The future of the Big Day Out is looking more and more uncertain, especially as its fate now rests solely in the hands of an American corporation. What is known for certain is that the festival will not return this year, in the wake of huge financial losses in 2014. This week, the festival’s US
Whether or not it goes ahead is still in question but if the Big Day Out festival returns in 2016 it is likely to be an East Coast and Auckland only affair, according to promoter AJ Maddah. Maddah made the comment on Twitter in response to a question of whether there were any “murmurs’ of
The Australian festival has changed owners for the second time this year.
C3 Presents have confirmed that the Big Day Out will not return in 2015
UPDATE 7:52am AEST 26/05/14: New owners C3 Presents have confirmed Big Day Out 2015 has been cancelled – details here. After Music Feeds broke the news earlier today that AJ Maddah has stepped down as director of the Big Day Out and transferred over his stake to US company C3 Presents, reports have now surfaced
Company now solely owned by US-based C3 Presents
“Blur cancelled the tour because they don’t want to see each other…”
Claims organisers “weren’t straight” with him
The skirmish between Fairfax Media and the Big Day Out continues with further allegations of mismanagement during BDO 2014. According to the report, several punters have raised complaints with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over the event’s VIP tickets. The ‘Like A Boss’ tickets were priced at $285 — an extra $100 on
AJ Maddah addresses Big Day Out rumours during Triple J appearance.
The only thing better than one Big Day Out headliner is two on stage at the same time, and that’s exactly what happened at the Perth leg of the tour on Sunday when Arcade Fire‘s Win Butler joined Pearl Jam onstage to help Eddie Vedder cover Neil Young‘s track Rockin’ In The Free World. Pearl
In a statement released overnight, co-promotors of the Big Day Out, US-based company C3 Presents, have hit back at claims that they didn’t pay vendors working at the summer festivals, saying they are “prepared to deal with” dwindling ticket sales. “A Sydney newspaper reported that vendors would not be paid and that is simply not
Following the long-suspected and recently confirmed news that Big Day Out will not be returning to Perth, festival promoter AJ Maddah has raised doubts over the future of the Adelaide leg of the show. As FasterLouder point out, this morning, Maddah responded to a question from a Twitter follower about whether the BDO would return
New report claims festival faces record low sales
Big Day Out 2014 organisers have released the new map and timetable for this weekend’s BDO event in Perth, which according to promoter AJ Maddah and CEO Adam Zammit, will be the last Big Day Out ever to be held in the city, labelled by Maddah as “the end of an area.” The revised map
Arcade Fire completely embody the tangible energy and rhythmic pulse of their live show: confetti, colourful outfits, an ever changing number of people on (and sometimes off) stage, even some momentary twerking – they’re a sort of portable càrnivale. Prior to the group’s Big Day Out sideshow in Sydney, frontman Win Butler told Music Feeds:
Sunday will be Perth’s last BDO…
Kyuss were forced to change their name to Kyuss Lives! and again to Vista Chino following a lawsuit filed by former members Josh Homme and Scott Reeder, but it hasn’t changed a thing. There was really no question if the recent legal hassles had slowed the band. Their new album, Peace, harks back to the
This weekend’s Perth Big Day Out will be the last
A Victoria Police officer has been questioned after a video of her dancing in uniform with a gun in her holster whilst on duty at the Big Day Out 2014 surfaced online. The dancing officer was cheered on by a reported crowd of 1000 festival-goers during a performance at the event’s Boiler Room. “She took
