News broke early this evening that this Friday’s event will be the last ever Big Day Out event in New Zealand.
This year’s festival was slimmed down – with headliner Kanye West dropped from the Auckland show, and the main arena only having one stage, a blow was also struck when Odd Future who were booked to play the festival were banned by the Auckland City Council from performing at the Mt Smart venue after receiving a complaint about their lyrical content.
“We found ourselves looking back at the Big Day Out and over the last few years it’s grown a bit and it’s become a bit out of control and it’s become a bit, honestly a bit too expensive, so we have looked at I guess going back to the beginning and rebuilding it,” said the Big Day Out’s New Zealand promoter Campbell Smith in November, when Kanye was dropped from the line-up. However ticket sales for teh event are reportedly low – Smith telling the NZ Herald that Friday is unlikely to sell out.
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January 18, 2012
I think it won’t sell out because they have such a shit line up. The BDO are so uninventive and uninspired with their band choices, and there is no act to draw me in. I was even offered a free ticket and declined.
Soundgarden? Oh FFS. The problem with the BDO is they only seem to know a handful of bands and repeat them every second year. I’m not sad they won’t be back in 2013, because I can imagine it now… Tool, Muse, blah blah blah.