2013-01-16 09:50:27 - Live Big Day Out festivals in Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth in January 2013. BDO full lineup and online broadcast coverage, including video and radio webcast feeds.

The big headline acts for this year's Big Day Out festivals are the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Killers, and the former's set in particular will be broadcast live online.

For all the latest event details and streaming links, visit:

www.myworldevents.com/music-festival/big-day-out.html

Event information:

The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that, as of 2013, is held in five Australian cities: Sydney, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth.

The festival is held in late January each year. It debuted on the 1992 Australia Day public holiday in Sydney and expanded to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by the following year. The Gold Coast and Auckland were added to the schedule in 1994. As of 2003, it has featured seven or eight stages

(depending on the venue) accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic music, mainstream international acts and local acts.

The festival began in 1992 as a Sydney-only show with Violent Femmes as the headline act, along with Nirvana and a range of other foreign and local alternative music acts playing at the Hordern Pavilion. In the months preceding the event, Nirvana's Nevermind was released and became an international smash hit, therefore guaranteeing the success of the festival. In 1993, the festival was extended to include Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide. West has revealed in an interview that he was looking to create "urban mayhem" and "controlled chaos".

Since 1994, the Big Day Out has annually travelled to Auckland (New Zealand), the Gold Coast, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth during a three-week period. The tour through the southern-hemisphere summer has become "the festival overseas acts want to be on". In 1997, organisers Ken West and Vivian Lees announced they were taking a year off, causing concern that the festival was coming to an end. On 17 January 2012, Big Day Out organiser Ken West announced that the Auckland Big Day Out on 20 January 2012, would be the last Big Day Out in New Zealand, and that they will be putting on the festival in Australia only in 2013.