Paul Judge

The Sapphires will be flying the flag for the Australian movie industry at the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.

REVIEW | Aussie band San Cisco initiate their pursuit of the international crowd in London.

Recently we saw some idiots in the Sydney CBD run amok, damage property, hold up offensive slogans and generally look ridiculous. For me, this brought up memories of 2005 when some other idiots trooped down to Cronulla and did the same.

Deep Sea Arcade embrace their inner wildchild at XOYO’s Breakout East Night, Thursday 27 September

Ah, the London dating scene. Scary, intimidating, so many rules… And there’s a fair share of players out there too. Luckily there’s enough dating events in London to keep even Hugh Heffner happy.

What do you get when you take a hobo, add some emo, a touch of metro? PAUL JUDGE talks to Australia’s newest ‘underground’ celebrities – the Bondi Hipsters – about a life organic, Australia at the Olympics and why picking up in London is way easier than back home in Oz.

What do you do if you find out you’re the subject of online erotic fan fiction co-starring a famous Australian soap star? You could try to get it taken down. You could be chuffed and forward it to all your mates. Or you could create a comedy show around it and tour it internationally.

The usher welcoming us into the theatre looks a lot like the comic Lawrence Leung we’ve come to see tonight. He then takes off his black shirt and tells us he’ll go behind the curtain and we can all cheer him on. The penny drops, it is him. A nice personal touch to start.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | A Ding Dong welcome back for a Melbourne institution as well as Mr Molly Meldrum, and a sad hooroo from an Aussie music maestro in London.

Egypt hasn’t had the best reputation of late, what with violent uprisings, Tahir Square and terrorist scares. But as PAUL JUDGE found out, this idyllic and incredibly historical nation is on the rise to greatness once more, and for tourists – is the ideal holiday getaway.

REVIEW | We scored a poll spot for Hungry Kids of Hungary, who are from Brisbane Later, we did meet some people from Hungary who turned up because of the name and were surprised to see so many Aussies there.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | The Australian bill for Edinburgh Fringe is taking shape while back home The Beach Boys are set to ride a wave of nostalgia and an unknown Tassie singer takes us to the world.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | In England, it never rains it pours – so in the midst of our live music gluttony spare a thought for our compatriots back home who don’t get this pick or value for money.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | Hard man Hard On Peter ‘Blackie’ Black on the road to recovery; Spotify launches in Australia; and we remember late Australian music veterans Robin Gibb and Peter Jones.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | While Empire of the Sun tease us with their much anticipated second album, we salute those Aussie guitar gods who have rocked our socks.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | We’ve got the low down on the Kate Miller-Hiedke v Anthony Callea stoush; plus Smokin’ Joe Mehkael plans his revenge and the Annandale Hotel dunnies get a make over.

London served up another ripsnorting Aussie BBQ with some of the freshest and hottest Australian bands showing expat Aussies and their Pommy mates exactly how a day long fest of Aussie music and culture should be done.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | Aussies are what’s hot in world music right now but that’s no surprise! What, with Gotye, Kimbra, Debs ‘Spoons’ Perry and a musical feast for the London Aussie BBQ – it’s hard just to keep up with it all.

Matt Corby was in town recently to play a few shows. Awesome! One problem though, tickets were rarer than smiles on the tube and went quicker than a …