Falls Festival 2013/14 Lineup Announced

The lineup for everyone's favourite New Year's Eve party has just landed, and it's a doozy.

Way back in 1993, a tiny one-day concert was held in Lorne, a beautiful coastal town on Victoria's Great Ocean Road. Over 10,000 people showed up, far more than were expected, and a great Australian tradition was borne. In 2003 the festival (now known as Falls) celebrated hitting the big 1-0 by spreading its wings and setting up across the Bass Strait in Marion Bay; and now, to celebrate their 20th instalment, the Falls team are bringing the New Year party to Byron Bay for the first time.

And they will be celebrating in style with the greatest house band in the world, The Roots, who haven't played in Australia since the Great Escape festival (RIP) in Sydney in 2007. They always bring the party, and we should thank Jimmy Fallon for lending them to us even if just for the weekend.

The other headliners include festival favourites The Wombats, the always-interesting Grizzly Bear, 2013 Album of the Year contenders Vampire Weekend, R&B star Solange and The Violent Femmes. And there's an excellent contingent of local acts, too, including Hermitude, Pond, Chet Faker and Big Scary.

Tickets will be allocated via a ballot, which is currently open via the Falls website. Registrations close on midday, August 26. Ballot-winners will be able to purchase up to four tickets from August 29, 9am. There will also be an allocation of tickets set aside for general sales starting on September 4, 9am. Prices will be released soon.

Falls Festival first announce line-up:

!! (Chk Chk Chk)
Asta
Big Scary
Bombino
Bonobo
The Cat Empire
Chet Faker
Crystal Fighters
Cyril Hahn
Flight Facilities
Gossling
Grizzly Bear
Hanni El Khatib
Hermitude
James Vincent Mcmorrow
London Grammar
MGMT
Neil Finn
Pond
The Preatures 
The Roots
Rüfüs
Solange
Tom Odell 
Vampire Weekend
Violent Femmes
White Denim
The Wombats

Event dates:

Lorne, Victoria (18-plus): December 28–January 1
Marion Bay, TAS (all-ages): December 29-January 1
Byron Bay, NSW (18-plus): December 31–Jan 3