Big Day Out 2009!!!

Xavi6

The first lot of acts have just been announced and there's some good ones -

Neil Young
Arctic Monkeys
The Prodigy
The Living End
My Morning Jacket
Sneaky Sound System
Bullet For My Valentine
Birds of Tokyo
The Ting Tings (Ugh :mad:)
The Datsuns (Remember them?!)

Not the biggest Neil Young fan by any means so not too excited about him headlining but it'll be good to see the Monkeys and the Prodigy.

Dates -

AUCKLAND - Fri, Jan 16
GOLD COAST - Sun, Jan 18
SYDNEY - Fri, Jan 23
MELBOURNE - Mon, Jan 26
ADELAIDE - Friday, Jan 30
PERTH - Sunday, Feb 1


Tickets on Sale -
SYDNEY - Wed, Oct 8
GOLD COAST - Thurs 9th, Oct 9
AUCKLAND, MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE & PERTH - Fri, Oct 10

http://www.bigdayout.com/home.php

brendansmith

The first lot of acts have just been announced and there's some good ones -

Neil Young - Yep
Arctic Monkeys - Not a fan
The Prodigy - Hell yeah!
The Living End - WHO?
My Morning Jacket - WHO?
Sneaky Sound System - I DETEST THESE C**TS
Bullet For My Valentine - Summit for the children i guess
Birds of Tokyo - WHO?
The Ting Tings - WHO?
The Datsuns (Remember them?!) - Yes but only the name

Not the biggest Neil Young fan by any means -. Likewise but hes a legend

Xavi6

The Living End are a renowned and much loved Aussie band. Real legends over here. They have some pretty good tunes (check out their latest single 'White Noise', it's quite catchy).

brendansmith

Xavi6 wrote: »

The Living End are a renowned and much loved Aussie band. Real legends over here. They have some pretty good tunes (check out their latest single 'White Noise', it's quite catchy).

Ah, are they the lads who live in St Kildas?

Got I love the boards front page, helps me find forums I wasnt previously aware of!


Prodigy live = epic win

The Datsuns are bastards! i saw them a few years ago and they didn;t play "In Love"... boo urns.

Bullet are good fun live. I find their sound a bit weak though. I likes me metal THICK!

Xavi will ya bottle the Ting tings for me? Ya know, for crimes against my ears.

Xavi6

Ha ha yeah I'm sure I could lash something at the Ting Tings. A serious contender for worst band ever.

Prodigy should be headlining the dance stage which will be quality.

More acts tba so no doubt the lineup will only get stronger

@ brendansmith - haven't a clue where they're from but they've been around years.

hussey

I'm there! Nice one!

One Cold Hand

This seems pretty cool, cheers Xavi. Checked there and tickets are $139.50. Not on sale until the 10th Oct.

Cut Copy are also playing, they're pretty good.
As is Tiki Taane, NZ dude. And for anyone thinking of the NZ show, the Black Seeds are really good.

BraziliaNZ

God what a CRAP lineup, barring Neil Young, who most of the muppets going to this wont appreciate anyway. Tiki Taane - an idiot wannabe black rapper who just happens to be maori! Almost as bad as Scribe! How can anyone like the Artic Monkeys? Am I too old or does it just sound like really sh*tty distorted noise to everyone else too?

Xavi6

I think you're just too old!

Seriously though, the first Monkeys album is feckin quality. It was different to most of the generic crap and considering they were only 18 at the time it was very, very good. One of those bands I've wanted to see, and at least at a festival they won't playin any idle fillers.

BraziliaNZ

they seriously make me feel ill when I hear them. I think the prodigy are awful live aswell, just Keith and the black dude shouting into the microphones. Really bad shouting at that. They should just let Liam play a DJ set or something, it'd sound a lot better.

BraziliaNZ

Xavi did you go to that Park Life thing? I can see them deconstructing the tents outside my office window right now. I might go to Global Gathering. And what's with the weather, worst bloody weather in Australia today, it's 24c and sunny in Melb, and 33c and sunny in Sydney ffs!!!

Xavi6

Nah Park Life isn't really my scene tbh. Same goes for Summadayze.

Not much on Global Gathering that would appeal to me either. Mark Ronson is a twat. ATB would be quality though.

Southbound looks ok with Franz Ferdinand, The Hives and The Kooks. Doubt I'll go though. Chances are I'll probably just do the BDO and then some solo gigs. Considering Supergrass next week and I've got tickets for Slipknot at the end of the month.

Tis all money, money, money.

As for the weather, last weekend was great! I hit the beach on sunday arvo. It'll be like that all the time by the end of the month.

One Cold Hand

Jeez, I think someone got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!;)

Neil Young is class
Prodigy I don't like at all.
Arctic Monkeys are one of the best and most original rock bands in many years.
Tiki does have a few bad songs, but he also has some great ones-Always on my Mind is in no way a black rapper song.

slipss

Bah, was talking to someone last week and they garaunteed to me Kings of Leon would be headlining, "no really they are, my cousin works in the booking office", bitch. Ahh well maybe they are just waiting till later to announce it, hopefully. Decent enough line-up though. Wouldn't mind seeing the Arctic Monkeys live, they were way over hyped/rated when they came on the scene but still a decent band with good songs.

