It started with a big thunderstorm and was marred by Friday night's crowd crush that left scores injured, but the 2016 Lorne Falls Festival ended with fireworks, supreme music and a lot of happy campers.
Thunderstorms and sweaty temperatures greeted revellers for the first two days of the festival, but the acts this year were cool enough to freshen up the event and create a vibrant and colourful four days.
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After last year's festival was relocated to Mount Duneed Estate Winery because of a bushfire threat, this year it was back home at Erskine Falls – with a vengeance.
"The trial separation last year wasn't for us, let's make this reunion tour one for the records," the festival booklet said.
Broods kicked off Thursday night with an enormous amount of energy. Georgia Nott on vocals jumped for almost the entire set and seemed comfortable on a festival stage, despite telling the audience it was probably the biggest festival they'd played.
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Audiences danced along to the New Zealand brother-sister duo, raising their hands in unison for the final song, Heartlines.
Headliner Childish Gambino was everything you would expect, walking onto the stage dressed in white head-to-toe and immediately transforming from actor/comedian Donald Glover into a hip hop funk superstar.
He jumped from old school hip hop to his new album, Awaken, My Love!, described as "taking you on an enthralling trip into the land of funk".
Red Bone got everyone swinging their hips as R&B; flowed through their veins.
"Smoking that la la!" he screamed, as hordes of people wearing Hawaiian shirts and fairy-light necklaces boogied on down.
His old hits, Sober and 3005, were the crowd favourites, with revellers jumping out of their skin and the mosh pit buzzing.
Inside the DMA's tent on Friday night, the crowd started off chilled but things quickly became hectic.
The Sydneysiders soon drew an enormous crowd, which resulted in too many people inside a tent with too few exits.
With little time between the DMA's ending and English headliner London Grammar beginning at the Valley Stage down a steep hill below, Friday night's crowd stampede broke out, leaving more than 60 injured.
Some acts were cancelled but others continued as scheduled.
London Grammar brought smooth, soft harmonies to the natural amphitheatre, and offered a very different option to the other acts at the event.
Showcasing mostly new music from their forthcoming album, the star of the show was Hannah Reid's heartbreaking, pure and transcending vocals.
Catfish and the Bottlemen managed to be wild, charismatic and absolute gentlemen in their New Year's Eve set.
Lead singer Van McCann's mesmerising stage presence drew the crowds in and by the time they got to their new hit,Twice, they had the crowd in the palm of their hands.
"Honestly, Falls, this is class," McCann said, appearing to enjoy the crowd as much as they enjoyed him.
The British band certainly earned their stripes as the biggest rockers at the festival, improvising a 10-minute instrumental explosion at the end, which left them with the title of best festival mic drop.
As the clock ticked closer to midnight, most revellers made their way to the Avalanches.
Echoing their performance at Splendour in the Grass last year, the Melbourne legends pumped out smooth tune after tune to the eager crowd.
In the final seconds before midnight, the band paused and began the countdown. A burst of silver confetti covered the crowd before fireworks went off.
For those looking for something a little more offbeat than what was on offer at the main stages, festival-goers could enter through a shipping container into The Village – a haven of weird and wonderful creativity.
Why would three people spend 40 minutes digging a hole? That's the question many were wondering as they looked on in the sun while some poor souls grabbed a shovel and got digging.
"There was no real purpose for it at the beginning, but it's given people a sense of achievement," a supervisor of "the hole" said.
On New Year's Eve revellers were invited to bury 2016 in the hole, leaving notes and organic materials of the year that was and welcoming in 2017.
The nearby "Wedding Factory" produced marriage certificates, only "valid" inside the confines of the festival.
Among those putting themselves forward for the wedding ceremony were two girls who included in their vows that they loved going to the bathroom together.
Attracting a surprising amount of interest was a line of fridges (full of strange/vile contents) located at the back of The Village, part of a festival-curated exhibition.
Each fridge had a name and a purpose: "Bogan" was full of cans of VB, "Glyphosate" (weed killer) was a branch covered in doll heads; and "Pensioner" was full of Black and Gold house brand products with the explanation "old age pensioners have the third lowest government assistance in the world".
Festival patron Holly Borbach said she thought the "Big Mac" fridge was the most confronting, comprising of a single, preserved, burger.
She said the exhibition was an interesting addition to the festival.
"I think it's about giving you a wake-up call, of all the different issues in our world that could be ignored," she said.
The 24th annual music and arts festival was full of ups and downs, but overall Falls Festival provides a reliable New Year's Eve option as it always delivers on the beats, the fun and the weirdness.