Poster for Big Day Out 1994. "Hello Auckland!"

Saturday, February 5, 1994

Straitjacket Fits

Loves Ugly Children

Headless Chickens

The 3Ds

Head Like a Hole

Verlaines

The Bats

Emma Paki

Shihad

Element

MC O.J. & Rhythm Slave

Thorazine Shuffle

Able Tasmans

Urban Disturbance

Pacifican Descendants

J.P.S.E.

Dam Native

David Kilgour

Dead Flowers  

3 the Hard Way

Jan Hellriegel

King Loser

Tall Dwarfs

The Mutton Birds

Kid Eternity

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Big Day Out 1995 poster.

Friday, January 20, 1995

The 3Ds

Sisters Underground

OMC

Supergroove

Shihad

Head Like A Hole

Pumpkinhead

Loves Ugly Children

Headless Chickens

Moana and the Moahunters

Dimmer

Solid Gold Hell

Thorazine Shuffle

Urban Disturbance

DLT, OJ & Slave

Hallelujah Picassos

Upper Hutt Posse

Dam Native

Three the Hard Way

Dead Flowers

Sticky Filth

The Clean

Tall Dwarfs

Tufnels

Fagan

Semi Lemon Cola

Bilge Festival   

Chug    

David Kilgour

Foamy Ed

Balance

Garageland

Tadpole 

Big Day Out 1996 poster.

Friday, January 19, 1996

Shihad 

Pumpkinhead  

Loves Ugly Children

Eye TV                         

Garageland                             

Dam Native                             

Dark Tower                             

Chris Knox                               

Future Stupid                          

Muckhole                                

Head Like a Hole                                                         

Martin Phillipps and the Chills

Bailterspace                                        

Joint Force                              

Teremoana                             

Jungle Fungus                         

Dead Flowers                          

Second Child                           

Nothing at all!                         

King Loser                                           

Superette                                            

Chug                                        

Breast Secreting Cake                         

HDU                                        

Jorden Reyne                                      

Cane Slide                               

Figure 60                                 

Pet Rocks                                

Inchworm                               

Big Day Out 1997 poster.

Friday, January 17, 1997

DLT, Che Fu & The Trueschool Crew 

OMC

Future Stupid

Headless Chickens

Garageland

Bic Runga & Band

Thorazine Shuffle

Dead Flowers

Superette

Gluefist

Head Like a Hole

12 Tribes of Israel

Pash

Fontanelle

Solid Gold Hell

Ma-v-elle

Bailter Space

The 3Ds

Tall Dwarfs

Bressa Creeting Cake

Shihad

Nothing At All!

Kitsch

Nathan Haines & Manuel Bundy

DJ Stinky Jim

Lavalava

DJs Gideon & Chelsea

DJ 48 Sonic

In the Whare

Tim Teen & the Teen Tones

Stella

HDU

The Feelers

Breathe

The Snitches

Cane Slide

Sugarbug

Mary Staple    

Jordan Reyne

The Livids

1998

There was no Big Day Out in 1998.

Big Day Out 1999 poster.

Friday, January 15, 1999

Garageland

Headless Chickens

Pitch Black

Shihad

Bailter Space

Sina

Che Fu

Stellar*

King Kapisi

3 the Hard Way

Crackhead Experience

HDU

Head Like a Hole

The Feelers

Bic Runga

The D4

Subtract

Salmonella Dub

Voom

Mary

Foamy Ed

Big Day Out 2000 poster.

Friday, January 21, 2000

Pitch Black

Salmonella Dub

Shihad

Head Like A Hole

Greg Churchill

The Feelers

Che Fu

HDU

Stellar*

The Chills

King Kapisi

The Stereo Bus

Tadpole

Stayfree Carefree

Hasselhoff Experirment

Soane

Garageland

Zed

The D4

Betchadupa

Fur Patrol

Goodshirt

Breathe

Sample Gee

DJ Havoc

Kaya and Manuel Bundy

Subliminals

Otis and Slave

Wash

Dark Tower

Tadpole, Big Day Out 2001 - Chris Yong collection

Friday, January 19, 2001

King Kapisi

Greg Churchill

Fur Patrol

Salmonella Dub

Tadpole

Weta

Betchadupa

Zed

Goodshirt

The D4

Nice’n’Urlich

Pitch Black

P-Money

Steriogram

Slim

Che Fu

Savant

Lucid 3

Subliminals

Sam Hill

Kog Transmissions

Subware

Timmy Schumacher

Stinky Jim

House of Downtown

Manuel Bundy

D-Super

Rubicon

Concord Dawn

Soane

DJ Sir-Vere

Roger Perry

Friday, January 18, 2002

Shihad 

Feelers

Goodshirt

Betchadupa

DJ Sir-Vere ‘Major Flavours’

Blindspott

Rubicon

Salmonella Dub

Che Fu

Tadpole

Augustino

Concord Dawn

Greg Churchill

House of Downtown

Jakob

Pitch Black

Pluto

Rob Salmon

Rubicon

Sam Hill

Shihad

Slim

Sommerset

Stellar*

The D4

Big Day Out 2003 poster.

