Songs from the City, Stories from the Sea. Big Day Out’s tireless efforts to secure Harvey for her debut Australian tour were detailed last year in a Double J retrospective piece. It was touch and go for a while, but PJ rose to the occasion. As the festival’s longtime coordinator Sahara Herald put it to Double J: “She brought this incredible element to the Big Day Out which at times could be really bloody blokey.” Special acknowledgement: Big Day Out moved swiftly to book Coldplay following their 2000 debut album, Parachutes, and the bet paid off in heartfelt sets featuring ‘Yellow’, ‘Sparks’, ‘Shiver’ and ‘Trouble’. “I feel like Freddie Mercury with all these people,” Chris Martin quipped sweetly while looking out at the huge Sydney crowd. Oh, what innocent times.