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Christmas is just around the corner, and so is the Big Day Out! We are excited to announce the final artists who will be touring with the Big Day Out plus the local additions in each city.
Be on guard for the avant-garde when Fantomas lurch back into life at Big Day Out 2009. Created in the murky depths of Mike Patton’s busy music laboratory in California, Fantomas’s four studio albums have been noisy, cartoonish, sci-fi, filmic, heavy, hilarious, and always experimental. With Patton joined by Buzz Osborne on guitar (Melvins), Trevor Dunn on bass (Mr Bungle) and Dale Crover on drums (Melvins), this super-tight band creates sounds and energy previously thought not humanly possible. Fantomas are coming to put a little delirium in your Big Day Out.
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. See Son Of Dave summon the future of the blues at Lilyworld during Big Day Out 2009.
Rockabilly’s best kept secret, Barrence Whitfield 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 TV! Mark Ferrie, Peter Luscombe and James Black have backed an amazing array of artists on SBS TV’s music quiz show, but none have the lungs nor the boundless energy of soul sensation Barrence Whitfield.
Brisbane four-piece The Butterfly Effect are well known for pushing the sonic envelope with their rampaging brand of rock’n’roll. Their latest album released in September 2008, Final Conversation Of Kings was recorded on the Central Coast of NSW and is a prime example of their hard driving sound, embodied with lead singer Clint Boge’s scintillating vocals. The Butterfly Effect will take to the Big Day Out stage in 2009 to stand and deliver a theatrical live set full of ebbs and flows that will leave your desire for rocking out thoroughly sated.
If you like your discos Freakish, then T-Rek is the DJ for you. Part time drummer for Infusion, part time musician/producer and head of Freakshow Disco Productions in Melbourne, T-Rek (Tarek Smallman) is due for one date with the disco dance-floor you don’t want to miss! T-Rek’s first official DJ mix CD Vinyl Pusher presents Freakshow Disco is due for download in January 2009 but to catch one genre-surfing, diverse mix of anything-goes dirty beats to softer jams, make sure you check out T-Rek spinning wild originals and remixes at the Big Day Out.
Regurgitator front man Quan is back aboard flight BDO with his very own project that joyously embraces the best of indie, hip hop and electro pop. Quan’s new release The Amateur is a “on again off again requiem to those heady amateur days” and with killer pop riffs and beats like “Year of the Jerk”, “Gimme Gimme” and “The One”… this IS the beat you’ve been looking for, so pull on your dancing sneakers and come find it at the Big Day Out.
I Heart Hiroshima will bring their effervescent musical hurricane to the Big Day Out in 2009. This Brisbane three piece of two guitarists and a drummer emerged from a series of audacious house parties in Bris-vegas and in 2007 released their debut album Tuff Teef. Wear your heart on your sleeve with I Heart Hiroshima as they serve up a sonic layer cake of pop punk deliciousness at BDO! (Gold Coast & Sydney Shows)
Formed in Dubbo in 1977, The Reels were one of Australia’s most respected pop bands of the ’80s with their hit singles, “Love Will Find A Way” and “Prefab Heart” and 1981’s classic album Quasimodo’s Dream featuring the song of the same title. The mid 80’s also saw The Reels topping the Australian charts with their very special renditions of classic tracks Bacharach/Alpert “This Guy’s in Love with You” and Creedence Clearwater Revivals “Bad Moon Rising”. In 2007, Dave Mason released his first album in more than 15 years, Reelsville along with Reel To Reel 1978 – 1992. We are delighted The Reels will be wandering into the enchanted garden of the Lilyworld at BDO in 09. (Sydney & Melbourne shows)
Plus local additions in each city:
Auckland – Fri 16th January:
Weta, The Tutts, Bionic Pixie, Clap Clap Riot, Autozamm, An Emerald City, Antiform, World War Four, State of Mind, Honey Claws, Just One Fix, The Mots, Quay Street Social, Club DJs, Kolab.
Gold Coast – Sun 18th January:
The Cool Calm Collective, Enacio, Misdirection, Adelle, A Name Will Come, DNO, The Ginclub, Andrew Morris, Mr Laneous, DJ Hutch DJ Matt Kitshon plus triple j unearthed winner.
Sydney – Fri 23rd January:
Sasha Vatoff, theredsunband, The Scare, WOW, The Jezabels, Bang Gang DJs, DJ Jem Vs TC, Purple Sneakers DJs, Horrorshow plus triple j unearthed winner.
Melbourne – Mon 26th January:
Rocket Science, Trial Kennedy, Perplex, Acid Jacks, Ms Butt, Decland Kelly, Illzilla, My Disco, Beaches, The Vandas plus triple j unearthed winner.
Adelaide – Fri 30th January:
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
Perth – Sun 1st February:
Dead Flowers, Bentman and Sipn, Shazam, Kuling Brothers, Drapht, Red Jezebel, Pathogen, Simon Kelly Band, Project Mayhem
These acts join the already announced:
Neil Young, Arctic Monkeys, The Living End, The Prodigy, Sneaky Sound System, My Morning Jacket, Serj Tankian, Dropkick Murphy’s, Black Kids, Hot Chip, Lupe Fiasco, Holy Ghost!, Z*Trip, Died Pretty, The Vines, Infusion, Children Collide, Pee Wee Ferris, Sparkadia, The Getaway Plan, Little Red, Mammal, Mercy Arms, Ajax, Andee Frost, The Drones, Pendulum, Bullet For My Valentine, TV On The Radio, Simian Mobile Disco, The Ting Tings, Tiki Taane, Cut Copy, Cog, Youth Group, The Grates, Birds Of Tokyo, TZU and Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
