Falls Festival lineup leaked!!!

The lineup for this years Falls Music & Arts Festival has been leaked and let's just say it is sensational!

Moby, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Editors and Grizzly Bear set to play at the festival.

The full line-up so far for Lorne is (awesome acts are in bold):

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Moby
Hilltop Hoods
Grizzly Bear
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
The Temper Trap
Xavier Rudd
Emiliana Torrini
Little Birdy
Midnight Juggernauts
Andrew Bird
Lyrics Born
Chairlift
King Khan and the Shrines
Editors
Philadelphia Grand Jury
Kaki King
Sarah Blasko
Art Vs. Science
DJ Yoda
Liam Finn
Lisa Mitchell
Major Lazer (Soundsystem)
Patrick Watson
Seasick Steve
The View
White Rabbits
Future of the Left
Killaqueenz
Yves Klein Blue
The John Steel Singers

Punters are able to subscribe for a ticket ballot to increase their chances of access to tickets. For info on how that works, go to the falls website.

More news to follow......

Falls Festival
Lorne, VIC
29th December - 1st January
www.fallsfestival.com

Falls Festival announce final additions

With a bill of talent that’s already bursting at the seams, the organisers have managed to cram in a few more acts for their New Years bash.

These latest additions have a very important mission: keeping the revellers dancing till the wee hours at the tent stage. Sydney upstarts Gameboy/Gamegirl and Art Vs Science will lead the electro charge, while Katalyst Soundsystem bumps through hip hop, dub, reggae and much analogue goodness. Fresh from a tour with Yves Klein Blue, fresh-faced four-piece The Holidays are jumping on board, as is ‘80s enthusiast Snob Scrilla

To round it all out, there’s Percussion Junction, KillaQueenz, John Course and Grant Smilie, Ilzilla, The Yacht Club DJs, The Soccer Mum DJs and Playing With Knives (DJ set).

Falls Festival new additions:

Gameboy/Gamegirl
Art Vs Science
Katalyst Soundsystem
The Holidays
Snob Scrilla
Percussion Junction
KillaQueenz
John Course and Grant Smilie
Ilzilla
The Yacht Club DJs
The Soccer Mum DJs
Playing With Knives (DJ set)

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Franz Ferdinand name 3rd album 'Tonight'

Franz Ferdinand have named their third album ‘Tonight’.

Making the revelation at a show a few nights ago, the band also previewed six new songs during the intimate show, including opener ‘Bite Hard’, ‘Turn It On’ and ‘Katherine, Kiss Me’. Other new tracks were performed included ‘Ulysses’ and ‘What She Came For’, which is the rumoured lead single from ‘Tonight’. The new material went down a storm with the capacity crowd.

The new album is called ‘Tonight’ because it’s “music of the night” Kapranos stated after the show. “It's music of the night, so it seems like the most appropriate title. It suggests a performance too” he said. “I can picture a marquee outside a theatre saying 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand', there's a sense of anticipation. It's music for the dancefloor, your bedroom as you psyche yourself up to go out, a stranger's bedsit coming down an hour before dawn.”

The Dan Carey-produced album was completed just last week and is the follow-up to 2005’s ‘You Could Have It So Much Better’.

Franz Ferdinand setlist looked something like this:

‘Bite Hard’

‘Michael’

‘Tell Her Tonight’

‘Turn It On’

‘Matinee’

‘Send Him Away’

‘The Fallen’

‘Katherine, Kiss Me’

‘Take Me Out’

‘Ulysses’

‘40”

’‘What She Came For’

‘Outsiders’

'This Fire’

Franz Ferdinand will be playing at the Falls Festival this Australian summer.

http://www.franzferdinand.co.uk/

Santogold and more added to Falls Festival

The Falls Music and Arts and Southbound Festivals have pulled another stack of golden musical rabbits out their hats for the third official line-up announcement.

Brooklyn’s sassiest lady of bling Santogold will be joining fellow lady-of–the-sass, Sharon Jones and her Dap Kings, to make sure you’re shaking your thang right into the New Year. Keeping up with the ladies (at his own pace) will be bluegrass legend CW Stoneking & The Primitive Horn Orchestra, whilst local beat breakers Blue King Brown will be bringing their infectious mash of world music to the stage.

FALLS FESTVAL – Lorne (Sold Out)

Santogold
Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings
Blue King Brown
Cut Off Your Hands
Lykke Li
CW Stoneking & the Primitive Horn Orchestra
South Rakkas Crew
Grafton Primary
MURS
Violent Soho
Laura Jean & the Eden Land Band
Mamadou Diabate
Kat Frankie

The Barons of Tang
Dash & Will
Skipping Girl Vinegar

Its more or less the same lineup for Marion Bay, Southbound and The Byron Arts festivals (minus Sanotgold).

Falls Festival adds The Fleet Foxes

The Falls Music & Arts Festival have just announced the line-up for the 29th December – the first night of musical madness for the three day festival which takes place over New Years Eve in Victoria and Tasmania.

Kicking off festivities in Lorne will be the ultra buzz-worthy indie darlings of 2008 – The Fleet Foxes who will be deliciously complimented by the band that makes ‘festival moments’ happen – Augie March.

Also storming into town will be the UK’s biggest trouble makers ,The Cribs and new age synth nutters, Late Of The Pier. Finishing off the superb first night will be Aussie gems Rocket Science, British India, Ash Grunwald and 9 -piece Latin hip-hop troupe Labjacd.

The Taswegians will also be treated to something special – The Falls Funk’n’Soul Revue . This promises to be an afternoon and evening of this country’s finest funk, soul, bossa-nova & boogaloo from the very best specialist DJ’s this country has to offer.

All these bands will be joining the already announced:

Franz Ferdinand(UK); The Hives (Sweden); Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed & The True Loves (USA); The Cat Empire; The Kooks (UK); The Grates; Gomez (UK); Tegan & Sara (Canada); Faker; SoKo (France); Donavon Frankenreiter (USA); Jamie Lidell (UK); TZU; Mystery Jets (UK); Architecture in Helsinki; Atmosphere featuring Brother Ali (USA); The Drones; The Dodo’s (USA); Wolf & Cub & Liam Finn (NZ).

With loads more to be revealed!

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