BIG DAY OUT 2009
Now in its 17th year, the Big Day Out is one of Australia's premier touring festivals. Not only have the majority of shows sold out in record time, this years line up is gearing up to be one of the most exciting, diverse and dynamic Big Day Outs ever.

The Dates and Places
Gold Coast 18/1/2009, Gold Coast Parklands SOLD OUT
Sydney 23/1/2009, Sydney Showground SOLD OUT
Melbourne 26/1/2009, Flemington Racecourse SOLD OUT
Adelaide 30/1/2009, Royal Adelaide Showground
Perth 1/2/2009, Claremont Showgrounds

The Scoop
2009 will be the 17th year of the BDO. Over that time we have witnessed amazing performances from artists ranging from the obscure to the megastars. We of course intend to continue that tradition.

Look out for our expanded BDO 2009 coverage in the upcoming weeks.

The Lineup for the Big Day Out 09
NEIL YOUNG, ARCTIC MONKEYS, THE LIVING END, THE PRODIGY, SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM, MY MORNING JACKET, PENDULUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, TV ON THE RADIO, SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, THE TING TINGS, TIKI TAANE, CUT COPY, COG, YOUTH GROUP, THE GRATES, BIRDS OF TOKYO, TZU, EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, SERJ TANKIAN, DROPKICK MURPHYS, BLACK KIDS, HOT CHIP, LUPE FIASCO, HOLY GHOST!, Z*TRIP, DIED PRETTY, THE VINES, INFUSION, CHILDREN COLLIDE, PEE WEE FERRIS, SPARKADIA, THE GETAWAY PLAN, LITTLE RED, MAMMAL, MERCY ARMS, AJAX, ANDEE FROST, THE DRONES, FANTOMAS, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, SON OF DAVE, BARRENCE WHITFIELD, T-REK, QUAN, I HEART HIROSHIMA and THE REELS.

Ballot Ticketing
Like last year , the BDO has withheld a number of tickets to make them available for purchase through an online ticket ballot via the Big Day Out website, www.bigdayout.com.

Here’s the important stuff

Each week tickets for the sold out shows will be made available on the BDO website via an online randomly drawn ballot.

The ballot will be drawn weekly, beginning in October and finishing in December.

Login and signup now for your last chance at getting tickets to these sold out shows! www.bigdayout.com

Below are just some of the band we think are going to ROCK!.

