorne site, moved temporarily to the Torquay site of the Offshore Festival .
 
 In 2003, two events were held simultaneously for the first time; one in Lorne, and an additional event at Marion Bay, Tasmania. The same acts played at both events; the December 30 acts who played at Lorne, play December 31 at Marion Bay, and vice versa. Future festivals retained this two-location format.
 
 Due to the length of the event, people bring a tent and camp out at the event; both locations have nearby beaches. Many artists playing at the Falls Festival are traditionally of the blues & roots genre, however it is not exclusively of this style, with rock, hip hop and electronic style acts also playing.
 
 Contents [hide]
 1 Falls Festival 1996
 2 Falls Festival 1997
 3 Falls Festival 1998
 4 Falls Festival 1999
 5 Falls Festival 2000
 6 Falls Festival 2001
 7 Falls Festival 2002
 8 Falls Festival 2003
 9 Falls Festival 2004
 10 Falls Festival 2005
 11 Falls Festival 2006
 11.1 Ticketing
 12 Falls Festival 2007
 12.1 Ticketing
 13 Falls Festival 2008
 14 Ticket Prices
 14.1 Lorne Ticket Prices
 14.2 Marion Bay Ticket Prices
 15 External links
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 1996
 Pennywise
 Radio Birdman
 Regurgitator
 Custard
 Powderfinger
 The Living End
 Even
 Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes
 Sidewinder
 Pollyanna
 Bodyjar
 Snout
 Moler
 Rebeccas Empire
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 1997
 Iggy Pop
 You Am I
 The Cruel Sea
 Hard Ons
 Lagwagon
 Superjesus
 Jebediah
 Shihad
 Grinspoon
 Guttermouth
 The Living End
 Even
 Something For Kate
 Deadstar
 Front End Loader
 Pre Shrunk
 Sprung Monkey
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 1998
 Blondie
 Mudhoney
 Bentley Rhythm Ace
 Rocket From The Crypt
 Unwritten Law
 Area 7
 The Avalanches
 Magic Dirt
 You Am I
 Grinspoon
 Superjesus
 Amonia
 Screamfeeder
 Even
 Bodyjar
 Something For Kate
 Frenzal Rhomb
 Violetine
 Area 7
 Voitek
 Honeysmack
 Pound System
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 1999
 Violent Femmes
 The Tea Party
 DJ Freddy Fresh
 Regurgitator
 Something For Kate
 You Am I
 Frenzal Rhomb
 Superheist
 28 Days
 Alex Lloyd
 Area 7
 Pollyanna
 The Fauves
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2000
 Silverchair
 Reef
 The Vandals
 Freestylers
 Killing Heidi
 Superjesus
 The Avalanches
 Magic Dirt
 Bodyjar
 Groove Terminator
 John Butler Trio
 Skulker
 Pre Shrunk
 Sunk Loto
 78 Saab
 Superheist
 Rocket Science
 Dallas Crane
 Nokturnl
 Nitocris
 The Waifs
 George
 Machine Gun Fellatio
 Resin Dogs
 Friendly
 Josh Abrahams
 1200 Techniques
 Honeysmack
 Voitek
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2001
 The Hives
 Stanton Warriors
 Grinspoon
 Regurgitator
 John Butler Trio
 Something For Kate
 28 Days
 Resin Dogs
 Groove Terminator
 Alex Lloyd
 Paul Kelly
 Bodyjar
 Dr Alex Paterson
 George
 Superheist
 Area 7
 One Dollar Short
 1200 Techniques
 Dern Rutlidge
 Warped
 Nu Breed
 On Inc
 Pound System
 Blue Line Medic
 For Amusement Only
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2002
 Jack Johnson
 Black Eyed Peas
 Ozomatli
 Timo Maas
 The Vandals
 The Atari's
 Brad
 Grinspoon
 Machine Gun Fellatio
 Infusion
 Xavier Rudd
 1200 Techniques
 The Casanovas
 You Am I
 Magic Dirt
 Jet
 Rocket Science
 The Drones
 Underside
 Antiskeptic
 The Gels
 The Butterfly Effect
 Groove Terminator
 Offcuts
 Warped
 Pete Murray
 Even
 Melatonin
 The Beautiful Girls
 The Sleepy Jackson
 Phil Smart
 Goodwill
 Samuel Jackson
 The Alias
 Ballpoint
 Ransom
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2003
 Michael Franti and Spearhead
 Groove Armada
 Pennywise
 Reel Big Fish
 G. Love and Special Sauce
 Turin Brakes
 Ozomatli
 Mason Jennings
 Paul Kelly
 The Waifs
 Xavier Rudd
 Regurgitator
 The Beautiful Girls
 Cog
 The Mess Hall
 Trey
 Bodyjar
 Dallas Crane
 Dexter
 Bit By Bats
 Nubreed
 Krafty Kuts
 Cut Copy
 Missy Higgins
 Tzu
 James De La Cruz
 Offcuts
 Danny Kelly and the Alpha Males
 The Butterfly Effect
 After The Fall
 Degrees K
 The Pictures
 Riff Random
 Ember Swift
 Bomba
 Gerling
 Harry Manx
 Flagrant and Ben Shepard
 John Course and Goodwill
 Bugdust
 Epicure
 The Swedish Styles
 Carus
 Whalebone
 The Charlie Parkers
 Damon
 The Go Set
 The Double Agents
 Mick Hart
 SMC
 Unleash The Nugget
 Reflex
 Waiter
 Peter Cornelius and the Devilles
 The Fat Band
 Enola Fall
 Taiko Drum
 S. Jackson and Somantik
 Sharif Galal
 DJ Selekt and B Dub
 
