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Jeff the Brotherhood Announce Big Day Out Sideshows

Nashville wunderkinds Jeff the Brotherhood will complement their appearances at the Big Day Out next year with a string of sideshows.

Jeff the Brotherhood have honed their live performances with more than 400 shows in the last two years. These sideshows give fans an opportunity to catch the pair playing sounds from their new album Hypnotic Nights in some of Australia’s most beloved nightspots. The intimate atmosphere those venues afford should make them much more tempting than the festival dates.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning, September 21, for the following Jeff the Brotherhood sideshows.

17 January 2013 – The Standard, Sydney
19 January 2013 – Great Northern, Byron Bay
23 January 2013 – Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine
24 January 2013 – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
27 January 2013 – Mojo’s, Fremantle

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Score Free Big Day Out Tickets and Phones with Motorola Competition

Motorola has its own version of Santa this Christmas, and it’s Barry. Barry has been travelling all around the country handing out free Big Day Out tickets and Defy phones through the company’s Dash to Defy promotion.

To track down Barry, just point your browser to the Dash to Defy website. Registered members get clues about Barry’s locations, and just quietly you can get some extra hints on the Motorola Australia Facebook page. Barry will hand out the goodies every Tuesday and Thursday until the end of the month, so there are plenty of opportunities to score.

With several BDO shows already sold out, Barry’s bound to be a very popular fellow. Good luck hunting him down!

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Big Day Out 2011 Makes First Lineup Announcement

Big Day Out 2011 is shaping up to be a beauty, with the first official line-up announced.

We’ve heard the names of Iggy and The Stooges, Tool, and Grinderman leaked, but it’s great to see them as confirmed starters. No Soundgarden as was previously rumoured, but Rammstein, M.I.A, Deftones, and Primal Scream playing their classic album Screamadelica all made great substitutes.

The local contingent is also strong, with PNAU, Bliss N Eso, John Butler Trio, Angus and Julia Stone, Birds of Tokyo, Operator Please, and Dead Letter Circus amongst the names preparing to make the trek around Oz.

They’ll do it at the following shows around the country. Sydneysiders can get their tickets on October 6, Gold Coast residents on the 7th, and everyone else on the 8th. They’ll go sale from the Big Day Out website at 12:01 am ahead of the 9 am sale through Ticketmaster. Now let’s see whether we get the same system meltdowns as we tend to each year!

ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. AUGUST 6, 2010. American musician Iggy Pop with the Stooges band perform at Milk Moscow Club. (Photo ITAR-TASS/ Alexei Filippov) Photo via Newscom


23 January 2011 – Parklands, Gold Coast
26 January 2011 – Showgrounds, Sydney
30 January 2011 – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
4 February 2011 – Showgrounds, Adelaide
6 February 2011 – Claremont Showground, Perth

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HP Go Live Winner Does BDO In Style

David Murray may just be the luckiest music fan in Oz. Like many other Aussies he submitted a video album review to the HP Go Live Competition. He never dreamed that his take on the new Birds of Tokyo album would be the winning entry.

As the winner of the HP Go Live competition, David travelled with the Big Day Out crew to the festival’s five Aussie locations. Along the way he interviewed the likes of Sneaky Sound System, Birds of Tokyo, Children Collide, Little Red, and Sparkadia. David was new to the interviewing game, so he was mentored by Video Hits diva Fuzzy. As if that wasn’t cool enough he took home a HP HDX Premium Notebook PC and a HP iPAQ912 Series Business Messenger.

“This has been an amazing experience and an awesome opportunity … This is exactly the kind of experience I need so hopefully after this it’ll be up, up and away as far as my career goes” says David.

“Fuzzy has been a great help to me throughout this entire experience, mainly by just being so friendly and approachable … She is also is a really great interviewer and has given me lots of hints and tips.”

He’s certainly got a fan in the Video Hits presenter.

“David’s awesome; he’s a very confident guy. He knows his stuff, is clearly passionate about music and would make a fantastic interviewer …HP has come up with such a unique, once in a lifetime opportunity for people to get out there and on TV with bands” she said.

It might be all done and dusted, but you can check out David’s exclusive interviews, plus those covetable HP products, on David’s blog.

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Pendulum Swing Back to Australia

After selling out shows across England, wowing crowds at festivals across Europe, and sending their album Silico to number 2 on the UK charts, Pendulum are heading home.

The local rockers will play on the main state at the Big Day Out festival, but if you missed out on tickets don’t sweat it. The lads will also play some sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne.

You can catch Pendulum at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on January 25 and Melbourne’s Forum on January 28.

