Falls Festival

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Artists who performed at the 2005 event included:

In 2005 tickets for the Marion Bay festival sold out two and a half days after going on sale on 15 August, and Lorne tickets selling out one week after coming on sale.^{[citation needed]}

Further allocations of tickets for both festivals were released during December and sold out within hours of coming on sale.^{[citation needed]} An unlimited number of Falls Festival patrons were able to attend the 'Falls Cinema' on Thursday 29 December (one day earlier than the official kick-off) in an effort to minimise traffic congestion.^{[citation needed]} In Tasmania, the number of tickets available were capped at 9000.^{[citation needed]}

2006

In early July, a new website for the 2006 event was launched. People were able to subscribe to the official mailing list and be entered into the draw to be offered tickets ahead of the official release date of 16 August. Subscribers that were selected were notified by 30 July. Tickets for the 2006 festival were put on sale as of 9 am, 16 August. All tickets to the Lorne event were gone in about 2 hours. The Marion Bay event followed suit, with all tickets sold out within 3.5 hours.^{[citation needed]}

The announced performers as of 28 December, include:

Restrictions on ticket sales were made in 2006 (in the form of a ballot) in an attempt to curb the increasing practice of ticket resale, commonly known as 'scalping', as well as to make the access to tickets more equitable. The changes reflected similar alterations made to ticket sale procedures of other major Australian music festivals such as Splendour in the Grass and The Big Day Out. Previously, tickets had been released for sale in bulk and with no limit on the number of tickets able to be purchased by an individual, resulting in a high incidence of individuals purchasing multiple tickets, and a subsequent sell-out of tickets within 12 – 24 hours.^{[citation needed]}

The restrictions included a purchasing limit of four tickets per any individual, as well as the initiation of an online ticket lottery, which randomly allocated the sale of approximately 50% of all tickets to a list of people who had registered their interest on the Festival's website. Tickets were also released on multiple dates rather than in bulk, to make sales more manageable and to increase consumer accessibility to the sale of tickets.^{[citation needed]}

2007

The artists at the festival of 2007/08 included:^[22]

(* Lorne Only), (** Marion Bay only)

Ticket purchasing procedures changed again in 2007, extending changes made to procedures in 2006. Changes included:

• the extension of the ticket lottery from 50% to 80% of all tickets – intended to increase the equity of ticket sale.
• the centralisation of all ticket sales to the Falls Festival Website – intended to eliminate the need to line up outside stores overnight to purchase a ticket, as well as prevent criminal problems associated with it such as littering and drinking in public.
• the inclusion of a name and date of birth printed on the Festival ticket – intended to further restrict scalping practices.

Tickets went on sale to the general public on Monday 10 September at 9 am AEST, with the 14,500 tickets to the Lorne event selling out on the day they were released.^{[citation needed]}

2008

Those marked with an asterisk (*) played in Lorne only.

2009

Funk'n'Soul Revue

Those marked with an asterisk (*) played in Lorne only.
Those marked with a caret (^) played in Marion Bay only.

On 6 August 2009 some of the bands scheduled to play at the 2009 Falls Festival were leaked online due to a directory being left open on the official falls festival website. The organisers subsequently decided to officially release the entire first line-up announcement ahead of the scheduled 13 August release date.^[23]

On 7 October 2009 the Falls Festival announced that they would be putting on a pre-festival party, and extending the Falls Funk'n'Soul Revue to Lorne on 28 December. The extension of the revue made the Lorne festival a four-day event from 28 December to 1 January. The Funk'n'Soul Revue occurred over two days across the respective states, on the 28th in Lorne and on the 29th in Marion Bay with slightly differing lineups across the two locations.^[24]

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Those marked with a * played in Lorne only
Those marked with a ^ played in Byron Bay only^[27]

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In 2015 the events Lorne, Victoria venue was threatened by bushfires in the area and moved to Mount Duneed Estate, which is approximately 15 minutes from Geelong.^[28]

+ more to be announced^[29]

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• Grouplove cancelled their appearance at Falls Festival due to singer Hannah Hooper suffering from vocal problems^[30][31]

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