BDO 2011

[Booney]

Tool!! Oh yeah!

[schimma]

Solid line up. looks like a good day

[Q.]

Bloody Beetroots will be nuts

Also, the chance to catch LCD Soundsystem before they split is too good a chance to turn down.

When do tickets go on sale?

[Booney]

Tickets on sale 6th October for the gig on Friday Feb 4th.

[BenchedEagle]

Deftones and Tool. My 2 fave bands ever

Seen Tool 2x but havent seen Deftones since Vans Warped Tour '99. So pumped

[Pidge]

Birds of Tokyo headlining!!!

Seriously, what a terrible line-up.

Tool, Rammstein.. is this Soundwave?

The Aussie Acts are good, but the international acts are poor to say the least.

$150 staying in my pocket.

[Wizard of Oz]

Birds of Tokyo headlining!!!

Seriously, what a terrible line-up.

Tool, Rammstein.. is this Soundwave?

The Aussie Acts are good, but the international acts are poor to say the least.

$150 staying in my pocket.

And this post sums up all that is wrong with the current BDO attendees. It has turned into a lollipop festival for teeny boppers. I bet you never attended a BDO in the late 90's or early 2000's ? And only started going once it was commercialised with bands getting SAFM airplay.

This is not a personal attack on you by the way.

[Leaping Lindner]

Birds of Tokyo headlining!!!

Seriously, what a terrible line-up.

Tool, Rammstein.. is this Soundwave?

The Aussie Acts are good, but the international acts are poor to say the least.

$150 staying in my pocket.

And this post sums up all that is wrong with the current BDO attendees. It has turned into a lollipop festival for teeny boppers. I bet you never attended a BDO in the late 90's or early 2000's ? And only started going once it was commercialised with bands getting SAFM airplay.
This is not a personal attack on you by the way.

I remember a conversation my ex and I had on the way out from the first Big Day Out that no one on the bill had got SA-FM airplay (to that point anyway - Feb 93) and it proved that alternative music had a healthy market away from the mainstream. Mind you things turned to shit (IMO anyway) in the mid-90s when Triple J started playing Alternative Muzak.

Ah memories. The days when you missed good stuff because you couldn't get from one stage to the other in time.

[Wizard of Oz]

Mudhoney....classic.

Yep, 95 was my first one. Haven't been for a couple of years now....especially since Soundwave has saved us.

[tazz]

Yep, 95 was my first one. Haven't been for a couple of years now....especially since Soundwave has saved us.

Same. Havent been since Soundwave started in SA. with Rammstien getting announced, I will go next year

[MatteeG]

Happy to miss this one, frees up much needed coin for No Sleep til...

[Pidge]

Birds of Tokyo headlining!!!

Seriously, what a terrible line-up.

Tool, Rammstein.. is this Soundwave?

The Aussie Acts are good, but the international acts are poor to say the least.

$150 staying in my pocket.

And this post sums up all that is wrong with the current BDO attendees. It has turned into a lollipop festival for teeny boppers. I bet you never attended a BDO in the late 90's or early 2000's ? And only started going once it was commercialised with bands getting SAFM airplay.

This is not a personal attack on you by the way.

If it were bands getting SAFM airplay it'd be Justin Bieber, Ke$ha etc...
I hate SAFM.
Triple J is awesome.

Which of the bands on the list are getting regular SAFM airplay?

This years line-up was awesome. A good mix of Aussie acts and the international acts were actually good.

[Wizard of Oz]

John Butler Trio, Wolfmother, Birds of Tokyo, LCD SOundsystem to name a few...

Black Eyed Peas, Hilltop Hoods, Muse, Powderfinger, Eskimo Joe, Lilly Allen, Groove Armada etc from last year.

The festival has changed.....and definitely for the worse. In my opinion of course.

[Mr66]

TOOL!

er...and Iggy...and maybe Deftones

[Q.]

This argument comes up every year.

I still rate the BDO. What other festival in Adelaide allows me to walk from watching a prog-electro band like Crystal Castles to a prog-metal band like Tool?

Diversity is it's key. Who gives a shit if bands like LCD Soundsystem or Bloody Beetroots are getting mainstream airplay, it doesn't make these bands any less awesome.

[Freo HeaveHo]

bit off topic guys .... but speacing of rock / electro .. Anyone not doing anything tomorrow night get to Enigma and check out MM9 ... Australias best kept secret . Absolutely unreal live act. Just come off a national support with Karnivool . Twenty bucks a ticket money well spent

[MatteeG]

bit off topic guys .... but speacing of rock / electro .. Anyone not doing anything tomorrow night get to Enigma and check out MM9 ...

I wish it was FF9...

[Pidge]

John Butler Trio, Wolfmother, Birds of Tokyo, LCD SOundsystem to name a few...

Black Eyed Peas, Hilltop Hoods, Muse, Powderfinger, Eskimo Joe, Lilly Allen, Groove Armada etc from last year.

The festival has changed.....and definitely for the worse. In my opinion of course.

First of all. Triple J plays most of these bands songs before anyone else. A song or two from an album becomes popular, then it gets played and played and played and played on SAFM.

Birds of Tokyo only have 1 song played on SAFM.. That is Plans, which is one of their average songs on the album. I bet most people dont even know they have two other albums, which both have way better songs than plans on them.

The only reason it has changed for the worse is because next year they have got poor international acts. The Aussie contingent is pretty good. Definitely a few good up and coming bands in there.

[Wizard of Oz]

John Butler Trio, Wolfmother, Birds of Tokyo, LCD SOundsystem to name a few...

Black Eyed Peas, Hilltop Hoods, Muse, Powderfinger, Eskimo Joe, Lilly Allen, Groove Armada etc from last year.

The festival has changed.....and definitely for the worse. In my opinion of course.

First of all. Triple J plays most of these bands songs before anyone else. A song or two from an album becomes popular, then it gets played and played and played and played on SAFM.

Birds of Tokyo only have 1 song played on SAFM.. That is Plans, which is one of their average songs on the album. I bet most people dont even know they have two other albums, which both have way better songs than plans on them.

The only reason it has changed for the worse is because next year they have got poor international acts. The Aussie contingent is pretty good. Definitely a few good up and coming bands in there.

Dude I know all about Triple J and their unearthing of new tracks before other stations.

And yep, the same people would probably have no idea who Karnivool are either.

The difference though is that it was ONLY Triple J playing the bands at the BDO back then. Making it far more alternative and less mainstream. Crowd numbers would also support this.

[Leaping Lindner]

John Butler Trio, Wolfmother, Birds of Tokyo, LCD SOundsystem to name a few...

Black Eyed Peas, Hilltop Hoods, Muse, Powderfinger, Eskimo Joe, Lilly Allen, Groove Armada etc from last year.

The festival has changed.....and definitely for the worse. In my opinion of course.

First of all. Triple J plays most of these bands songs before anyone else. A song or two from an album becomes popular, then it gets played and played and played and played on SAFM.

Birds of Tokyo only have 1 song played on SAFM.. That is Plans, which is one of their average songs on the album. I bet most people dont even know they have two other albums, which both have way better songs than plans on them.

The only reason it has changed for the worse is because next year they have got poor international acts. The Aussie contingent is pretty good. Definitely a few good up and coming bands in there.

Dude I know all about Triple J and their unearthing of new tracks before other stations.

And yep, the same people would probably have no idea who Karnivool are either.

The difference though is that it was ONLY Triple J playing the bands at the BDO back then. Making it far more alternative and less mainstream. Crowd numbers would also support this.

And 3d, RRR, ZZZ etc. Also that was back in the day that Richard Kingsmill's taste wasn't up his own arse.