BIG DAY OUT 2009

[ca]

Sounds like there is a Melvins Australian tour in January not sure if it involves Adelaide. Makes sense they would play BDO with Fantomas although they seem to big to be on the 3rd announcement. They may just do their own shows. Have to wait and see.

Anyway third announcement is tomorrow.

[Leaping Lindner]

Sounds like there is a Melvins Australian tour in January not sure if it involves Adelaide. Makes sense they would play BDO with Fantomas although they seem to big to be on the 3rd announcement. They may just do their own shows. Have to wait and see.

Anyway third announcement is tomorrow.

They are playing in Melbourne at the Ding Dong club in January. Sounds like a BDO side show to me.

[Gozu]

WTF? Melvins as well? Oh my God. Why are Lees & West doing this to me. They're doing everything they can to force to me to go to this bloody BDO, Fantomas & Melvins? This can't be happening.

To quote Raoul Duke "What...is the meaning of this?"

[ca]

No Melvins so they must just be doing their own tour around the same time.

FANTOMAS, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, SON OF DAVE, BARRENCE WHITFIELD, T-REK, QUAN, TOOHEYS EXTRA DRY UNCHARTED WINNER, Wolf & Cub DJs, Lowrider, The Shiny Brights, Robotosaurus, The Watersliders, The Transatlantics, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, Dialect, Denorthwode, Terra Firma, Loot & Plunder plus triple j unearthed winner

[Q.]

They had better come to Adelaide

[Baron Greenback]

No Melvins so they must just be doing their own tour around the same time.

FANTOMAS, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, SON OF DAVE, BARRENCE WHITFIELD, T-REK, QUAN, TOOHEYS EXTRA DRY UNCHARTED WINNER, Wolf & Cub DJs, Lowrider, The Shiny Brights, Robotosaurus, The Watersliders, The Transatlantics, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, Dialect, Denorthwode, Terra Firma, Loot & Plunder plus triple j unearthed winner

Can't wait to see those guys.
They were awesome in 2007.
Did a rock cover of Sexyback by Justin Timberlake that was f*cking unreal.

[Dogwatcher]

I lurved them too.
Your response on here answered my email CN

[Dogwatcher]

If anyone's interested:

LILYWORLD’S ENCHANTED GARDEN
AT THE 2009 BIG DAY OUT

Wander through the enchanted garden of LILYWORLD and join the four green stooges Duckpond, Larry Kronick Jr, Heavy G and Christo as they take you on a journey through topiary and into a lost psychedelic garden of unearthly delights. In 2009 LILYWORLD is proud to present a green oasis of new musical genres and swinging styles. Enchanting and delighting bewildered individuals who dare to wander past this madness within the world that is the BIG DAY OUT.

The merry men of the sherbet forest have been busy propagating buffoontrees, gagvines, goonflowers and oversized discopumpkins right in the heart of the BIG DAY OUT to freak-out and confuse lost souls. The 2009 LILYWORLD proudly presents …

Funkabilly’s best kept secret, BARRENCE WHITFIELD (USA) is outta the bag and set to shake LILYWORLD to its very foundations at BIG DAY OUT 2009. He grew up on gospel but in Boston he found the truth in rock ‘n’ roll. He’s got the funk, he’s got the soul… basically, he’s got Little Richard covered. But wait, there’s more – BARRENCE will be backed by the ROCKWIZ ORKESTRA, as seen on SBS TV! (All Australian Shows)

Who is that man in the three-piece suit and the natty brogues? He is SON OF DAVE, and to witness him at BIG DAY OUT is to witness the blues dragged kicking and howling into the 21st Century. It all began one Christmas in Manitoba, Canada, when father gave young Benjamin Darvill a harmonica and a shaker. Now he stirs thoughts of Beck, the White Stripes and Tom Waits all rolled into one. (All shows)

Sultry Melbourne songstress PARIS WELLS has built up an incredible street-level buzz throughout underground circuit – helped along a little by her tour support spot for Justin Timberlake! PARIS has released a debut EP, Mum Hasn't Slept Yet, followed by an album Keep It (2008). With infectious, songs infused with a jaded swagger and she’ll be scorching your soul with her wild show at LILYWORLD. (Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth Shows)

