Festival season is fast approaching, and it seems everyone is counting down ’til New Year because New Year means Falls Festival! Music punters are appropriately revved up for the tasty musical treats that that the gang at Falls have lined up for us including The Flaming Lips, Two Door Cinema Club, The Vaccines and LOTS more (need a refresher? Check out the full lineup announcement).
A few weeks back the folks at Falls also announced their comedy line up including Felicity Ward, Jason Byrne L, Luke Heggie and heaps more.
Now, it’s time for an art attack! The Village returns to The Falls Music & Arts Festival in 2012 with a labyrinth of jumbled, mystic, wondrous delights all waiting to be explored.
Playing at Lorne, in alphabetical order will be thrash and punk band Bad Taste, mixing frenetic rhythms and contemporary pop introspection will be BJ Morrizonkle.
Taking over the avant-garde side of things will be electro-pop diva Brite Flite while sharing his truths with circus skill is Jeremy Farquar. Made For Chickens By Robots will be producing lo-fi, sci-fi sonics and outsider entertainer for the next generation Madeline Tucker will make an appearance too.
Mucs will make an appearance and perform choral music from great Western composers whilst funnyman Neil Portenza will bring the laughs. Mixing magic and philosophy is Sunny The Magosipher. New Orleans style street funk act The Brass Knuckle Band are set to perform along with bourgeoning 10-piece funk and soul bad The Cactus Channel and Willis Earl Beal .
To top it all off will beerotic finger puppet show When Claude Met Roxy AND the mayhem inducing 10 Minute Dance Parties are back.
Heading souh and performaing at Marion Bay will be Synth poppers and dreamy darkwave creators All Fires; the laugh factory Clubhouse Comedy; master and maestro of physical comedy Dandy; spontaneous fun showers of improv comedy Danger Academy; contemporary acrobatic circus act Exhale; visual artist and instrumental soundscape creator Great Earthquake.
Joining all them will be Electric Australian blues act Guthrie; blues-rocking and foot-stomping Horehound; progressive metal band Infernal Outcry; 5-piece acoustic-y pop outfit Katy Raucher & The 3rd Row; Eastern Europe infused dance musicians Kazband; gospel and jazz with Mangus; spiritualist and medium Mona Povey; Southern Mississippi swamp music with Seagrass.
Not enough? There is in fact more.
Silversonic is taking the roots genre an placing it atop a dancy driven pop vibe; plug in your bike for the 10 Minute Pedal Powered Dance Parties; poly-genre musicians The Embers; bringing the party wherever they play The Lawless Quartet; children of surf punk and garage spaghetti The 88’s; cheeky electric-folk producers The Original Cutouts and rounding it all out they have seven-piece folk band Thieves.
Falls Festival 2012 Lineup
MAIN PROGRAM: Angus Stone, Ash Grunwald, Ball Park Music, Beach House, Bertie Blackman, Best Coast, Bombay Bicycle Club, Boy & Bear, Coolio, Cosmo Jarvis, DJ Nu Mark Toy Set, Django Django, First Aid Kit, Hilltop Hoods, Hot Chip, Jaguar Skills, Jinja Safari, Lisa Mitchell, Loon Lake, Matt Corby, Maxïmo Park, Millions, Oh Mercy, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Sampology Presents A Falls Anniversary Live AV Show, San Cisco, SBTRKT Live, Sharon Van Etten, The Flaming Lips, The Hives , The Jungle Giants, The Vaccines, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Two Door Cinema Club.
LORNE ONLY: Airwolf, Ajax, Alison Wonderland, Bleeding Knees Club, Cactus Channel, Cassian, Cub Scouts, Daniel Champagne, DZ Deathrays, Elizabeth Rose, Flume, Fraser A. Gorman, Grey Ghost, Howlin’ Steam Train, Husky, Indian Summer DJs, Jen Tutty & Katie Drover, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Miami Horror DJs, Parachute Youth, Peking Duk, Regular John, The Rechords, The Trouble With Templeton, Tinpan Orange, Soccer Mum DJs, Willis Earl Beal, World’s End Press.
BOOGIE NIGHTS: Anna Lumb and DJ Lazer Ferrari, Chris Gill & Mohair Slim L, DJ Manchild & Russ Dewbury M, Furnace & the Fundamentals, Legs Akimbo, Muscles L, The Bamboos L & MP, The Cuban Brothers.
COMEDY: Felicity Ward, Jason Byrne L, Luke Heggie, Matt OKine, Nazeem Hussain, Ronny Chieng, Sammy J & Randy.
Falls Festival 2012 Dates & Tickets
Dec 29 – Jan 1 in Marion Bay, Tasmania. All ages. Tickets still available here.
Dec 28 – Jan 1 in Lorne, Victoria. 18+ event. SOLD OUT
Check fallsfestival.com for full details.
