Promoters have today unveiled
two of the most essential pieces in the Big Day Out puzzle
for 2008 – the site map and stage times for the one day
music festival in Auckland on Friday 18 January. Students at Auckland Orienteering College welcomed the
map and stage times as the entire school will be using the
Big Day Out for a 12 hour assignment this year.
“This was an initiative from the kids themselves,”
head teacher Raymond Tolleymander told the media today.
“Almost the entire class of 2007/8 are madly passionate
fans of Rage Against the Machine. Earlier this year they
voted to make the band’s anthem “Killing In The Name
Of” the official school song and it is now sung at each
assembly.” The students then presented
Tollymander with the idea that he should make the Big Day
Out a 12 hour orienteering assignment for the whole school
on 18 January. “We’re using this map and the
stage times to set the kids the task of making it round the
Big Day Out and catching key moments on the day,” said
Tolleymander. He explained one of the most
difficult challenges he has set the class will be a
mid-afternoon race from watching False Start (2-2.30) on the
Local Produce stage, stopping at Lilyworld to down a
cocktail and catch some of Mu’s DJ set (2-ish), then
making their way down to the merch tent in the main arena to
purchase a t-shirt and back up to the Essential Stage to see
Kate Nash (2.30-3.15) and finishing that segment with a ride
on the superloop. The Big Day Out – it’s more
than just the greatest musical festival of the summer, make
it the start of your rock education for 2008. THE BIG
DAY OUT 2008: Rage Against the Machine, Bjork, Arcade
Fire, Shihad, LCD Soundsystem, Scribe, Unkle, Dizzee Rascal,
Supergroove, Battles, The Clean, Katchafire, Carl Cox,
Krafty Cuts and MC Dynamite, The Phoenix Foundation, Billy
Bragg, SJD, Grinspoon, Hilltop Hoods, Bleeders, Paul Kelly,
Anti-Flag, The Nightwatchman, Tiki Taane, Dr Octagon and
Kutmaster Kurt, Liam Finn, Cut Off Your Hands, Kate Nash, Op
Shop, Pluto, Die! Die! Die!, Havoc, Collapsing Cities, Enter
Shikari, Operator Please, Shy Child, Brand New, Dam Native,
The Checks, Young Sid, Antagonist, Motocade, White Birds and
Lemons, Spoon, Aceyalone, The Shocking Pinks, Missing Teeth,
Mu, Battle Circus, Surf City, Dick ‘Magik’ Johnson,
False Start, All Left Out, The Kingsland Vinyl Appreciation
Society, The Electric Confectionaires, Kerretta, The Lookie
Loos, Pig Out, Solstate, The Exiles, Lady Saw, Mayall vs
Mayall, Eddie ‘Tan Tan’ Thornton with Cool Wise Men,
Tucker, The Cynical Brothers, Wanganewi Art School, MC
Slave, Turnaround DJ’s, Bump with Ange, Shake n Pop, The
North Shore Pony Club. THE BIG DAY OUT IN
AUCKLAND
FRIDAY JANUARY 18th 2008
MT SMART
STADIUM
Maurice Rd Penrose.
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