Alice Parsons considers the nature of collections when visiting the latest exhibition at London’s Barbican: I went to see the ‘Magnificent Obsessions’ exhibition at the Barbican. This is a series of rooms filled with the… Read More
Alice Parsons does some self-initiated research into Tove Jansson, the Finnish illustrator and Artist who created the ever-popular Moomin: I’ve been a fan of Tove Jansson’s distinctive style for a while; always able to… Read More
The other day, a couple of our contributors were having a conversation about the little things that absolutely shouldn’t be annoying but are. Like how self-service checkouts arbitrarily don’t use pronouns sometimes (“Unexpected… Read More
As we mentioned last week, Something You Said is putting on some joint-headline UK shows from David Ford and Jarrod Dickenson real soon. To help promote these gigs, we called upon Alice Parsons… Read More
Happy two-thousand-and-motherflipping-fourteen! How was your hangover? Pretty gnarly? Did it feel like a small animal had burrowed into your head and was trying to scratch its way out through your eyeballs? Those early… Read More
Happy Nearly New Year erryone, from somethingyousaid.com. We hope y’all have a brilliant New Year’s Eve and that 2014 is even better. For us, 2013 was an absolute belter. We won an award,… Read More
Here at somethingyousaid.com, we’ve got boots on the ground all over the world, from USA to Australia via the UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and a bunch of places in between. Between us, we’ve… Read More
Having already brought you the year’s best longplayers and films, now it’s time for somethingyousaid.com’s Top 20 Songs of 2013, as voted for by our team of contributors. Here are the tracks that… Read More
Somethingyousaid.com’s Alice Parsons embraces the opportunity to sketch some winged creatures: Instructed to keep my eyes closed, I was led (quite literally) up the garden path of my parent’s homestead. Having been told… Read More
With so much modern art and illustration existing only in a digital space, an exhibition that celebrates the hand-held, carefully crafted and painstakingly created is a lovely thing to see. It’s good for… Read More
Alice Parsons gets her skates on and comes up with some pretty-frickin-awesome illustrations for somethingyousaid.com: If, like me, your only encounter with the world of Roller Derby has been watching ‘Whip It’, you… Read More
What a great year it’s been. We launched this site in August and it has gone from strength to strength since then, due to a lot of hard work from our team the… Read More