 Australian music
 portal
 Performers at the 2003-04 event include Australian artists Xavier Rudd, The Beautiful Girls, Gerling, Regurgitator and The Waifs; and international acts Michael Franti and Spearhead, Pennywise, Reel Big Fish, and Ozomatli. Like many Australian festivals, the event also promotes local bands, with many Victorian and Tasmanian artists also performing at their respective state's festival. Solo female performer Missy Higgins also pleased crowds, promoting the release of her album and several popular singles, for which she was later recognised by receiving multiple awards at the ARIA Awards in 2005.
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2004
 The 2004-05 festival was again held at both venues. Both sites sold out very early - the only Falls Festival to sell as fast was the 1999 event. Artists performing at the event included:
 
 The Black Keys
 De La Soul
 Billy Bragg
 The Living End
 The John Butler Trio
 Missy Higgins
 The Thrills
 Veruca Salt
 Spiderbait
 The Cat Empire
 Xavier Rudd
 Donavon Frankenreiter
 You Am I
 The Beautiful Girls
 Vusi Mahlasela
 Hilltop Hoods
 Rocket Science
 Dakota Star
 Bob Brozman
 Downsyde
 TZU
 The New Pollutants
 Butterfingers
 The Panics
 Hayden
 Sarah Blasko
 Even
 The Cops
 Betchadupa
 The Spazzys
 The Vasco Era
 Carus & The True Believers
 Epicure
 Mia Dyson
 Ash Grunwald
 The Hot Lies
 Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set
 The Roys
 
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2005
 Artists who performed at the 2005 event include:
 
 The Dandy Warhols
 Ozomatli
 The Shins
 Ian Brown
 Wolfmother
 Pete Murray
 The Beautiful Girls
 The Vasco Era
 Faker
 TZU
 The Grates
 Hoodoo Gurus
 The Zutons
 Sarah Blasko
 End Of Fashion
 The White Buffalo
 The Mess Hall
 Evermore
 Dallas Crane
 Lior
 Matt Walker and Ashley Davies
 67 Special
 Ugly Duckling
 The Cat Empire
 Rolling Blackouts
 Eric Bibb
 Kelly Stoltz
 Little Birdy
 Ash Grunwald
 Dappled Cities Fly
 True Live
 Offcutts
 Katalyst and RuCL
 Rob Sawyer
 Mia Dyson
 Youth Group
 Dan Sultan & Scott Wilson
 The Embers
 
 
 2005 was a record year for speed of ticket sales; tickets for the Marion Bay festival sold out two and a half days after going on sale on August 15, and Lorne tickets selling out one week after coming onsale.
 
