Having already hinted that they’d be up for doing “something crazy” with fellow Falls Festival band Pond, MGMT are now offering something really crazy for fans of the psychedelic rockers; the chance to play with them live on stage at the New Year’s festival.
After releasing their self-titled third album this past September, the US duo are rounding out their year by returning to Australia to play all three legs of the Falls Festival, and the band are offering a rare onstage slot to one festival-goer to perform the band’s newest single ‘Your Life Is A Lie’ in a zany manner befitting of one of the year’s strangest music videos.
Not only will the lucky ticket-holder be the envy of fans, but they’ll be placed in an instrumental role that would satisfy even Christopher ‘Needs More Cowbell’ Walken, joining MGMT onstage to “wield a giant drumstick, punctuating each 4/4 bar with an almighty clonk” on an oversized cowbell “that looks like it would be more at home hanging round the neck of Godzilla,” in the words of the Falls Festival team.
So how do you earn the right to fulfil the cowbell-starring role? By winning the ‘Best Dressed’ competition at the Falls Festival Boogie Nights event, hosted at the opening of the festival at each leg, with the fanciest dress of this year’s ‘Intergalactic’ theme being the would-be muso that finds themselves onstage with MGMT.
If you’re looking for inspiration, avoid the obvious Beastie Boys tribute and go diving into the wacky ‘Your Life Is A Lie’ music video and its two minutes worth of insane visuals.
The MGMT competition follows on from the Falls Festival 2013 lineup expanding with more bands (including John Steel Singers replacing Hungry Kids Of Hungary following announcing their split), along with announcing the full arts and comedy programs for all three legs of the festival, including the sold out Lorne and Byron Bay events with tickets still available to the Award-winning Tasmanian leg in Marion Bay.
View the full Falls Festival 2013 Lineup below, along with the Boogie Nights Best Dressed MGMT Competition times.
Falls Festival 2013 Boogie Nights
Lorne: Dec 28 Grand Theatre, 6.20pm
Marion Bay: Dec 29 Tent Stage 6.30pm
Byron: Dec 31 Amphitheatre Stage 6.10pm
Falls Festival 2013 Full Lineup
MAIN PROGRAM: !!! (CHK CHK CHK), ASTA, BIG SCARY, BOMBINO, BONOBO, THE CAT EMPIRE, CHET FAKER, CRYSTAL FIGHTERS, CYRIL HAHN, EMMA LOUISE, FLIGHT FACILITIES, GOSSLING, GRIZZLY BEAR, HANNI EL KHATIB, HERMITUDE, HORRORSHOW, JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW, THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS, JOHNNY MARR, LONDON GRAMMAR, MGMT, NEIL FINN, OLIVER TANK, THE PAPER KITES, POND, THE PREATURES, THE ROOTS, THE RUBENS, RUFUS, SOLANGE, THUNDAMENTALS, TOM ODELL, VAMPIRE WEEKEND, VIOLENT FEMMES, VIOLENT SOHO, THE WAR ON DRUGS, WHITE DENIM, THE WOMBATS.
BOOGIE NIGHTS: CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES, THE CORRESPONDENTS, HOT DUB TIME MACHINE, LATE NITE TUFF GUY, LEGS AKIMBO, MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO, TOM THUM.
COMEDY: AMOS GILL, DAVE CALLAN, DAVID QUIRK, MICHAEL HING, NATH VALVO, RONNY CHIENG.
