While many of the rumors have not come to fruition, the line up for 2011's Big Day Out is still one worth getting excited over.
Tool, Rammstein and Iggy & The Stooges fill out the upper echolons of the line up, joined outspoken rapper M.I.A. and LCD Soundsystem -- the band that promised they wouldn't be back.
Music fans are in for a further treat with Crystal Castles, Die Antwoord, Lupe Fiasco, Booka Shade DJs, The Bloody Beetroots & Death Crew 77, CSS, PNAU and local lad Sampology all lining up for 2011's event.
VIDEO: watch Andrew W.K. announce the 2011 Big Day Out line up
Big Day Out 2011 takes in the following cities:
Sunday 23 January – Gold Coast Parklands
Wednesday 26 January – Sydney Showground
Sunday 30 January – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
Friday 4 February – Adelaide Showground
Sunday 6 February – Claremont Showground, Perth
Big Day Out 2011 complete first round line up announcement:
Tool
Rammstein
Iggy & The Stooges
M.I.A.
LCD Soundsystem
Andrew W.K.
Deftones
Crystal Castles
Black Keys
Die Antwoord
Grinderman
Lupe Fiasco
Primal Scream (performing their seminal 1990s album 'Screamadelica')
The Bloody Beetroots
Plan B
Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
Booka Shade DJs
The Jim Jones Review
CSS
Ratatat
The Jon Butler Trio
Angus and Julia Stone
PNAU
Bliss N Eso
Birds of Tokyo
Wolfmother
Little Red
Gyroscope
Operator Please
Airbourne
Blue King Brown
Dead Letter Circus
Children Collide
Naked and Famous
Anna Lunoe
Gypsy and the Cat
Kids of '88
Kid Kenobi & MC Sure Shot
Sampology
Lowrider