Those of you holding out hope that the Big Day Out will roar back into glorious life following its year off – presumably doing things most other Australians do on their year off like accidentally desecrating Mayan ruins, vomiting into Camden gutters and catching a nasty case of the clap off a plumber from Mudgee whilst Contiki-ing through Belgium – you may well be shit out of luck.
@stephaniiimedia With the pissweak state of the AUD$ and general availability of bankable headliners I would guess 2017 at earliest.
— AJ (@iamnotshouting) April 28, 2015
If and when it does return, what form it will take remains to be seen. Owning and promoting companies C3 Presents and Live Nation have expressed concern over the festival’s future viability as a touring unit and – by and large – the global market agrees with the principle that festivals are generally not touring entities; Australia exists as something of an anomaly in that regard. Suggestions have been made that the festival focus solely on Melbourne and Sydney moving forward, with the idea of concentrating all resources down into a single, standalone festival – a la Splendour in the Grass or Lollapalooza – very much a possibility.
