Big Day Out 2012 Sideshows
Can't make it to the Big Day Out? Don't worry, there are plenty of Sideshows around the country to keep
you happy!

Here is our hand picked selection of shows that we think will totally go off!

KANYE WEST
Who’s rewritten the rulebook of popular music? A controversial, outspoken, acclaimed hip-hop visionary: the man is KANYE WEST, and the only place to see him in Australia and New Zealand in 2012 is at BIG DAY OUT. Stronger, Jesus Walks, Touch the Sky, Gold Digger, Heartless… WEST drops immortal singles like clocks drop minutes. But his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was also his coming-of-age as a live performer: “WEST delivered a grandiose, theatrical performance destined to be remembered as one of the great hip-hop sets of all time” (Hollywood Reporter). After reuniting with his old mate and collaborator Jay-Z for 2011’s Watch the Throne, an album partly recorded in Australia, WEST will again begin a new phase down under this summer. Can he get much higher? Keep an eye on the sky as KANYE WEST soars into BIG DAY OUT 2012 (ALL SHOWS).

27 January 2012 – Sydney Entertainment Centre
31 January 2012 – Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl
To book tickets: www.bigdayoutsideshows.com


SOUNDGARDEN
When BIG DAY OUT was born 20 years ago, a new wave of music was emerging from the American north-west. At the crest of that wave was one of the most incendiary heavy rock bands of our time: SOUNDGARDEN.

It’s been fifteen years since they last graced our shores and the first time since 1997 SOUNDGARDEN will again play outside of the USA! Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd – the Seattle foursome known as SOUNDGARDEN have chosen the BIG DAY OUT to mark their triumphant return to the international stage and we are thrilled to welcome them back. “This is one reunited band that can pick up right where it left off” (New York Times). SOUNDGARDEN played their first BIG DAY OUT in 1994 – the year the seminal Superunknown was unleashed. In 1997, they returned for seconds, only to split up in February of that year. Now, 2012 will bring a brand new album and the group’s long-awaited return down under. Those who were there the first time, and for those who only know the legend, BIG DAY OUT presents the one, the only: SOUNDGARDEN (ALL SHOWS).


25 January 2012 – Sydney Entertainment Centre
01 February 2012 – Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl
To book tickets: www.bigdayoutsideshows.com


KASABIAN
KASABIAN aren’t the type of band to make promises they can’t keep. So, when they sing, “Hit me, harder! I’m getting rewired. I flick the switch that makes you feel electric, even faster than before…” you know they’re heading back to make BIG DAY OUT electric. The Leicester lads have swaggered into BIG DAY OUT twice before, but never this well armed. Their setlist is now wall-to-wall killers – Club Foot, Empire, Shoot the Runner, Fire, LSF … and the power-pop-stormin’-electro-psychedelic-rock’n’roll of their brand new album, Velociraptor! As Pizzorno says: “Any other band, anyone else in the world, has got to move out the way.” Heck, only one band inspires headlines like this anymore: “New York Police Department tell KASABIAN to ‘turn the volume down’” (NME, September 2011). Alert the authorities. KASABIAN are flicking the switch: BIG DAY OUT is about to get loud (ALL SHOWS).


24 January 2012 – Sydney Hordern Pavilion
28 January 2012 – Melbourne Festival Hall
To book tickets: www.bigdayoutsideshows.com


MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
Pull the pin – MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE’s return to BIG DAY OUT is going to be explosive! After 2006’s game-changing rock opera The Black Parade, MCR went into hyperdrive, creating a dystopian, disco-punk future with 2010’s image-shattering Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. “MCR proved there's hope for rock’n’roll with Danger Days,” said Artist Direct, “and with more live shows like this they could save the world.” As much theatre as live rock show, the MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE experience is summed up best in their song Planetary (Go!): “If my velocity starts to make you sweat, then just don’t let go!” Hold on tight: MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE are coming to wield their sonic superpowers at BIG DAY OUT 2012 (ALL SHOWS).


24 January 2012 – Brisbane Eatons Hill Hotel & Function Centre
27 January 2012 – Sydney Hordern Pavilion
31 January 2012 – Melbourne Festival Hall
To book tickets: www.bigdayoutsideshows.com


GIRL TALK
One man. One laptop. Hundreds of samples. The ultimate party. When GIRL TALK powers up, BIG DAY OUT will party down. Mash-up king Greg Gillis has spent the last decade putting the fun back on the dancefloor, melding the unexpected – The Ramones bumping up against Missy Elliot, Lady Gaga getting it on with Soulja Boy – with one righteous aim: to make you dance. GIRL TALK’s “trademark on-the-fly additions make each show unique… By the end of the night, Gillis is a head-banging shirtless sweat machine grinning from ear to ear” (SF Critic). In 2010 he melted the internet when his album All Day was unleashed as a free download, while in 2012 it’s the Boiler Room he’ll be melting. GIRL TALK makes his welcome return this summer to BIG DAY OUT 2012 (ALL SHOWS).


28 January 2012 – Sydney Enmore Theatre
31 January 2012 – Melbourne Palace Theatre
To book tickets: www.bigdayoutsideshows.com


RÖYKSOPP
Enter into the unknown with RÖYKSOPP at BIG DAY OUT 2012. Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland “are architects of an all-encompassing audiovisual experience … a balanced sonic constellation of bliss” (Urb). The Norwegian duo behind songs as infectious as Eple, What Else is There?, Only This Moment and The Girl and the Robot have spent more than a dozen years exploring “places of strange beauty and disturbing darkness,” Berge says. From body armor to space helmets, chill-out to floor-fillers, theirs is a state where anything is possible. “Dance, electro-funk, pop, chillwave or some kind of techno-classical orchestra” – wherever RÖYKSOPP lie – “you probably danced your ass off” (1001 Nights in the City). The unexpected is expected when RÖYKSOPP take the stage at BIG DAY OUT (ALL SHOWS).


27 January 2012 – Sydney Enmore Theatre
02 February 2012 – Melbourne Palace Theatre
To book tickets: www.bigdayoutsideshows.com


KITTY DAISY & LEWIS
If you weren’t so busy dancing, you’d be in awe of KITTY DAISY & LEWIS at BIG DAY OUT. This styling young English trio can play pretty much anything they lay their hands on. Channelling “a mix of late '40s jive, danceable blues and proto-rock’n’roll with flair and enthusiasm” (The Vine), they’re joined on stage by bassist Ingrid and guitarist Graeme (aka their parents!). After busting out of their home studio with an album exploring rock’s roots in 2007, they created their own take on vintage with 2011’s Smoking in Heaven. “Festival stalwarts and vintage sonics trailblazers, their no-fuss rhythm and blues has little truck with reinventing the wheel and fizzes with the simple joy of creation” (NME). Yes, KITTY DAISY & LEWIS can do anything. But all you’ll remember is the fun when their fizz bounces off the stage at BIG DAY OUT 2012.

24 January 2012 – Sydney The Metro Theatre
27 January 2012 – Melbourne Corner Hotel
28 January 2012 – Melbourne Gershwin Room - The Espy Hotel
To book tickets: www.bigdayoutsideshows.com

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