UPDATE: SECOND LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT FOR FALLS 2013/14 HAS BEEN UNVEILED!

The time has finally arrived for the Falls Festival 2013/2014 line up announcement. The roster of artists set to ignite Lorne, Marion Bay and Byron Bay this New Year’s has just been announced, including Vampire Weekend, The Roots, MGMT, Grizzly Bear, Violent Femmes and so many more!

With 28 names on the list, including 17 internationals with five of those acts never before gracing our shores, the 2013/2014 lineup was mostly kept under wraps this year, though Vampire Weekend returning to headline the event was an almost certainty with their Unbelievers used to soundtrack the latest festival teaser vids.

The Roots also announced earlier this year that they would be heading Down Under in time for New Year’s, Grizzly Bear‘s Ed Droste has also done much the same thing. We reckon both are a perfect fit.

Celebrating its 17th year on the Australian music scene, 2013 will also see the festival expanding into new territory. It’s being taken up to Byron Bay where it will share the same turf as Splendour In The Grass – the North Byron Parklands – making use of the area’s “natural amphitheatres, lakes and tree coverage”, though the festival’s keen to avoid the pitfalls that made Splendour a logistical nightmare late last month.

You can enter the ballot for tickets via the official Falls website right now, with registrations closing at 12pm AEST, Monday 26th August. Then, from 9am Thursday 29th August, lucky ballot-winners can purchase just four tickets each, with a general ticket sales then beginning 9am Wednesday, 4th September. No word yet on prices, so stay tuned.

So here it is – the Falls Festival 2013/2014 lineup!

Falls Festival 2013/2014 lineup

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Asta

Big Scary

Bombino

Bonobo

The Cat Empire

Chet Faker

Crystal Fighters

Cyril Hahn

Flight Facilities

Gossling

Grizzly Bear

Hanni El Khatib

Hermitude

James Vincent Mcmorrow

London Grammar

MGMT

Neil Finn

Pond

The Preatures

The Roots

Rüfüs

Solange

Tom Odell

Vampire Weekend

Violent Femmes

White Denim

The Wombats

Second Announcement

Emma Louise

Horrorshow

Hungry Kids Of Hungry

Johnny Marr

Oliver Tank

The Paper Kites

The Rubens

Thundamentals

The War On Drugs

Violent Soho

Falls Festival 2013/2014

28th December, 2013 – 1st January, 2014

Lorne, Victoria

29th December, 2013 – 1st January, 2014

Marion Bay, Tasmania

31st December 2013 – 3rd January, 2014

Byron Bay, NSW

Watch: The Falls Music & Arts Festival 2013/14 – Byron Bay

http://youtu.be/y3-EWIbL8I4

Watch: The Falls Music & Arts Festival 2013/14 – Marion Bay

http://youtu.be/2e88Cj6VGgU

Watch: The Falls Music & Arts Festival 2013/14 – Lorne