I can also tell you that Underworld have been recently confirmed for the Big Day Out too- excited?- I know I am- and I'm coming over from England for it!
>From: "Kwook, Womble or Simon"
>Reply-To: orb@mailman.xmission.com
>To: orb@mailman.xmission.com
>Subject: Re: [Orb] Sense of perspective
>Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:00:50 +0800
>
>At 02:46 AM 10/29/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm just pissed there's no chance whatsoever of Orb, LX, MBM, Chems,
>>Prodigy, or any of those guys getting any closer to here than
>>Chicago, which
>>is an 8 hour drive.
>
>I live in Perth, Western Australia. By car, it's at least two days,
>possibly four, to the other side of the country which is where most
>bands keep to given that it's so expensive to come out west for one
>meagre city when there's more people and money to be made over east.
>To catch a flight to Melbourne or Sydney from Perth with return
>airfare is somewhere in the order of AU$400 on the cheap, and even
>then that's if you book well in advance.
>
>It's about 18 hours of continuous flying to Los Angeles via Sydney,
>and getting to London takes even longer because you have to go via
>Asia and Europe first.
>
>Not that i'm complaining about living in the most isolated city in
>the world or anything, because our hospitality, beaches and weather
>put even other Australian cities to shame--never mind anything the
>rest of the world can cough up. I'm just putting things in
>perspective for anyone who thinks they're unlucky for living eight
>hours from Chicago by car. :)
>
>Eh, may as well come clean and mention Kraftwerk are playing here
>next year on the Big Day Out tour. Go BDO. :)
>
>
>Kwook
>www.kwookyworld.com
>The kwinkunx is imminent.
>
>"Australia is merely an island of Antarctica and of no further
>significance."
>-- Russell Guy, "What's Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me"
>
>
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