Sk!n is an Oz Asia production from Malaysia by TerryandtheCruz raising awareness of the refugee issue. Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 UN convention relating to the Status of Refugees, making them vulnerable to abuse. The performance itself involves the audience as part of the show. As we are ushered into the foyer…
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Written by Marc Camoletti and directed by Stephen Snars, Boeing Boeing tells the tale of Bernard (Paul Sztelma), a French architect living in Paris and juggling relationships with three flight attendants. It is the 1960s and Bernard has no shame over his three fiancé’s – in fact, when an old school friend Robert (Robert Snars)…
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The Best of Adam Sharp is like Sliding Doors meets High Fidelity. The third novel by author, Graeme Simsion takes a more dramatic and wistful approach to his previous novels, The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect. In Adam Sharp, Simison grapples with the question of “What if?” and produces a well-written dramedy and meditation…
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Taking place over two days this November, The Black Arts Market will celebrate and showcase the creative skills of nearly 100 Aboriginal artists from South East Australia. Organised by Carriageworks and the City of Sydney, this cultural marketplace will be curated by Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones. Jones was recently announced as the first Indigenous…
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After successful runs in Adelaide and Perth in August, i>Pinot Palooza will be dropping by Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane this month for the country’s largest annual Pinot Noir and music festival. Bottle Shop Concepts have had Pinot Palooza as a star event on their portfolio for five years now, sitting with events like Game of…
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After a successful expansion to The Galeries last year Lotus have now opened up their third Sydney venue, as Barangaroo’s obligatory dumpling and modern Chinese restaurant, a massive 160-seater designed by the ever-reliable DS17. Bringing over their excellent menu and adding a few new additions (expect more seafood) to help settle into the new waterfront…
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Setting up a brand new café directly opposite The Kettle Black, – one of Melbourne’s most popular gourmet cafés – is a bold move, but that’s exactly what Kevin Li (Lights in the Attic, 3Lives) did with his newest project The Crux & Co. Located on the ground floor of The Emerald Apartment on Albert…
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One of many developers in Australia for Xbox FanFest and EB Expo over the weekend, Mike Brown is the senior game designer at Playground Games, developer of the recently released Forza Horizon 3. We were able to chat to Mike about the game’s Gold Coast setting, its new features and what’s in store for fans post-launch.
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Fifteen years after penning the lyrics to “Maybe Memories” The Used frontman Bert McCracken is living his dream of making music and playing it on the road. Whether his dream included that The Used would go on to amass a fiercely passionate international fan base and that those shows would be sold-out, or that one…
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Melbourne Pixies fans rejoice! The band has confirmed a second and final date in the city as part of their March Australian tour. The gigs will be the band’s first in Melbourne in six years, seeing them take to the Margaret Court Arena. Pixies have of course been celebrating the release of their new album Head Carrier…
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The Camp Cope legends have announced that their final show for the year will be a party at Melbourne’s Northcote Social Club – definitely one not to be missed. Come December 17th, the girls will be hitting the stage alongside Harmony and Two Steps on the Water to celebrate what has been one hell of a year of shows and…
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The annual AmericanaFest has become a mammoth event on the US music calendar, with a wide range of artists hitting Nashville for a SXSW-style celebration of everything Americana, country and all else that draws itself under the banner. Out in Nashville with his new album GLASSELLLAND, Jordie Lane immersed himself in AmericanaFest for the first time in a…
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Last Friday, Solange released her highly anticipated new album, A Seat At The Table. The 21 track record, accompanied by an e-book, has already been reaping in the praise and today, she’s shared two official music videos to bolster the great vibes surrounding the follow up to 2012’s True. The music videos, co-directed by Solange and her husband,…
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The now LA-based Perth native Cameron Avery has a new music video doing the rounds, this time for the dreamy, yet charged up single “Ces’t Toi”. Directed by Mike Bennett and Nathan Lewis (the Joy Collective), we see Avery perform the tune, written about ‘the last time he fell in love’. Recorded with Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Elvis Costello), Avery’s vocals are a…
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We’re entering ARIA Award territory for another year, with the first round of nominees (Fine Arts, Artisan and Best Comedy) being announced, the winners to be announced at the official ARIA Nominations Event in Sydney this Wednesday. Already, Flume and The Avalanches have had their latest records recognised across all three artisan categories, an impressive indicator of…
