Concrete Playground

Following the announcement of this year's theme for the Sydney Writers' Festival, Concrete Playground caught up with the festival's artistic director, Chip Rolley. Texan-born Rolley, 47, reveals his personal take on the 2012 theme: the fine line between what is public and private.Read what Rolley as to say about the question...

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Twenty hours. That's how long it takes to travel from New York City to Sydney. Miguel Gutierrez, NYC-based choreographer, made the epic journey Down Under just two days ago. There are no detectable traces of jet lag in the CarriageWorks studios this morning, however, just an air of quiet anticipation....

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Every season has its fashions and fads. This past summer, there was only one thing we spotted more in our favourite bar haunts than hot dogs: cider. While a glass of sweet, delicious cider is undoubtedly on trend, we suspect that it will last a little longer than most.Concrete Playground...

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Usually when we see a teenage romance at the heart of a film we’re watching a film made for teens. Goodbye First Love is no such film. The young lovers Camille and Sullivan do not kiss under the speckled light of a disco ball at prom. Mia Hansen-Love's third film...

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Charlie Murphy deserves some serious credit. Trying to forge a career as a professional comedian is pretty tough at the best of times, let alone when your brother is none other than Eddie Murphy. Yet Charlie has not only taken that plunge – he's come out the other side as...

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According to Dean Sewell — Moran Prize winning photographer and part of the Oculi collective —  there was this duffel bag. Inside it was a banner a hundred foot long, decorated with two words.  This was on the maiden voyage of the Sydney to Hobart ship, the Spirit of Tasmania. There...

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So you’ve probably read all about the food truck phenomenon that is about to change the face of Sydney’s late night eating habits. Anyone even vaguely interested in food (and getting drunk, for that matter) is so excited you would think that Momofuku had just opened in Sydney or something....

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Sometimes it can seem really hard to meet new friends. You float around your fish bowl meeting the same people all the time, and even though our generation is supposed to be all about 'social networking', sometimes it feels like the nicest thing in the world would be to hang...

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Being The Drums means being one of the most hardworking bands around at the moment – since they skyrocketed in hype in 2009, The Drums haven’t slowed down, incessantly touring and releasing two LPs in that time. They’ve visited antipodean shores before, working the festival circuit and are about to...

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The Kooks were back in Sydney last week at the tail end of their Australian tour. We spoke with band member, Hugh Harris, about bringing in the New Year at Falls, cooking spag bol and retracing his roots in his spiritual homeland, Sydney.Hey Hugh, thanks for chatting with me today....

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After a huge 2011 - a new album and a year long world tour, the Arctic Monkeys landed in Australia post-Christmas. The band is back in Sydney this week to perform two sold-out shows and, lucky for us, the perfectly coiffed and sonorous toned lead singer, Alex Turner, took time...

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He has been gamboling around the Melbourne indie scene for years with Crayon Fields, but it is Geoffrey O'Connor's debut solo effort, Vanity Is Forever, that has garnered most attention since its release in October. The album, full of sultry synthesisers and insinuating stories, has gotten a lot of people talking,...

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