Tag: London

An Aussie. In London’s Royal Opera House. Sounds more like the plot for a comedy caper than for this winter’s hottest ticket in town! WILL FITZGIBBON caught up with Australian baritone Peter Coleman-Wright to talk Die Meistersinger and how you portray having a piece of plastic inserted where the sun ...

I love London. But there is one London experience that just doesn’t sit well with me.

While the streets in the English capital may be beautiful and full of history — they’re also full of lurking dangers.

One of the best things about London is that the places that are culturally enriching are usually free. Like art galleries, historical monuments, museums. Which brings our intrepid London explorer to #9 on her London Top 100 list — the British Museum.

What do you get when you throw one of Australia’s funniest comedians in a cold Christmassy London, shake him around a bit and let him loose with a pen? Read on to find out what funnyman SAM SIMMONS really thinks of Christmas!

People dream of being in London at Christmas. Few places in the world can capture the spirit of Christmas quite like London. And the weather is exactly what is required; part of the theme in fact.

It’s that time of year when London decks the halls and gets fully into the Christmas spirit. From festive lights to winter pub specials, panto theatrics to ice skating on the Thames, NINA McGRATH explores what the English capital has in store for us at this time of the year. ...

REVIEW | His first London gig in four years, Lior reminded a largely Aussie audience in Soho why true musicianship is alive and well

REVIEW | Aussie musician Prita, who describes her brand of music as “Hop-So-Fo” or a mix of hip-hop, soul and folk, has recently moved to London after spending the past four years conquering the Antipodes.

With the Sydney Dance Company gracing the boards of London this week, WILL FITZGIBBON took time to have a chat to the man behind the stunningly beautiful shows, artistic director Rafael Bonachela.

RIGHT SAID ED | If you're reading this and your calender hasn't flipped into 2012, then you still have time to donate to the thing that is growing on my top lip - yep, my Movember moustache! You still have time to donate to anyone's for that matter.

I’ve been in over my head, arse over tit, three sheets to the wind, bit off more than I could chew and down and out. I’ve seen jail cells, slept in hospital beds and felt fists to the face. I’ve begged for mercy and asked for forgiveness.

Pete Murray has been making soundwaves recently on the back of his new album, Blue Sky Blue. Murray was back in London last week and hitting all the right notes to a packed crowd at Bush Hall full of Australian fans.

REVIEW | When one of Australia’s best known musicians strolls into a quaint London venue with his guitar over his shoulder you get the feeling it’s going to be an intimate gig. Enter Mr Alex Lloyd.

There is a group of Aussies living in London who are giving the rest of us a bad name. They're not quite as common as the purposefully overtly-ocker Australians you meet in the street (the Shepherd's Bush streets). But they're here and they are 'wannabe-Pomstralians'!

BRON IN THE DON | This week the London Top 100 list takes our resident adventurer to an eerie part of town. #87 Highgate Cemetery may be a little off the beaten tourist track but is still very popular, very beautiful and may yet just send shivers down your spine.

BRON IN THE DON | Our resident London explorer heads to Soho this week to tick one more off her London's Top 100 list and delight in the maze that makes up one of the busiest parts of the English capital.

CHRIS'S KITCHEN | Chris Ark, the man in charge of the kitchen at Gordon Ramsey’s Claridge’s restaurant, dissects the very best food markets and stalls in London and gives you his favourite few.

Set up in North London, Alex Lloyd seems to be living every Aussie expat’s dream. The multi ARIA winning artist is still at it musically, in fact he’s got a gig in London on Wednesday. PAUL JUDGE met ‘Mr Amazing’ and found out just where exactly he’s been hiding.

Eventually those sweet rhythms of life in London seem more like the grating sound of a skipping CD. But wait, there is respite...

Let me be clear from the beginning, when it rains (as a result of the Hydrologic Cycle, that's right Mr Costello, I was paying attention in Year 9 Science!) it falls on EVERYBODY!!!

After a decade of Brisbane’s year round comfortable climate, I was looking forward to watching the seasons change and London didn’t disappoint.

Life in London can be described as hectic at best. With a population of over seven million and everyone in a hurry to get somewhere, a laid back 21-year old Aussie student was definitely in for the shock of his life.

Don't Hold Back because Aussie electro sensations The Potbelleez are giving London a very special concert this week and it will be one for fans of the four piece not to miss.