Friday, January 17, 2003

Blindspott

Concord Dawn

Pitch Black

Shihad

The D4

Wash   

DJ Sir Vere’s Major Flavours Showcase (feat. Sir-Vere, Ali, Mouli, Savage & Mareko from Deceptikonz)

Eight

8 Foot Sativa

King Kapisi

Pacifier (Shihad)

Pan Am

Ritalin  

Tadpole

The Datsuns

Top field, Big Day Out 2004. - Simon Grigg / Rip It Up Archive

Friday, January 16, 2004

Fur Patrol

Salmonella Dub

Goodshirt

King Kapisi

Scribe and P-Money

Tadpole

The Datsuns

Blindspott

Concord Dawn

DJ Philippa

Elemeno P

Mareko

The Mint Chicks

The D4

Deja Voodoo

Crowd shot, Big Day Out 2005. - Simon Grigg / Rip It Up Archive

Friday, January 21, 2005

Shihad

Scribe and P-Money

Deceptikonz

Evermore 

The D4

Concord Dawn

Big Day Out poster, 2006. - Rip It Up Archive

Friday, January 20, 2006

Shihad

Fat Freddy's Drop

Dei Hamo

Elemeno P

The Bleeders

Che Fu and the Krates

Fat Freddy’s Drop

Pluto

Frontline

The Brunettes

Fast Crew

Rhombus

Die!Die!Die!

The Sneaks

The Bats

Autozamm

Cobra Khan

Tyree & Juse

City Newton Bombers

Gestalt Switch

The Electric Confectionaires

Gramsci

The Tutts

Jakob at the Big Day Out 2007 - Photo by Jessie Scoullar

Friday, January 19, 2007

Scribe

Evermore

Shapeshifter

DJ Sir-Vere

P Money 

Blindspott

David Kilgour

Deceptikonz

The Rabble

PNC

Dimmer

Elemeno P

Sinate

Goodnight Nurse

The Shaky Hands

The Veils

The Mint Chicks

The Tutts

Sinate

Minuit

Opensouls

Jakob

Die! Die! Die!

North Shore Pony Club

The Presets

Pluto setlist, Big Day Out, 2008

Friday, January 18, 2008

Shihad

Die! Die! Die!

Supergroove

The Clean

Cut Off Your Hands

Katchafire

The Phoenix Foundation

SJD

Young Sid

Motocade

White Birds and Lemons

Opshop

Pluto

Scribe

Liam Finn

Tiki Taane

Mikey Havoc

The Exiles

Collapsing Cities

The Bleeders

Battle Circus

The Checks

The Lookie Loos

Dam Native

Jimmy Christmas, Luger Boa, Big Day Out 2009.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Headless Chickens

Elemeno P

Luger Boa

The Black Seeds

Cobra Khan

Nesian Mystik

The Datsuns

Ladi6

The Naked and Famous

Zane Lowe

The Mint Chicks

P-Money

Brand New Math

Tiki Taane

Cornerstone Roots

The DHDFD's

Ethical

George & Queen

Horsemen Family

Sidekicknick

Subtract

An Emerald City

Antiform

Autozamm

Bang! Bang! Eche!

Bionic Pixie

Clap Clap Riot  

Just One Fix

Kolab

Quay Street Social Club DJs   

State of Mind

The Mots

The Tutts

Weta

World War Four

Finn Andrews, The Veils, Big Day Out 2010. - Simon Grigg / Rip It Up Archive

Friday, January 15, 2010

Ladyhawke

Bandicoot

Batucada Sound Machine

Cairo Knife Fight

Concord Dawn

Deja Voodoo

Dick “Magik” Johnson

Dimmer

Elston Gun

Gin Wigmore

Head Like A Hole

House of Shem

James Duncan

Kidz in Space

Kora

Lord Of Tigers

Midnight Youth

Mile High

Minuit

Mountaineater

Nick D  

O’Lovely

Opensouls

PNC

Sandy Bay Social Club

Tainted

The Checks

The Drab Doo Riffs

The Veils

Tim Phin

True Lovers

Tahuna Breaks

Valedictions

Kids of 88, Big Day Out, 2011. - Simon Grigg / Rip It Up Archive

Friday, January 21, 2011

The Naked and Famous

Kids of 88

Shihad

Die! Die! Die!

Bulletproof

I Am Giant

Six60

Street Chant    

The Phoenix Foundation

Knives at Noon            

T54      

Luger Boa

The Unfaithful Ways

Three Houses Down   

Surf City

The Early Birds

Jakob at the Big Day Out, 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012

Kimbra

Midnight Youth

The Adults

Cut Off Your Hands

Mt Eden

I Am Giant

Cairo Knife Fight

Gin Wigmore

Six60

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

David Dallas

Beastwars

Bulletproof

Ghostwave

MayaVanya

Sir-Vere

Junica

Nick D

@Peace

Jakob

2013

No New Zealand show

Friday, January 17, 2014

The Naked and Famous 

The Phoenix Foundation

Villainy

SJD

P-Money

Ladi6

Beastwars

Concord Dawn

Clap Clap Riot

PleasePlease   

Kody Nielson   

DPRTRCLB

Randa

Prowler

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After long-running speculation and revelations from Sydney Showground that festival organisers had cancelled their 2015 venue booking, it was announced on 26 June 2014 that the 2015 Big Day Out had been cancelled.  

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