Thought I'd start a thread to see if anyone has heard of any rumours for next years Big Day Out??

i heard a rumour that blink were playing.

Oh that be mean!

Wont matter who is playing, chances are ill be going as they always have at least 3-4 acts that i want to see. Plus my summer wouldn't be complete without going. Though i doubt anything will be able to beat seeing Rage play in 2008.

At this point, it appears that the main candidates to headline are Blur, No Doubt, blink-182 and Faith No More. Blur could make me drop my BDO embargo, and the other 3 wouldn't go down too bad either.

blink-182 would be much better at Soundwave, Faith No More and No Doubt probably would be too. In terms of other acts I've been hearing about (non-headliners), the quality is lacking yet again. We're spoiled for choice with festivals right now, and BDO has become way too complacent.

I wouldn't go for No Doubt or Blur...but definitely would go for Faith No More and Blink 182

I probably wouldn't have gone for Blur, but after their Glasto performance, they might do it by themselves. Having said that, I'd probably go anyway.

I enjoyed this year, Neil Young is one of my idols.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/2906960/David-Bowie-to-play-Big-Day-Out

BOWIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Won't happen. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I actually know the person that dropped the rumour to a few blogs. Has done it a couple of times before, and when he showed the results in an IRC room, everyone lol'd. If by some act of god Bowie winds up on the bill, the joke is going to become even more epic.

Some names that are almost guaranteed to be on the bill: Muse, Placebo, Powderfinger, Groove Armada, Mastodon, Kasabian, Dizzee Rascal, The Mars Volta, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Foals, Girl Talk (epic) Rise Against, Calvin Harris, Massive Attack (I hope not, far too good for BDO), Passion Pit, The Dead Weather (lame), Lisa Mitchell

And there'll probably be another headliner tailored to the oldies. McCartney is the most likely name to show up in that slot, unfortunately Neil Young wasn't a big hit with a lot of the BDO's key demographic - bogans with shit taste in music.

tl;dr? Some quality, but not as much as Soundwave.

I havnt been for a couple of years, I went in 06 and 07
and it was awesome

The Mars Volta would be awesome, none of the rest of those do too much for me.

Wouldn't mind about half the names I listed, but it probably won't be enough to get me to endure the sea of bogans. Sideshows ahoy. Oh, and people should know there's always bound to be a couple of acts off the Warp, Domino and DFA rosters each year.

Ha! They fell for the David Bowie rumour as well.

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