I heard Parklife wasn't that great (apart from Soul Wax), but it's one of those things ye really have to be full of drugs for, went down to it on crutches (hint: sometimes walls are low on one side with a much higher drop on the other) and tried to jump the gates with a few people from the hostel (every ten seconds down there there were scores of people making dashes over the fence, it was like an all out assault from a WWI battle with everyone going over the tops of the trenches, don't know how they manage to turn a profit at it), made it over the first then my leg gave out on me. Did get some free first aid from the hot paramedic girl though, so it wasn't a total loss.

Rabies

The lineup always seems to be average. Couple of big names, but never really amazing. This will the 3rd Big Day out since I came here, and to be honest and not really interested in going.
Apart from the whole festival feel and fun, the music line up isn't really drawing me in.

Xavi6

Yeah I'd agree with that alright. Apart from the Monkey and the Prodigy there's not a lot to get excited about.

Neil Young headlining is gonna turn a lot of young people off. I'm hoping some good ones get named in the second round of announcements. It's my third one as well and I'll definitely go, though it won't be as good as Muse in 2007 and RATM this year.

Crumble Froo

aww, would love to go. no one band that makes me go 'wow, i NEED a ticket', but quite a few i'd have liked to see, but never quite have the overpriced ticket's worth to see them by themselves.

unfortunately, if it was three months later, i could go... but not at the date it's at... not counting hte return plane flights and that.

watna

Hmm, I also heard Kings of Leon were playing. My OH is a big fan.

We had planned on going, just because he's always wanted to a never did and it'll be my first summer in NZ. The Arctic monkeys would be good but not sure of anyone else. I'm getting old and don't recognise a lot of bands these days. Tiki Taane - I'd like to see and my OH was just at a black seeds concert last week so he might be up for that.

When he wakes up (he's currently lying hungover next to me) I'll have to see is he up for it. I'd like to go for the experience more than the music, tbh.

Xavi6

Sydney and Gold Coast both sold out already.

Just got my Perth ticket.

watna

Xavi6 wrote: »

Sydney and Gold Coast both sold out already.

Just got my Perth ticket.

****, the Auckland ones went on sale today too. Bet they're sold out.

/ runs off to check


I booked a holiday to Vanuatu today so I can't afford them now anyway!

brendansmith

Why the fu(k does anyone give a sh!t.

The acts are soooo poor!

Xavi6

watna wrote: »

I booked a holiday to Vanuatu today so I can't afford them now anyway!

I'm headin there too! When have you booked it for?

watna

Xavi6 wrote: »

I'm headin there too! When have you booked it for?

Going in February for 4 nights. We got quite a good deal. Flights, accomodation in a posh 4 star place with an adult only policy (my most important thing for a relaxing tropical holiday) and meals included for $999 each. (That's €500 each).

Can't wait! I'll let you know how I get on when we're back so you know what to expect when you go.

Bf is pushing for us to get big day out tickets now too - I just mentioned it to him. Not sure if I can spend any more money today!

Xavi6

FFS I've just read that Neil Young is going to be playing a 90 minute set at the BDO. Talk about a snooze fest. Just let him play his own feckin gig and stop eating into our festival time!

Not happy at all.

One Cold Hand

Yeah but he's a legend
Plus you'll have the Arctic Monkeys earlier in the day to rock out to.

Xavi6

But 90 minutes!!! Come on now. RATM barely got an hour last year and I know which would interest a young crowd more.

hussey

anyone check out V festivakl yet?
Killers
Snow Patrol
Kaiser Chiefs

I seen them all last year .. though avg at best albums for Killers & Kaiser (worst lyrics in world), but they were all pretty good live

(maybe cause I just like live gigs)

Xavi6

I've seen The Killers three times so can't see myself forking out for them again, especially considering the new material I've heard.

IMO Snow Patrol suck live. Lightbody just can't sing! Haven't seen Kaiser Chiefs.

If you haven't seen any of the three bands then it's worth going to but I'm gonna keep my money for Kings of Leon in March.

hussey

Xavi6 wrote: »

I've seen The Killers three times so can't see myself forking out for them again, especially considering the new material I've heard.

IMO Snow Patrol suck live. Lightbody just can't sing! Haven't seen Kaiser Chiefs.

If you haven't seen any of the three bands then it's worth going to but I'm gonna keep my money for Kings of Leon in March.

I seen snow patrol last night, they played a very very small venue (maybe like olympia) and thought he was excellent - I seen them in a big arena and agree he wasn't the mai west at all

I tired to get pre-sale for KoL, but they were gone by the time I got back from meeting the pre-sale ended .... guess just wait for the main tix to go on sale

and I'm counting on 2nd/3rd gigs as there is 4 days between the sydney and newcastle show!

Xavi6

Yeah it was at the festivalthatcannotbenamed that I saw Snow Patrol and everyone seemed let down.