		Fantômas Mike Patton’s Fantômas are the freshest addition to the Big Day Out festival and Serj Tankian side shows, but was anyone prepared for... THE DIRECTOR'S CUT!!! It seems Mike Patton has a way with music. His refusal to stop putting out high quality gems under a different moniker on a regular basis is astounding. Fantômas, are the vehicle that drives his sonic vision into a schizophrenic fully charged supergroup rounded out by Buzz Osborne on guitar (Melvins), Trevor Dunn on bass (Mr. Bungle, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant) and Dale Crover on drums (Melvins). Fantômas will be performing their most acclaimed album The Director’s Cut live in its entirety at the Big Day Out and when supporting their buddy, System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian at his Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne solo shows. The Director’s Cut is composed of covers of various scores from 1950s through 1990s film noir and horror/cult motion picture soundtracks, as interpreted by Fantômas. As cinematic as its source material The Director’s Cut has been described as the most innovative and interesting, not to mention listenable of contemporary death metal synchronised with pure rock operatics. Fantômas have used a genius approach of marrying different aesthetics to create pulsating, weird and wonderful arrangements that are dangerously intelligent and highly entertaining. www.ipecac.com
		Sneaky Sound System SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM have been spreading the good word far and wide for their brand new sophomore Number 1 album 2, (got that?) touring the UK, even fronting up at Glastonbury for an ass-busting set of groovy dance tunes. 2009 will see SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM return to BIG DAY OUT to set some jives free for crazy dance music fans on Australian and NZ shores! Their slow burning successful debut album delivered four singles which, at one stage, were all in the top forty chart AT THE SAME TIME! Talk about huge. And the album no less, spent 69 weeks in the Top 100. Cut to the present day, and 2008 sees radio stations across the country spinning their catchy wistful electro-dance single “Kansas City”. SNEAKY are bound to set the kids bouncing with gusto at the BIG DAY OUT. Don’t go and do something stupid like miss ‘em now! www.sneakysoundsystem.com
		The Living End RRun away boys THE LIVING END had a monumental start to their career producing the highest selling Aussie single of the entire nineties with their EP/single “Prisoner of Society”/ “Second Solution”. And their well-loved punkabilly sing-alongs have continued to rock us out over the past ten years…but enough talk of the past! THE LIVING END return to stand and deliver a rousing festival set for BIG DAY OUT fans this summer, with blistering hits from their uber successful LP White Noise. Recorded with the assistance of John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr) and mixed by the legendary Brendan O’Brien (AC/DC and Pearl Jam) it wouldn’t be stretching the truth to say this album is of the finest rock’n’roll pedigree. Dig it live at BDO! www.thelivingend.com
		Quan Regurgitator front man QUAN is back aboard flight BDO with his very own project that joyously embraces the best of indie, hip hop and electro pop. QUAN’s new release The Amateur is a “on again off again requiem to those heady amateur days” and with killer pop riffs and beats like “Year of the Jerk”, “Gimme Gimme” and “The One”… this IS the beat you’ve been looking for, so pull on your dancing sneakers and come find it at the BIG DAY OUT. www.quantheamateur.com
		Serj Tankian Roll up! Roll up! Rock ’n’ roll ringmaster SERJ TANKIAN has taken command of a brand new musical circus, and will be cracking the whip at BIG DAY OUT 2009. After System of a Down went on “extended hiatus” in 2006, unconventional frontman and social activist TANKIAN holed up in his LA studio to find a new outlet for his inimitable vocals, incisive lyrics, and unwavering dedication to humanitarian causes. The result is his debut solo album Elect the Dead – not a mellow world music excursion or the frantic war-cry of SOAD that some had predicted, rather a multi-faceted melding of classical, psychedelia and TANKIAN’s trademark surrealism and skewed time signatures. He’s an old friend, but he’s not what he used to be… he’s better. SERJ TANKIAN will bring fire and brimstone, melody and poetry, mystery and drama to BIG DAY OUT this summer. www.serjtankian.com
		Died Pretty Early in 1984, an inner city Sydney band called DIED PRETTY set out to create their own distinctive style, and challenge the musical preconceptions of the time. They quickly garnered a reputation for live shows full of raw passion, intensity, and more often than not, complete disintegration. After 18 years together and eight seminal albums, 2002 signalled the end for this five-piece and they played their last shows. Fast forward to present day, and 2008 has seen former band mates Peno, Myers, Welsh, Clark and Hoey reunite. DIED PRETTY played the first BIG DAY OUT in 1992, and in 2009 they return to the BDO stage to show us their music has well and truly stood the test of time. www.diedpretty.com
