The Big Day Out is the biggest day on the New Zealand music calendar and the rules of it are the among the first things you learn as a music journalist/person who writes for no money for whoever will have him. The first thing you learn is never to believe any of the rumours you hear before the official announcement, although learning this generally comes from paying attention, rather than being an insider. Rumours jinx it; a rumoured act is almost guaranteed to not be playing, and I suspect some of the rumours are started by the BDO people to throw people off.
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