Big Day Out 2010

[fish eel]

Great idea.

Was the only douchebag free zone all day.

90% of Australia's Southern Cross tattoo's where in the boiler room.





BDO site disagrees - Powderfinger listed as #2.



Because every year it gets even worse.

Compare BDO '10 to BDO 92-96. It's a no contest.

Bingo!!

The best BDO's were the ones at the old sydney showground before they had the year off.

It's a completely different festival and vibe now.

I can understand why though....they just got too big. Bigger venue in Sydney....need to sell more tickets and hence a need to have acts that appears to a broader spectrum of people.

Sure, they get some good bands now, but heaps of rubbish to placate the masses.

'94-95 were the best ones. Smashing Pumpkins on the back of siamese dream, soundgarden before they took off (badmotorfinger album), urge overkill, the cult, primal scream, the breeders, teenage fanclub among the bands I remember seeing around then.

Classic line ups and a dickhead free crowd.

I remember going the year it returned after missing one year, first one at homebush.

They had the caberet show that is marylin manson and korn, and the subsequent testorone fuelled dickheads that are into that stuff. The festival changed, each to their own but it's not for me. In fact, the festival scene as a whole has changed in Oz. I went to Homebake last year for the first time in at least 7-8 years and could only think 'was the crowd ALWAYS full of so many knobs?"

 

[Eelementary]

I actually think I may go just to see Mastodon. Freaking awesome band. And they are not commercial.

 

[Eelementary]

Bingo!!

The best BDO's were the ones at the old sydney showground before they had the year off.

It's a completely different festival and vibe now.

I can understand why though....they just got too big. Bigger venue in Sydney....need to sell more tickets and hence a need to have acts that appears to a broader spectrum of people.

Sure, they get some good bands now, but heaps of rubbish to placate the masses.

'94-95 were the best ones. Smashing Pumpkins on the back of siamese dream, soundgarden before they took off (badmotorfinger album), urge overkill, the cult, primal scream, the breeders, teenage fanclub among the bands I remember seeing around then.

Classic line ups and a dickhead free crowd.

I remember going the year it returned after missing one year, first one at homebush.

They had the caberet show that is marylin manson and korn, and the subsequent testorone fuelled dickheads that are into that stuff. The festival changed, each to their own but it's not for me. In fact, the festival scene as a whole has changed in Oz. I went to Homebake last year for the first time in at least 7-8 years and could only think 'was the crowd ALWAYS full of so many knobs?"

I hate Marilyn Manson and Korn suck balls imo. But why do people who like them get characterized as 'dickheads'?

 

[fish eel]

I hate Marilyn Manson and Korn suck balls imo. But why do people who like them get characterized as 'dickheads'?

Sure, not everyone, but I was referring to 'testoterone fuelled dickheads'. I'm sure you know the type.....

 

[Mong]

I hate Marilyn Manson and Korn suck balls imo. But why do people who like them get characterized as 'dickheads'?

I wasn't a fan of either until i saw them both at that BDO.. I went along to that one as there was a number of good Aussie bands i wanted to see and a few from other places early on..

Turned out to be a good day, although i left when Hole were playing.. They were rubbish..

 

[Eelementary]

Sure, not everyone, but I was referring to 'testoterone fuelled dickheads'. I'm sure you know the type.....

Fair enough mate. Yes, I do, unfortunately...

 

[Eelectrica]

I actually think I may go just to see Mastodon. Freaking awesome band. And they are not commercial.

Was so hoping Mastodon would get announced in the 2nd Soundwave announcement. Ah well not to be.

Bring on Faith no more and Soundwave

 

[fish eel]

I wasn't a fan of either until i saw them both at that BDO.. I went along to that one as there was a number of good Aussie bands i wanted to see and a few from other places early on..

Turned out to be a good day, although i left when Hole were playing.. They were rubbish..

Don't tell me you saw them and became a fan Mong?:shock:

The best band on that BDO was Manic Street Preachers.

 

[Mong]

Don't tell me you saw them and became a fan Mong?:shock:

The best band on that BDO was Manic Street Preachers.

I became a fan of Korn after seeing them live at the BDO.. (for a time). Manson put on a good show, i enjoyed it so paid more attention to what he did after that.. at least for a while..

Bot surprised me and were much better than i expected...

 

[sting]

as someone suggested 311 would be heaps good to have on. same with kid cudi, saw him at sounds last year and he was awesome.

as for the announcement, pretty pumped to see girl talk. groove armada will be cool even though i've seen them recently same with ladyhawke.

muse is sh*t, and pretty much so is everything else on there.

would've been good if the rumours were true and we had bowie headlining and vampire weekend somethere there too

 

[phonetic]

Man there's some whingers on here.

Pretty stoked with the 2010 lineup so far. In past year's where I haven't been so chuffed, I just get over it. Not everyone can be catered to. And if you haven't been properly catered to in the last 8-10 years, take a hint. Stay home and shutup.

