October 02 2007
Big Day Out — First Acts Announced
posted by Steven Shaw at 9:14 am
The first acts have been announced for Big Day Out 2008 — the headliners so far being the recently reunited Rage Against The Machine (above) and Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork. They’ll be joined by Dizzee Rascal, Billy Bragg, Shihad, The Phoenix Foundation, The Clean, SJD, Katchafire, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, Grinspoon, Hilltop Hoods, Paul Kelly, Battles, Young Sid, Antagonist, Motocade, White Birds and Lemons and Cut off Your Hands.
Tickets for the January 18 concert at Auckland’s Mt Smart stadium are on sale from October 12 — and the promoters are taking a stand against scalpers by limiting sales to four per customer and making the tickets non-transferable. Read about that and look out for further announcements on the Big Day Out website.
It’s a few months away yet though, so in the meantime here’s a taste of Rage Against the Machine, performing “Testify” at Coachella 2007…