The Temper Trap, Alt-J, Robyn, Salt n Pepa, Vance Joy and the Presets all confirmed for the Falls Festivals

THE Falls Festivals in Lorne, Tasmania and Byron Bay announce impressive line-ups running over the new year’s period.

Swedish pop singer Robyn

THE Temper Trap, Alt-J, Vance Joy, the Presets, Röyksopp & Robyn, Salt N Pepa and the John Butler Trio head the impressive line up at this year’s Falls Festival.

The festivals will be held at Lorne, Tasmania and Byron Bay over the New Year’s Eve period.

It will be Melbourne band the Temper Trap’s first major Australian shows in over a year, after spending months working on their third album.

Dougy Mandagi, frontman of the Temper Trap, will play their first Australian shows in over a year for the Falls Festivals.

Also performing will be SBTRKT, Jamie XX, George Ezra, Jagwar Ma, Milky Chance, Spiderbait, Sticky Fingers, Big Freedia, The Kite String Tangle, Safia, Tensnake, Todd Terje and more.

The Falls will run December 28 to January 1 at Lorne, December 29 to January 1 at Marion Bay in Tasmania and December 30 to January 3 at Byron Bay.

The Lorne and Byron Bay events are for over 18s only, Marion Bay is open to all ages.

As ever tickets are available by a ballot system.

British rock band Alt-J are returning to Australia for the Falls Festivals.

The ballot is open now at fallsfestival.com and will close next Monday.

A small allocation of tickets will go on sale September 3.

Full line up — Alt-J, Big Freedie, The Black Lips, Bluejuice, Cold War Kids, DMAs, George Ezra, Glass Animals, Jagwar Ma, Jamie XX, Joey Bada$$, John Butler Trio, Kim Churchill, The Kite String Tangle, Milky Chance, Movement, The Presets, Remi, Royksopp & Robyn, Run the Jewels, Safia, SBTRKT, Spiderbait, Sticky Fingers, the Temper Trap, Tensnake, Tkay Maidza, Todd Terje, Tycho, Vance Joy, Wolf Alice, Alison Wonderland, Badbadnotgood, Client Liason and Salt N Pepa.

British musician George Ezra is in the charts with his hit Budapest.