 

[Danish]

Fish eel and co whinging about "the good old days"...

The crux of your entire complaint is that a modern rock festival no longer adheres to your particular taste in music. Grunge/Metal was the R'n'B/Pop music of the early-mid 90s, and as such dominated the air waves and the festivals of the day. This has changed now and the songs played on the radio and the bands playing at the festivals will change with it.

Problem is your musical tastes haven't evolved with it, and as such the music of your youth is always considered to be the "best" music you've ever heard and will always be better than "todays" music in your eyes.

Its called getting old.

In another 10 years you'll have advanced to full blown romantic delusion about how Big Day Out '96 was a spiritual event where everyone was just there for the music and was one and it changed the world ala Woodstock goers.

Don't worry though, because in another decade all your music will be on the radio again..... on WSFM

 

[Timmah]

Tickets supposedly on sale from www.bigdayout.com from midnight. Agencies selling them from 9am.

I just went to Ticketmaster and bought four, around three hours before the on-sale time :?

 

[CC_Eagle]

Ditto.

Ah well, worst case scenario is they f*cked up and released them early. But a receipt number/order confirmation fixes that problem.

 

[Timmah]

Maybe, but look at the Pricing & Other Errors section of the Terms & Conditions...

 

[CC_Eagle]

Melodie Mars has stated on the BDO forum that all Ticketmaster tickets bought last night will be honored.

It's also on the BDO Facebook & Twitter.

Whether it stays that way is another story.

 

[bluesbreaker]

I'm joining the 'sh*ttest festival line-up ever' band-wagon. Seems it's the Big Day Out Re-Run special this year. They can deal up swill like this and the hungry masses will still sell the merkin out. Oh well.

Last good festival I saw was Splendour 05. Everything since has been fairly ordinary.

 

[CC_Eagle]

I'm joining the 'sh*ttest festival line-up ever' band-wagon. Seems it's the Big Day Out Re-Run special this year. They can deal up swill like this and the hungry masses will still sell the merkin out. Oh well.

Last good festival I saw was Splendour 05. Everything since has been fairly ordinary.

We have a winner.

 

[Danger]

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...-show-announced-for-sydney-20091007-gmfi.html

Second Big Day Out show announced for Sydney
ASHER MOSES

October 7, 2009 - 2:50PM

The organisers of the Big Day Out festival have announced a second show for Sydney after technical glitches and heavy demand marred the release of tickets this morning.
The shows will run back to back with the second show taking place on Saturday January 22. Tickets will go on sale on Monday morning - the second time in the festival's 18 year history that a second show has been staged in any city.

Last night and this morning, a large portion of the 50,000 tickets to the first show were snapped up instantly by scalpers and listed on eBay at heavily inflated prices.
Tickets were supposed to go on sale this morning but some were sold early by Ticketmaster at 9pm yesterday.
By the time they went on sale at 9am today, the tickets were sold out instantly, with scores of people saying they were unable to secure one despite refreshing the site continuously from early in the morning.
The Big Day Out organiser separately sold tickets via its website last night but the "Buy Tickets" button on the site did not work.
"I kept clicking on the “Buy Tickets” button, only to find that it wasn't where you go to actually buy tickets," wrote Mark Sommer on the Big Day Out Facebook page.
"It wasn't until a mate called and told me that he stumbled on to the right place that I managed to find it, only to find out that it was sold out. I'd been clicking around the BDO website for 17 minutes after midnight, and it sold out in 16."
Things kept getting worse for Sommer, as he logged on to the Ticketmaster website at 8am this morning and kept refreshing the page every minute before 9am, only to find he was still unable to secure a ticket.
"For 5 minutes after 9am, I refreshed that page every time it loaded, only to be told that tickets weren't on sale yet. The second it changed to “Find Tickets”, they were all sold out."
Sommer's comments are representative of the wave of angry feedback directed at the Big Day Out organisers on Facebook and Twitter.
Adding insult to injury, scalpers are now advertising a plethora of Big Day Out tickets on eBay for a buy-it-now price of $300, which is double the original price.
Some of the eBay auctions have skyrocketed to several thousand dollars but this is likely due to phoney bidding done by angry punters who missed out.
"I had eight different groups of people that I know of on Ticketmaster this morning and not one of them got tickets," said Karen Wilshire, 32, who has been attending the Big Day Out since she was a little girl.
Big Day Out national event coordinator Sahara Shepherd said Ticketmaster sold the tickets early due to an "internal error". She said scalping was unavoidable and a second show was necessary to meet the increased demand.
"Tickets were meant to go on sale at 9am today but unfortunately someone there logged it in their system as 9pm. We were made aware that there was a problem and pulled it down as quickly as we could."

 

[Alex28]

Or was it a technical glitch...all of a sudden there's double the profit out of the Sydney leg of the festival!

It seems that they have become very good at making money out of this thing, and become very ordinary in putting on an alternate music festival.