SERJ TANKIAN Confirmed For Australia's BIG DAY OUT

November 6, 2008

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has been confirmed for the 2008 Big Day Out festival tour of Australia and New Zealand. The six-show run begins January 16 in Auckland.

Tankian is a Big Day Out veteran with several previous appearances under his belt.

Big Day Out 2009 will tour the following cities:

Auckland - January 16
Gold Coast - January 18
Sydney - January 23
Melbourne - January 26
Adelaide - January 30
Perth - February 1

Tickets for all the shows are on sale now except for the Gold Coast and Sydney shows where ticket ballots are open.

In a recent interview with RollingStone.com, Serj Tankian revealed that there are currently no plans for him to reunite with his SYSTEM OF A DOWN bandmates and work on new music.

Tankian, who released his solo debut, "Elect the Dead", in October 2007, said the timing just made sense to take an indefinite breather. "You shouldn't have to wait until people are not buying your records or your tickets for you to stop, I think that's ridiculous," he told RollingStone.com. "So I think you should do it when it's the right time, when it makes sense artistically and personally. It's a hiatus, we're all friends, the door's open. We haven't decided what the future contains, whether it contains SYSTEM or not, and that's fine."

Regarding his plans for the follow-up to "Elect the Dead", he said, "I'm structuring the next record kind of like a jazz orchestral. I've got a full orchestra interested, so I want this giant electric guitar in the air to be played by a full orchestra. I want the orchestra to be the electric guitar. I want to make an orchestra do what it's never done before, like a GG Allin type orchestra. Think of that."

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