Big Spending Day Out

Usually it's Javid who, each year, bitches about how much worse the Big Day Out is getting. What with it's steady influx of white-trash, telegraph reading, flag draped bogans and it's increasingly exorbitant prices, I tend to agree with him.

And naturally, this year is no different. I have no doubt that Ken West will never be setting his eyes on this post. But regardless I'd like to write an open letter to him just so I can get across some feelings I have towards the way the event organisation has gone over the past few years.
Unfortunately sarcastica font has still not been invented, so you'll just have to imagine the tone I'm using for this letter.

Dear Ken,

Thank you again for failing to announce a second Sydney Big Day Out show until after the first had already sold out.

I don't know if you're aware, but I'd say most people actually enjoy going with their friends to these things. Now, thanks to your efforts, I have to attempt to sell my tickets (that's right fucker, I'm going on Ebay) so I can attend one of the shows with the group of friends I originally intended to go with.

I'm sure it doesn't bother you either way that some people don't have a fast internet connection, which therefore excludes them from purchasing tickets; or others have to get up extremely early in the morning, so aren't able to stay up till midnight waiting for the tickets to go on sale. You already have our money so that's not your problem I guess.

On a lighter note though, thanks for finally adding Rammstein to the bill. I'm sure that will be enough to convince Javid Van Der Piepers that your festival maybe is still superior. Actually, I'm sure it won't. But you may not hear him complaining about it this year. That's been left to me instead.

And lastly, I noticed the ticket prices have increased again to about $165 incl. b/f this year. We're already paying about 10 bucks for a servo quality "meat" roll. Is it really too much to ask that, seeing as though we're already paying through the teeth, you could possibly provide some actual food for us punters to consume. I know there's a lot of bogans, but we don't all eat like them.
Just some food for thought.

Kisses
Dean xo


Of course simply not going would solve all my qualms with the BDO. But after years of experiencing such wonders there, I don't want to have to turn my back.
Plus, there's some good bands playing so that bastard West has already won.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Big Day Out, but what the fuck is wrong with outlet selling?! As Soundwave has shown, in the age of the interweb, Outlets still work. And Soundwave last year was the most poorly organised music festival around.

So I'll take my ticket and my money to the Big Day Out spending all along the way and I'll continue to bitch about it.
But in the end, I'm still going to enjoy myself immensely and watch some fantastic bands. This is disappointing as, Mr West clearly enjoys exploiting this fact.

The first announcement has already been made as everyone who cares surely already knows. But I'll leave that detailed analysis to Dave as I'm sure he's itching to remind everyone that Rammstein are finally officially playing there. He's only been predicting their return for the last 5 years and it seems that finally he's right.