This is a time of great cultural activity -- outstanding theatre, street performances, art exhibitions -- as well as a time of pilgrimage to the beach.Among which stands the amazing Bondi beach, a must go for all those visiting Sydney.Just check it out!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7REBlbNISns

But tell you what........ it's worth going there

Ben Sherman is a British clothing company, producing shirts, suits, shoes and other items.
Ben Sherman clothing designs sometimes feature the roundel and colours of the British Royal Air Force, often called the mod target. More recent Ben Sherman shirts are often identified with unusual and complex designs, and the so-called Carnaby-style of fitted shirts. The company has four ranges of clothing: Women's, Men's, Youth and Kids.

The company was founded in 1963 by Arthur Bernard Sugarman (1925-1987), who was born in Brighton as a son of a Jewish salesman. He emigrated to the United States in 1946 via Canada and changed his nationality to American. He married the daughter of a Californian clothes producer and went back to Brighton later where he bought a concourse shirt factory. The brand became famous for being sported by several well-known musicians and singers. It was the first company to produce the famous Oxford button-down shirt, which became a fashion staple for mods, skinheads and suedeheads. The brand has been the fourth largest men's casual wear brand in the United Kingdom.Check out this great commercial

The state of Rock and Roll according to Noel

Let me share with you these great songs from some of my favourite bands so that you can improve your English a little bit.

Embrace

World @ yr feet: England 2006 song

You're the _________in my life to make me __________
That we might just _______all the ______
And I want _________to know we're all hanging on

They'll _________and yes they'll _______
To brake us _______
But we ______that we'll never ______
If we keep __________forward and don't look __________

With the __________at your __________
There's _____________ you can't beat
Yes it can be ___________
With the world at your feet
There's no heart you can't ____________
This ___________be the one
Its calling, Its calling you now
You know its ____________be your _______
'_______the world is at your feet
Yeah, the world is at your feet

Like _______in the __________
Burning _________, seen by a ___________eyes
Now, I want you to know we're all _________your way

repeat chorus

You're _________up
With one ________kiss
There's __________else
That __________like this
So lift your __________
And ___________sing

repeat chorus

THE HOURS Back when you were good

I _________ you
___________'s the same
But it's no ___________
It's no use
Lay it ________to blame
At my ____________
That wont _________ no more
I've heard it all ______________
And I, I ____________you now
You have changed _________
And I, I wish I ___________ you back then
Back when you ____________ good

I __________you
____________than you know _________
And it's no use
You can't __________a new life off a shelf
It wont set you ____________
You're not fooling _________
It's so __________to see
How you've changed your__________
And let go
You're like a vampire
You're soaking with ____________' blood
Oh how I wish I __________you back
When you ___________ good

You _________ to be so loud
You burned so bright
Your stars shined out so bright

You had it all right in the ________ of your ________
And let it fall like a ________grains of sand
You wear away to a _________where ________knew
Just who you are
And theres no one to ________to
No one to _________the person you have become
And what have you _________
What have you done
And you have gone to hide ________
repeat

Year 1998 I was in London then and the Verve were the big winners @ the Brits that year picking up honors for Best group , best album and best producer.Great band and they made a triumphant return to the live stage last December. Here's one of their anthems.

SONNET THE VERVE

My _____________ and me
Looking _____________ her red box of __________
Faded I'm sure
But love __________ to stick in her veins you _______
Yes, there's ____________ if you want it
Don't ___________ like no sonnet, my lord
Yes, there's __________ if you want it
Don't __________ like no sonnet, my lord
My lord

Why _________ you see
That _________ has its way of warning me
___________ open wide
Looking at the ___________ with a tear in my ________
repeat chorus
___________ fast within a boat without a hull
My lord
________ about the day ________ I can see you there
My side
By my side

Here we go ______ and my head is __________, my lord
I ________ to say hello
'Cause I think you should know by now

Nothing ever lasts forever

I ___________ it now I _________ it now not
the ______________ of what _____________ brings
I ____________ to live in dreams ____________
I'm ____________ of the song that sorrow sings
I ______________ more than I can ___________ just
trying to trying to trying to ___________________
I _______________ to you _____________ winds of fire
and ______________let you know the way I __________
_______________ skin is where I hide love
that _______________ gets me on my knees
I want more than I can get just
trying to trying to trying to forget
____________ ever lasts ________ nothing ever lasts
forever nothing ever lasts
forever nothing ever lasts forever
I want it now I want it now ___________
tell me that my ship is ______________ in
____________ comes to those who _____________
times running out before you're running in

