Now I have never been to a Big Day Out before, so I can’t exactly jump on the criticising bandwagon and complain about how it’s changed. I will say that compared to the other festivals that I have been to, it was a little on the smaller side; with most of the stages packed into a small section of the foreshore.

The final stop of the Big Day Out Festival tour landed at McCallum Park, Perth with a lineup featuring Soundgarden, Kasabian, My Chemical Romance, Battles, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Kimbra, Bluejuice and more. Stuart Sevastos brings us the photos of the day.

Attendance at the Adelaide Big Day Out was way down this year, but the enthusiasm level of the crowd was high. A scaled down show, minus the eastern states headliner Kayne West and one main stage gave this festival a more intimate feel. Between the main stage and the Guvera skate stage, Legends of Vert performed on the half pipe skate ramp. Perfect weather for an enjoyable day of music.

Rebecca Houlden takes us to the Big Day Out in Melbourne and captures the amazing performances of Kasabian, Frenzal Rhomb, Mariachi El Bronx, Cage The Elephant, The Living End (pictured) and many more...

Ah Big Day Out… the festival that has been running like a freight train year after year only to be halted this year by slow ticket sales and a ‘weak lineup’. And despite all my concerns leading into the day Ken West (minus Vivian Lees for the first time ever) pulled it off and put on a more than enjoyable day.

Pictured: Kanye West.

Being a pretentious wank, I’m used to attending gigs in tiny rooms with a handful of other conceited punters who spent half their night looking disinterested while composing a smarmy Facebook status update on their smart phones to show the rest of the world how cool they are. So it was a grand experience to see every single punter in Festival Hall loosing their shit as what is arguably one of the best live bands of our generation strutted their stuff onstage and damn near caused a riot, with numerous revellers being bailed up by security as they made their merry way out onto the streets at the end of the show.

There was a great deal of scrutiny in the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the Big Day Out with regards to the festivals relevance. Poor ticket sales and the announcement of the last ever Auckland leg, sans headliner Kanye West, did nothing to help the ailing publicity.

"Holy shit" seems to be among the most commonly used words on the internet this morning with the announcement of the Coachella 2012 lineup.

Let's get those diaries open... it's time for the Big Day Out sideshow announcements! While this is the vast majority of sideshows we'll be getting for BDO in 2012, we're sure there's more dates to come and more artists to be announced so stay tuned... but for now... away we go!

Tickets to all shows are on sale next Monday, the 28th at 12noon, with presales on the 25th.

KASABIAN
with special guests THE VACCINES

SYDNEY: THE HORDERN PAVILION - TUESDAY, 24 JANUARY, 2012

Reaching an epic twenty weeks at the ARIA Album Chart pinnacle this week is Adele’s ground-breaking album 21, which joins Shania Twain’s 1999 record “Come On Over” as the fourth longest-running chart-topper in ARIA Chart history! Only Brothers In Arms from Dire Straits, Innocent Eyes from Delta Goodrem and Jack Farnham’s Whispering Jack have eclipsed this mammoth achievement since the ARIA Charts began in 1983.

MasterCard is excited to announce the 2nd show of the Debit MasterCard Priceless Music series for 2011 with another must-see performance, this time by UK rock outfit, Kasabian.