The Smith Street Band in Sydney – Review

Matt Lengren caught the Melbourne-based Smith Street Band at The Factory Theatre. Photos by Adam Davis-Powell, taken at their Manning Bar gig, two days previously: All things being equal, The Arrogance of the Drunk… Read More →

Video Premiere: Peter Calvert, Red Shoes

Start your Wednesday off in magnificent fashion with the Premiere of the new video from Sydney-based singer/songwriter, Peter Calvert. Having built a name for himself on the Australian music scene over the past… Read More →

This week in Newcastle = awesome

Somethingyousaid.com’s Ruth Hodge gives you the heads-up on some excellent things to see and do in Newcastle (the Australian one, not the British one) this week: Newcastle has had a wave of reclamation… Read More →

FBi Radio’s Brush With Fame

If you’re looking to purchase fame at a reasonable price and you’re regretting that impulse purchase of celebrity nail clippings you brought that one time, we’ve got the perfect solution: Sydney’s not-for-profit radio station,… Read More →

Interview: Guy Pearce overcomes his fear

Guy Pearce recently released his debut longplayer and, as he tells Bobby Townsend, it required him to overcome a longstanding fear of putting his music out there: “I always knew that I would eventually release… Read More →

Upstairs and Underground launches

It’s always a challenge relaunching a venue, particularly one with such a vivid history as the Gaelic Club’s Upstairs and Underground, a venue associated with Sydney’s underground music scene. The Gaelic had hosted… Read More →

New Music: Introducing BCBG 

We’re excited to bring to your attention French duo BCBG. The act consists of two friends that met while in separate bands in and around the Paris underground/experimental scene. They eventually formed in Brazil at… Read More →

Thank you and Goodnight, Carter USM

This weekend, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine will, over a quarter of a Century since forming, cease to be unstoppable. Bobby Townsend pays his respects: Eastbourne, in East Sussex, isn’t exactly at the… Read More →

Film review: The Mule has guts

The Mule is a film about a slow-witted yet impressively-stubborn man trying not to do a poo. Seriously. Even stranger is that the movie, directed by Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony, is inspired… Read More →

Storyology is heading to Sydney

Storyology 2014 is scribbling its way into Sydney’s well-loved suburb of Paddington this December and, for reasons of its pure brilliance we’re definitely all for inspiring you to pencil it in to your… Read More →

Getting to Know Matilda Laidlaw

Australian/Swedish model Matilda Laidlaw tells us about travelling, Instagramming, playing AFL and watching Midsummer Murders:  I am a mix between an Aussie and Swedish teenage girl living on the Northern Beaches. I lived… Read More →

Moonlight Cinema hits Australia again

But for the mozzies and the fact that sleeping is often a sweaty experience, Summer in Australia is pretty-frickin-sweet. Festivals, beach hangs, long sunny days, barbecues and of course the opportunity to spend… Read More →