Falls Festival Drops Second-Round Line-Up Announcement

The Falls Music & Arts Festival continues to take shape, with organisers today announcing the annual event's second round of acts filling out its already impressive line-up, led by the likes of Ásgeir and Dan Sultan, with Lorne and Byron's events also picking up appearances from Cloud Control, Washington, Kingswood, The Art Of Sleeping, and many more. 

Ascendant Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir not all that long ago departed Australia following a wildly received performance at July's Splendour In The Grass festival, a sold-out Sydney sideshow, and a breathtaking performance under Sydney Harbour Bridge. His recent single King And Cross, from his acclaimed debut full-length In The Silence, has received generous airplay love and done much to make his return Down Under this December one of the most eagerly awaited occurrences of the next few months.

Lauded troubadour Dan Sultan is a man who should need very little introduction by this point — his recent LP Blackbird has been a constant fixture of independent charts since its release and his collaboration with Paul Kelly on the latter's Murri Soul Sessions release have ensured he has remained firmly in the public eye. His recent NIMA win and performance, too, have helped to further solidify Sultan's place as one of the country's premier Indigenous musicians — and one of its finest artists full-stop.

Blue Mountains-bred four-piece Cloud Control are, similarly, no strangers to our ears, having re-asserted themselves as a musical force with which to be reckoned, with 2013 LP Dream Cave added to many a year-end list last December. It seems fitting, then, that a year later they should find themselves fronting such an inherently celebratory festival, because Cloud Control are a band that practically invite you to rejoice in life with them.

Melburnian rock workhorses Kingswood are in the midst of riding a pretty damn impressive wave, having stepped out at #6 on the ARIA albums chart with their debut LP Microscopic Wars at the weekend, and completed a national tour earlier in the year after kicking off 2014 where they're going to finish it — on a festival stage. Granted, that was the Big Day Out — and Kingswood have only become a better, stronger band in the time since, so even if you've caught them this year, you'd be well served by doing so again before it's over.

Further rounding out the roster of acts will be Fishing, Northeast Party House, and Thelma Plum, with a Lorne-exclusive performance from Charlotte OC, a 23-year-old Blackburn-born singer who has already recorded and produced a track in Los freaking Angeles, and begun turning heads among soul/Motown aficionados here and abroad. 

Also adding to the attractions will be DJ Woody presenting Hip Hop Is 40 as part of the Boogie Nights line-up (December 28 in Lorne, 29 in Marion Bay and 31 in Byron), as will Californian producer DJ Fletch. Meanwhile, if you want to become a master of the dance appropriated and made infamous by Miley Cyrus, then Melbourne' Twerkshop will give you all the skills you need to be a booty-shaking, calorie-burning powerhouse.

It's not just about the music at Falls, either, with plenty of comedy on tap to keep your sides in peril of splitting — new jesters to join the circus include Queenslander Harley Breen, 2005 Raw Comedy runner-up Tommy Dassalo, Melburnian worry-wart Luke McGregor, adopted Kiwi Urzila Carlson, former pot addict Daniel Townes, and the widely acclaimed Damien Power. Something for everyone!

If all these names are helping to get your lips smacking — not to mention the fact they join previously announced acts such as Alt-J, Bluejuice, Cold War Kids, DMA's, Jagwar Ma, Spiderbait and many others —  then you'll be stoked to know that you don't have to wait too much longer to have your crack at tickets — with last week's ballot sales done and dusted (and Lorne going in record time), the remaining general-release passes will be up for sale from 9am AEST tomorrow, September 3.

See our dedicated Falls page for more information about specific venues, dates, and ticketing details.