Eight ecstatic moments from SXSW
Harriet Cheney headed to South-By-South-West for the first time and experienced some magical moments: DAY ONE – TUESDAY The way it works: You can purchase a SXSW badge (from $600 for music) in… Read More
Category Archive: live
The Great Escape: Day Three
The final countdown, do-do-do-do. Yes, seemingly so soon after it had begun, The Great Escape’13 had already reached its last day. The closing Saturday of the festival started as all the coolest events… Read More
The Great Escape: Day Two
Amid hangovers and weary limbs after the opening day’s festivities, the second instalment of The Great Escape’13 creaked into life Friday lunchtime, yet it didn’t take long for things to hit full throttle.… Read More
The Great Escape: Day One
There’s little denying that Brighton in the Spring sunshine is a location of absolute magnificence, so when you add 350 amazing bands playing in over twenty venues around the city to sixteen thousand… Read More
Yacht Club DJs tear up Sydney
Somethingyousaid.com’s Sonia Clarke bump-and-grinds to a selection of musical favourites, reworked by the Yacht Club DJ’s at their shindig in Sydney. If I was to sum up the Yacht Club DJs in one… Read More
Kirin J Callinan’s Tales From The Crypt
Beneath St James Cathedral, a lone figure stood. Licentious in nature (if only while onstage), a small few hundred, rubbing elbow-to-shoulder-to-mouth-to-nose, packed in like sardines to catch a glimpse of the flickering flame… Read More
The Growl high-five Friday night
Gooching, Growling and Garbage Can drumming – Just another Friday night at Brighton Up Bar. So Friday nights. They’re for throwing up arms in excitable fits of freedom. Your eyes are wide and… Read More
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
Mama Kin at Northcote Social Club
Mama Kin compared her microphone stand to a penis, made an excellently complicated Harry Potter reference, told her mum to ‘put earplugs in’, twice, and swore repeatedly at her sister. She told stories… Read More