Only Lovers Left Alive, the beauty of being

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbxI_oRSKI Only a side-effect, but already quite some achievement: With his latest movie, Jim Jarmusch saved the genre of vampire movies from hyped over-produced teen-kitsch… Only Lovers Left Alive is much more a road-movie… Read More

Fifty Shades of Dave, by Oliver Heath

I’d decided to write an article about the growing prevalence of bondage. Fifty Shades of Grey was so mainstream it might as well have been Fifty Shades of Beige. I noticed an advertisement online for a… Read More

We Are The Best! – Film Review

In We Are The Best!, Swedish director/screenwriter Lukas Moodysson’s delivers a must-see for anybody who is thirteen, anybody who has ever been thirteen and anybody for whom music has had a profound affect on their… Read More

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

Interview: Loveariel Paints Walls in Bali

Sydney-based artist and musician Ariel Lauren Sexton-Shaw, perhaps better know to you as Loveariel, recently headed to Bali where she adorned walls with huge, stunning murals. We asked her more about it: Hey Ariel.… 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

Daddy Gadman – No Human/Mic Shy

  Good things come to those who wait. Its been a year since Rongorock’s last release, the very catchy and critically-acclaimed Oyster Card by Mark Professor. In that time labelhead and producer Wrongtom has… Read More

University: Tips for Freshers

Heading into her final year at University, somethingyousaid.com’s Kirstie Newman feels adequately qualified to deliver some useful tips for freshers. Here goes… Get involved with as much as you can handle. Join societies you wouldn’t… Read More

Getting To Know Mighty Oaks

We talk to Mighty Oaks about life on the Autobahn… Mighty Oaks is a Berlin-based folk-rock band comprised of three guys from three different countries: Ian Hooper (US), Claudio Donzelli (Italy), and Craig… Read More

Kate Miller-Heidke interview

Fresh from smashing all records in Australia for the fastest and most successful crowd-funded album ever, Kate Miller-Heidke is hitting the UK for a series of dates. We grabbed a few words with her:  Hello… Read More

Film Review: Lucy is daft but fun

Bobby Townsend reviews the moderately ludicrous new Luc Besson flick: There is enjoyable irony to the fact that a film about the potential capabilities of the human brain requires absolutely minimal thought from its… Read More

Greta Bellamacina magnifies her soul

Critically-acclaimed London-based poet and actress Greta Bellamacina tells us that, if you want to write good poetry, you have to be brave… Hello Greta! Thanks for talking to us. First up, how did your love… Read More