Falls Fest 2009
By Patrick Strange on January 13, 2010
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Unlike most people in L.A. who were popping champagne at hoity-toity clubs in Beverly Hills or drinking Pabst at house parties in the Silver Lake Hills, the editors of Filter magazine were in Australia attending the 17th annual Falls Music and Arts Festival in Lorne, Victoria. Situated on a family farm in the middle of thick forests and steep water falls, the festival grounds were about the best any one could hope for when it comes to large-scale music festivals - whether in Australia or any other continent in the Southern or Northern Hemispheres.
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Among the top acts at this year's festival were the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Wolfmother, The Midnight Juggernauts, Data Rock, King Khan and the Shrines, Andrew Bird, and The Temper Trap. Apart from plenty of music, food booths and merchandise abounded, as well as miles and miles of camping tents, green grass (turned muddy by the festival's end) and 16,000 partying, drinking, cavorting punters (Australian for festival-goers).
Filter gives the festival, and the entire Australian experience, a big Yankee thumbs up. What else is there to ask for besides wonderful music, great summer weather in the middle of our Northern winter, and cool people to show us journos around? We knew there was a reason why we loved our jobs.
If you want to learn more about the festival, go their official site or just type Falls Music Festival in your search engine and see what happens. Also, stay tuned for our official feature on the festival and our entire trip in the upcoming Filter Magazine Issue 39 - we will have plenty more pics and words about our Australian adventure. Go roos!
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