Big Days Out
Music
Audiences have ballooned since the first Big Day Out (www.bigdayout.com) was held in Sydney in 1992, and now 250,000 people gather at six different locations to see this festival-on-tour over successive weekends between late January and early February. It’s Australasia’s biggest series of outdoor music festivals, taking in Auckland, the Gold Coast, and then Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and as such attracts big names.

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Where?
Australia and New Zealand

When?
January or February

How Long?
1 day at each site
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