Official Falls Festival Thread

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$6 each. Regardless of what it is.

 

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$6 each. Regardless of what it is.

Ah well thats what your paying for them at most pubs/clubs and other major events these days.


Its ridiculous, but ill still pay it.

 

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I probably will too but it'll be beer for me mostly.

Most looking forward to Saul Williams, the Mountain goats, Michael Franti, Vasco Era, Modest Mouse and Hilltop Hoods.

 

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Well its almost here now, and Im leaving at 10am tomorrow, better get packing soon.

For me im looking foward to Scribe, Eskimo Joe, Wolfmother, Hilltop and AKMALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the most.

Also we have come up with some innovative ways to sneak in some alcohol, which I wont tell just yet.

 

[Marklar_33]

Im leaving at 6 a.m. from Launnie, spend the morn in Hobart and then head in

SEE YOU ALL TOMORROW!

 

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Yep almost time except I'm not doing Fab Friday.

Leaving Ulvie at 630 on Saturday.

Looking forward to Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, Wolfmother, Hilltops and Franti.

 

[Gridlock'd]

Well I just got home and what a fantastic 3 days ive had.

Rocked up at about 11 on Friday, got an ideal camp site in between the two stages.

The weather was superb, not too hot, no rain, although I did get sun burnt on Friday.

I spent alot of my time at the camp site, playing cards and downing beer bongs, but of the bands I saw Wolfmother, JBT, Hilltop and Eskimo Joe were the obvious stand outs, however I have to say that Michael Franti was my favourite. I have to admit that I dont know much about Franti and was a bit unsure about him having the New Years stint, but this guy is unbelievably ********en awesome. Great sounds, great vibes, great crowed participation, sensational way to bring in the new year.

On a side note, how easy was it to bring alcohol in? A mate of mine brought 5cartons in. Although I beleived I hid my alcohol well, I was dismayed to find a bottle of Jim Beam just sitting out in the wide open spaces of the back seat for all to see. The chick didnt even check. Too easy. Pure scare tactics by the Falls Organisers I say.

Anyway enough of my carrying on, to sum up, it was a bloody good time. I now need to go have a shower and change my underpants haha.

 

[Mattlowry]

Woooot.. What an awesome 2 days for me. It was amazingly easy to get grog in for Lorne too... We had ours very well hidden but this was what the chick said to us "We dont give a ******** if you have booze, but do you have any booze in glass bottles? We can give you plastic bottles to pour it in, we just dont want glass" Of course we said no and drove on.

The lines to get in and out were fairly ******** but oh well suppose more time u can hang with ur mates.

I didnt really go to the stages during the afternoon for either day which was abit dissapointing upon reflection.

My Rankings for the weekend

1. Michael Franti. I like him but wasnt even in my top 5 favourite artists coming into falls. He certainly has been bumped up a bit now though. Has amazing presence, absolutely psyches the crowd up beyond belief. Loved every second of the act.

2. Wolfmother. I love there music, which is why i put them so high, plus it was NYE which made it better too. Singing Teenage Wasteland with You Am I was amazing though. I think by themselves they lack a bit of stage presence. They are lucky that everyone knows who they are, so the crowd really psyches themselves up.

3. Vasco Era. I liked these guys coming into falls but damn they were amazing live. Most of the crowd barely knew who they were and they still loved em. Great set.

Honorable mentions go to You Am I, John Butler Trio and The Bees. I also quite enjoyed Scribes post new years set. The 'House party' on stage was awesome.

For me i was a bit dissapointed with Modest Mouse. I love there music but there set was a bit boring for me.

 

[Gridlock'd]

Woooot.. What an awesome 2 days for me. It was amazingly easy to get grog in for Lorne too... We had ours very well hidden but this was what the chick said to us "We dont give a ******** if you have booze, but do you have any booze in glass bottles? We can give you plastic bottles to pour it in, we just dont want glass" Of course we said no and drove on.

The lines to get in and out were fairly ******** but oh well suppose more time u can hang with ur mates.

I didnt really go to the stages during the afternoon for either day which was abit dissapointing upon reflection.

My Rankings for the weekend

1. Michael Franti. I like him but wasnt even in my top 5 favourite artists coming into falls. He certainly has been bumped up a bit now though. Has amazing presence, absolutely psyches the crowd up beyond belief. Loved every second of the act.

2. Wolfmother. I love there music, which is why i put them so high, plus it was NYE which made it better too. Singing Teenage Wasteland with You Am I was amazing though. I think by themselves they lack a bit of stage presence. They are lucky that everyone knows who they are, so the crowd really psyches themselves up.

3. Vasco Era. I liked these guys coming into falls but damn they were amazing live. Most of the crowd barely knew who they were and they still loved em. Great set.

Honorable mentions go to You Am I, John Butler Trio and The Bees. I also quite enjoyed Scribes post new years set. The 'House party' on stage was awesome.

