Big Day Out

The Big Day Out is an annual festival tour of Australia and New Zealand. The musical focus on the various stages is on rock music and electronic sounds. The festival makes a stop in Sydney, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Auckland; terminated, the event is in January or February, so in the oceanic summer.

The first event took place only in 1992 in Sydney, under the bands, among others, the Violent Femmes and Nirvana were. In the following years the other tour locations were added, since 1996, there are the six mentioned. As low point in the history of the Tour applies a performance of the band Limp Bizkit in 2001 in Sydney, in which a teenage girl was crushed in front of the stage. The safety concept has been improved in the following years.

For several years, a compilation series will be released on CD on which the bands involved in the tour are represented.