Big Day Out

The Big Day Out (BDO) was an annual music festival that was held in five Australian cities: Sydney, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth. The festival was also held in Auckland, New Zealand, up to and including 2012, and in 2014. It has not been held since, and its future is not clear. Also see series listing annual compilations regarding this festival at Big Day Out (2). The festival was usually held in late January each year. It debuted on the 1992 Australia Day public holiday in Sydney and expanded to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by the following year. The Gold Coast and Auckland were added to the schedule in 1994. It has featured seven or eight stages (depending on the venue) accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic music, mainstream international acts and local acts.