The Big Day Out Music Festival lineup has just been revealed, and leading the pack are headliners Arcade Fire, Pearl Jam, and Blur. From January 17th through February 2nd, the festival will have seven dates throughout Australia and New Zealand. See the announcement video below:
This is good timing for Arcade Fire, whose upcoming fourth album is due out October 29th. Pearl Jam is also ready to release a new album, entitled Lightning Bolt, on October 14th.
Along with the three headliners, other artists performing in the Big Day Out Music Festival include Snoop Dogg/Snoop Lion, Major Lazer, The Lumineers, Ghost, and Grouplove, among others. More are expected to be announced as well, so stay tuned. Tickets for the festival go on sale on August 7th on bigdayout.com
Following are the dates for the Big Day Out Music Festival.
01/17 – Auckland, New Zealand
01/19 – Gold Coast, Australia
01/24 – Melbourne, Australia
01/26 – Sydney, Australia
01/27 – Sydney, Australia
01/31 – Adelaide, Australia
02/02 – Perth, Australia
Here is the full list of artists in the lineup thus far:
Pearl Jam
Arcade Fire
Blur
Snoop Dogg / Snoop Lion
Major Lazer
Steve Angello
Flume
The Lumineers
Tame Impala
Dillon Francis
Mac Miller
Ghost
Grouplove
Flosstradamus
Portugal. The Man
Toro y Moi
DIIV
The Naked and Famous
Big Gigantic
Pez
Mudhoney
Cosmic Psychos
The 1975
Northlane
Loon Lake
Kingswood
Bo Ningen
The Algorithm
DZ Deathrays
Peking Duk
Rüfüs
Ben Morris
Source: Big Day Out