For me i was a bit dissapointed with Modest Mouse. I love there music but there set was a bit boring for me.

JBT was awesome as usual.

I dont know how he was in Lorne, but the lead singer from the Bees had lost his voice, so it was a bit weak, but the rendition of Chicken Payback was still awesome.

Scribe was an interesting one. I love his music, but there was something missing about his performance for me. Maybe just because he was the only one on stage, needed someone to rap with. However, his rendition of 2 Pac's California, some Snoop/Dre songs, plus his own Not Many and Stop the Music got the crowed pumping. Another positive about Scribe was his crowed participation he really got the crowed involved with him, either by singing his songs, or doing chants etc.

 

[Marklar_33]

Well I just got home and what a fantastic 3 days ive had.

Rocked up at about 11 on Friday, got an ideal camp site in between the two stages.

The weather was superb, not too hot, no rain, although I did get sun burnt on Friday.

I spent alot of my time at the camp site, playing cards and downing beer bongs, but of the bands I saw Wolfmother, JBT, Hilltop and Eskimo Joe were the obvious stand outs, however I have to say that Michael Franti was my favourite. I have to admit that I dont know much about Franti and was a bit unsure about him having the New Years stint, but this guy is unbelievably ********en awesome. Great sounds, great vibes, great crowed participation, sensational way to bring in the new year.

On a side note, how easy was it to bring alcohol in? A mate of mine brought 5cartons in. Although I beleived I hid my alcohol well, I was dismayed to find a bottle of Jim Beam just sitting out in the wide open spaces of the back seat for all to see. The chick didnt even check. Too easy. Pure scare tactics by the Falls Organisers I say.

Anyway enough of my carrying on, to sum up, it was a bloody good time. I now need to go have a shower and change my underpants haha.

I got in around the same time Friday, perfect camping spot hey?

Highlights for me were Hoods and the Mother, big lowlight was the short Eskimo Joe set, and the wind haha

 

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I got in around the same time Friday, perfect camping spot hey?

Highlights for me were Hoods and the Mother, big lowlight was the short Eskimo Joe set, and the wind haha

Awesome spot.

Way better than the spot those poor buggers had down woop woop about 50km from the main stage. Haha and sucked in to those guys camped on that dirty great hill I bet they had a great sleep.

Oh how about the ass and tittes? Some fine lookin ladies there.

 

[Mattlowry]

JBT was awesome as usual.

I dont know how he was in Lorne, but the lead singer from the Bees had lost his voice, so it was a bit weak, but the rendition of Chicken Payback was still awesome.

Scribe was an interesting one. I love his music, but there was something missing about his performance for me. Maybe just because he was the only one on stage, needed someone to rap with. However, his rendition of 2 Pac's California, some Snoop/Dre songs, plus his own Not Many and Stop the Music got the crowed pumping. Another positive about Scribe was his crowed participation he really got the crowed involved with him, either by singing his songs, or doing chants etc.

Yes the lead singer of the bees had lost his voice still at Lorne, and i agree chicken payback still went down a treat.

I really enjoyed scribes performance. I am not a huge fan of his music besides his big songs and thats all i caught. His big songs and in the middle a bunch of other famous hip hop songs that i loved. I dont know if they were his renditions though. He just seemed to kinda 'YEH' n stuff over the top of it. Not that i am complaining about it. He did have his DJ on stage tho.

I really should rate JBT equal with Vasco Era, but i just cant. Not because JBT was bad, i really really enjoyed it but there was just something about the vasco era set that made me think afterwards how much i really really wanted to go see them live again. I forgot to add that i quite enjoyed Eskimo Joe.

 

[Catfish Jake]

I dont know how he was in Lorne, but the lead singer from the Bees had lost his voice, so it was a bit weak, but the rendition of Chicken Payback was still awesome.

Yeah, he absolutely caned his voice eh? Did the best they could.

My top five

1/ You Am I - Tim was on fire, just insane. One of my favourite bands so I was right into it.

2/ Modest Mouse - Not a weak song in the set, completely nailed it. Strange looking blokes.

3/ Sleepy Jackson - A fair bit more energy than I was expecting.

4/ Exploders - Only had a small crowd, but everyone there was right into it, plenty of crowd interaction, moustaches. Nice cowboy shirt on the vocalist

5/ Mountain Goats - Missed half the set, would probably have been higher otherwise. Next Year was close to my moment of the event, everyone was right into it.

 

[Catfish Jake]

Also Eskimo Joe wins the massive posers award for having huge posters that were close up drawings of their faces hanging down on the stage, and for wearing trenchcoats and keeking up this rediculous charade of pretending they didn't do anything before a song is a city

 

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Also Eskimo Joe wins the massive posers award for having huge posters that were close up drawings of their faces hanging down on the stage, and for wearing trenchcoats and keeking up this rediculous charade of pretending they didn't do anything before a song is a city

Bah haha well the close up drawings is actually the album cover so that makes it a bit more relevent.

They are weird lookers these days.

