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The Falls Festival
Location(s)	Australia Lorne, Victoria (since 1993) Marion Bay, Tasmania (since 2003)
Years active	1993- present
Founded by
Date(s)	December 29 - January 1
Genre(s)	Blues & roots, Rock, Hip hop, Electronic
Website

The Falls Festival is a New Year's Eve music festival, held annually in Marion Bay, Tasmania and Lorne, Victoria 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.

The 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 1 Falls Festival 2003 2 Falls Festival 2004 3 Falls Festival 2005 4 Falls Festival 2006 4.1 Ticketing 5 Falls Festival 2007 5.1 Ticketing 6 External links

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Timeline
Genres	classical · hip-hop · indigenous Australian music · Ska · immigrant music · jazz · country · rock (pub rock · indie · punk · metal)
Organisations	ARIA · APRA · CMMA
Awards	ARIA Music Awards · Country Music Awards of Australia · The Deadlys · Australian Music Prize · J Award · WAMi Awards · NT Indigenous Music Awards · Perth Dance Music Awards
Charts	Kent Music Report · ARIA Charts · Triple J Hottest 100
Festivals	Big Day Out · Splendour in the Grass · Livid · Homebake · Falls · Tamworth Country Music Festival · Womadelaide · National Folk Festival · Overcranked
Media	Countdown · Rage · Triple J · ABC · Community Radio
National anthem	Advance Australia Fair
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Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Melbourne · Sydney · Perth · Hobart

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.

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 both events 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 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

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 29th 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.

In 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 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 N Plutonic The Embers

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 inititation of an online ticket lottery, which randomly allocated the sale of apporximately 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 their was increased consumer accessesability to the sale of tickets.

The announced performers as of September 27 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 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 DJ’s* Tokyo Apartment Party DJ’s* Thief Featuring DJ Gsan & Mugen with Paris Well* Jennifer Tutty & Katie Drover Hoops* Funktrust DJ’s* Uber Lingua DJ’s* New Young Pony Club* New Young Pony Club** Boris Charles and his Clean Ass**

(* Lorne Only), (** Marion Bay only)

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 tickets to the Lorne event selling out on the day they were released.

• Falls Festival official website

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