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What is it ? • The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide , Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the gold coast and Auckland joining in 1994. As of 2003, it has featured seven or eight stages (depending on the venue) accommodating popular contemporary rock music electric music, mainstream international acts and local acts.
When is it ? • Big day out is held in summer over the Christmas holidays.
History of it . • The festival began in 1992 as a Sydney-only show with Nirvana and a range of other foreign and local alternative music acts playing at the harder pavilion. In the months preceding the event, Nirvana's never mind was released and became an international smash hit, therefore guaranteeing the success of the festival. was ill 1993, the festival was extended to include Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide.