Category Archive: live

Golden Plains Festival – Live Review

Vinisha Mulani ventured to one of Australia’s best-loved festivals: Well, it’s a touch depressing being home right now, to be honest. Things got loose. The sun shone. Invisible skipping ropes were skipped. New… Read More

John Grant live at De La Warr Pavillion

Gary Page checked out American singer-songwriter, John Grant in Bexhill: Last summer I witnessed John Grant play live in a Brighton church and while it was a strangely surreal venue for the artist… Read More

Panama Festival live review

The inaugural Panama Festival in Golconda, Tasmania was a gentle creature; a transparent, slightly iridescent forest-dweller that quietly hung streamers from branches and arranged candles for an intimate dinner party in the woods.… Read More

Gold Panda live at Oxford Art Factory

Arriving 25 minutes into the set due to some seriously epic fails courtesy of CityRail (fuck, and we thought SouthernRail took the cake for incompetence…) Carol Bowditch pranced into Gold Panda’s set at… Read More

Rudimental Live in Manchester

Kirstie Newman checks out Rudimental Live in Manchester and attempts to fashion a one-handed hand-heart: Arriving at the venue half-an-hour after doors opened, I was surprised to see how empty the front of the Manchester… Read More

Soundwave 2014 Brisbane – review

Soundwave is over for another year. The festival that draws a different crowd to its competitors has done it again, with an excellent balance of acts that satisfied those wanting to see up-and-coming… Read More

The 1975 live in Birmingham

Joining the ever-growing line that caused inconvenience across multiple Birmingham pavements, I waited patiently for The 1975. Okay I didn’t wait patiently. It was a really long queue, it was freezing cold and… Read More

Rizzle Kicks live at Nottingham Rock City

Kirstie Newman checks out Brighton’s Rizzle Kicks in Nottingham for somethingyousaid.com: I’ll admit, I’ve previously been one of those people that you curse at as you trip over a sleeping bag or as… Read More

MTNS at Brighton Up Bar, Sydney – live review

MTNS and supporting bands The Game River and Left. provided an ambient musical delight for a cosy Valentine’s evening at Brighton Up Bar last Friday. Heather Vousden reviewed and photographed: The Game River,… Read More

Miami Horror live in Brisbane – review

Somethingyousaid.com’s Dean Rostron catches the return of Melbourne’s indietronica heroes: Miami Horror hit the stage at Oh Hello! in Brisbane for one of their first headline shows in two years after touring extensively on… Read More

Laneway Festival 2014 Sydney – review

Reviewer Harriet Cheney and photographer Philip Erbacher attended Laneway Festival in Sydney for somethingyousaid.com:  It was hot and crowded and, being a Sunday, the idea of work lingered very close to the surface.… Read More

Live Review: MONA FOMA, part two

Chloe Mayne concludes her two-part review of Tasmania-based festival, MONA FOMA: I became somewhat nocturnal and culinarily confused over the ensuing days of MONA FOMA. I developed a habit of eating my breakfast… Read More