Tag: Australian music in London

Midnight Oil, one of Australia's best bands ever! We walk through their past records to look at their top 10 songs according to us!

KRIS GRIFFITHS attends the award-winning show where two Aussie musicians take on the role of an orchestra playing the 1970s prog-folk classic in its entirety

Australia's Gang of Youths are bringing authenticity back into fashion. Their music gives you permission to be excited, to admit to loving someone, to confront tragedy, and to "say the unsayable".

INTERVIEW: “Once you’ve got the war paint on I feel a bit like a boxer, moving around the ring. C’mon, let me at em, let me at em," Oz music legend Joe Camilleri tells LEE HARTE ahead of The Black Sorrows' UK shows.

The 'Oils have announced a string of dates for the European summer, including Manchester and London, with tickets now on sale.

Jack confessed to me later, "I could do what I do up there all day long, but tonight it felt a little like ice-skating."

INTERVIEW: Ahead of her upcoming gigs in London and Brighton, we dissect Sarah Blasko’s celebrated new album Depth of Field by asking the woman herself.

Australia’s premier surf-roots-reggae trio returns to London this week to celebrate the anniversaries of 'Morning Sun' and 'Learn Yourself'

INTERVIEW: “We had no career plans to be musicians. That isn't even on the radar where I grew up. We just wanted to make some music that would sound good playing at the local skate park or someone's house party by the beach.”

REVIEW: The dance floor was jumping - literally. There were people everywhere clapping with their hands, stomping with their feet and entangling their senses to a session of broad musical mastery.

If you missed out on getting tickets to the first London gig, don't let this second chance get away from you to see the return of the mighty Oils...

Seminal Aussie band The Triffids set for a special performance of their most important album ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ in memorial to founding member David McComb.

Xavier Rudd is set to return to London, for an unforgettable show at Camden’s Electric Ballroom.

The Cat Empire’s newly announced tour includes a few extra cities being added to the band’s usual UK sojourn. And there’s a new single to boot!

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll covered a sensitive, intensely observant Tim Rogers for the bulk of You Am I's body of work. But with the boys and substances taking a back seat, his songwriting is nakedly on display.

Tickets are on sale now for the UK leg of San Cisco's European tour.

REVIEW: God made music and the devil kept time at London’s Bush Hall.

Bernard Fanning of Powderfinger fame talks music, art and living ‘the Spanish way’, ahead of the UK leg of his European tour.

Australia’s Karnivool are returning to the UK for The Divergence Tour this March with some new material, proving you can’t have too much of a good thing.

Jetlag bar have stocked the fridge full of Aussie beer, getting set for a massive Australia Day with movies and Triple J. Plus there’s live Down Under tunes at The Purple Turtle.

The Tait Memorial Trust’s annual winter prom is set to showcase a dazzling array of young Australian talent.

The Cat Empire announce huge show at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall.

After sell-out shows across Australia, Dan Sultan brings his full band to London and promises to kick up a sweat.

Hot Aussie band Sheppard have developed markedly even in the few months since we last saw them here.

John Butler discusses his band’s new album ahead of this week’s hugely anticipated UK tour.

So far on this tour he’s been searched on suspicion of drug-trafficking, fled the stage with food-poisoning, farewelled his trusty tour-van and copped a head-butt from a kamikaze pigeon. Despite perilous events, Australian troubadour Kim Churchill remains upbeat.

To top off a massive year for Australian indie dance trio RÃœFÃœS, they have just headlined two sold out gigs in London.

In addition to supporting English singer Billy Bragg on his European Tour, Kim Churchill will be performing a headline show at Borderline in London on 3 December.

Triple J Unearthed band Ball Park Music are heading to London to test out their sound on the UK scene, with a gig at The Water Rats on Wednesday 23 October 2013.

INTERVIEW |There’s been a lot of travel on the schedule of late for one of Australia’s biggest new indie pop-rock acts. Australian Times catches up with Brisbane’s Sheppard as they head off to New York and London where last year they discovered an audience for their infections party sound track ...

Australian rock band Cloud Control are set to kick off an epic UK tour, with two shows planned for London - XOYO on 23 September, and the O2 Academy Brixton on 17 October.

With Midnight Juggernauts about to launch ‘a sonic assault’ on London on 8 July, drummer Daniel Stricker catches up with ALEX BRUCE-SMITH to talk modern technology and Serge Gainsbourg.

Fresh from touring their native Australia with psychedelic rockers Tame Impala, Melbourne trio Midnight Juggernauts return with a new album Uncanny Valley and a gig at London’s Hoxton Square Bar on 8 July.

Two men, an orchestra of instruments. Australian musicians Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts recreate Mike Oldfield's iconic album Tubular Bells, live, onstage, in real time. With two special anniversary shows at London's Union Chapel and Southbank, as well as 43 other dates around the UK, this is one musical experience ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

WHATS ON | Sydneysongstress George Maple is set to showcase her unique electro-soul sound at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen on Wednesday 1 May.

INTERVIEW | Paul Kelly, folksinger, songwriter, Australian music legend. GEORGE KATRALIS talks to the man behind the myth ahead of his London show at Cadogan Hall on Friday 12 April 2013.

Australian singer-songwriter and an icon of Australian rock Paul Kelly is performing at London’s Cadogan Hall on Friday 12 April 2013. His new album, Spring and Fall, is available now in the UK.

Get the latest concert listings for top Australian music in London and around the UK, including gigs by Xavier Rudd, Sarah Blasko, Tame Impala and more ...