Fred Falke at The Nest
Jonjon checks out the ESM Launch Party, featuring Fred Falke, Starsmith and Burns at The Nest, Dalston, 17/11/11. Dalston gets a lot of stick… and deservedly so. It’s a punchline to any attempt… Read More
Category Archive: music
TFVK Interview
Guitarist Al Marx from Melbourne’s The Fearless Vampire Killers tells Something You Said a bit about the band: The Fearless Vampire Killers are a really complementary group of people. Justin is the loveliest… Read More
Death In Vegas on their latest album
It’s a warm, sunny Spring Monday in Sydney, yet Richard Fearless sits in a hotel café feeling a little down in the dumps. With technical problems having hindered the Death In Vegas’ set… Read More
Tom Waits – Bad As Me album review
It’s been seven years since Tom Waits unleashed on the world his brilliant, barmy work of “cubist funk”, Real Gone. So there was obviously a huge amount of anticipation about his new offering,… Read More
Georgia Fair review
Heidi Pett gives her thoughts on Georgia Fair’s first long-player: Despite its name, All Through Winter seems destined to be something of a summer soundtrack. A warm breeze, gauzy curtains blowing through an open… Read More
Changing Lanes 2011
Last year’s inaugural Changing Lanes felt like a proper festival. Which is kinda weird because there were no tents, no fields and not a naked wasted hippy anywhere in sight. Instead, there was… Read More
An interview with Caitlin Park
“One of my favourite things to do is to play to a crowd, find one person who is not listening and try my hardest to get them to notice.” It’s a plan that… Read More
Getting To Know… Katie and the Carnival
When we went to Belfast a few weeks ago, we had a strange night which ended with us having dinner with Phil Jupitus, Duke Special, David Ford and Katie Richardson. The latter is… Read More
Boston Spaceships – Let It Beard album review
Where to start with Robert Pollard? It’s barely weeks since his last solo offering and the former GBV frontman is back already – this time with the soon to be disbanded Boston Spaceships,… Read More
Playgroup Festival – freedom and madness
A while a go, we here at somethingyousaid.com told you to get your ass to the second annual Playgroup Festival. If you chose to ignore our sage advice, quite frankly, you’re a fool.… Read More
King Louie’s Missing Monuments
King Louie Bankston seems to have a few things he’d like to get off his chest. It’s not house prices or the state of the Greek economy that’s playing on his mind –… Read More
Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80
Son of Fela. Brother of Femi. Seun Kuti is the latest successor to the afrobeat crown. When his father died in 1997, Seun, then just 14, became the lead singer of his band,… Read More