What could be better than spending New Year’s Eve suffocating in a crowd of tens of thousands of strangers who are happily foregoing showering after spending all day alternating between running around in the hot summer sun and marinating in the unique aroma of a drop toilet?
Wait, I phrased that terribly, I mean: what could be better than spending New Year’s Eve seeing a bunch of awesome bands and camping with a bunch of your mates? That, but with flushing toilets, probably.
Falls Festival is a dope way to both ring out and ring in the previous year and the coming year respectively and, if you weren’t already enticed by the announcement of Childish Gambino and London Grammar as headliners, here are a bunch more excuses for you to buy a $40 tent from Kmart and RSVP “no” to a bunch of slightly disappointing NYE house parties. The first lineup drop is HERE:
Childish Gambino (no sideshows)
London Grammar (no sideshows)
The Avalanches
Violent Soho
Matt Corby
Alison Wonderland
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Ta-Ku
The Rubens
The Jezabels
Ball Park Music
Grouplove
Bernard Fanning
Jamie T
Broods
Tkay Maidza
Grandmaster Flash
Illy
MØ
Hot Dub Time Machine
DMA’S
AlunaGeorge
Booka Shade
Client Liaison
Vallis Alps
Parquet Courts
City Calm Down
L D R U*
Modern Baseball
Tired Lion*
Remi
Ry-X
Marlon Williams
Lemaitre
Shura
The dates are as follows if that lineup has got your heart all sweaty:
Lorne VIC: Dec 28, Dec 29, Dec 30, Dec 31
Marion Bay TAS: Dec 29, Dec 30, Dec 31
Byron Bay NSW: Dec 31, Jan 01, Jan 02
Fremantle WA: Jan 07, Jan 08
Marion Bay TAS: Dec 29, Dec 30, Dec 31
Byron Bay NSW: Dec 31, Jan 01, Jan 02
Fremantle WA: Jan 07, Jan 08
Hell you could even double up and do both Fremantle and another state. How bout that.
Source: Falls Festival.
Photo: Supplied.
