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Big Yelgun festival site plans on display – up to 50,000 flagged
The government has put plans up for a permanent home for the North Byron Parklands, home to Splendour in the Grass and the Falls Festival.
January 2, 2018 | Hans Lovejoy | 7 -
Vote for your favourite local band to play at Falls Festival
Emerging acts from the Northern Rivers are being given the chance to take centre stage at this years 25th Falls Festival through the 'foster a band' concept.
October 5, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
Festival extension approved at Parklands
North Byron Parklands, home to Falls Festival and Splendour in the Grass, has been granted a 20-month extension to its five-year trial by the independent Planning Assessment Commission (PAC).
September 19, 2017 | Aslan Shand | 2 -
Byron Falls ends with a splash
This season's Falls Festival closed with a splash in the wee hours this morning as Alison Wonderland sent the crowd on its way and thousand of punters were cleaned and refreshed with a spot of rain.
January 3, 2017 | Eve Jeffery | 0 -
Yelgun is not Byron Bay…
Angela McDermott, Suffolk Park. Dear Falls Festival, when are you going to stop calling Yelgun, Byron Bay?
October 3, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
16000 expected at Byron’s Falls Festival
Organisers are expecting at least 16,000 to be celebrating the new year at the Falls Festival at North Byron Parklands over coming days.
December 31, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Falls Festival live on ABC TV
Music and art lovers who can't get to Falls Festival at North Byron Parklands for New Year’s Eve will be able to catch it live on ABC TV.
December 16, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Making Falls special for you
A good festival is a portal into another place, almost another you. This is something Falls Festival’s Village artistic director Ian Pidd knows only too well.
December 11, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Festive fun begins to wind up across the region
It’s been the party that just keeps going. New Year’s Eve celebrations across the region are finally beginning to wind up today, with revelers enjoying the last day at the Falls Festival near Byron Bay, while others will be packing up campsites at the Tropical Fruits party in Lismore.
January 2, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Man found dead at Falls Festival campsite
A 26-year-old Brisbane man died this morning at the Falls Festival near Byron Bay. Tweed/Byron police Inspector Darren Steel said the man was discovered at his campsite about 7.30am, unconscious and not breathing.
December 31, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
The Tangled Webb at Falls!
Comedian Lindsay Webb is one of the featured funny people at Falls Festival’s The Village.
December 23, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
The Village People
Now in its second year, Byron Falls Festival continues its quest to make the NSW-based event authentically ‘Byron Bay’. Valley Lipcer is the creative producer of The Village, what many have called ‘the festival within the festival’. Seven spoke with Valley about what’s in store for Byron Falls.
December 12, 2014 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
NYE with a Sultan
Dan Sultan is one of the impressive acts playing Falls Festival this year. After a stint solo, Dan is back in the tour bus this summer playing with his regular band.
November 21, 2014 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Hordes descend
Sue Arnold, Ocean Shores. I recently spent some time in Honolulu and, as I know the city well, I was appalled by the current state – which is the future of Byron Shire unless something is done .
January 6, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
The world is a stage for Soler
Northern Rivers based singer songwriter Andrea Soler has recently returned from a successful and ground breaking international twelve-week tour throughout Europe.
December 27, 2013 | Eve Jeffery | 0 -
Connecting local musos
Fostering local and emerging talent from the grassroots is key for Falls Festival Byron Bay. Glenn Wright and Valley Lipcer have carefully put together the local programming, which will make up a large part of the feel and experience of the festival.
December 3, 2013 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Local tix released for Falls Fest
While tickets to the first Byron Falls Festival sold out a while ago, there’s a new locals’ release now on sale. But you'd better be quick.
November 19, 2013 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Falls Festival sells out
Promoters of Byron Bay's inaugural Falls Festival are 'thrilled' that tickets have sold out less than a month after they went on sale. The event will run over the New Year's Eve period at the Splendour in the Grass festival site.
September 30, 2013 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Byron’s ambitious NYE plans
This year activities will be concentrated around Railway Park instead of Apex Park, with road closures in Jonson Street. The festivities will conclude by 10pm although a later event is planned at the Youth Activity Centre
September 23, 2013 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Some Very Weird Shit at Falls Festival – Legs Akimbo
Legs Akimbo are partners in life and crime: Amy Bee Sting and Ben Scott. Born out of the UK festival scene, the two have developed some wacky interactive games and on-stage antics to engage large groups of willing festival-goers.
September 18, 2013 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Falls Fest falls for Byron
Mandy Nolan For the past 20 years the Falls Music and Arts Festival has been running in Victoria’s seaside town of Lorne. For ten years a sister event has occurred in Tasmania’s Marion Bay. It seems fitting then that... Read More →
August 14, 2013 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Festival to ‘take pressure’ off Byron
Lorne, in Victoria, was regularly in Melbourne’s newspapers for all the wrong reasons: a small seaside town renowned for the drunken revelry that took place there each New Years Eve. Sound familiar? Fast forward 20 years and Lorne is now... Read More →
July 18, 2013 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Falls Festival comes to Byron
The long parade from the northern rivers to Woodford could become a thing of the past thanks to the vision of promoter Brandon Saul. Mr Saul has joined with his Splendour colleagues to tempt Victoria’s popular Falls Music & Arts... Read More →
July 18, 2013 | Echonetdaily | 1