LORNE (L) & BYRON (B) & MARION BAY (M) ONLY:
ANNA LUNOE (L,B), BORN RUFFIANS (L,B), CHASE CITY (M), CITIZEN KAY (L), CUB SPORT (B), DAPPLED CITIES (L), THE DELTA RIGGS (L), DUSTIN TEBBUTT (L), EGO (L), GENERIK (L), THE HABITS (M), HIATUS KAIYOTE (L), JACKIE ONASSIS (L), THE KITE STRING TANGLE (B), LITTLE BASTARD (L), LULU AND THE PAIGE-TURNERS (M), LUNATICS ON POGOSTICKS (B), M4SONIC (L), MEG MAC (L), THE MIDDLE NAMES (M), MOTORIK VIBE COUNCIL (L), THE MURLOCS (L), MUSTERED COURAGE (L), OWL EYES (L), PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND (L), POTATO POTATO (B), QUESTLOVE DJ SET (B), REMI (L), SMITH STREET BAND (L), TOUCH SENSITIVE (L,B), TWINSY (L), TYLER TOUCHE (L,B) VYDAMO (L), WAVE RACER (L,B), WILLOW BEATS (L), WOLF & CUB (L).
Falls Festival 2013 The Village Arts Program
LORNE, VIC:
A Moment in Time, Amanita, Baba Yaga Orkestar, Beauty Parlour, Bike Powered Games, The Biscuit Readings, Bohjass Upas Militia, The Burnt Sausages, Coral Lee and the Silver Scream, Crystal and The Wanninashvilles, DJ Lovely Clearwaters’ Bike Powered Ten Minute Dance Parties, DJ NIGHTWRK, Empat Lima, Exhale (Gravity & Other Myths), Falls’ hip-hop yoga, Feed Your Family: A pop-up playground game, Geryon, The Harpoons, High Striker, Karaoke Falls, Larry Bang Bang, Larry’s Tattoo Show, Lessons with Luis, Liam Power, Magical Entertainer, Mangelwurzel, Mona Povey, The Red Brigade, Richie 1250 & The Brides of Christ, So You Think You Can Interpretive Dance, Snorkellarama by Kinetic Theatre, Tina Del Twist, Victoriana Gaye, Xavier Michelides.
MARION BAY, TAS:
After Dark, All of the Things!, Alan Gogoll, Anthony Morgan, BJ Morriszonkle, Camp Cheveux Hair Salon, Cicada, Clubhouse Comedy, The D&M Music Experience, Danger Academy, Danger and Mayhem Swing Out!, Dr. Professor Neal Portenza, Emlyns, Enola Fall, Fleasha’s Fantastic Flea Circus, Georgia Lucy, Group Noise, Heloise, The Impossible No Goods, Joseph Joseph, Joel Tito, King Cake, The Lawless Quartet, Made For Chickens By Robots, Maharaja’s Choice, Mieke Lizotte, Miss Friby’s Den of Iniquity, NICA’s The Right Mix, Nicholas Osborn, Peter Bibby, PGC, The Raccoons, Rose Ottavi-Kokkoris, Salty Serge, So You Think You Can Interpretive Dance, The Surreal Estate Agents, Sweet Country Jam, Ten Minute Dance parties, Tiger Choir, Transylvanian Gypsy Kings, VARDOS.
BYRON, NSW:
Bollywood Sisters, The Button Collective, CabilWoolfzinger, The Captain Syphilis Experience, The Cassettes, Dangling My Tootsies – Songs of Weimar Berlin by Annie Lee, Deya Dova, Die RotenPunkte (The Red Dots) – Otto & Astrid Rot, Dr. Seth Greengil, Hussy Hicks, Ilona Harker, Invisible Friend, Jimmy Willing presents: Bring On The Dancing Girls, Joel Salom, Juzzie Smith, Kimberley McIntyre, The Lab, Laura-Doe’s Vaudeville of the Vulva, The Lollipop Ladies, Miss Belle Benét, Mr Speaker and the People Party, The mysterious case of Ms Mae Wilde’s identity crisis, Porcelain Punch, Rapskallion, Reilly Fitzalan, Safety First, Sistagurl, Shep Huntly, Shiny Shiny, The Slow Show, So You Think You Can Interpretive Dance, Suzy Leigh, Ten Minute Dance Parties, The Tiniest Circus with the Biggest Heart!, Wacko and Blotto, Willow Beats.
