Soundwave 2010 = fail, music appreciation = gorgeous

So soundwave Sydney Australia 2010 was an incredible fail, the lineup was pretty damn amazing, paramore, afi, faith no more, James addiction, Jimmy eat world, Alexis on fire, HIM, all round a pretty spiffy lineup. Here's what was a joke, no shade, all the toilets were either in the over 18's section or at the front of the venue which If you walked there from the back of the venue would take you a good 20 mins if not more allowing for crowds, they ran out of food and water, we were told we couldn't sit "there" and to move down, after me askig down to where, they said down there where we then sat only to be told to move later another 5 times.
Staff didn't have radio contact with each other, my girlfriend was having an asthma attack and my brother passing out from heat stroke, I found staff only to find that they had no way to call medics to our location..... 10 minutes of me running through crowds to find the medic tent only resulted in me being told that it's not their area and to go to the other medic tent which was a good 20 minute walk, by then my girlfriend could have passed out alog with my brother.
We didn't even wait until the very last band and decided to leave early to beat the rush, we have now been sitting in the car park for over an hour and honestly have not moved an inch and if I was to wait until we were out to post this blog then it looks like about another 3 hours according to the police here.

Soundwave, I know that you can't help alot of the things that happen at these events, and the organisation of the events seemed fine, it's was just the lack of simple common fucking sense.

SORT IT OUT

It's gonna have to be one he'll of a lineup next year for me to pay $160 for a sun tan, heat stroke headache, hours long wait to leave, and to put up with bands being behind about an hour if not more, a groups of blind folded todlers pissing on a piece of paper would create a better looking project management plan that this trash.
Last year was fine, why did you not only change the layout of this years but also introduce more bars which ended in bottlenecking crowds just like last year and also cutting off valuable land space, toilets and water at those bars since all the other ones ran out.... AGAIN!

On another note, the one thing that blew my mind was the music and lifestyle appreciation I saw here, from the mixed age groups and no bullshit happening between event goers, but one thing that stood out was me watching a couple, one wearing an Anthrax tshirt and the other wearing a trivium tshirt, both dancing to paramore. Also my brother who is into heavy metal very heavily (excuse the punn) enjoying acts like Placebo, Jimmy eat world and Paramore.

Having said that that was the thing I enjoyed from this years soundwave, I can find the exact same thing from hanging out on a music appreciation forum on the net, or speaking to my muso friends, so I'm not going to thank soundwave for that either.

I'm trying so hard to keep this blog to a photography / personal photography journey so here it is, a 9 photo panorama shot, stitched and edited 100% on my iPhone, I think that this is amazing that I can do things with a phone that we were all struggling to do with actual cameras only a couple of years ago.
I've been planning on posting a blog all about iPhone-ography and which apps I use and also recomend but there are already plenty of sites out there and I just can't find the time at the moment.

Ryan