Music News: Falls Festival 2008

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*UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 9th*

Just a quick note to let you know that The Falls Festival (Lorne, Victoria) is now completely SOLD OUT.

Tickets are still available (there are only a couple of thousand left so people will need to be quick) for The Falls Festival in Marion Bay (Tasmania).

Having allocated 80% of this years tickets to subscribers The Falls organisers saw the vast majority of tickets snapped in a matter of minutes.

Keeping in line with The Falls Festivals green sensibilities, the festival is again working alongside GreenTix and Greening Australia to ensure that with each ticket sold, a tree will be planted.

Festival founding director, Simon Daly, is happy with the result in Lorne saying "The response to the festival this year is in line with previous years and shows that the diverse programming and unique location is as popular as ever."

"Our best kept secret is still the event in beautiful Marion Bay." There are currently a couple of thousand tickets still available for the Tasmanian event.

Once again, the number of people vying for tickets in Lorne outnumbered the amount of tickets available. Daly stated that "We wish everyone could come and join us, but our event is uniquely small so that those that come can enjoy the intimate nature of the festival."

With an exciting line-up of international and national acts alongside entertainment in The Falls Arts Village running throughout the event (and with many more acts still to be announced), it is set to be a fun-filled summer-sojourn.

If you are still keen to secure tickets (and why not - it actually works out cheaper to fly to Tassie than pay the petrol prices to Lorne) go to www.fallfestival.com and follow the links.

For the first time in Marion Bay, the folk at Falls present "The Falls Funk’n’Soul Revue". It's rumoured 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.

Both Marion Bay and Lorne will be joined for the rest of the fest by the likes of:

• Franz Ferdinand (UK)

• The Hives (Sweden)

• Santogold * (USA)

• Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings (USA)

• Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed & The True Loves (USA)

• The Cat Empire

• The Kooks (UK)

• The Grates; Gomez (UK)

• Tegan & Sara (Canada)

• Fleet Foxes (USA)

• Blue King Brown

• Faker

• Augie March *

• SoKo (France)

• Donavon Frankenreiter (USA)

• Ash Grunwald

• Jamie Lidell (UK)

• TZU

• Mystery Jets (UK)

• Architecture in Helsinki

• Cut Off Your Hands (NZ)

• Atmosphere featuring Brother Ali (USA)

• The Cribs * (UK)

• Late Of The Pier(UK)

• The Drones

• The Dodos (USA)

• A-Trak (Canada)

• Rocket Science *

• Wolf & Cub

• Liam Finn (NZ)

• British India *

• Labjacd * & Tinpan Orange *

• Lykke Li (Sweden)

• CW Stoneking & the Primitive Horn Orchestra

• South Rakkas Crew * (USA)

• Tame Impala

• Grafton Primary

• MURS (USA)

• Violent Soho; Laura Jean & the Eden Land Band *

• Mamadou Diabate (Mali)

• Kat Frankie *

• The Barons of Tang *

• Dash & Will

• Skipping Girl Vinegar *

with more to be announced.... (*Lorne, Vic only) 

The three day picnic begins on December 29th, 2008 along the beautiful coastlines of Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay,  Tasmania as it celebrates its sweet 16th birthday in Vic and its 6th year running in Tas.

Tickets: There are limited full festival tickets available, plus a capped amount of two day tickets, check website for details. We’ll be emailing lucky ticket ballot subscribers their purchase tokens from September 1st - so check your inbox. All remaining tickets go on sale 9am September 9th.

* (denotes acts also playing Tas; all others playing Lorne on the 29th Dec only)

More Info: www.fallsfestival.com