Music Review: Berlin Festival, Day One
Having heard beer and strudel were cheap and a-plenty, I packed up my shit and headed to Germany to meet up with fellow Somethingyousaid.com contributor Jemma for the Berlin Festival. It was a… Read More
How To: Decorate on a budget
One of the many joys of Sydney’s rental market (alongside such delights as having to provide a comprehensive life-history and the promise of your first-born to secure a lease), is the fact that… Read More
Video: Bored Nothing, Let Down
Bored Nothing pairs slacker grunge with visuals of peeping toms and a hot MILF in his video for newest single, Let Down. Not interested in the flirty girls at school, the young protagonist fantasises about… Read More
Vote for us in the Blogster Awards
Get your best frock dry-cleaned because we’ve been nominated for an award! Yes indeedy, for the first time since we were Highly Commended in an under-sevens colouring-in competition, we’ve been recognised for our… Read More
Music: Spain’s best alt/indie bands
Somethingyousaid.com’s Koren Helbig does her homework on the best Spanish indie and alternative bands: So you’ve moved to Spain, you’re desperate to grasp the language and you’ll listen to just about anything to… Read More
Music: Dr. Martins Stand For Something
Whenever we purchased a new pair of Dr. Martins during our admittedly elongated grunge phase, we’d immediately venture to the nearest pebble beach and heartily run down it with the intention of scuffing… Read More
Music Video: MØ, Waste of Time
MØ (or Karen Marie Ørsted, to give her her birth name) probably first appeared on music lovers’ radar when she posted the emotive synthscapes of ‘Maiden’ online last year, and followed up with… Read More
Opinion: What’s goin’ on Syria?
While Syria continues to tear itself apart, UNICEF is working within the country and its neighbouring lands to provide children with medical care, as Tessa Dhanaraj explains: The violence in Syria seems to be an… Read More
Interview: Getting To Know Kieran Ryan
Singer/songwriter Kieran Ryan tells somethingyousaid.com a little bit about himself (and a little bit about Sir Francis Drake as well): I am in a van, writing this on my iPhone, driving to a… Read More
Movie Review: Riddick is good popcorn action
Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath embraces wraparound sunglasses and some wooden one-liners: When I heard I was going to review a sci-fi film called ‘Redic’, it totes conjured images of future space-hipsters and their eternal… Read More
New Sailor Jerry pop-up venue
Presenters of rock shows, enablers of drunken misdemeanours and providers of general good times, Sailor Jerry, have opened the doors of Hotel Street in Sydney. It’s a multi-layered hive of vintage activity, running… Read More
Music review: The Paper Kites, States
I’m one of those annoying foreigners living overseas that whenever anything, absolutely anything, Australian related surfaces I find it necessary to bring it to everyone’s attention. Oh is that Temper Trap playing? Yes… Read More