We know how stressful this time of year can be, what with the obligatory family gatherings, staggering financial commitments and, of course, weeding out those festival clashes. Well, Falls Music and Arts Festival has just delivered their official schedules for 2016/17 just in time to help ease this end of year burden.

As one of the largest New Year blowouts on offer, Falls has brought the goods once again with a staunch line-up featuring some top local and international acts that will storm the stage in Byron Bay, Lorne, Marion Bay and Fremantle.

Each program has been remarkably planned out to avoid any major clashes. Although, there will no doubt still be some tough decisions to be made along the way. For the main event, the countdown to 2017, lucky punters get to groove with Childish Gambino, while The Avalanches check out in Lorne, and Violent Soho in Marion Bay. With multiple stages over multiple days there is a lot to take in, so if it’s all a bit too much or you just can’t find a highlighter anywhere, you can download the app for iPhone and Android which will do all the thinking for you.

Check out the full playing times and maps below and get cracking, it’s only two weeks away!


Byron Bay

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Lorne

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Marion Bay

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Fremantle

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Maps:
Byron Bay
Lorne
Marion Bay
Fremantle

Read up on your complete Falls Festival prep guide:

First and Second Lineup Announcements
Falls Festival 2k16 Survival Guide
Ten Acts To See
Falls Festival 2016 Arts Program

Top image: Supplied

New Years events Falls Festival and Southbound are already boasting fattened-up lineups, including Foals, Bloc Party, Disclosure, Kurt Vile, Mac Demarco, and Courtney Barnett. Now, they’ve added even more names to the mammoth lineup – just in case you hadn’t been convinced to buy a ticket just yet.

The new recruits are led by 18 year-old Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson – aka Soak – who’ll be touring her debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream.

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She’s joined by Splendour in the Grass act, Swedish singer and rapper Elliphant.

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Plus one of 2015’s breakout acts Jarryd James, whose debut album due in September will feature the singles Do You Remember and Give Me Something.

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Tired of music? Over on the comedy stage you’ll also be able to catch sets from the newly announced lineup additions Nazeem Hussain, Randy (the felt-faced puppet), Adam Rozenbachs, Nick Cody, Becky Lucas and Tien Tran.

General Ticket Sales today for Falls with all ticket types still available for the Lorne, Marion Bay and Byron. Southbound on sale now. Tickets for Falls here. Tickets for Southbound here.

Falls and Southbound 2015/16 lineups:

  • Soak
  • Elliphant
  • Jarryd James

Joining:

  • Alpine
  • The Avener
  • Birds Of Tokyo
  • Bloc Party
  • Børns
  • Courtney Barnett
  • Disclosure
  • Django Django
  • Foals
  • Gang Of Youths
  • Gary Clark Jr
  • Halsey
  • Hiatus Kaiyote
  • Hilltop Hoods
  • King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
  • Kurt Vile And The Violators
  • Little May
  • The Maccabees
  • Mac Demarco
  • Meg Mac
  • Oh Wonder
  • Paul Kelly & Merri Soul Sessions Featuring Clairy Browne, Dan Sultan, Kira Piru, Vika & Linda Bull
  • Rufus
  • Seth Sentry
  • Toro Y Moi
  • Weird Al’ Yankovic (Southbound only)
  • Young Fathers
  • + More to be announced

Head to the official website for more details

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Sydney’s Field Day festival kicked in the New Year with a record number of drug-related arrests.

The popular New Years Day festival attracted over 24,500 attendees with 214 people arrested for taking drugs into Field Day. According to police, this is a 50 percent increase on arrests since last year’s festival and the highest number of drug-related arrests at a one day festival in the country.

Police say the high number of arrests was largely due to a drug-sniffing K-9 unit.

“The drug-dog operation this year resulted in the most arrests police have made in the history of the festival, which is extremely concerning and shows that some attendees are still not getting the message,” Sydney’s Chief Inspector, Stuart Bell told ABC News.

According to police, a variety of drugs were seized on the day, including ecstasy, cannabis, cocaine, LSD, ice and amphetamines.

Just the day before Field Day, a 26-year-old man died at the Falls Music and Arts Festival in Byron Bay. NSW Police are treating his death as “non-suspicious,” and declined to comment on the cause of his death until an autopsy is conducted.

On the same day, 63 people were arrested at the BW Summer Festival in New Zealand after a small group of males sparked off a riot.

The future of BW, New Zealand’s “premier beachside camping festival,” is now in jeopardy.

83 people were injured during the incident after beer cans, and tents poles were thrown. Vehicles were also overturned and tents set alight during the riot. Seven people were hospitalised.