The Big Day Out was an annual music festival that was held in five Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth, as well as Auckland, New Zealand. The festival was held during summer, typically in January of each year.
The Big Day Out debuted on the 1992 Australia Day public holiday in Sydney and expanded to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth the following year. The Gold Coast and Auckland were added to the schedule in 1994. As of 2003, it featured seven or eight stages (depending on the venue), accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic music, mainstream international acts and local acts.
In early June 2014, American festival promoter, C3 Presents, attained full ownership of the Big Day Out festival and announced the cancellation of the 2015 event on 26 June 2014—the option for the festival to return in the future was left open.
Founded by Ken West and Vivian Lees, the festival began in 1992 as a Sydney-only show, with the headline act, Violent Femmes, playing alongside Nirvana, and a range of other foreign and local alternative music acts, at the Hordern Pavilion. In 1993 the scope of the festival was extended to include Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide. West revealed in an interview that he was looking to create "urban mayhem" and "controlled chaos".
Jour de Fête ("The Big Day") is a 1949 French comedy film directed by Jacques Tati in his feature film directional debut. Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed the delivery of mail while aboard his bicycle.
In Jour de Fête, several characteristics of Tati's work appear for the first time in a full-length film. The film is largely a visual comedy, though dialogue is still used to tell part of the story, at one point using a background character as a narrator. Sound effects are a key element of the film, as Tati makes imaginative use of voices and other background noises to provide humorous effect. The film introduces what would be a key theme in Tati films, the over-reliance of Western society on technology to solve its (perceived) problems.
The Big Day is an Australian television film, or rather a live television play, which aired in 1959. Part of the Shell Presents presentations of standalone television dramas, it originally aired 11 July 1959 on Melbourne station GTV-9, a video-tape was made of the broadcast and shown on Sydney station ATN-7 on 25 July 1959 (this was prior to the formation of the Nine Network and Seven Network). Written by Sydney writer John Ford, it is significant as an early example of Australian-written television drama. Duration was 60 minutes including commercials.
Shell Presents was a monthly series presenting locally produced television dramas and comedies. Most of these were adaptations of overseas dramas such as Johnny Belinda and One Bright Day, but a few were locally-written.
Archival status of the program is unknown.
A drama about a costing clerk's last day of working in a city office prior to his retirement.
Big Day is an American situation comedy that revolves around the preparation for a wedding.
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Big Day Out 03 is an Australian compilation album released to coincide with the Big Day Out music festival in 2003.
This is a comprehensive listing of artists and bands who have performed at Big Day Out listed by year. Big Day Out is an Australian music festival which began in 1992 in Sydney and has expanded since to include several Australian venues and also Auckland, New Zealand. Each year, the line-up of artists changes dramatically, generally maintaining rock as the focal music style, but also featuring many hip-hop, electronica, blues and roots artists. Since its beginning, the line ups have included international acts such as Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Chemical Brothers, Tool, Marilyn Manson, Muse, Nine Inch Nails and Red Hot Chili Peppers while also promoting local Australian and New Zealand artists such as Regurgitator, Powderfinger, Grinspoon, Silverchair, and many others.
Big Day Out 05 is a New Zealand compilation album released to coincide with the Big Day Out music festival in 2005.
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If you're willing just to take a chance
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Such a big day waiting for you
If you're willing just to take a chance
You gonna shine, shine on, my friend
Shine on, my friend
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I feel
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