This is a listing of artists and bands who have performed at a Big Day Out music festival, listed by year. Big Day Out began in 1992 in Sydney and has expanded to include several Australian venues and Auckland, New Zealand. Each year, the line-up of artists changes, generally maintaining rock as the focus, but also featuring hip-hop, electronica and blues and roots artists. The line ups have included Nirvana, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Chemical Brothers, Tool, Blink-182, Marilyn Manson, Muse, Hole, Nine Inch Nails and Red Hot Chili Peppers, while also promoting local Australian and New Zealand artists such as Spiderbait, Regurgitator, Powderfinger, Grinspoon, Silverchair and The Living End.

1992

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1996

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1997

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1998

Big Day Out was not held in 1998.

1999

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2007

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2008

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2009

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2010

The first official line-up for the 2010 installment was posted on the Big Day Out website just before midnight 28 September 2009. The second official line-up for the 2010 installment was posted on the Big Day Out website just before midnight 11 November 2009. The full line-up was as follows Notes

2011

The first line-up for the 2011 Big Day Out was officially released via the Big Day Out website at 12:01am 28 September. The second announcement was released on 24 November and completed the 2011 line-up. For the second year in a row Sydney held two festivals due to increasing popularity of the event. Official line-up is as follows: Notes

2012

The lineup was announced on 29 September 2011. The first 17 artists were announced over the Big Day Out Twitter page from 8 until 10pm. The three main headliners were announced on 30 September 2011 on Triple J. Tony Hawk was announced as a non-musical special guest. Bold indicates headline act. Notes

2013

The first lineup was announced at midnight on 16 July. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were announced shortly before the first lineup announcement. Lucha VaVOOM was announced as a non-musical special guest. Bold indicates headline act. Kaskade cancelled Adelaide, Melbourne, and Perth on the festival. Nicky Romero cancelled Perth, but instead played the first four shows on the 2013 tour.

2014

The first lineup was announced at 8:00pm AEST on 31 July. Bold indicates headline act. Blur and DIIV withdrew from the 2014 lineup. Notes

2015

There was no Big Day Out in 2015. It was announced on 26 June 2014 that the 2015 Big Day Out had been cancelled. The announcement came after long-running speculation over the future of the summer festival and revelations the day before from Sydney Showground executives that festival organisers had cancelled their 2015 venue booking.