Big Day Out: Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire, Snoop Dogg – in pictures

Arcade Fire bring out the big guns – or confetti cannons anyway – for their set Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain

Liam Gallagher of Beady Eye, who looked like 'a disgruntled bouncer' according to the Guardian's reviewer Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain

Snoop Dogg plays despite a petition to keep him out of Australia. He also didn't carry out his threat to do a reggae set Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain

Toro y Moi, known to his mum as Chazwick Bradley Bundick Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder brings the pain for their closing two-hour set Photograph: Kane Hibberd /Public Domain

Diplo of Major Lazer makes like the Flaming Lips and surfs the Big Day Out crowd in a giant ball Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain

The view from over the shoulder of Australian electronic music star Flume as he plays to a packed crowd Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain

Retro Melbourne-based band All the Colours were one of a select band of Australian musicians on the bill Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain

A packed crowd watch Arcade Fire at Big Day Out on the Gold Coast. Forty thousand fans attended Photograph: Kane Hibberd/Public Domain