Rebecca Collinson-Smith – Creativity Overload

Photography is one of those things I wish I could do well (my instagram obsession is testament to this), but I’ve never gotten past browsing courses online when I’m procrastinating at work. I know...

FBi Social – Sydney’s Best Entertainment Bar

Sydney’s live music scene has taken some significant hits over the past few years, with a number of prominent venues closing down (or receiving soul-crushing facelifts – I’m looking at you Hi-Fi)....

A Like a Day Keeps the Mundane at Bay

A friend commented made an ever so polite snipe that I do, in fact, “like” a lot of face book pages… Guilty. It had never occurred to me that anyone was taking notice (let alone monitoring) my...

The Spokes People – Sydney Bicycle Festival 2012

Over the next fortnight, the Spokes People will be presenting the Sydney Bicycle Festival. For all of you who are two-wheel inclined, the festival has been designed for you to celebrate bike...

The Girls & Boys Brigade and the first ever WONDER100! Village Fete

Surry Hills charity The Girls & Boys Brigade has been operating for over 125 years, providing assistance to inner city youngsters not as fortunate as most. They offer a range of services which...

Under New Management – Oxford Street’s Creative Chameleon

“Under New Management is a space for ideas. It has 4 walls, one of which is glass, a wooden floor and a high, white roof. Whatever happens in-between is up to us.” This quote describes Under New...

Young Cairo – Pyramid Pop

Andrawis George has more talent than most people. Part of the much-loved Sydney band Kid Confucius, he’s spent the past two years since the band’s split travelling the globe. Not just content with...

Secret Walls

In life, there are those friends who seem to have their finger on the pulse of every gig, show, exhibition, soiree and shindig in the city. Often you will find yourself saying ‘yes’ before even...

Stitchthat – Film and Video Production

Earlier this year, a cousin of mine from the motherland, Giles, planned a visit with a friend in Sydney and got in touch about things to do while he was here. Giles and I didn’t really know each...

Play your cards, Share your Aces.

We like innovative initiatives. Better yet, we like innovative initiatives that involve an element of charitable goodness. The same hand is not always dealt, and circumstances are not always fair....

Jean-Paul Fung – the man behind the music

You probably won’t know his name, but chances are you’ve enjoyed Jean-Paul (JP) Fung’s work on numerous occasions. One of the most in-demand music producers in Australia, his production credit list...

Letters, the original vintage.

Last week, I received some unexpected mail from a very old and dear friend. ‘Twas not your regular source of next generation mail. It was, in fact, an actual physical piece of paper laden with Ink...

Young Henrys – Craft Brewing at its best

Beer culture in Australia has changed dramatically in a relatively short amount of time. While we still throw-down with the best of them, appreciation of the flavour, texture and individuality is...

Oxford St Design Store

Recently, The Awkward Collective had the pleasure of swapping words with the gorgeous and ridiculously talented Louise Helliwell and Alex De Bonis on their newest venture, the Oxford St Design...

The Pine Street Sessions

Pine Street Sessions is another fantastic music initiative promoting Sydney’s never-ending pool of talented musicians. A few weeks back, we posted about the Gate bringing live music to Sydney’s...

EAT ART TRUCK

Find me anyone who can utter the phrase “few of my favorite things” without hearing Julie Andrew’s rendition from ‘A Sound of Music’ and I’ll find you a liar. So, with this in mind I bring to you a...

The Gate Presents – bringing live music to the ‘Burbs

In a city where music venues are being closed down left, right and centre, Sydney’s live music scene is walking on a knife-edge. That rings especially true for suburban areas, often thought of as...

Kiss My Sass – the dark art of “Sass-talkin’”

I went on holidays to America at the beginning of the year, and on a night out in Brooklyn a couple of guys started chatting me up. I was pretty tired and not at all in the mood for being hit on at...

A guide to making friends online – the Willow&Blake/Awkw ard Collective story.

A self-assessed social media addict, I have been known to make friends on the internet. Judge if you will, but I don’t see a problem with it. Why wouldn’t you want to find like-minded folks who...

Your Friends House

There is nothing we love more than an unconventional, raw and refreshingly honest point of view. Recently, whilst following our cyber noses on the ever illusive e-trail we were lucky enough to...

/// Projects Debut Exhibition

Most young and emerging artists have a mountain to climb just to find somewhere to show off their works. Step forward Luke Burcher and James Cooney, who are doing their upmost to rectify this...

They See Me Rollin’

I’m not sure what I like most about roller derby – the alternative crowd and atmosphere, the fact that there are chicks skating around a rink and shoving each other, the whole girl-power punk...

Taking A Dive

Sydney’s bar scene has improved immensely over the last few years. The licensing changes mean that there are classy wine bars, gastro-pubs and boutique beerhouses popping up all over the place....

Acid Stag Interview

The Awkward Collective are huge fans of discovering new music, and one of our first ports of call is always Acid Stag. A Sydney-based music blog, Dan and Jez have transformed their passion for...

Bread&Gin

Show me someone in this day and age who doesn’t like a good, well-made cocktail and I’ll show you a liar. The problem is that making cocktails isn’t as simple as capping a beer or uncorking a...

The Preachers

Holy balls, we’ve just fallen in love with the cool kids from up-and-coming band The Preachers. Who are The Preachers you ask? As they so eloquently put it; ”The Preachers are a rock band from...

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Laz – Tattooist and Artist

All of us wish we could turn our passions into a career. Most of us don’t. Laz is one of the lucky people who makes a living out of the two things he loves the most – Tattooing and Art. Spending...

The Awkward Collective

The Oxford Dictionary describes “Awkward” in the following manner: adjective causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with. deliberately unreasonable or uncooperative: your turtle is being damned...