 Further allocations of tickets for both festivals were released during December and sold out within hours of coming on sale. An unlimited number of Falls Festival patrons were welcome to attend the 'Falls Cinema' on Thursday 29 December (One day earlier than the official kick-off) in an effort to minimize traffic congestion. It was much the same in Tasmania, however the number of tickets available were capped at 9000.
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2006
 
 Valley Stage at the 2006 Falls Festival in Marion BayIn early July, the new website for the 2006 event was launched. People were able to subscribe to the official mailing list and be entered into the draw to be offered tickets ahead of the official release date of August 16. Subscribers that were selected would be notified by July 30. Tickets for the 2006 festival were put on sale as of 9am, August the 16th. All tickets to the Lorne event were gone in just over 2 hours. The Marion Bay event followed suit, with all tickets sold out within 3.5 hours.
 
 The announced performers as of December 28, include:
 
 Modest Mouse
 Michael Franti and Spearhead
 Wolfmother
 The Bees
 John Butler Trio
 Saul Williams
 The Black Seeds
 Matt Costa
 The Vasco Era
 Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males
 The Fumes
 Dallas Frasca & Her Gentlemen
 You Am I
 The Audreys
 Youth Group
 Josh Pyke
 Blue King Brown
 Jamie Lidell
 Hilltop Hoods
 Eskimo Joe
 Unleash the Nugget
 Wolf & Cub
 Dexter[disambiguation needed]
 Timmy Curran
 Labjacd
 Scribe
 The Sleepy Jackson
 The Mountain Goats
 Little Birdy
 The Exploders
 Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea
 Dan Sultan
 Cansei de Ser Sexy
 Ground Components
 FourPlay String Quartet
 Custom Kings
 Muph & Plutonic
 The Embers
 
 
 
 [edit] Ticketing
 Restrictions on ticket sales were made in 2006 in an attempt to curb the increasing practice of ticket resale, commonly known as 'scalping', as well as to make the access to tickets more equitable. The changes reflected similar alterations made to ticket sale procedures of other major Australian music festivals such as Splendour in the Grass and The Big Day Out. Previously, Tickets had been released for sale in bulk and with no limits on the number of tickets able to be purchased by an individual, resulting in a high incidence of individuals purchasing multiple tickets, and a subsequent sell-out of tickets within a very short period of time, often within 24 or even 12 hours.
 
 The restrictions included a purchasing limit of four tickets per any individual, as well as the initiation of an online ticket lottery, which randomly allocated the sale of approximately 50% of all tickets to a list of people who had registered their interest on the Festival's website. [1] Tickets were also released on multiple dates rather than in bulk, so that sales were more manageable and there was increased consumer accessibility to the sale of tickets.
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2007
 The artists at the festival of 2007/08 include:
 
