Terry, not content with letting me know about the Alex Grey show, also pointed out this snippet from a recent Big Day Out press release:
SYDNEY BIG DAY OUT TICKETS, AUSTRALIA DAY – 26th JANUARY, 2011 EXPRESS BALLOT ANNOUNCED!
25 October, 2010
We have held back 3,000 tickets for the first Sydney BDO event on Wednesday, 26 January 2011 to be sold via the official BDO website ballot.
This ballot will be conducted over ONE WEEK ONLY, and NO further tickets will be made available for this show.
You can register for the ballot from Thursday, 28 October, with the ballot drawn Thursday, 4 November.
For registration details click here
PLEASE NOTE: The two BDO shows (Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th January) at Homebush will be your ONLY opportunity to see TOOL in Sydney.
Sounds like bad news for Sydney fans expecting to see Tool on their own, and not really promising signs for the rest of us…
Update: According to a post on Facebook, someone heard that sideshows for the BDO headliners will be announced on Triple J tomorrow. We’ll wait and see!
Ahhhh shit:(
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the other news bites about other cities being sold out don’t mention this kind of thing. so being from brisbane, I hope this means sideshows for everywhere but sydney
[quote comment=””][quote comment=””]Ahhhh shit:([/quote]  the other news bites about other cities being sold out don’t mention this kind of thing. so being from brisbane, I hope this means sideshows for everywhere but sydney[/quote] If there are sideshows anywhere other than Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane (excluding NZ) I’ll be pretty surprised.  There’s plenty of time to make them happen in Perth & Adelaide, but history will show that’s pretty unlikely. No gig in Sydney is pretty bad news though.  Not only do NSWers miss out, but it also puts extra pressure on ticket sales if/when a Melbourne gig is announced.… Read more »
This is what seems to me has happened. Tool are signed up for BDO. Tool has signed up to do major city sideshows (sydney, melb, bris). BDO sells out in Sydney way too fast. BDO organise second Sydney show. Tool have no time for their Sydney sideshow now, but still play the others… that is what I gather from that article.
[quote comment=””]This is what seems to me has happened. Tool are signed up for BDO. Tool has signed up to do major city sideshows (sydney, melb, bris). BDO sells out in Sydney way too fast. BDO organise second Sydney show. Tool have no time for their Sydney sideshow now, but still play the others… that is what I gather from that article.[/quote]
I don’t think that’d be far off the mark, though I’m still skeptical of a Brisbane show.
First melvins now tool! seriously some anti-tool love. not our fault they had to play two shows cause bogans gotta go to big day out regardless of setlist.
[quote comment=””]First melvins now tool! seriously some anti-tool love. not our fault they had to play two shows cause bogans gotta go to big day out regardless of setlist.[/quote]
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Serves Sydney right for making us Victorians miss out on Guns “N Roses with their V8’s contract!
Brissy rarely gets sideshows of any kind unfortunately. I guess a Brissy show on the 24th could be a possibility although i’m thinking Melbourne, one show only either on the 29th, 31st or 1st. Just heard the JJJ promo on the radio and it said “We will be announcing A sideshow for ONE of the headlining bands”
Holy shit! I just heard another promo on JJJ that said TOOL are playing sideshows in Melbourne & Brisbane. I am serious. I would not joke about this. Holy shit balls that rules!
[quote comment=””]Holy shit! I just heard another promo on JJJ that said TOOL are playing sideshows in Melbourne & Brisbane. I am serious. I would not joke about this. Holy shit balls that rules![/quote]
Aquagravy - you have either made my day or broken my heart! Please dont by lying about this ~ although a Brissy show is almost to good to be true..
Yeah man, don’t be fuckin around
[quote comment=””]Yeah man, don’t be fuckin around[/quote]
YES ITS TRUE!!!!! Danny on triple J now!
details plzy
[quote comment=””][quote comment=””]Yeah man, don’t be fuckin around[/quote] YES ITS TRUE!!!!! Danny on triple J now![/quote]
Brisbane -Â 24th Jan!!!!!!!
Melbourne -Â Â 2nd Feb
Hell yeah!
FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!!!!
Brisbane entertainment centre.
Music Bowl in Melbourne.
He said support act is from NZ. I think he said their name was Shaker?
Support act is Jakob! FUCK YEAH! Definitely flying across the ditch for one of these, probably Brisbane for the indoor experience.