London Big Day Out

Don’t let the sporting part fool you, this day starts early, but finishes late and is all about the good times.

It’s London’s biggest day this side of summer. A place where Australian and Kiwi expats get together with their pommy and international mates for a day of team sports, live music and entertainment. There’s an always busy bar serving beer, cider, and wine from Australia, New Zealand and afar, gourmet snacks (or just regular festival fare if thats more your style), and our tuck shop store selling all the classics from home that you’ve been pining over.

This is the place where the down under diaspora gets together for a chance to bump and mingle with like-minded expats. A long day spent sports-side sipping on whatever poison you like while working up the courage to chat to the hottie you make eyes at on the Hammersmith and City line. We’re fielding teams in rugby and league, netball, social mixed dodgeball, touch footy and try tag rugby for those who want to get active and dazzle the opposition. But don’t worry if weekend sports aren’t your thing — there’s plenty of opportunity for you to excel on the sidelines.

Oz & Kiwi Village

This is the place to be between sports, or all day if you like. A place where you can drink Australian and Kiwi beers, listen to live music in the Stoked in the Park Marquee, sip on London’s 30 best craft beers on tap, get fancy with Australia and New Zealand’s finest fare in the Food and Wine Pavilion, try something deliciously stronger in our VIP booze bus and get stuck into the arts, crafts and favourite things from Australia and New Zealand in the Market Square. The sports are really a sideshow for what will be happening on the sidelines, and the Oz and Kiwi Village will be the centrepiece of this, a place to mingle and dance, get groggy and really make the most out of your big day in the sun.

Stoked in the park

This is our own exclusive area for everyone 18+. There’ll be travel deals, drinking games (beer pong, goon roulette, battle shots), a chance to win travel prizes by riding the mechanical bull, balancing on our surfboard and throwing tomatoes and the infamous wheel of misfortune.

Dad’s Backyard

It’s just like a backyard mixer at your old man’s place with the big fella on the BBQ, drunken aunties dragging you onto the dance floor with the best drinking songs from down under, a giant slip and slide, backyard cricket and a big bowl of lollies. Dad’s Backyard is the spot where your homesickness disappears and you’re transported back to the heady days of tipsy relatives, stolen sips of beer and burnt sausages. Dad’s Backyard is the best bits of home and none of the bullshit bickering between boozy oldies — this is a space for fun, getting loose and kicking on.

Sporting Competitions

A good chance to blow the cobwebs off the old boots and strut your stuff on the paddock. We’ll be inviting teams from anywhere to taste the thrill of victory in dodgeball, netball, tag, rugby and touch. Then for the Aussies and Kiwis they get to band together and see who’s the fairest of them all in rugby and rugby league!

OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY AT THE GRAND

The only and official London Big Day Out after-party is at the Clapham Grand, which too be honest is where we’d all be heading on a Saturday anyway. The London Big Day Out of sports and playing silly buggers in the sun was just the warm up for a night of getting up to no good. Five quid for your pre-paid entry will get you a drink, balloon drops, all the nangs your lungs can handle, Aussie beers behind the bar, DJs and dancers and we won’t call it quits until the clock strikes three (AM).