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Something You Said’s best films of 2014

Here are the best films of 2014, as voted for by somethingyousaid.com’s team of contributors. We reckon it’s the strongest top 20 we’ve ever had (oh, and for the pedants amongst, the release dates of films vary between… Read More

Something You Said’s Books of 2014

When considering somethingyousaid.com’s Top Ten Books of 2014, we felt privileged to have in our ranks a genuine expert. As well as writing for this very site, Joe Haddow is also the producer of the BBC Radio… Read More

Something You Said’s best albums of 2014

It’s been another exceptional year for music. Indeed, somethingyousaid.com’s Top 20 Albums of 2014 – as voted for by our team of contributors – is the closest run poll we’ve ever had. The records in… Read More

Interview: The Knife author, Lee Markham

‘The Knife’ is the startling first novel from Eastbourne-based author Lee Markham. It’s a gritty, ferocious and angry indictment of social inequality and institutional neglect in 21st Century Britain. It also happens to… Read More

The Afghan Whigs – Do To The Beast review

The Whigs were among my favourite bands of the 90s. Though part of the grunge explosion, their brand of muscular, masculine and misanthropic alt.rock had an altogether different feel to it. The influence… Read More

Things that shouldn’t be awesome but are

Last week, we told you the things that shouldn’t annoy us but absolutely do. To counterbalance this and to illustrate that our contributors aren’t merely a bunch of miseries/moaners/haters, here’s a collection of… Read More

Things that annoy us more than they should

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

Book Review: Jay Stringer, Lost City

The final part of Jay Stringer’s trilogy of Eoin Miller novels (the previous two were Old Gold and Runaway Town) is yet another excellent example of, what Stringer himself calls, “social pulp” fiction.… Read More

Our contributors’ favourite albums of 2013

We’ve already brought you all of somethingyousaid.com’s collective End of Year lists, but we’ve had a few requests to post all of our contributors’ individual favourite albums of 2013. So here are the… Read More

Something You Said’s best gigs of 2013

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

Something You Said’s best TV shows of 2013

Remember when television was terrible? Nothing but Godawful Big Brother and soaps? Not any more. With countless outstanding productions hitting our screens again in 2013, we’ve been truly spoilt for choice. Here are… Read More

Something You Said’s best songs of 2013

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