Melbourne Zoo Twilights Series review
Somethingyousaid.com’s Jess O’Callaghan headed to the zoo: It’s fun to imagine that when all the ice cream-toting kids and besotted couples leave for the day and night falls the animals all sneak out… Read More
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Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music, review
We sent Jess O’Callaghan to check out Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music in Sydney: Question: Do you know the lyrics to “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”? When someone says they’re sixteen, does your mind kind of… Read More
String Sessions, Melbourne Music Week
Somethingyousaid.com’s Jess O’Callaghan learns something new about violins… It’s not often Melbourne’s folk-pop artists and classical musicians appear on the same stage. For a few years I lived with a classical musician, and… Read More
Live Review: The Paper Kites in Melbourne
Somethingyousaid.com’s Jess O’Callaghan checked out the hometown show from one of Melbourne’s finest: There was a simmering smugness in the crowd on Saturday night when The Paper Kites played at The Forum. “I… Read More
Emerging Writers’ Festival: Our tips
Jess O’Callaghan gives you the heads up on some potential highlights from the upcoming Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne, which kicks off this week: Tucked into Melbourne’s lanes, libraries, and town halls, the… 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
Mama Kin explores and connects
Fremantle’s soulful raconteur, Mama Kin, releases her sophomore LP, The Magician’s Daughter, this month and will tour the record in March. Jess O’Callaghan has a conversation with her for Something You Said: Your… 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
Our team’s full album lists of 2012
Somethingyousaid.com has already brought you it’s extensive 2012 album poll, which saw Tame Impala narrowly overcome Cat Power for the crown of Album of the Year, but we’ve had countless requests to publish… Read More
Happy New Year from Something You Said
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
Something You Said’s top gigs of 2012
We spent a ridic amount of time in 2012 at music venues all over the world. From Berlin to Brighton, from Sydney to Switzerland, from London to LA, we were there. These are… Read More
Something You Said’s Year in Books
Our resident book expert, Jess O’Callaghan, gives you the heads up on what you should have been reading this year: A year in books is always hard to write. Everyone’s year in books… Read More