BRON IN THE DON | To tick off London’s Top 100 things to do and see, that is my mission and I have chosen to accept it! The mission started a few weeks ago when a friend of mine picked up a little book that features London’s Top 100.

CHRIS'S KITCHEN | The Aussie king of the kitchen, Chris Ark, gives oils a dressing down and lets us in on some exclusive chef secrets.

So you’re living in London, the most exciting city in the world. The centre of the universe, you might say, when it comes to music, theatre, travel, media. But does it ever occur to you that not only do you live in London, but if you zoom out a little ...

REVIEW | The Roundhouse in Camden is a daunting venue and bands onstage need to be at the top of their game to deliver satisfaction to their guests for the night. Melbourne synth rock band Cut Copy certainly fitted the bill.

Washington, one of the most talented young musicians around, is suddenly causing a very big stir on the international music scene. SHANNON CRANE had a chat with the shooting Aussie star and found out just how she stays grounded despite her overwhelming success.

GO HARD OR GO HOME | WHAT will I miss most about the UK? I was asked this question a few days ago and I am still struggling to come up with an answer.

LEIGH JOHNSTON explores why living in a London backpackers hostel can be one of life’s most enriching experiences.

Wilbur Smith is one of the world’s most successful authors - a global No 1 bestseller who has sold 120 million books worldwide. On the phone from his home in London, HEATHER WALKER found out about his latest novel, Those in Peril, and his accomplished writing career.

GO HARD OR GO HOME | This week’s column is not an easy one to write because I have made one of the toughest decisions in my life.

REVIEW | The iconic 90’s pop song Ice, Ice Baby was the last song I expected to hear when I turned out to see Architecture in Helsinki perform in London on Tuesday.

Aussies swarm to the UK like ‘scousers to a tash convention’ but sometimes we can get a bit mixed up with all the different lingo. NINA McGRATH explores the weird and wonderful world of British slang.

REVIEW | No matter how many times you hear them, when The Cat Empire take the stage, you better have your dancing shoes on.

GO HARD OR GO HOME | The ‘reality soap’ TV show 'Made in Chelsea' doesn’t interest me in the slightest. People-watching in Chelsea, however, is something I’d recommend tuning in to.

GO HARD OR GO HOME | Overall, I think I do a pretty good job of fitting in with the Brits. It helps that our homelands and cultures are so similar. But there are times when I feel like a bit of an alien.

There was a collective groan which rang out across Clapham, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulham, and all the Australian ghetto’s when the extended death rattle of summer finally kicked and October temperatures sank to where they belong.

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is not known for speaking. What he is known for is having “the voice of a higher being” according to music legend, Sting, and London felt the full force of it last week at the Barbican Centre in all it's glory.

GO HARD OR GO HOME | Since catching the travelling bug almost four years ago, I was proud of the fact that I'd never lost my wallet, phone, handbag, or anything of serious value during my travels. That was until this month when I lost my passport at the airport.

RIGHT SAID ED | Australians living in the UK are a fairly tight community. We drink together, we play together, we travel together and together we reserve the right to whinge about the weather and whinge about the whinging Poms.

There is a bar in Soho that is the perfect place to go to for a dose of British charm. It isn’t much like any other that Australians frequent in London, but there is a particular appeal that this bar can offer.

GO HARD OR GO HOME | I am going to be honest with you. I don’t care about the Rugby World Cup. Or the AFL Grand Final!

REVIEW | Seeing Mat. McHugh step onto the London stage without a band behind him was an exciting prospect and The Beautiful Girls frontman quickly introduced the crowd to his solo repertoire.

RIGHT SAID ED | I'm not too sure whether to love an 'Indian summer' or not! Of course I love any opportunity when the sun decides to shine in England and I can do as the Poms do and find the nearest green space, strip naked and marinate in the ...

GO HARD OR GO HOME | I love travelling, but lately I’ve realised this love is not as unconditional as it once was.

GO HARD OR GO HOME: There is one skill that I did not expect to pick up when moving to London; the ability to survive a face-off with a fox.

A helpful observation of greetings for new Aussie settlers to our motherland.

REVIEW | In the moments before The Jezabels took the stage at XOYO in Shoreditch, suspense and anticipation were sky high.