I better get a Kings of Leon ticket! The gig is being played literally 5 minutes from my apartment.

dSTAR

Xavi6 wrote: »

FFS I've just read that Neil Young is going to be playing a 90 minute set at the BDO. Talk about a snooze fest...

Gotta agree even though I actually like quite a few of his songs. The thing about him and Bob Dylan imo is that they sound really monotone and it only takes the slightest push before they cross over that line and start boring you to tears.

I think the only one of the acts I would get excited about is Prodigy. The rest are a bit ho hum. Are Snow Patrol from Ireland btw?

Dirty Frank

Yep, Snow Patrol are from Co. Down I think? I think the lineup is alright. I like Neil Youngs' songs but other bands seem to be able to cover his songs better than he can play them. He does seem very boring though as the main act. I don't know many of the smaller bands, I've seen Prodigy and Arctic Monkeys so I doubt I'll be headin. Are any of the smaller acts any good?

One Cold Hand

They're from the UK (they're from Northern Ireland!) But the Irish like to claim them as our own.
I personally think they're crap, so I'm happy for them to be Brittish.

Xavi6

3 of the band are from the north and the other 2 are Scottish. They met in Scotland while in college, did all their early gigging in Scotland and did all their early recording in Scotland. So if anything they could be deemed as a Scottish band, a bit like Franz Ferdinand.

Xavi6

$142 to go see Coldplay!!! :eek: Shove it up your hole Mr. Martin.

Got my Kings of Leon ticket today \o/

hussey

Xavi6 wrote: »

$142 to go see Coldplay!!! :eek: Shove it up your hole Mr. Martin.

Got my Kings of Leon ticket today \o/

140 standing for coldplay no thanks
got my kings of Leon too! Awesome!

Crumble Froo

$150 for standing tickets to iron maiden :eek:

Xavi6

Brucie has to fill that plane's fuel tank somehow!

Crumble Froo

also... since when were the standing tickets the expensive ones?! was it just my memory, or were standing tickets back home the cheaper ones?

One Cold Hand

Was gonna get tics to King of Leon, but I saw them just before I left Dublin.
Going to Nouvelle Vague next week.

Swell Season is playing the Palais in St. Kilda (in February i think). Thinking of going but I know now it'll be full of muckers in Mayo jerseys.

watna

I got an email from ticketek today. They're selling Kanye West tickets for two for the price of one. Guess the tickets aren't selling very well!

I'm a bit tempted now though. I've heard he's good live.

Crumble Froo

it's embarassing enough that ive seen fiddy and justin timberlake live. not even 2 for the price of 1 could persuade me to see kanye.

One Cold Hand

Kanye>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>fiddy (and justin)

Crumble Froo

can't generally stand him, tbh. anyway, iron maiden are more to my scene, and im saving up so's i can actually fly to auckland for a band i actually like (already has to miss so many), it's awful having lived so close to dublin and all the bands/festivals i wanted to see both there an europe to everything suddenly getting so isolated and away from all music.

dSTAR

Crumble Froo wrote: »

$150 for standing tickets to iron maiden :eek:

Who the hell still listens to Iron Maiden? Weren't they around when Status Quo were guitar hero's??

hussey

Crumble Froo wrote: »

also... since when were the standing tickets the expensive ones?! was it just my memory, or were standing tickets back home the cheaper ones?

I just checked out the irish site, KoL = 49.70euro standing
I paid 90 for the oz

Coldplay cheapest tickets 55euro
and oz $110

So I guess the same price

watna

hussey wrote: »

I just checked out the irish site, KoL = 49.70euro standing
I paid 90 for the oz

Coldplay cheapest tickets 55euro
and oz $110

So I guess the same price

but you don't earn nearly as much as you do at home. That's the one main thing that písses me off about NZ. e.g cinema ticket is $15 which is €7.50 - so roughly what it is at home but you earn less - so it actually costs more for entertainment. Gig tickets shouldn't be the same price as they are in Ireland - they should be in line with salaries.

Jumpy

Crumble Froo wrote: »

also... since when were the standing tickets the expensive ones?! was it just my memory, or were standing tickets back home the cheaper ones?

Standing tickets always go faster for the rock bands, its far more fun to be down in amongst it. They have risen the price now to cover it, supply and demand.
I couldnt get standing tickets to Metallica when they came to Sydney years back, had to get seated and it was nowhere as good.

Xavi6

watna wrote: »

but you don't earn nearly as much as you do at home. That's the one main thing that písses me off about NZ. e.g cinema ticket is $15 which is €7.50 - so roughly what it is at home but you earn less - so it actually costs more for entertainment. Gig tickets shouldn't be the same price as they are in Ireland - they should be in line with salaries.

Do you not think so? I'm not so sure.

Flairpinnedme

watna wrote: »

but you don't earn nearly as much as you do at home. That's the one main thing that písses me off about NZ. e.g cinema ticket is $15 which is €7.50 - so roughly what it is at home but you earn less - so it actually costs more for entertainment. Gig tickets shouldn't be the same price as they are in Ireland - they should be in line with salaries.

i cant remember the last time cinema tickets were 7.50 in ireland!