		Pee Wee Ferris Dance music guru PEE WEE FERRIS returns to the BIG DAY OUT in 2009. One of Australia’s most influential DJs and producers, PEE WEE FERRIS is a trailblazer of the dance music movement world wide. He’s had residencies in Australia and around the world featuring guests like Paul Oakenfold and Paul van Dyk, played alongside Basement Jaxx, Daft Punk and The Prodigy, received ARIA nominations and ARIA Gold Records and has a swag of composition and remix credits to his name. He takes his rightful place behind the decks at the BDO and will hammer out one huge party set for fans this summer! www.myspace.com/djpeeweeferris
		The Grates Bris-vegas indie darlings THE GRATES will bring the gutsy party anthems to BIG DAY OUT 2009. Their catchy yet edgy pop is destined to get inside your brain and stay there and will, without a doubt, have shoes aplenty shuffling on the dance floor this summer. With their debut album Gravity Won’t Get You High (2006) THE GRATES toured extensively winning hearts, minds and family pets across the country. This year sees their second album, Teeth Lost, Hearts Won: a major musical milestone for the band as they step up with a more sophisticated brand of raucousness, which they’ll be shakin’ for YOU live at the BDO! www.thegrates.com
		Birds of Toyko Well they’re not actually birds and they’re not from Tokyo. They’re musicians and they’re from Western Australia, but their unstoppable force in rock music goes by the name of BIRDS OF TOKYO. At the front of this momentous rock extravaganza is one of the busiest front men in the business, Ian Kenny, who takes to the stage with another of WA’s favourites, Karnivool. Less than 16-months after their independent debut, Day One, BIRDS OF TOKYO take flight with their darker but pop-hook laden follow-up Universes. The album has won fans across the board clocking on at number 3 on the ARIA charts as well as winning them a nomination for a J Award in August. BIRDS OF TOKYO bring their driving guitars and straight up catchy rock to the BIG DAY OUT this summer. www.birdsoftokyo.com
		The Prodigy Smack my BIG DAY OUT up! It’s the one, the only, THE PRODIGY, back for BIG DAY OUT No.4. The British pioneers of crash-bang-boom rocktronica will be armed with a brand new album (due in February), and the same old fierceness. And what’s the new stuff like? Liam has dropped the words “mad”, “buzzing”, “on fire” and “fresh”. You could take his word for it, or just get it straight in yo’ face when THE PRODIGY invade BIG DAY OUT 2009. www.theprodigy.com
		The Arctic Monkeys I bet that ARCTIC MONKEYS look good on the BIG DAY OUT stage...’cos that’s exactly where they’ll be this summer, inspiring a frenzy of indie dancing as they whip out tunes from their world-beating albums, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not and Favourite Worst Nightmare. But wait, there’s more – it appears the lads have decamped to the Californian desert to begin laying down album No.3… with none other than Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme manning the desk. The rock’n’roll mind boggles at what they’ll come up with. Be first in the world to hear the results when ARCTIC MONKEYS reveal all at BIG DAY OUT. http://www.arcticmonkeys.com
		My Morning Jacket It wasn’t so much as a choice as an urge – an irresistible, evil urge – to call MY MORNING JACKET into action. This Kentucky five-piece has graduated from barely-kept indie secret to mainstay status at US festivals like Bonnaroo and Coachella, and will even headline Madison Square Garden this New Year’s Eve. But come summertime, MY MORNING JACKET will be holding court Down Under at BIG DAY OUT. www.mymorningjacket.com
		Neil Young Legendary guitarist. Anti-war protestor. Hall of Famer. Environmental crusader. Instantly recognisable vocalist. Father. Social activist. Filmmaker. Godfather of Grunge. Oscar-nominated songwriter. Heart of Gold. The Last Waltz. Crazy Horse. Let’s Impeach the President. Rockin’ in the Free World. Crosby, Stills, Nash and… We could go on, but why not hand it over to the man himself? Five years since he last ventured Down Under, rock icon NEIL YOUNG returns this January for three very special shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. www.neilyoung.com
		TV on the Radio Surfing waves of praise all the way to BIG DAY OUT 2009 is a band that fits no pigeonhole. A band too good to stay in the art-rock ghetto, too self-aware to be straightforwardly “cool”, too distinctive to be comfortably mainstream, yet catchier than most of the pop out there. This band is TV ON THE RADIO. www.tvontheradio.com
		Cut Copy Is it dance? Is it rock? Yes! It’s CUT COPY!! 2008 has launched the triumphant return of these electro pioneers: a new album In Ghost Colours which busted into the charts at number one, and sell out shows around the globe. The GLOBE people! The band’s 2004 debut Bright Like Neon Love introduced us to the era-defying hits “Going Nowhere” and “Saturdays” (to name a few) we came to know and love. This summer the BIG DAY OUT will play host CUT COPY’s intergalactic pop and guitar heavy stomp - look out for them comin’ atchya live, synths blazing, at the BDO! www.cutcopy.net

More Info
check out the Big Day Out website www.bigdayout.com


Information correct at time of publication.