Big Day Out 2011 Lineup Announced
After the regular run of speculation across music nerd forums, the Big Day Out have announced their lineup for 2011 via the magical medium of video from Andrew WK. No Blink 182 after all, but Tool AND Rammstein eh? Plus gotta love those weirdos Die Antwoord. Also Primal Scream will be playing their classic album
Screamadelica in it's entirety.
Tool
Rammstein
Iggy And The Stooges
Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77
Lupe Fiasco
Grinderman
Primal Scream (playing their classic album Screamadelica live)
Deftones
The Black Keys
Crystal Castles
Andrew W.K
The Jim Jones Revue
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
M.I.A
LCD Soundsystem
Booka Shade
Die Antwoord
Vitalic
CSS
Plan B
Ratatat
John Butler Trio
Wolfmother
Angus & Julia Stone
Dead Letter Circus
Children Collide
Operator Please
Bliss N Eso
Gyroscope
Pnau
Airbourne
Birds Of Tokyo
Kids Of 88
The Naked & Famous
Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock
Sampology
Blue King Brown
Will Styles
Little Red
Gypsy And The Cat
Lowrider
Anna Lunoe
FESTIVAL DATES:
AUCKLAND - FRI Jan 21
GOLD COAST - SUN Jan 23
SYDNEY - WED Jan 26 - Australia Day
MELBOURNE - SUN Jan 30
ADELAIDE - FRI Feb 4
PERTH - SUN Feb 6
Tickets go on sale across a couple of days, which is a nice idea to avoid internet explosion -
SYDNEY - Wednesday 6th October
GOLDCOAST - Thursdayn 7th October
AUCKLAND / MELBOURNE / ADELAIDE / PERTH - Friday 8th October
The tix go on sale at 9am in each city's local time and you can only buy a max of 4 tickets. (Oh and they're $155).