Pre-sale tickets to the 2014 Big Day Out officially sold out as news spread co-headliners Pearl Jam will be performing massive two-hour sets at the festival.
Festival promoter Campbell Smith confirmed the band would be closing the festival with concert length sets in a live Q&A interview with the New Zealand Herald.
“They are a huge headliner,” Smith said. “First time BDO’ers… and get this – they will play a FULL CONCERT SET. Not cut down. Boom.”
Pearl Jam rocked Lollapalooza Chile with a 25-song set in April, playing classic material including “Alive,” “Daughter,” “Black,” “Go,” “Even Flow” and “Jeremy.”
Tickets to the summer festival will go on sale as of Wednesday for the Gold Coast leg with Sydney following on Thursday and Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth on Friday.
Co-headlining alongside Pearl Jam are Blur and Arcade Fire, but landing all three proved to be a major headache for organiser Ken West.
“It’s the most impossible [lineup] we’ve ever put together, especially in a modern age,” West told FasterLouder last week. “You have no idea how hard this process has been.”
“I would be happy with any of those three acts closing the festival,” West said. “We haven’t had that before. So it’s the most impossible lineup we’ve had because if you think about it logically there’s no other place in the world where you’d get these three acts on the same bill unless it was Live Aid. That’s the only other time you can get the egos pushed out of the way … While three bands don’t make a festival, these are three really fucking good bands.”
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