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
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Something You Said’s Top 10 Films of 2012
Our big round up of 2012 is in full swing. Today it’s time to have a look at the best movies that have hit our cinema screens this year. Here is our top… Read More
Something You Said’s Top TV Shows of 2012
We’ve already brought you our top albums of 2012, next up it’s time to see what’s we’ve been watching on the box. Here is the top 10 TV shows of the year, as voted… Read More
And Darkness Came. A Hurricane Sandy Benefit
As he tends to, Neil Martin points us in the direction of some cool music. And, the best thing about this mega long album is that it helps two good causes. What an… Read More
The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth
It’s difficult to be objective about your heroes, so when I was first asked to review The Mountain Goats’ latest album I was a bit worried about how to approach it. How do… Read More
Jay Stringer interview
Jay Stringer is a Black Country native and Wolverhampton Wanderers fan currently living in Glasgow and an exciting new voice in British crime fiction. Jay’s debut novel, Old Gold, is a cracking piece… Read More
Sound Of My Voice deserves an audience
Neil Martin checked out a film that has thus far only had a limited release: Zal Batmanglij’s Sound Of My Voice has been turning heads at festivals this year and deserves to find… Read More
Birdy is a touching paean to friendship
William Wharton’s classic novel of friendship and the terrible cost of war has tragically been out of print for the last few years. This haunting and brilliant novel that was adapted into an… Read More
Revisiting: David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
Neil Martin explains how he was moulded by Anthrax and David Lynch! In many ways Blue Velvet is the gateway film for me. It is absolutely the film that showed me the light… Read More
Getting To Know Greater Pacific
SYS has a chat to laid back country folk gang Greater Pacific, during which their main man, Kyle Kersten, tells Neil Martin a little bit about their LP and what is on their stereo:… Read More
Karl Haglund interview
Neil Martin has a chat with Karl Haglund about guitars and art: Karl Haglund is an artist based in Charles City, Iowa. He specialises in cityscapes, abstracts and more recently he has been turning heads… Read More
Beyond the Black Rainbow
SYS film critic Neil Martin has his brain melted by the debut film from Panos Cosmatos. Will it leave you hating it or putting it in your top 10 list of movies. If you’re… Read More