Cool cats enjoy Icebergs bash

The Daily Telegraph reports

TEN years ago restaurateur Maurice Terzini threw a party with his mate Angus McDonald, from Sneaky Sound System, for a few hundred friends on New Years Day at his then-just opened beachside bar, Bondi Icebergs.

A decade later and it's an annual knees-up where celebs and eastern suburbs cool cats dance the afternoon away to the sound of international DJ's and drink through the previous night's largesse.

Yesterday was no different, with a well-heeled, salubrious crowd paying $350 each to sip Veuve Clicquot, eat canapes from the famed noshery and stand aloof from the crowded beach below.

Fresh from hosting Snoop Dogg at one of his Kings Cross party palaces, Icebergs regular John Ibrahim made a rare appearance with his son, Daniel Taylor, 20, who will hopefully have a better year than last, after being charged with assault following an argument over a parking spot.

Seldom seen out and about together, the pair arrived with Ibrahim's on/off girlfriend Chelsea Mitchell and good mate Charlotte Dawson, staying a few hours before heading back to the club king's Dover Heights mansion for a private after-party.

Rumoured to be engaged couple Brian McFadden and Vogue Williams didn't stay long, seen heading out as the party got rowdy about 3pm.

The Irish pair maintained they are not walking down the aisle any time soon.

"Everyone keeps saying 'oh congratulations' to me, it's pretty funny," Williams told Confidential.

Backing up from his headlining slot at the Sydney Resolution concert at Glebe Island, British playboy Jamiroquai looked a little worse for wear (actually, make that a lot), smoking heavily and throwing back vodkas on the south balcony.

Bambi Northwood-Blyth and Dan Single were their requisite PDA selves, she almost unrecognisable in a long blonde wig.

Aussie model Shanina Shaik, who recently walked for Victoria's Secret, arrived with her long-time boyfriend, US model Tyson Beckford, but would not be photographed.

Also there were designers Kirrily Johnston and Peter Morrissey, stylist Pip Edwards and Wallaby boyfriend Adam Ashley-Cooper and MasterChef cutie Hayden Quinn.

Jamiroquai resolves to share the love

Jamiroquai at the site where he will be performing the Sydney Resolution New Year's eve
concert at Glebe Island. Picture: Damian Shaw Source: The Daily Telegraph

 

 

The Daily Telegraph reports

HE may have been battling a "big slice of jet lag" but New Year's resolutions were a no-brainer for Jamiroquai yesterday.

"To get laid more, definitely," the playboy Brit smirked.

Spending his 42nd birthday in rehearsals, Confidential caught up with the groovy Jay Kay during sound check for tonight's Sydney Resolution concert - which he will headline with Culture Club.

The Canned Heat singer said he has "never" done a NYE gig before: "I usually just follow straight through (from my birthday) and keep going so this is different, it will be good."

The pop star was smoking and drinking beer throughout the test run and took a liking to the "old white Bentley" parked backstage, which belonged to the concert's promoter Andrew McManus.

If Jay Kay is jet-lagged its safe to say Culture Club frontman Boy George, 50, faces a steep climb, having only flown into Sydney late last night.

There are still tickets available for the Glebe Island mega gig.

Naughty Boy George's Oz visa hassles

JMo & Elle, The Sunday Telegraph, reports

EIGHTIES British singer Boy George is Sydney bound after overcoming "some issues" with his visa.

Boy George, who fronts Culture Club, which will headline the Sydney Resolution New Year's Eve concert later this month, admitted he was concerned his criminal record may have prevented him from playing the gig.

The 50-year-old last visited Australia in 2007 for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

"There has been some issues but I think I'm okay, I'm coming," Boy George told us on the phone from his London home on Friday.

In 2009, Boy George - born George Alan O'Dowd - was jailed after being found guilty of falsely imprisoning a male escort in his London flat.

But that's in the past, he says. "Obviously there's a problem with a few places (getting a visa) but one just has to get on with it," he said.

"I'm living my life on life's terms and dealing with those things. Those things are consequences of my past behaviour, there's no way of avoiding them."

Also playing the New Year's Eve spectacular at Glebe Island (under Anzac Bridge) is Jamiroquai, the Pet Shop Boys, Pseudo Echo and Guy Sebastian.

George also commented on fellow British singer George Michael, who is seriously sick with a mystery illness.

"He's in the right place, he's being looked after and that's all you can hope for," he said of his former foe. "I did ring. He's not great but he's not on death's door or anything like that."