Your best Big Day Out experiences Stuff.co.nz

07.01.10

Tania: "Watching the drunkest man on the mask of the planet trying to eat a hot dog very unsuccessfully in the misting tent. Not only was he saturated, so was the hot dog and he was missing his face very seriously. Bloody side-splitting!"

Rachel: " My most memorable experience at the Big Day Out would have been going to an after party at the main band's hotel. It was the year The Strokes, Metallica and Kings of Leon were playing. I was in the lodge with all of them. The evening was blurred after witnessing a passionate rendezvous between the bassist of Kings of Leon with Julian Casablancas, but what I did think back on more clearly was the intense groupie feeling that overwhelmed the lobby - famous musicians scattered around the scope each accompanied by some beautiful young lady. I felt a little (a lot) out of my league, dressed in fish nets and Chucks and sporting a generic Ramones T-Shirt. What prompted me to decamp this party, however grand the experience was at that age, was the unveiling of the mystery of some of my favourite musicians. The performance on stage is what's outstanding, not the debaucherous antics at a hotel lobby. But it was pretty cool to be able to say I spent a few hours in the Kings of Leon tourist house room. Watching TV. Seriously ... naive."

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