All the Shadows and the fields are coming to you
all the Shadows and
the fields are coming to you
All the Shadows and the
fields are coming to you

The Killers Read my Mind

____ the corner of main __________
Just ___________to keep it in line
You say you ___________ move on and
You say I'm ____________ behind

_________ you read my mind?
_________ you read my mind?

I _________ really gave up on
Breakin' out of this two-star _______
I got the __________ light
I got a little _________
I'm _____________turn this thing around
repeat chorus

The good old ________, the honest ________;
The restless heart, the Promised __________

A subtle _______ that no one _________;
A broken wrist and a big trapeze

Oh well I ________ mind, if you don't _______
'Cause I don't _______ if you don't shine
__________ you go, can you read my mind?

It’s ____________ how you just break down
___________on some sign
I pull up to the __________ of your driveway
With magic soakin' my spine
repeat chorus

The teenage ___________, the loaded ____________;
The drop dead ___________, the Chosen _________
A _________ drawl, a world unseen;
A city ____________ and a trampoline

Oh well I __________ mind, if you don't mind
'Cause I don't shine if you don't shine
Before you _____________
_________ me what you_________ when you read my mind

Slippin’ in my _________ until I fall
You never ________ that call
Woman, open the door, ______ let it sting
I _____________ breathe that fire again

She___________ I don't mind, if you don't mind
'Cause I don't shine if you don't shine

Put your back on me
Put your back on me
Put your back on me

The ________ are blazing like rebel diamonds

cut out of the ________
____________ you read my mind

She _______________ me that her Dad was loaded,
I __________________ "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in _____________ seconds time she said,

"I want to ______________ like common people,
I want to __________________ whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."

Well what else ________________ I do -
I _____________ "I'll see what I can do."
I ____________ her to a supermarket,
I __________________ know why but I had to start it _______________,
so it ______________ there.
I said pretend you've got no __________________,
she just _____________ and said,
"Oh you're so _____________________."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see _______________ else smiling in here.
Are you _____________ you want to live like common people,
you want to ______________whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me."
But she ________________understand,
she just ____________ and held my hand.
___________ a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a _________________.
Smoke some fags and _____________ some pool,
pretend you never ______________to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.

You'll never ____________ like common people,
you'll never _____________ what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never __________________ your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.

Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they're laughing at you,
and the ___________ things that you do.
Because you think that poor is _________________

Honey, It's ___________ a long time coming
And I can't ___________ now
Such a long _________ running
And I can't stop now
_________ you hear my heart beating
Can you __________ that sound
Cause I can't help ____________________
And I __________ look down

And then I looked up at the ________ and I could __________
Oh the ___________ that gravity turns for you and me
And then I looked up at the _________ and saw the sun
And the way that gravity pulls on __________, on _____________

Baby, It's ________ a long time ___________
__________ a long, long time
And I can't stop _____________
No I can't stop now
And do you hear my heart beating
And can you hear that sound
Cause I can't help crying
And I won't look down

When you were here …………………………………
Couldn't look you in the ………………………........
You're just like an ………………………………......

Your skin ……………………………. me cry
You float like a feather
In a ……………………………. world
You're so very ……………………………..

I wish I …………. ………………………………

But I 'm a ………………………………………..
I 'm a weirdo/stranger
What the …………………………..am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't/doesn’t care if it hurts
I ……………………………… have control
I ……………………… a perfect body
I ……………….. a perfect soul
I ………………………….. you to notice
When I'm not ……………………………..
You're so very ……………………………..

I wish I ……… ……………………….
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What _________ am I doing here?
I don't belong here

She's running out again
She's running out
She run, run, run run
Run

Whatever makes you ……………………………………

Whatever you ……………………………………
You're so very special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here

Step outside the summertime's in bloom
A) stand up beside the fireplace
take that look from off your face.
Cos you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out.
You said that you´d never been
B) but all the things that you've seen are gonna fade away.

And so Sally can wait
she knows it's too late
C) As we're walking on by
her soul slides away
but don't look back in anger I heard you say.

D) I´m gonna start a revolution from my bed
Cos you said the brains I had went to my head.

Please don't put your life in the hands
E) of a rock'n'roll band
who'll throw it all away.

So Sally can wait she knows it's too late
F) as she´s walking on by my soul slides away
but don't look back in anger I heard you say,
please not today.

Slip inside the eye of your mind
G) don´t you know you might find
a better place to play.

Take me to the place where you go
H) where nobody knows
if it's night or day.

