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Jett touches down in Falls to raise the roof
from: smh.com.au
JOAN JETT will return to Australia for the first time since 1995 to headline the four-day Falls Festival at Lorne from December 28.
As well as the likely treat of singing along to Jett's 1981 anthem I Love Rock 'n' Roll as the clock ticks over to the new year, concert-goers can also look forward to seeing ground-breaking hip-hop act Public Enemy perform its seminal 1990 album, Fear of a Black Planet, in its entirety, complete with their onstage ''army'', Security of the First World.
The album, which contained the tracks, 911 is a Joke, Fight the Power and Brothers Gonna Work It Out, has been hailed as one of the most important rap albums of all time.
Also on the bill is American shock rocker Peaches, who joined Jett on the song You Love It in 2006.
Other acts confirmed for the festival, which tag-teams with the Marion Bay festival in Tasmania for three days from December 29, include major American acts Interpol, The National, Cold War Kids, The Rapture and Sleigh Bells; and from the UK, Klaxons, sibling outfit Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, and dance-comedy act the Cuban Brothers.
Among the local attractions are perennial festival favourites The Living End, Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan. Sweet-voiced Sally Seltmann (aka New Buffalo), psychedelic rockers Tame Impala and brother-sister act Angus and Julia Stone are on the bill.
Capacity for the festival is 16,000 by the properties of the bush site, and tickets are among the hottest items on the festival calendar. First allocation is by ballot, which closes on August 18, with the remaining tickets to be snapped up soon after going on sale at 9am on September 9.
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