So what the hell am I supposed to do now? This might sound sad, but the end of the Rugby World Cup has left a gaping void in my life.

Debate is raging over whether Kanye West can successfully headline next year's Big Day Out - a festival normally dominated by rock and metal acts.

Outspoken rapper and hip-hop mogul Kanye West and reformed Seattle rock stalwarts Soundgarden will headline next year's Big Day Out.

It's all happening at Mt Smart Stadium on January 20, 2012. Check out some of the bands performing at the next Big Day Out.

There were no mass armies of metallers, goths, or miserable-looking emos as in years previous.

Whether you are coming to the festival when you finish work, you can't go this year at all, or you're so mobile-internet-savvy you're there already but still want to know what we think, keep this window open all day.

All of the action from yesterday's Big Day Out at Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium.

Your social media comments and pictures from the biggest day in music, the Big Day Out.

The Big Day Out is well stocked with plasters and paracetamol as St John staff prepare for 40,000 revellers.

If 30 years of heavy drug use didn't kill him and his boisterous, often self-harming stage antics didn't cripple him, one would think at the age of 63 the rock icon might at least slow down a notch.

In the lead-up to their appearance at the Big Day Out, Billie Rogers and Emily Littler share their style preferences with Viva.

St John staff at this week's Big Day Out will be on alert for a new party drug that has emerged at other summer concerts.

Fuel up for the day with a pre-gig playlist. Just prepare to guard your iPod station