Get Amped For VIVID Festival
Carol Bowditch provides a crash-course on the VIVID festival that is touring Sydney May-June. The annual VIVID festival is rolling into Sydney in May. It always brings us at somethingyousaid.com great joy at… Read More
Category Archive: live
Susanne Sundfør live in London
Susanne Sundfør is a Norwegian singer/songwriter who has achieved both critical and chart success in her own country. While recording duet Running to the Sea with Röyksopp exposed her to a larger audience, it is… Read More
The Tallest Man at Sydney Opera House
The Tallest Man On Earth – Sydney Opera House 5/3/2013 Like a suspicious elf in brown leather boots plotting its mischievousness, he began by creeping around the stage, then leaning out and leering… Read More
Motorama live at Bad Bonn, Dudingen
Motorama. Five-piece indie-rock band out of Russia. Get with it. Straight off the bat I would describe their sound as the lovechild of The Drums and Joy Division, with Editors as that quirky… Read More
Soundwave 2013 & An Ode to Linkin Park
Somethingyousaid.com’s Victoria Mietchen headed along to Soundwave and wrote an ode to her teenage favourites Linkin Park: As the sky darkened with twilight I stood moored in a churning and restless sea of strangers,… Read More
Deap Vally at The Haunt, Brighton
Without wishing to blow our own – admittedly impressive – trumpets, we were banging on about Californian two-piece Deap Vally absolutely yonks ago. We interviewed them in one of those, “hey guys, you probably haven’t… Read More
…For All Tomorrow’s Parties
Fit For One Who Sits And Cries/For All Tomorrow’s Parties, by Bianca Cornale Over a sweltering weekend, some of the world’s most influential musicians touched down in Altona, Melbourne. And don’t worry, nobody else… Read More
Lucy Rose live in Switzerland
Kaya Strehler doesn’t know whether to be besotted with Lucy Rose’s serenading or to have a jealous tantrum: I was recently whipped away for a delightful two-hour drive down to Geneva with the luring… Read More
Laneway throws a good party
Bianca Cornale headed along to Laneway Festival in Sydney, and even if the boutique festival has grown, it’s definitely not too big for its boots, or rather, its incredibly elegant pointy leather brogues. … Read More
Two Door Cinema Club & The Vaccines live
Earlier this month, I attended a show at a cinema club (with two doors) where everybody was getting themselves vaccinated against giant jungle creatures. Oh wait, no I didn’t. That’s what my ticket… Read More
Foals create a frenzy of chaos
It was dark, sweaty and pulsating. The cavernous Oxford Art Factory in Sydney was the perfect setting to see English quintet Foals play a midweek show of high intensity and grit. With support… Read More
Alabama Shakes at Sydney’s Metro
Call them whatever you will, soul-revival, rock-revival, gospel; Alabama Shakes are a band living up to the hype and their name, shaking up crowds wherever they’ve landed over the last 18 months. The… Read More