And I agree 100%. Apart from From the Sea and Older Than You in was all off Black Fingernails, Red WIne. NOTHING FROM GIRL! Its tragedy as that record is so good. It is in the past and I appreciate they have to plug their newie but to not play one song from Girl is a disgrace. Who sold her out, Planet Earth or Liar wouldve gone down a treat.

Although for some credit BFRW(Album I'm talking) is much better played live.

 

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Also Eskimo Joe wins the massive posers award for having huge posters that were close up drawings of their faces hanging down on the stage, and for wearing trenchcoats and keeking up this rediculous charade of pretending they didn't do anything before a song is a city

Bah haha well the close up drawings is actually the album cover so that makes it a bit more relevent.

They are weird lookers these days.

And I agree 100%. Apart from From the Sea and Older Than You in was all off Black Fingernails, Red WIne. NOTHING FROM GIRL! Its tragedy as that record is so good. It is in the past and I appreciate they have to plug their newie but to not play one song from Girl is a disgrace. Who sold her out, Planet Earth or Liar wouldve gone down a treat.

Although for some credit BFRW(Album I'm talking) is much better played live.

Awesome spot.

Way better than the spot those poor buggers had down woop woop about 50km from the main stage. Haha and sucked in to those guys camped on that dirty great hill I bet they had a great sleep.

Oh how about the ass and tittes? Some fine lookin ladies there.

I was at the top of the dirty great hill. Glad I wasnt on the slope. That said I like being out of the way much better and was happy to be closer to the beach than last year.

And you're there for music, not T&A remember?

Although seems you werent there for that.

I enjoyed Franti, the Mountain Goats, Saul Williams, Little Birdy, Sleepys and most of all Modest Mouse, ********ing awesome.

Wolfmother were the same as last year so I was a tad bored at times but the Led Zeppilin cover was hawwwt.

 

[matty_saints]

I went to Lorne, I thought The Bees absolutely killed it! Thought they were unbelievable.

My top 5 would be;

Hilltop Hoods - Not really into their music, but thought they were awesome. Heaps of energy and played all their good songs old and new.

The Bees - Awesome. Couldn't believe the guy that started on vocals (the one who lost his voice), then played keyboard and then went and played drums, so talented.

The Black Seeds - They played at a really crappy time, just when it started to rain but they were awesome. Heaps of good instrumentals and everybody who was their watching was going off.

The Exploders - The crowd was going berserk during the whole set. They had heaps of energy and just rocked it. Special mention to the naked guy who stood on a bin basically the whole set.

John Butler Trio - Possibly played the best instrumental solo of all time, was absolutely amazing. Only criticism is that he started to say some ******** about uranium mines, and that really pissed me off.

Honourable mentions - Modest Mouse, Matt Costa, Michael Franti, Illzilla, Blue King Brown and Fourplay

 

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I was at the top of the dirty great hill. Glad I wasnt on the slope. That said I like being out of the way much better and was happy to be closer to the beach than last year.

And you're there for music, not T&A remember?

Although seems you werent there for that.

I enjoyed Franti, the Mountain Goats, Saul Williams, Little Birdy, Sleepys and most of all Modest Mouse, ********ing awesome.

Wolfmother were the same as last year so I was a tad bored at times but the Led Zeppilin cover was hawwwt.

Its a festival, its not all about the music.

 

[Baby Blue]

Wolfmother and Scribe were my favourite two acts but have to say that there was very little that I didn't like. It was the best falls yet IMO. Everything came together perfectly, it was better organised, the weather was great and the mix of performers was better than previous years.

 

[Marklar_33]

Awesome spot.

Way better than the spot those poor buggers had down woop woop about 50km from the main stage. Haha and sucked in to those guys camped on that dirty great hill I bet they had a great sleep.

Oh how about the ass and tittes? Some fine lookin ladies there.

Yes, and they were labelled

Yellow - Legal
Green - Off to Risdon you go!

2 Years ago I was camped at the main gate, which was a good 10 minute walk to the main stage. But being 3 cars from the Main Stage, shortest of walks, its all good

See you next year (although I am rostered on for 29th 30th December 2007, damn year long rosters!)

 

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Yes, and they were labelled

Yellow - Legal
Green - Off to Risdon you go!

2 Years ago I was camped at the main gate, which was a good 10 minute walk to the main stage. But being 3 cars from the Main Stage, shortest of walks, its all good

See you next year (although I am rostered on for 29th 30th December 2007, damn year long rosters!)

Haha geez I get the feeling you are goin to fall sick around the 28th of December, and simply wont be able to work.

 

[Marklar_33]

Haha geez I get the feeling you are goin to fall sick around the 28th of December, and simply wont be able to work.

Think it would be weird should I put in for holidays now?

 

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Think it would be weird should I put in for holidays now?

Yeah mate get in early.

Its alright for me, I can just rock up to work 2 weeks before falls and write in the diary that I am unavailable.