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Fantomas To Play Director’s Cut at BDO

Fantomas fans are in for a real treat, with the band set to perform their entire album The Director’s Cut at their Big Day Out shows next year.

The Director’s Cut, a collection of reinvented film soundtrack songs, may have been released way back in 2001, but who cares? It’s a nice change from bands who just want to shove new songs down our throat without the golden oldies!

The Big Day Out festival kicks off on January 16 in Auckland, New Zealand, before travelling all around Australia and finishing up in Perth on February 1.

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The Lowdown on Big Day Out Sideshows

If you missed out on Big Day Out shows, or you’re just looking for a double dose of your favourite band, you’ll want to check out the recently announced sideshows.

Plenty of the big name international acts will play up close and personal shows around the country. Tickets to all the following shows go on sale on Monday 1 December.

The Prodigy
29 January 2009 – The Palace, Melbourne

Simian Mobile Disco
21 January 2009 – The Metro, Sydney
25 January – The Prince Bandroom, Melbourne

Arctic Monkeys
22 January 2009 – The Enmore Theatre, Sydney
24 January 2009 – The Palais Theatre, Melbourne

Pendulum
25 January 2009 – The Enmore Theatre, Sydney
28 January 2009 – The Forum, Melbourne

Lupe Fiasco with Muph N Plutonic and MC Pez
20 January 2009 – The Enmore Theatre, Sydney
27 January 2009 – The Palace, Melbourne

Hot Chip
21 Jan 2009 – The Enmore Theatre, Sydney
25 Jan 2009 – Billboard, Melbourne

Serj Tankian with Fantomas
21 January 2009 – The Tivoli, Brisbane
24 January 2009 – The Enmore Theatre, Sydney
25 January 2009 – The Palace, Melbourne

The Ting Tings
20 January 2009 – The Metro, Sydney
28 January 2009 – The Prince Bandroom, Melbourne

TV On The Radio with Wolf & Cub
24 January 2009 – The Metro, Sydney
29 January 2009 – The Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne

The Black Kids
20 January 2009 – The Gaelic Club, Sydney
24 January 2009 – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Dropkick Murphys
25 January 2009 – The Metro, Sydney
28 January 2009 – Billboard, Melbourne

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Neil Young to Headline Big Day Out

The official announcements don’t come until the end of the month but one cat is already out of the bag. Neil Young will headline the 2009 Big Day Out.

Festival promoters Lee and West confirmed the exciting news to Undercover News today.

No doubt all the kids still getting turned on to Harvest so many decades after its release will be thrilled at the news. While the BDO bill is sure to be killer, it’s probably not going to excite a lot of Neil Young’s older fans.

They’ll be pleased to know he’s already announced some sideshows in the major capitals. Tickets for these gigs go on sale on September 19.

See this living legend at the following venues:

21 January 2009 – Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
24 January 2009 – Entertainment Centre, Sydney
28 January 2009 – Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne

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Silverchair, Spoon, and More Join BDO Bill

Next year’s Big Day Out lineup was already bursting at the seams, but with the most recent announcement, it’s bigger than ever.

Silverchair had a massive year in 2007, taking home five ARIAs and receiving worldwide acclaim for their fifth album Young Modern. They’re set to start 2008 with a bang appearing at Big Day Out gigs around Australia and New Zealand.

They’ll join other local sensations including Augie March, Regurgitator, Josh Pyke, Gyroscope, and Operator Please.

There’s also more international acts, with American rockers Spoon, DJ Carl Cox, Brit darling Kate Nash, and electronic outfit Unkle joining the bill.

They’ll play alongside Rage Against the Machine, Bjork, Hilltop Hoods, Billy Bragg, and more at these massive events.

The Gold Coast, Sydney, and Melbourne shows have already sold out, and with these recent additions the Adelaide, Auckland, and Perth shows won’t be too far behind.

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Big Day Out Sells Out

Tickets to this summer’s Big Day Out have proved to be some of the hottest in town.

20, 000 Sydney tickets were snapped up in just five minutes yesterday, setting a new Ticketmaster record. The other 25,000 tickets sold through the Big Day Out site didn’t last long either. The Gold Coast show proved equally popular, selling out just as quickly this morning.

But fear not, music fans. Final tickets will be available through a ballot system on the Big Day Out website. Every Thursday for the next ten weeks, lucky music fans will be chosen to buy a limited number of tickets. Head to The Big Day Out website for your chance to score the tickets.

Meanwhile, the Auckland, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth shows go on sale to the general public tomorrow. Good luck!

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