From the South African countryside to the wilds of LILYWORLD at BIG DAY OUT comes RISENGA’S BUSH TECHNOLOGY who will catapult you into an ocean of rhythms. With an extraordinary range of music and musical instruments, Risenga Makondo straddles the diasporas from Africa to North and South America and over to Europe. Dance, drum and delight in his energy, charisma and versatility! (All Shows)

Gardening in Dubbo is a bit like playing the poker machines at the Dubbo RSL Club. You probably won’t get a payout, but there is nowhere else to go. Unlike the enchanted gardens of LILYWORLD, where THE REELS will be hoeing and weeding in January 2009, and presenting 80s pop as it really was, not without the chicken shit dynamic lifter. (Sydney & Melbourne Shows)

LILYWORLD also welcomes DEMOLITION B GIRL (Demi Sorono) who will step it up a notch or two on the LILYWORLD stage. Finalist on “So you Think You Can Dance”, DEMI is set to shake her groove thang many times over in the garden of So You Stink You Can Prance, where punters (preferably bogans) will step up and display their dancing skills to have a shot at the LILYWORLD title. (East Coast Shows)

MILES CLERET (UK) will send the beard scratching folkies running for the hills (looking for some bush weed) as he swings LILYWORLD into a tropical party with rare (and not so rare), upbeat tropical dance music from Latin America, Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean. Remixes with a baking-hot flavour – anything from Nigerian Afrobeat & Ghana Highlife to Colombian Cumbia, Samba from Brazil, Reggae, Calypso, Latin broken-beat, Dancehall and African Hip Hop - from the 1950’s to 2009. Dancing Wellies and rakes will definitely be required. (All Shows)

WHAT MAKES MEN BLUSH (WMMB) straight out of a glass cube inside a Sydney nightclub, this performance collective has hijacked Burlesque as an art form to push boundaries, challenge expectations and stereotypes, as well as highlight injustice. Embodying hyper-realities their tactile performance inspires, undresses and ravages the world that we have become accustomed to.  WMMB celebrates the ugly to realise the beautiful and celebrates the beautiful to re-define the ugly. (East Coast Shows)

With an act that'd see him get the crap beaten out of him if he wasn't so entertaining, TOMAS FORD serves up an unsettling, unique spectacle…edgy, dark, deeply funny. Ever since we sacked St Matthew for not swallowing the Tarago in 1996, we’ve been looking for someone from WA, and now we think we’ve found him! (All Australian Shows)

Along with many more weird and wonderful surprises, Superstar DJs , and the weirdest loons and goons , the Ice Cream Van returns after a trip to white rabbit, white rabbit, white rabbit, with a cocktail of surprised guests to keep the madness flowing till you can take it no more and you beg for your cornetto. All very speculative, dubious and non confirmed guests like the Hard Boiled Egg and Fake Duckpond will have you pleading for less! (East Coast Shows)

Just when it’s looking like its all gone feral, the lads from “Larry’s Mowing” will buzz through with whipper snippers giving free on-the-spot Brazilians to the most diehard greenie, and leaf-blowers to blow away any chance of skinning up a 3 paper trumpet, hotly pursued by the remaining members of the “Odour Police” who will take any and all remedial action to insure that NO hygiene-challenged punter stinks out the area!

Bill and Ben want a Little Weed? With more musical and metaphorical twists and turns than previously thought possible, comes LILYWORLD’s very own ”Cynical Brothers” Heavy G and “Needy Man” (Christo) who return with this season’s range of laughs and double entendres for the Kate moss who gathers the stones.

Blow, grow, and hang low at LILYWORLD for the ultimate garden party of 2009.

www.lilyworld.com.au

[Dogwatcher]

Latest news:

In 2009 MUCKAMUCKS takes the sideshow to a new level at BIG DAY OUT. This year we welcome Russian video greats AES+F with their virtual world video work Last Riot along with the thrilling hands-on mechanical sculptures of HAND OF MAN, CeLL, the return of the SILENT DISCO and more! Stop off at MUCKAMUCKS for some sideshow sensations that you won’t see anywhere else!

