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CHRIS’S KITCHEN | Looking at the forecast for this weekend (summer, is that you!?) I have decided to give you my Thai seafood salad recipe and it is a real a cracker.

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.

The Temper Trap - they’re not just the biggest contemporary Australian band at the moment, they are also the latest conquerors of London’s Koko. Over two huge nights in Camden last week, the Aussie rockers (now famous the world over) served it up to screaming Aussie expats and thrilled to...

Gotye has taken out the top gongs at the 2012 APRA Music Awards, winning the Songwriter of the Year award and Song of the Year for 'Somebody That I Used To Know'.

Kelly Lovelady, Artistic Director of London-based chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru, directs an experimental beat poem performance this Sunday at the Brighton Fringe Festival.

Australians David Freeman, Grant Doyle and Joshua Bloom have their names in lights for the upcoming summer Garsington Opera at Wormsley.

That’s Grouse: The British Show is a new exhibition in London by Australian artist Linton Meagher. He seems modestly proud as he walks around Gallery 8 in St James's, chatting and taking congratulations from visitors to the opening of his first London solo exhibition of his semi-sculptural, mixed media works.

Gurrumul Yunupingu will be joining a host of stars to perform at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert on 4 June.

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.

CHRIS'S KITCHEN | Having just returned from the Canary Islands I can safely announce that the local culture and cuisine is indeed alive and thriving there. And boy is it tasty!

OBITUARY | Pop legend Robin Gibb, who believed he led a charmed existence with his band the Bee Gees, the fifth biggest selling pop act of all time, has died aged 62.

“We’re just monkeys playing guitars.” Sean Caskey, lead singer of Australia’s fresh and exciting new band Last Dinosaurs, rocks the UK.

KRIS GRIFFITHS meets the Hollywood star at a Jacob's Creek wine launch in London, where she discusses her "terrifying" upcoming role as Diana Spencer in a new biopic of her final years

It's been one hell of a year for Australia's thrash pop duo from Brisbane, DZ Deathrays. Watch them chat to the Backpack Sounds boys at London's Aussie BBQ.

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.

Brisbane band Last Dinosaurs bring their show to the big smoke and rock London.

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.

EastEnd Cabaret have returned to London after a very successful tour Down Under, bringing with them their raunchy, and often shocking, style of entertainment. BIANCA SOLDANI caught up with the Melbourne misfits to discuss their unique brand of comedy and their promiscuous residency at a specially commissioned Speigeltent.

Musical comedian and self-confessed atheist, Tim Minchin, has accepted a role as Judas Iscariot in a London reboot of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical.

CHRIS’S KITCHEN | Our resident Aussie chef in London, Chris Ark, is currently sunning himself on a Spanish island. Fear not though, dear readers, for he has drafted in a more than worthy replacement this week in Margin Martin — a man to take us through the art of the...

MUSIC FESTIVALS | In the UK and right around Europe, when the days get longer and cider becomes more of a pub staple than mulled wine, you know that festival season is on its way. And 2012 is shaping up to be a festival feast!

Aussie author Tim Griggs has lived and worked on more continents than most people will visit in their lifetimes. The corporate writer-come-journalist-now-novelist met with EMILY BANYARD in London to chat about Churchill, travel, living in the UK and his new novel, Distant Thunder.

Kiwi rockers Midnight Youth are coming to London for the very first time to blow the roof off the Borderline with some awesome Antipodean sounds. TIM MARTIN chatted to frontman Jeremy Redmore about festivals, Canberra and those ‘Aussie’ Finn brothers.

CHRIS’S KITCHEN | With the weather being so cold and wet I’ll give you the low down on the Jersey Royal potato, which is in season for a limited time only.

In the second part of his interview with Australian Times, Don Walker explains why Cold Chisel set their sights East when everyone else went West; and now they regret it, he confesses.

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.

In an interview with BIANCA SOLDANI, Australian actor Michael Budd shares his experience of the London theatre world and gives us a behind the scenes glance at working alongside Bruce Willis in his latest blockbuster, The Cold Light of Day.

MUSIC FESTIVALS | Editor's pick of the top music festivals to rock your London socks off in 2012.

MUSIC FESTIVALS | Comprehensive list of Australian performers at this year's festivals across the UK.

MUSIC FESTIVALS | Top tips for the UK festival fresher.

MUSIC FESTIVALS | The staff's pick of the greatest British music festivals for 2012.

MUSIC FESTIVALS | The best music festivals in Europe for 2012.

CHRIS'S KITCHEN | Tucked away in the wilds of Norfolk, our Aussie chef in London found crabs to write home about. Here he shows us how to cook them up, good and proper.

As Cold Chisel warm up for their first UK date in almost three decades, LEE HARTE chatted to the Chisel keyboard legend Don Walker about their new album, the death of his bandmate and the future of one of the greatest Australian rock bands of all time.

Australian operatic tenor Stuart Skelton will perform in the English National Opera's new production of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman."

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 …

The Mars Volta have been added to the Hard Rock Calling line-up in London, joining Soundgarden and Aussie legends Cold Chisel.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | The Queen might be celebrating her Diamond Jubilee this year but one of Australia’s treasures is celebrating its silver jubilee this week. Plus we get the lowdown on Rachel from The Voice and check in on the Ent Cent.

Jimmy Barnes sings “standin' on the outside lookin' in” and that’s exactly the way I feel over here. Having lived in the UK for a few years I find myself taking every opportunity to fly the Aussie flag. And to celebrate classic Aussie rock.

Nicole Kidman to lead a host of Aussies set to shine at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Australian acting legend Cate Blanchett is wowing London's theatre-going public with an energetic but moving depiction of isolation in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production "Big and Small" at the Barbican.

The crème de la crème of Australian designers showcased their wares at the recent L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, as models, celebrities and fashion-conscious consumers headed along to catch a glimpse of the latest trends and styles.

If you’re slightly confused as to the headline of Chris’s Kitchen this week, then you may not be familiar with Tim Minchin’s very popular song — ‘Prejudice’. Check it out. But before you do, another Aussie expat in London has a few culinary tips for you to enjoy.

Former Australian Times Editor ASHLEA MAHER talks to the sweetly soulful songstress Bic Runga about stripping back symphonic performances and leaving her four-year-old son behind to return to the UK music scene.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | We’ve had to work extra hard this week, scouring through Australian news and reports, to find other music news than the One Direction boys visiting Down Under. But we uncovered that Mossy is a 'pussy' and Prince is coming to Oz.

Check out the very best of Australian Times TV and our video interviews with Aussie music legends - Kate Miller-Heidke, Cut Copy, Cloud Control, The Jezabels and Alex Lloyd.

Fasten your seatbelts and turn off all electric devices: Pam Ann has touched down in the UK and is ready to give London audiences the ride of their lives. Aussie Pam shares a couple nostalgic words about her homeland with BIANCA SOLDANI and explains the challenges involved in wowing her...

CHRIS'S KITCHEN | Spoilt rotten this Easter and left with a mountain of chocolate eggs not even an army of toddlers could destroy? Don’t despair! Our favourite Aussie chef has a few tips on how to turn the eggs into tasty treats.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | This week we say farewell to an Aussie music legend; we throw our hat in the ring for the contemporary v classical music debate; and we get funky to 'the best cold beer' remix.

In the lead-up to Australian singer-songwriter Pete Murray's performance in London on 12 April 2012, he spoke to Will Fitzgibbon about his new album Blue Sky Blue.