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.

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Here’s some photos of people i’ve taken for Time Out Sydney of late.

Zoo (above) is a performance artist i photographed in a butcher’s cool room.

A happy Henry Rollins in his hotel room.

Minnie Cooper with her dog Cooper on the roof of her apartment block.

Canadian improv group Scratch on stage at the Factory Theatre.

Hospitality mogul Justin Hemmes in his bar Ivy.

Advertising guru Siimon Reynolds on his balcony.

Austen Tayshus on his balcony.

Poker champ Grant Levy at Star City Casino.

Fashion designer Bianca Zampatti in her city studio.

Graffiti artist Mistery in the back streets of Marrickville.

Comedien Al Pitcher in a building site.

Olivia Newton John at a press conference.

Drag DJ Kitty Glitter at a gym in Kings Cross.

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