Big Day Out 2011 First Announcement - Tool, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Rammstein, MIA, LCD Soundsystem + MORE

The Aussies got a bit of a jump on us this morning making the first line-up announcement for the Australian leg of the Big Day Out 2011 at midnight (Oz time) and it’s the strongest line-up in years!

And now it's official in NZ too - here's who we have heading our way Friday 21st January 2011:

Internationals:

Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Tool, Rammstein, LCD Soundsystem, MIA, Grinderman, Andrew WK, Primal Scream (performing their classic 1991 album Screamadelica), The Black Keys, Ratatat, CSS, Deftones, Die Antwoord, Crystal Castles and Wolfmother.

Bloody Betroots Deathcrew 77, Booka Shade, DLupe Fiasco,Bliss N Eso, Angus & Julia Stone, Plan B, Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros, The Jim Jones Revue, Birds of Tokyo, Little Red, Gyroscope, Vitalic, AIrbourne, Dead Letter Circus, Blue King Brown, Operator Please, Children Collide, Gypsy and The Cat, Will Styles, Lowrider, Sampology, Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock.

Locals:

Die! Die! Die!, Bulletproof, Street Chant, Naked & Famous,  Kids Of 88, Shihad (playing General Electric), Six60 and I Am Giant.

Tickets go on sale Friday 8th October - $150 +GST from Ticketmaster and Real Groovy.

Here’s the  Australian video announcement with Andrew WK:

Pretty damn good first announcement huh! What do you think?