Month: May 2013

FACE THE FESTIVAL 2013 | Having learnt the hard way about many hidden pitfalls of the British festival during a number of UK summer musical festivals, we feel it our duty to dispense the following Festival To Do List. Here is the Top 5 things to do at a music ...

FACE THE FESTIVAL 2013 | Looking for a music festival close to home? Check out our list of all the best music festivals happening in London this summer.

FACE THE FESTIVAL 2013 | Want to head out of town to get your festival fix? Check out our top UK music festivals, almost right in your backyard.

FACE THE FESTIVAL 2013 | Fancy your festival with a side of sun and sangria? Or beer and bratwurst? Get out of the UK and into Europe with our list of the biggest music festivals happening over the Channel this summer.

Federal Labor backbencher and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has used his popular blog to outline his support for same sex marriage, writing that church and state “can have different positions” on the issue.

British rapper Example and former Miss Universe Australia Erin McNaught have married in a small ceremony at a guesthouse in northern New South Wales over the weekend.

Burlesque is back, as some of Australia’s finest exports touch down in London ready to dazzle the UK. Sapphira’s Showgirls bring their burlesque extravaganza Burlesque or Bust to the stage this Sunday 26 May at Soho's Madame Jojos. Plus WIN TWO TICKETS below.

REVIEW | Travels With My Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory is a theatrical trifecta; clever writing, brilliant directing and acting that will blow you a world away.

TRAVEL WRITER WINNER | Traversing the US and Canada by bus can be an eye-opening way to travel, in more ways than one. Our Great Travel Writer competition winner for April, ALICE RERDEN, shares her story.

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WILL FITZGIBBON chats with opera choreographer and director Sarah Fahie. Her work can be seen in the revival of Verdi's Falstaff, now on at Glyndebourne.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | A scripted life could be holding you back from new experiences, as in the quest for comfort and safety we can become so habitual that we become stuck in our ways. Is your predefined script preventing you from living a full life?

INTERVIEW | On the back of a successful second album, You're A Shadow, Hungry Kids of Hungary are once again sharing their sound with London and the UK. GEORGE KATRALIS chats to vocalist Kane Mazlin.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | In a misguided attempt to embrace the sentiment of spring, our sleuth discovers why bare legs in May are still a London fashion faux pas.

Australian artist Joseph O'Farrell is celebrating "all things kitchen" with a food art installation, Street Kitchen, allowing visitors to share their own kitchen experiences on the streets of Wandsworth as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival.

Australian director Baz Luhrmann has told media in Cannes he expected criticism over The Great Gatsby, but he’s humbled by its early success.

INTERVIEW | Australia with Simon Reeve, a three-part series scheduled to premiere on BBC2 on Sunday night, follows the author and television presenter as he attempts to challenge the pre-conceptions that British audiences have about Australia, including bikies, dangerous wildlife and the Outback.

Australian starlet Sophie Monk has been tricked into revealing her long-suspected romance with actor Sam Worthington in an exchange with radio personality Jules Lund on the duo’s 2DayFM drive-time programme.

INTERVIEW | Aussie comedy folk rock band The Beards are bringing their message of bearded revolution to London as part of a UK/Europe tour. ALEX IVETT discusses facial hair maintenance with guitarist, Facey McStubblington, ahead of their Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen gig.

Australian Ironwoman and triathlete Candice Falzon has sparked rumours of a relationship with Manchester United superstar Anderson after tweeting a series of images from several of the Brazilian footballer’s recent matches at Manchester's Old Trafford stadium.

For any Australian in London, Flat White in Soho is an ageing icon still worth visiting — even if its trendy Aussie offspring dotted elsewhere in the city may just have outgrown this Antipodean matriarch.

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list”

Business networking may sounds like a dry and serious business, but Australians never do things by the book.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | Brick Lane — tourist trap or vibrant urban heartland of Bangladeshi cuisine and culture? Our sleuth investigates.

HEADING HOME | Australian Matthew Wood is set to swap the grey skies of London, for the stark setting of Australia’s Red Centre — with a new post as Artistic Director of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra and a symphonic concert at iconic Uluru.

On Thursday 9 May 2013 all Australian orchestra Ruthless Jabiru, led by conductor Kelly Lovelady, put on a remarkable and moving performance to a gathered crowd of both Australian and UK supporters at Australia House.

AUSSIE TIMES TOUGH MUDDER ATTEMPT | In a sheer moment of insanity five months ago I signed up for the North London Tough Mudder race. On the weekend of 4-5 May at Boughton House in Kettering, the day of reckoning finally arrived.

Sound Tracks Festival hopes to help us re-imagine both our transport and tunes — with a one day music event taking place on 11 May 2013 on the East London Overground line, as well as in venues alongside it. See if you can find Australian singer/songwriter Amy Firth as she ...

REVIEW | Following a sell out season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, it is easy to see why Merrily We Roll Along is back by popular demand, this time playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

The Aussie BBQ in London, held in the heart of London at Cargo in Shoreditch on 12 May 2013, offers a massive 12 Australian acts over 12 hours for those expats keen to get an earful of home.

The government has launched several housing schemes over the last few years to help buyers out and revive the housing market, and it pays to know what they are.

Glydnebourne has appointed its first Young Composer in Residence, Sydneysider Luke Styles. WILL FITZGIBBON finds out what to expect ahead of his first work for the famed opera festival.

Pack your bags because The Menier Chocolate Factory is taking you on a round-the-world trip with their new production Travels With My Aunt. It stars Australian born actor Jonathan Hyde.

When it comes to caffeine, it turns out Coffee Cult is a raging capitalist - as discovered on a visit to Taylor St Baristas Mayfair branch. If it looks like a local independent, serves coffee like a local independent and has the friendly staff of one — then, we've officially ...

EDINBURGH EXPAT | If there is one thing we do too little of in contemporary daily life, it is convulsing our naked, crudely painted bodies around a giant burning sculpture to the sound of aggressively beaten drums.

Australian Working Holiday Visa

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian citizenship explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for other Australian Family Sponsorship explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for an Australian Parent Visa explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for an Australian Child Visa explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian Spouse and Fiancée Visas explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian Family and Spouse Visas explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian Employer-Sponsored Regional Skilled Migration Scheme, RSMS (subclass 187) explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian Employer Nomination Scheme, ENS (subclass 186) explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian Employer-Sponsored Temporary Work (Skilled) Visa (subclass 457) explained.

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | Impressing UK colleagues with a taste of home on Office Bake Day proves a little more difficult than anticipated for our honeymooning nomad.

Australian rock legend Daryl Braithwaite has told The Age he thought Daft Punk were a heavy metal band when offered the chance to appear on Daft Punk’s new record Random Access Memories. The global album launch is set to be held in the regional NSW town of Wee Waa, 500km ...

WHATS ON | A new exhibition which opened on Wednesday juxtaposes natural images and manmade objects against the backdrop of Battersea Park. Inspirational Objects: Nature as a Designer by artists Alison Milner and her photographer husband Steve Speller is showing at the Pumphouse Gallery until 16 June from Wednesdays to ...

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian Business Talent Visa: Venture Capital Entrepreneur (subclass 132) explained.

AUSTRALIAN VISAS | Eligibility and requirements for Australian Business Talent Visa: Significant Business History (subclass 132) explained.