Category Archive: Creative

Read This Before You Play Music In Public

These are the rules. I didn’t make them up. These are inalienable truths, a part of the divine spectrum of unquestionable constants that hold our universe together. There might be those who feel… Read More

Don’t Get Angry, Get #DIYRAINBOWCROSSING

The removal of the rainbow crossing across Sydney’s famed Oxford Street last week caused uproar within the community. The rainbow crossing acted as a symbol of pride and a short-lived tourist attraction, popping… Read More

Ma. Gallery’s Fourth Birthday Party

We wouldn’t usually support four-year-olds partying at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney till ungodly hours of the morning, but ma.gallery is a feisty young lass and will do as she pleases. That’s… Read More

Landscape/Displacement, by Isidore Tillers

Classical musician and writer, Isidore Tillers, makes her somethingyousaid.com debut by telling us how it feels to be an Australian shivering amid subzero temperatures in Germany: As I sit here and write, tiny… Read More

NICK CAVE LOGS ON – P.S, I LOVE YOU

On February 19th something momentous happened, I woke up at 4am with purpose. No, really. I’m not lying. I had good cause. NICK FUCKING CAVE WAS TALKING TO FANS LIVE AND ON TWITTER…… Read More

On being a terrible, terrible woman

Sunk into my sofa the other night caught in a semi-conscious haze, watching Louis Theroux with his admirably gonzo-like journalism and even sexier, Gonzo-like nose, I came to the sudden sickening realisation that… Read More

Getting Awkwardly Naked in Morocco

Jess O’Callaghan gets nekkid: I barely know how to handle myself in the changing room of a swimming pool in Australia, where women huddle against the wall and slip their underwear back on… Read More

In Pursuit Of The Great White Whale

If you spend more time in dusty old record shops and on eBay than you should in the hope of finding long lost LPs, you’re not alone.

Antony Hamilton joins forces

Antony Hamilton is a choreographer whose work is hard to pin down in that it unhinges the traditional cultural narrative of western dance as an art form. He has created works for the… Read More

Thank you and goodnight Bridezilla

On January 16th, two things are set to happen. It is an utter coincidence that they should occur on the same day, yet there is also something strangely symbiotic about it. In the… Read More

Red Bull Flying Bach: Breakdance + classical

We all love a good mash up of styles, right? Not too long ago we told you about a cool concerto that mixed the new and old in the form of things like… Read More

Olly goes to Live Band Karaoke

Oliver Heath clears his throat, pumps his fists and gets ready to rock out: Once a modest night in the seedy basement of the old Mandarin Club in Sydney, now at Marrickville’s Factory… Read More