LAST RIOT by AES+F group, 2005-2007 (Russia): LAST RIOT is a video artwork by Russian artists AES+F and was the stand out work in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007. As their website describes LAST RIOT: The virtual world generated by the real world of the past twentieth century as the organism coming from a test-tube, expands, leaving its borders and grasping new zones, absorbs its founders and mutates in something absolutely new. In this new world the real wars look like a game on www.americasarmy.com <http://www.americasarmy.com/> , and prison tortures appear sadistic exercises of modern valkyrias. Technologies and materials transform the artificial environment and techniques into a fantasy landscape of the new epos. This paradise also is a mutated world with frozen time where all past epoch the neighbor with the future, where inhabitants lose their sex, and become closer to angels. The world, where any most severe, vague or erotic imagination is natural in the fake unsteady 3D perspective. The heroes of new epos have only one identity, the identity of the rebel of last riot. The last riot, where all are fighting against all and against themselves, where no difference exists any more between victim and aggressor, male and female. This world celebrates the end of ideology, history and ethic. (from www.aes-group.org)

LAST RIOT will screen in the inflatable dome cinema at all Australian cities.
Many thanks to Dr. Dick Quan for loan of this artwork. For more info on Last Riot and AES+F see http://www.aes-group.org <http://www.aes-group.org/> (All Shows)

HAND OF MAN by Christian Ristow (USA): Hailing from the desolate deserts of New Mexico, The HAND OF MAN is an enormous and incredibly powerful Hand that YOU control! This 8 metre long forearm and right hand are constructed of steel and powered by hydraulics, and is controllable by anyone by way of an ergonomically accurate "glove". In other words, anyone who wishes to operate this gigantic and powerful Hand need only insert their hand into the glove controller, and any motion they produce from the elbow forward will be accurately and quickly reproduced by the large machine Hand. In practical terms, this allows event-goers to effortlessly lift, crush, or twirl objects weighing thousands of pounds! So step right up, put your hand into the controller and harness the power of steel and hydraulics to do whatever you want! For more info on the HAND OF MAN see http://www.handofman.blogspot.com/ (All Australian Shows)

SPEAKER SCRIMS ARTWORK BY GEORGE GITTOES: The BIG DAY OUT is excited to host GEORGE GITTOES’ first public reveal of a new series of oil paintings. The NO EXIT trilogy will be reproduced on a massive scale to be featured on the three BIG DAY OUT main stage speaker scrims. NO EXIT reflects the 30 year long GITTOES global journey through hyper reality – which he calls “Night Vision” (also the title of his current mind blowing graphic novel- film- art series work in progress). The three panels Night Vision Soldier, Revelation and Night Vision investigate the unending cycles of war, end of the world apocalyptic dreams and the artist investigator/the soldier terminator. They zoom in, zoom out on our global reality of the moment, our sense of our times, the vast monstrous march of wars, the era of surveillance, times of super technology, chaos & horror, and music as the major voice, and our ‘saved’ moments.

An internationally exhibiting artist, photographer, and writer, GEORGE GITTOES has become something of a comic book style art super hero, prepared to take on guises, enter forbidden zones, face down bad guys, zoom around the globe, and bring back to earth mega messages about our times. His mission: intercepting reality at its most hyper charged state and dropping his ‘heightened reality checks’ into public places! http://www.gittoes.com/ (All shows)

CeLL by Miles van Dorssen & Nick Wishart (Australia): CeLL is a loud and thumping installation designed to perform a variety of compositions. It can be programmed to play a set repertoire, played live through interfaced electronic instruments or programmed remotely via an internet interface. Through the latter, it is possible for anyone in the world to compose music for CeLL: tunes can be composed or arranged in MIDI for CeLL to perform at the 2009 BDO, and your contributions can be uploaded via the internet. Externally, CeLL could be considered the epitome of minimalist visual sculpture. It is the aural elements that make it special. The mechanisms inside and, of course, the massive sound emanating from this banal-looking steel box, make it an exciting and mysterious anomaly. For more info on CeLL and composing music for it see http://www.cell.org.au <http://www.cell.org.au/> (All Australian Shows)

