Images from the Sydney Soundwave festival 2010, at Eastern Creek Raceway.

"Due to the barren hills of the outer-West’s Eastern Creek Raceway, Soundwave Sydney swiftly devolved into a punk rock and metal refugee camp. It was a cloudless, scorching day. The sun turned your skin into bacon after a minute and there was nowhere to hide. Less than one per cent of the acres of rolling crabgrass was in shade. Sweat-drenched, beetroot-red children were huddling against overflowing bins, toilet blocks, portaloos, in between food vans, or holding garbage and cardboard boxes over their heads as a last resort."

READ OUR SYDNEY SOUNDWAVE 2010 REVIEW

Oh yeah and a bunch of bands. LOTS of bands. Scroll through our epic gallery for the full deal.

And tomorrow? MELBOURNE.

*guitar solo*

(Pics: Sarah Holmes)