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Sep 10, 2008

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Santogold and Violent Soho added to Southbound and Falls Festivals

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Sharon Jones. Image via Losanjealous.

Southbound Festival is ANOTHER summer time festival. This one is taking place at a lovely place called Busselton in Western Australia on January 2nd and 3rd.

The second round of artists who will be attending the festival (and also performing!) has now been announced:

  • Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
  • Santogold
  • Violent Soho
  • Cut Off Your Hands
  • Tame Impala
  • Blue King Brown
  • Bliss N Eso
  • The Cribs
  • Late Of The Pier
  • Lykke Li
  • Murs
  • South Rakkas Crew
  • CW Stoneking
  • Ash Grunwald
  • Grafton Primary
  • Dash And Will
  • Drapht
  • The Autumn Isles
  • End Of Fashion

Update: these acts have also been added to the SOLD OUT Falls Festival shows over New Years Eve.

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These new acts join the existing list of: Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, The Kooks, The Cat Empire, Gomez, Pete Murray, Tegan and Sara, The Grates, Architecture In Helsinki, Donavon Frankenreiter, Atmosphere featuring Brother Ali, Faker, Birds Of Tokyo, Eli 'Paperboy' Reed And The True Loves, Jamie Lidell, Liam Finn, Karnivool, The Drones, TZU, Mystery Jets, Soko, A-Trak and Wolf & Cub.

Those that entered the ballot for Southbound should have already been notified whether or not they were successful in 'winning' tickets. Tickets for the general public (gen pop) go on sale next Monday, September 15 via the festival's website.

A full break down of the different tickets and prices is available HERE. The organisers are also giving folks the option to purchase tickets for just a single day of 'da action', a feature which is made even more useful with the existence of this list of who will be playing on each day.

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