Australia’s Big Day Out Fest Canceled for 2015, Owners Promise ‘We Will Be Back’ — billboard.com

Australia’s once mighty Big Day Out has been scrapped for 2015. But its new sole owners, the U.S. live event promoters C3 Presents, insist it’ll return in future in some configuration.  Execs at Austin, Texas-based C3, which produces Lollapalooza, say BDO will take a year off to rejig the format. “We love Australia and BDO, and we will be back,” C3 co-founder Charlie Walker tells Billboard. For two decades, the alternative rock and dance event was the biggest touring spectacle of its kind. For its 2009 run, the BDO pulled some 330,000 partygoers across its six-city schedule.

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