 Kings of Leon
 Groove Armada
 Paul Kelly
 Midnight Juggernauts
 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
 The Waifs
 Gotye
 Built to Spill
 José González
 The Go! Team
 Blackalicious
 The Mess Hall
 Girl Talk
 Kev Carmody
 Whiskey Go Go's
 Neville Staple's Specials
 Adam Cousens**
 Bridget Pross**
 Magic Dirt*
 Sarah Blasko*
 Children Collide*
 Jackson Jackson*
 The Pipettes
 The Herd
 Lior
 Little Red
 Operator Please
 Old Man River
 Angus and Julia Stone
 The Beautiful Girls
 Regurgitator
 Clare Bowditch
 Downhills Home*
 Jeff Lang
 Cut Off Your Hands
 The Scientists of Modern Music
 Diafrix
 Mattafix
 Busdriver
 The Panics
 Dirty Harry and the Rockets**
 The Cops
 Nathan Weldon and the Two Timers**
 Special Patrol*
 Soft Tigers*
 Dukes of Windsor*
 Macromantics*
 The Paper Scissors*
 Dances With Voices*
 Goons of Doom*
 Whitley
 La Fiesta Sound System*
 Favela Rock DJs*
 Tokyo Apartment Party DJs*
 Thief Featuring DJ Gsan & Mugen with Paris Well*
 Jennifer Tutty & Katie Drover
 Hoops*
 Funktrust DJs*
 Uber Lingua DJs*
 New Young Pony Club*
 
 
 (* Lorne Only), (** Marion Bay only)
 
 
 [edit] Ticketing
 Ticket purchasing procedures changed again in 2007, extending on initial changes made to procedures in 2006. Changes included:
 
 The extension of the ticket lottery from 50% to 80% of all tickets - intended to increase the equity of ticket sale
 The centralisation of all ticket sales to the Falls Festival Website - intended to eliminate the need to line up outside stores overnight in order to purchase a ticket, as well as prevent criminal problems associated with it such as littering and drinking in public
 The inclusion of a name and date of birth printed on the Festival ticket - intended to further restrict scalping practices
 Tickets went on sale to the general public on Monday 10th of September at 9am AEST, with the 14,500 tickets to the Lorne event selling out on the day they were released.
 
 
 [edit] Falls Festival 2008
 Franz Ferdinand
 The Hives
 Santogold
 The Kooks
 Gomez
 Tegan and Sara
 Fleet Foxes
 Donavon Frankenreiter
 SoKo
 Jamie Lidell
 Cut Off Your Hands
 Mystery Jets
 Atmosphere feat. Brother Ali
 A-Trak
 Late Of The Pier
 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
 The Cat Empire
 The Grates
 Faker
 Lykke Li
 Augie March
 Blue King Brown
 Ash Grunwald
 TZU
 The Drones
 Architecture in Helsinki
 The Dodos
 Wolf and Cub
 Liam Finn
 Rocket Science
 Eli `Paperboy` Reed
 British India
 TinPan Orange
 Labjacd
 Violent Soho
 South Rakkas Crew
 Tame Impala
 The Holidays*
 Snob Scrilla*
 Grafton Primary
 MURS
 CW Stoneking & the Primitive Orchestra
 Laura Jean & The Eden Land Band
 Mamadou Diabate
 Kat Frankie
 Barons Of Tang
 Dash & Will
 Skipping Girl Vinegar
 
 Those marked with an asterisk (*) are playing in Lorne only
 
 [edit] Ticket Prices
 [edit] Lorne Ticket Prices
 Ticket prices have increased significantly over the last decade of the festival. Ticket prices are as follows:
 
 Year 3 day ticket 2 day ticket 2 day 'Sabine' ticket
 1993 - - -
 1994 - - -
 1995 - - -
 1996 - - -
 1997 - - -
 1998 - - -
 1999 - - -
 2000 - - -
 2001 - -
 2002 - - -
 2003 - - -
 2004 - $110 -
 2005 - $125 -
 2006 - $154 -
 2007 - $186 -
 2008 $289 $234 $197
 
 Tickets also include a small booking fee.
 
 [edit] Marion Bay Ticket Prices
 A two day ticket in Marion bay includes the 30 and 31 December. Single tickets for the 29th can also be purchased but can only gain entry with a regular two day ticket. Ticket prices are as follows:
 
 Year 2 day ticket extra day ticket
 2003 - -
 2004 - -
 2005 - -
 2006 - -
 2007 - -
 2008 $167 $20
 
 Tickets also include a small booking fee.
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