The Big Day Out has confirmed the line-ups for the Local Produce stages after the announcement of the Triple J Unearthed competition winners.
Local Produce highlights some of the most exciting up-and-coming talent in the respective host cities. The Unearthed winners will be given the opportunity to play an early set on the Stage. They will inevitably play to a smallish crowd, though having '2007 Big Day Out' on your band CV is a decent trade-off.Consider Melbourne group Oh Mercy, fresh out of school and playing together for under a year, and soon-to-be among the Big Day Out alumni. Rootsy three-piece Hip Pocket will open proceedings at the Gold Coast, whilst the cheekily named Richard In Your Mind bring their sweeping psychedelia to Sydney.
Adelaide will receive a dose of indie pop courtesy of Antony Of The Future, whilst WAMI-winners Institut Polaire will play to their home town of Perth.
The winners join a raft of local talent, including Melbourne-based Shooting At Unarmed Men (featuring Jon Chapple, of defunct Welsh band mclusky) in Melbourne, dreamy Sydney quirk-popsters Dappled Cities Fly, and the dusty art-rock of Perth music school luminaries Schvendes.
BIG DAY OUT - LOCAL PRODUCE LINE-UPS
Gold Coast (Sunday 21 January): Mourning Tide, Repeat Offender, Say Nothing, The Wrath, Anti-Everything, Presidents Bush, Indigo Frequency, Bowser, Hip Pocket.
Sydney (Friday 26 January): Red Riders, Dappled Cities Fly, Ground Components, Gersey, Expatriate, Something With Numbers, Angus and Julia Stone, Tucker Bs, Richard In Your Mind.
Melbourne (Sunday 28 January): Gaslight Radio, Gersey, Dynamo, Snowman, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Legends of Motorsport, Shooting At Unarmed Men, The Exotics, Oh Mercy.
Adelaide (Friday 2 February): Her Latest Flame, Mere Theory, Move To Strike, Funkoars, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! Double Dragon, Antony of the Future, Poly & The Statics.
Perth (Sunday 4 February): Farryl Purkiss & Veeva Feeva, Heavy Weight Champ, Sugar Army, Schvendes, Blue Shaddy, New Rules For Boats, Institut Polaire.