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Supporting last year’s extremely successful debut LP In A Restless House, City Calm Down seem more at home than ever. Straight off the line up from Splendour in the Grass, the electronic-rock band excitably rounded out their month of touring with a string of homegrown gigs at Melbourne’s own 170 Russell. Although a gradual crowd welcomed City Calm…
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PlayStation’s VR is almost ready to be unleashed on a public that largely has very little idea of what awaits them. That idea became a little clearer after EB Expo though, one of the general public’s first real chances to go hands-on with this beautiful piece of immersive tech, with a handful of demos designed…
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Prepare to say goodbye to the Land of Ooo and all it’s inhabitants – in case you haven’t heard, sad news has emerged over the weekend that beloved cartoon and pop-culture phenomenon Adventure Time will be coming to an end in the near future. Cartoon Network announced Adventure Time will air it’s final season in…
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You can always rely on Hayes Theatre Co to bring the shows that you’ve always wanted to see but know in your heart that they’ll be a tough bring. Side Show is precisely one of these shows- with its big number “Who Will Love Me As I Am” and its notable conjoined twin role, it’s a rarely-performed…
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Award-winning Japanese chef Chase Kojima, he who has turned Sokyo into one of the best in Sydney and has opened the equally fantastic Kiyomi on the Gold Coast, has announced that he’ll be moving into something a bit more casual for his third venture, Gojima. Opening up opposite Momofuku Seiobo at The Star, Gojima will…
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Browsing the stacked program for Sydney’s Good Food Month will bring you across some pretty lavish, ambitious events, but pay just as much attention to the simple ones – they’re usually the highlights after the month-long festival of exploring the city’s best through eating and drinking is said and done. An example of such a…
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After years of standing tall as a Surry Hills favourite, Sugarcane has uprooted and opened as a beachside retreat in Coogee. Chef Milan Strbac realised the sea change earlier this year, bringing the sunny suburb his energetic, Asian menu but kicking things up a bit, complementing Milan’s Thai-heavy style with other South East Asian cuisines,…
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Few chefs in Australia command the type of ohhs and ahhs that regularly surround Guillaume Brahimi and everything he does. The man has not only become synonymous with the type of culinary mastery one would find at his eponymous fine-dining restaurant in Paddington, but proven his versatility over recent years with his more accessible Bistro…
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Melbourne muso and producer Planète has come on through with a gorgeous new single in “Nightcrawler”, his first piece of new music released after a lengthy hiatus. At seven minutes, “Nightcrawler” is a slice of house music that engages and draws the listener in, even if house isn’t necessarily your bag. We’ve heard similar releases from Planète in…
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With Xbox FanFest and EB Expo both kicking off over the weekend, we had a chance to chat with Joe Nickolls, studio director of Capcom Vancouver, currently developing Dead Rising 4. We pelted him with questions about the upcoming invent-your-own-mayhem zombie adventure title.
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Australian lamb is some of the best in the world. The meat also taps into the rich tapestry of cultures that have blended to make for the country’s consistently inventive and exciting food scene, so it’s little surprise that lamb is often seen, and used, as one of the ideal inclusions in any social feast….
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Pop-up food festivals are all the rage in Sydney, and this month’s Parramatta Lanes may very well eclipse them all with this epic lineup set to take over ten of the area’s inner city laneways and squares for four delicious days of food, drink, art, and music. Some of the best from all over the…
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Across three days in November Sydney’s inner-west hub of Marrickville will play host to communal festival Street Food Circus, a forward thinking collective who have tapped into some of the city’s very best to create a pop-up mix of artisan food traders, craft beer, wine, vinyl DJs, and live music. They have looked far and…
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This month, The Pretty Littles are hitting the road with their new album Soft Rock For The Anxious – as their third release, the record is raucous and euphoric. Singles we had heard prior to its release already indicated that the Melbourne group were headed onwards and upwards, but the full record comes together flawlessly. Speaking with frontman Jack Parsons just…
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Austin City Limits began as one of the most important television programs spotlighting the greatest music the world had to offer. So the fact it shares its name with one of the biggest music festivals on the planet tells you all you need to know about the magnitude and excellence of Texas’s biggest music festival….
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