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Seymour

Saw Franz at glasto, new stuff is exciting in that boring-franz-ferdinand kinda way...but well psyched for W&C I hear the new stuff sounds much more wicked live.

Posted at 20:22 on Wednesday, August 13, 2008.

mike(punch)

meh... looks pretty underwhelming to me.

Posted at 22:33 on Wednesday, August 13, 2008.

mike(punch)

you mean scandinadians?

Posted at 19:49 on Thursday, August 14, 2008.

Aaaaron

I'm actually thinking about going to this. I went to Falls back in 2002 and it was a good festival. Plus I doubt I will be doing anything exciting for NYE up here in Sydney.

Any others thinking they may head down.

Posted at 21:31 on Thursday, August 14, 2008.

tomosushi

Speaking of....did anybody read www.themusic.com.au this week...

it's a shame we only got quotes, but at least "Splendour in Disguise" made the cut. catchy.

Byron Bay festivals brawl…

The re-entry into Byron Bay of the Byron Arts & Music Festival in early January has caused a ruckus. It is run by the same people who ran it in 1994, 1995 and 1996, but with input this year from the promoters of the Victorian/Tasmanian Falls Festival.

Peter Noble of the Bluesfest has given a spray on two counts. One is that the date contravenes a pact made between event presenters, the Byron council, tourist and commercial associations that no event be held there in the first two weeks of January. The reason is that it’s the height of tourism season and Byron Bay won’t be able to cope with a large event.

Noble told the BA&M organizers they “have misrepresented to our shire what the Byron Bay Arts & Music Festival is really about - it is basically a hybrid between Splendour In The Grass and Bluesfest, featuring both festivals’ younger elements, and will be appealing directly to the youth of our country at a time when our town simply cannot accommodate them or receive their exuberance without great discomfort to our community and risk of national negative media exposure, which is the reason the Accord was enacted in the first place. People are already calling the event Splendour In Disguise within the wider music community.”

Secondly, Noble says he’s concerned about reports that organisers of the event have demanded that acts must play their event if they want to be considered for the two Falls Festivals. He says that would be contravening Trades Practices regulations.

Simon Daly of the Falls Festival denies this, saying, “There is absolutely no breach of law or ethics and you have misrepresented both the way we book artists and the response of those artists to our offers. It is as simple and as similar as a single tour offer incorporating multiple venues, a circumstance which occurs constantly in cases of local promoters bringing out internationals, the Big Day Out national tour and, indeed, the Blues Festival line-up appearing at multiple festival venues throughout Australia. A far more questionable practice (which we certainly do not engage in) would be to tell bands that if they perform at one festival they will be blacklisted from playing at a certain other festival ever again. Now, that would be restraint of trade. I can confirm without reservation that we have done nothing at all to prevent artists from appearing at the Blues Festival.”

Daly adds, “There has been no attempt to try to hide the involvement of The Falls Festival, which is widely accepted to be a good thing. The nature of the Byron event (and the organisers) is what attracted my interest in it, and the following is my understanding of the event: the festival is half the size of the Blues Fest and Splendour; it is midweek in early Jan and designed as a boutique festival that will be enjoyed as much by locals as by those visiting Byron at that time; it will make a much needed financial, social and cultural contribution to the Byron Bay community; all council procedures have been respected and adhered to in the application process.”

Posted at 15:42 on Friday, August 15, 2008.

kidkym

So the second lineup is this?

Fleet Foxes Augie March Ash Grunwald The Cribs Late Of The Pier Rocket Science British India TinPan Orange

Late Of The Pier, woo.

Posted at 23:28 on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.

festychesty

this is a pretty decent line up, nothing outstanding, but there all good. There is a new line up that has VIOLENT SOHO. They are realllly goood! theres also heaps of other good bands but they are only going to lorne eg, Art vs Science, British India & The Cribs :( It will still be good though... does anyone know if there is another line up coming out??

Posted at 14:07 on Sunday, September 21, 2008.

kidkym

I saw some Falls tickets on eBay, but they were advertised with cds. "The Grates CD + free Falls ticket" $450. It made me ponder whether these people actually went out to buy a Grates cd to include in the package? Oh here is a really expensive one.

Posted at 22:12 on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.

mike(punch)

looks to me like they are getting around ebay restrictions on selling tickets by selling the dvd and "throwing in" the tickets for "free".

"Franz DVD + 2 BONUS 3 Day LORNE FALLS FESTIVAL TICKETS"

Posted at 23:04 on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.

mike(punch)

umm. yes. really. sorry, didn't realise that was your actual point. i'm a bit slow.

Posted at 23:35 on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.