Big Day Out line-up - 1st Announcement

Big Day Out might be attended by shirtless boys and girls with stick-on Aussie flag tattoos, but, to look on the bright side, the festival certainly has the clout to attract a decent line-up.

Yesterday, the 1st announcement was made and, while the big names were a little underwhelming - Tool are headlining... again - there are some bands worth getting more than a little excited about. The return of Iggy and the Stooges will be awesome as will Primal Scream, especially as they are going to be performing Screamadelica. M.I.A, LCD Soundsystem, CSS, Plan B, Grinderman, Angus & Julia Stone, Pnau and, holy smoke, Rammstein are all fine inclusions and, if you want to party HARD (and like it's ten years ago), then Andrew WK is playing too.

Here's everyone else from the first announcement. There'll be more.

Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, Lupe Fiasco, Deftones, The Black Keys, The Jim Jones Revue, Crystal Castles, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Booka Shade, Pnau, Die Antwoord, Vitalic, Ratatat, John Butler Trio, Wolfmother, Airbourne, Birds Of Tokyo, Kids Of 88, The Naked & Famous, Dead Letter Circus, Children Collide, Operator Please, Bliss N Eso, Gyroscope, Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock, Sampology, Blue King Brown, Will Styles, Little Red, Gypsy And The Cat and Lowrider.

The shitfight for tickets starts on 6th October from the usual sources. The festival takes place on Sunday 23rd January at Gold Coast Parklands (on sale 7th October), Wednesday 26th January at the Sydney Showground (on sale 6 October), Sunday 30th January at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse (on sale 8 October), Friday 4th Febuary at the Adelaide Showground (on sale 8 October) and Sunday 6th February in Perth, at the Claremont Showground (on sale 8 October.