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What started in 1992 as a Violent Femmes headline tour with Nirvana on support, ended up a one-day music festival with 21 bands. From the surprising success of that first event, the Big Day Out went on to become, for a while, the biggest touring music festival in the world. Every summer for over 20 years it travelled around Australia and New Zealand headlined by some of the biggest names in music: Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Silverchair, Muse and Rage Against the Machine.
For music fans across the country, it was a rite of passage. A day out in the sun with friends and an introduction to mind-blowing music. For the people who created it, it was a wild ride of legendary line-ups and backstage shenanigans. The perfect mix of art and commerce. And then it just all fell apart.
In this 2 part series, broadcaster Gemma Pike takes you inside the story of the music festival that flew very close to the sun, and might just have been a victim of its own success. From the coup of securing Nirvana in its first year, to its tumultuous downfall in 2014 — it's a music-fuelled rollercoaster through the extraordinary rise and dramatic fall of Australia’s Big Day Out
Credits:
Presenter: Zan Rowe
Narrator: Gemma Pike
Producer: Gab Bourke
Supervising Producer: Mike Williams
Sound engineers: Tim Jenkins & John Jacobs
First published at ABC News, January 25, 2025
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