I) So I start a revolution from my bed
Cos you said the brains I have went to my head.
And so Sally can wait she knows it's too late
J) As she´s walking on by my soul slides away
but don't look back in anger I heard you say.

So Sally can wait she knows it's too late
K) As we're walking on by her soul slides away

but don't look back in anger I heard you say.
Step outside the summertime's in bloom
stand up besides the fireplace
L) take that look from off your face.
Cos you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out.

SNOW PATROL CHASING CARS

We'll do it all, _____________, on our own 
We don't need ___________ or ______________ 

And just __________ the world 
I don't quite ________ how to say how I__________ 
Those three ____________ are said too much 
They're not ______________ 

REPEAT CHORUS

__________ what we're told 
Before we get _________ old 
Show me a garden that's bursting into __________
 
Listen and put the words in the order you hear them

Chasing cars 
Around our heads 
Let's waste time 

REPEAT CHORUS

All that I ___________
All that I ever was 
Is here in your _________eyes 
They're all I can _________ 
I don't know ____________
Confused __________ how as well 
I just know that these things 
Will never change for us at all 

REPEAT CHORUS

The word LIE means to be in a horizontal position and
the past is LAY

LIE-LAY-LAIN

Notice that the word LIE also means not to tell the
truth but in this case it is a regular verb

LIE-LIED-LIED

Remember we tell a lie

Grammar Focus
Take a look at this sentence from the song

If I lay here, would you lie with me....?

This is known as the second conditional and it is used to
talk about an unreal situation which refers to the present
or future.
The formula is

IF PAST, WOULD  or  WOULD IF PAST


Never quite understood why people like the Beatles so much.
They don't mean much to me but this cover is really good.

I AM ONLY SLEEPING by Stereophonics and Noel Gallagher

When I _____________ up early in the _________________,
Lift my _________________, I'm _____________ yawning
__________ I'm in the middle of a ______________
___________ in bed, float up stream

Please ________________ wake me, no
don't _______________ me
__________ me where I am
I'm only _____________

______________ seems to think I'm ______________
I don't ____________, I think they're ________________
Running ________________ at such a speed
Till they ___________, there's no need

Please ___________ spoil my __________
I'm miles _____________
And after all
I'm only sleeping

______________an eye on the world going by my ____________
Taking my ___________________
Lying there and staring at the ____________
Waiting for a sleepy __________________

REPEAT CHORUS

Richard Ashcroft

BREAK THE NIGHT WITH COLOUR

Fools they think I do not __________
The road I'm _____________
If you ______me on the _______
Hesitating
That is just because I know ________ way I will choose

The corridors of discontent

That I've been ____________
All alone in search for ____________
The world's so _________
Nothing's going right _________
'Cos nothing ever does

Ooh-ooh, I don't _________ know your secrets
Ooh-ooh, they lie heavy on my ________
Ooh-ooh, let's break the night with ________

Time for me to _______ ahead

Monday _________ coming down
like understanding
Mama _________ you are the ground
Looking so frightning
Nothing's __________ right today
'Cos ___________ ever does

Ooh-ooh, I don't ______ know your secrets
Ooh-ooh, they lie heavy on my ______
Time for me to ______ my cover
Time for me to _______ ahead

Been givin' up
You will come again

REPEAT CHORUS

She moves in her own way by The Kooks

So at my show on ________________

I was hoping _______________

You'd be on your way to better ____________

It's not about your make-up

Or how you try to shape up

To these tiresome paper dreams

Paper dreams, _________________

PUT THE LINES IN THE CORRECT ORDER

You're not about to lie down for your cause

But you don't pull my strings

Your telling me you're far out

So now you pour your heart out 1

Moving on to better things

'Cos I'm a better man

Well uh oh, oh I ________her because she moves in her own way

Well uh oh, oh she _______ to my show just to hear about my day

And at the show on _____________

She was in her mindset

Tempered furs and spangled boots

Looks are deceiving

Make me ________________ it

And these tiresome paper dreams

Paper dreams, _____________

Yeah

PUT THE LINES IN THE CORRECT ORDER

And you don't pull my strings

Tell me you're a keeper

So won’t you go far 1

Not about to lie down for your cause

'Cos I'm a better man

Moving on to better things

Well oh oh, oh I _______ her because she moves in her own way

Well oh oh, oh she _________ to my show just to hear about my day

Yes I ____ that we never made it

Through all the _________

Their keeping us instead of

Kicking us ______

Down through the ____________