The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994. As of 2003, it has featured seven or eight stages (depending on the venue) accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic music, mainstream international acts and local acts. This year’s dates include:
01/17 – Auckland, New Zealand
01/19 – Gold Coast, Australia
01/24 – Melbourne, Australia
01/26 – Sydney, Australia
01/27 – Sydney, Australia
01/31 – Adelaide, Australia
02/02 – Perth, Australia
Headliners
Festival lineup
- 360
- All of the Colors
- Arcade Fire
- Beady Eye
- Ben Morris
- Big Gigantic
- Bluejuice
- Bo Ningen
- CSS
- Cosmic Psychos
- DIIV
- DZ Deathrays
- Deftones
- Dillon Francis
- Flosstradamus
- Flume
- Ghost B.C.
- Grouplove
- Kerser
- Kingswood
- Loon Lake
- Mac Miller
- Major Lazer
- Mudhoney
- Northlane
- PEZ
- Pearl Jam
- Peking Duk
- Portugal. the Man
- Primus
- Rufus
- Snoop Dogg
- Steve Angello
- Tame Impala
- The 1975
- The Algorithm
- The Drones
- The Hives
- The Lumineers
- The Naked and Famous
- Toro Y Moi
- Violent Soho
- Vista Chino
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