The 2009 BIG DAY OUT will see the return of the SILENT DISCO. Premiered in Australia at the BDO in 2006, the Silent Disco returns to the BIG DAY OUT to electrify disco dancers with their mixes of dance, hard house, punk, salsa, twenties swing, alternative, world, electro, hardstyle, gabber and Dixieland, all through the convenience of wireless headphones! In the Double Channel SILENT DISCO, which features new 2-channelled digital headphones, party people can choose from DJ OD & DJ Steven Guts OR the guest DJ at the time and have a good old fashion dance off! (All shows)

BOB AND JACKIE’S BOLD-TIME BALLYHOO! (Australia): Come along and get bowled over in the nanna nook by the sounds of yore as Jack Shit and Robbie Buck wrangle a couple of custom 78rpm turntables with the wackiest collection of beetle excreta this side of Strawberry Hills! Go where the wild flours blow and hear spinning shellac remnants of comedy, early rock, drug songs, rockabilly, blues, gospel, swing and all that jazz! Hawaiians, yodellers, crooners and crones; instructional records, birdsong, whistlers, and moans... Tarry a while in style, with old-school, Big Day Out, vaudevillian variety away from the madding throng, and enjoy a sanctuary of silly and sumptuous sound – all in glorious MONO! Be this a fever dream or the future of indie-dance? Bob & Jackies’ Bold-Time Ballyhoo play at Sydney BDO. (Sydney show)

THE TRONS by Greg Locke (Hamilton, NZ): THE TRONS are a completely self playing robotic junk band! All the members are made from salvaged mechanical bits and old discarded electronics, yet they play garage rock just like a bunch of enthusiastic teenagers. Real guitars, second hand amps, original songs played by motorised limbs and trashed computer brains. Fresh from a quick gig in Paris, THE TRONS originate from New Zealand and have spent the year playing up and down the country at pubs, band venues and festivals. They've been described in the British press as "the most exciting electronic band since Kraftwerk" and their video in their practice room has had over a million hits on Youtube. On seeing them the first time the standard utterance is "what the f***?". You can go right up and yell in their faces - they don't care...they're robots! A true transformation of junk to punk. Get a quick preview at their myspace www.myspace.com/thtrons <http://www.myspace.com/thtrons> (Auckland show)

[Tooting Bec]

For all that are going the set list is up on the big day out website.

http://www.bigdayout.com/documents/file ... LAIDE2.pdf

Prodigy in the boiler room to finish off. Will be a massive day!

[Q.]

Seen the weather for next week, 38 degrees for Wednesday and Thursday. Either a cool change will come in for Friday or it will just get higher to something ridiculous like 42!!

[Dogwatcher]

Done that before. Not fun.
The first one, 93 I think, was soemwhere around those conditions.
I think 97 wasn't much better.

[Tooting Bec]

the heat does make for good entertainment if you happen to stray near the mist tents....

[Q.]

The mosh will be crazy hot. Gotta feel for those shorter folk who can't stick their head up into the cooler breeze that floats across the top.

I reckon there will be a mad rush to get in the boiler room to see Prodigy, surely they'll reach a point where they shut the doors. Could be a few disappointed punters. Still tossing up whether to see them or DKM??!!

[Tooting Bec]

The prodigy are going to be mad in the boiler room. I'm planning to get there a good three quarters of an hour before they start. Missed out on chemical brothers once before because they shut the doors. not missing out again.

[Dutchy]

From memory either 2001 or 2002 was stinking hot, 43 degrees, they had a fire truck there spraying water over everyone and tossing bottles of water from the stage all day

[Q.]

The prodigy are going to be mad in the boiler room. I'm planning to get there a good three quarters of an hour before they start. Missed out on chemical brothers once before because they shut the doors. not missing out again.

Well, I know where my mates will be, so the decision might be made for me (even if I do hafta sit through Pee Wee Ferris).

[toot toot]

who cares if it's going to be hot, it will be a cracker of a day regardless

[Leaping Lindner]

Done that before. Not fun.
The first one, 93 I think, was somewhere around those conditions.
........

It was the hottest (or second hottest) day on record that Adelaide had had to that point - or similiar.
But with a line up like this WHO CARED????



Ah! 1993 BDO. It brings a tear to this old punks eye

[Dogwatcher]

LL, mine too. Was awesome. Nick, Iggy, Carter USM, Mudhoney, the Clouds what an awesome day.
I climbed the fence to get in.