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right Snout playing at the 2001 Falls FestivalThe Falls Festival is a New Years Eve music festival, held annually in Australia since 1993-94.
It lasts three days, from December 30 to January 1 each year. The headline acts play over two evenings, December 30 and December 31.
The festival started in 1993 with a small one day concert, held in Lorne, Victoria, then known as Rock Above The Falls. It attracted nearly 11,000 people, far exceeding the organisers expectations, requiring them to quickly negotiate with neighboring farmers for the use of their land to accommodate the crowd.
In 1995 the event changed to a two day format, and in 1996 the name was changed to the Falls Festival for the first time.
In 2003, two events were held at the same time; one in Lorne, and an additional event at Marion Bay, Tasmania. The same acts played at both events; the December 30 acts who played at Lorne, play December 31 at Marion Bay, and vice versa.
Due to the length of the event, groups of people often bring a tent and camp out at the event; both locations have nearby beaches.
Many artists playing at the Falls Festival are traditionally of the blues & roots genre, however it is not exclusively of this style, with rock, punk and electronic style acts also playing. Performers at the 2003-04 event include Australian artists Xavier Rudd, The Beautiful Girls , Gerling, Regurgitator and The Waifs; and international acts Michael Franti and SpearheadA spearhead is the head of a spear. Early spearheads were made of rock or bone; more effective spearheads are fashioned of metal. Spearhead can be used as a verb to describe aggressive leadership of an effort, such as the ratification of a law, the advanc, PennywisePennywise is an American punk band, formed in 1987; the name comes from a Stephen King horror novel, It in which Pennywise the Dancing Clown ( Bob Gray) is a monster. In 1989 the band its original incarnation, the band consisted of Jim Lindberg (vocals),, Reel Big FishCoast to Coast Roast show 2004. Reel Big Fish is a southern California ska- punk band who broke into the mainstream in the mid to late 1990s after the success of No Doubt and Sublime. Reel Big Fish is now more well known, but not quite mainstream in the U, and OzomatliOzomatli is a Latin funk/ worldbeat/ rock en espanol group, formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, known as much for their extremely vocal activist viewpoints as their huge array of musical styles. Ozomatli is named after the Nahuatl name for the monkey astrologi. Like many Australian festivals, the event also promotes local bands, with many Victorian and Tasmanian artists also performing at their respective state's festival.
The upcoming 2004 festival will again be at both venues. Artists performing include:
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- SpiderbaitSpiderbait is an Australian rock band who have had two top ten albums and another three albums reach the Australian top 40. Their song "Buy Me a Pony" was number one on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 1996. Early years The three band members Mark Maher or "K
- Missy HigginsMissy Higgins (born Melissa Higgins on August 19, 1983) is an Australian singer-songwriter living in Melbourne. Her professional music career began in mid- 2001 while she was still at high-school, when she won the Triple J Victoria Unearthed' competition
- Hilltop Hoods
- Rocket Science
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