My Saturday was spent at Sound Relief Sydney, snapping pictures, getting rained on and revelling in nostalgia.
The concert was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground in tandem with another concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with all proceeds going to benefit victims of the recent Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods.
The highlight of the whole day came early, during Coldplay’s opening set when they brought out John Farnham to sing You’re the Voice. It was pretty spine tingling to hear that song belted out with a whole stadium singing along.
Coldplay followed that with Fix You and another thrilling moment when Chris Martin leapt off the stage and into the audience and sprinted to the back of the crowd. The Channel V footage shows the chaos of it as the camera men struggle to work out where he’s gone.
Wolfmother II followed Coldplay, debuting the new band.
Later in the afternoon Taylor Swift whipped the teens into a lather of Beatlemania style excitement. Girls were screaming and crying at the sight of her. Weird.
This was taken as Jet was playing Are You Gonna Be My Girl.
In another nod to nostalgia Icehouse performed in the early evening, running through their 80’s hits like Electric Blue and Great Southern Land.
To close the Sydney Sound Relief Concert we had a Beegee, in the form of Barry Gibb performing with Olivia Newton-John.
As impressive as the Beegees once were it was a strange choice of finale for the primarily young crowd.
See all my shots from the day in the Sound Relief photo gallery.
Nice Dan
And I agree, it was a madhouse hearing the crowd belt out Your The Voice…great moment!
My only beef was the stage height! but I’m a shortass π
Terrific shots as usual. Even the ageing rock stars look good.
i didn’t even know who taylor swift when she came on stage… and the little schpiel she gave about people losing jobs, houses, etc. was such a wank off.
but credit where credit is due, she didn’t have to play the gig for free, but she did so kudos for that.
and i just read that the concerts made $5 million which kinda got me thinking that if you average that out over the 120 000 or so punters that attended, that’s around $42 each. with tickets being $75 a head, did the rest of the money go into overheads such as equipment hire, insurance, security?
The P&L will be posted on the Sound Relief website – you’ll be able to read for yourself when everything is settled
Great shots, Dan. The John Farnham appearance made me green with envy.