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The trouble with Locke is…

Melissa Oey reviews the new flick from Steven Knight: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is an Everyman whose carefully constructed picket fence existence becomes threatened by a singular and supposedly uncharacteristic incident in his past.… Read More

Childhood memories: what you want back

Feeling nostalgic, we decided to ask the Something You Said team to recall the one thing from their childhood they would like back. Here are their childhood memories: I want Degrassi Junior High back. Not the… Read More

Andy Bull digs a little deeper – Interview

Sydney-based musician Andy Bull has just released his latest longplayer, ‘Sea of Approval’ and is hitting the road in September. Melissa Oey had a chat with him to find out more: Sea of Approval is noted… Read More

Some more things that annoy us

You may recall that we recently asked somethingyousaid.com’s contributors to tell us the things that annoy them way more than they should. Well, it turns out they’re a pretty angry bunch because they’ve already… Read More

The Past (Le Passé) – Movie Review

Melissa Oey reviews The Past, the newest movie from Asghar Farhadi, the director responsible for the Academy Award winning film, A Separation: After having left Marie (Bérénice Bejo) and her two daughters four years ago, Ahmad… Read More

Film Review: Convict is hard hitting

Melissa Oey checks out a prison film which looks at heteromasculinity and multiculturalism in Australia: Convict revolves around its protagonist, Ray (George Basha) and his struggle to retain the moralistic identity he established to escape… 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

Thank you for the memories, 2013

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

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

Something You Said’s best albums of 2013

What a fantastic year it’s been for music. So many quality longplayers have visited our ears! Here’s Somethingyousaid.com’s Top 20, as voted for by our team of contributors (and stay tuned over the… Read More

Interview: Abbe May is a Perth Girl

Melissa Oey chats to Australian musician Abbe May: Firstly, congratulations on the amazing clip for ‘Perth Girls’. Objectively speaking, those models and the subject of the song seemed ‘simply irresistible’ but what (else) led… Read More

Live Review: I Know Leopard in Sydney

Somethingyousaid.com’s Melissa Oey checks out some Australian acts: Halfway through the opening set, I realise it has definitely been a while since my last visit to Oxford Art Factory. The Gallery Bar is… Read More