Category Archive: events

Manchester Orchestra ticket giveaway!

Atlanta-based rockers Manchester Orchestra are returning to Australia this month with a run of East Coast dates and we’re giving away TWO DOUBLE PASSES to their Sydney show! The band will be touring… Read More

Twilight at Taronga and Melbourne Zoo

Here a quick heads-up: never engage the somethingyousaid.com team in conversation about animals unless you want to lose a few hours of your life. Editor Bobby will bore you to tears with giraffe… Read More

Tony Allen returns with Film of Life

Tony ‘the human metronome’ Allen is back with a brand new album “Film of Life” and a live show at London’s Village Underground. Somethingyousaid.com’s 25ThC investigates… Tony Allen was instrumental in the creation… Read More

The Blurst of Times is coming

Brisbane/Melbourne/Sydney, are you ready to fuckin party? Yes? Good because The Blurst of Times, a boutique garage, alternative, punk and indie festival, is coming your way. Soon. Like, really soon. Whether you’re keen to… Read More

Skiitour – The Jellyfunk Winter Warm Up

A DJ/production/party-rockin duo are heading to the south of England and here’s why you should go and see them… Last summer, the Jellyfunk crew brought The Funk Hunters, one of Canada’s top breakout acts,… Read More

Recovery in Art exhibition 2014

One-in-four Australians experience some sort of mental illness across their lifetime. Sometimes it’s difficult to make these type of statistics feel tangible so maybe consider it this way… a handful of your very closest friends have gone through,… Read More

Antenna Documentary Film Festival

Now entering its fourth year, Antenna, Australia’s much acclaimed documentary film festival, hits Sydney screens this October. And this year it is bigger and better than ever. There are 35 feature-length documentaries from over twenty… Read More

Julia Why? and Rosie Catalano combine

Winners of this year’s triple j Unearthed NIDA competition, Julia Why? and Rosie Catalano have joined forces to officially release brand-spanking new music videos. The Sydney-based acts and are celebrating by teaming up for… Read More

Bridie Connell’s B-Girl Rhapsody

Sydney-based artist Bridie Connell opens a text-based, burlesque-inspired installation this Wednesday. We asked her to tell us more… Hello Bridie. You are just about to launch your new show. Can you tell us… Read More

Help us win a Pedestrian award!

This time last year, somethingyousaid.com was nominated for a 2013 Pedestrian Blogster Award. It was flattering but we presumed we were merely making up the numbers. Our Editor Bobby was overseas for the ceremony, so… Read More

Five acts not to miss at Bigsound

It’s almost that time when the Australian music industry focuses its attention on Brisbane for Bigsound, the yearly event which sees three days of lively debate and two nights of the abso-bloody-lutely awesome new music.… Read More

Haldern Pop Festival: Who not to miss

Set in the heart of the countryside of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s legendary small-and-staying-that-way festival Haldern Pop is about to blossom upon the pastures for the thirty-first time. Its roots reach down to an… Read More