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Things that annoy us more than they should

The other day, a couple of our contributors were having a conversation about the little things that absolutely shouldn’t be annoying but are. Like how self-service checkouts arbitrarily don’t use pronouns sometimes (“Unexpected… Read More

Ten Things to do on Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day lurking ominously around the corner, Jess Matthews suggests activities to entertain/amuse yourself: On the 14th of February the world is divided in two. Half of us become hazily consumed by lust and… Read More

Run the Jewels album review

Jess Matthews checks out the highly-anticipated debut longplayer from El-P and Killer Mike: Run the Jewels’ eponymous album was heralded as the brazen anti-hero of the Hip Hop world. I’m not sure if a stream… Read More

Our contributors’ favourite albums of 2013

We’ve already brought you all of somethingyousaid.com’s collective End of Year lists, but we’ve had a few requests to post all of our contributors’ individual favourite albums of 2013. So here are the… Read More

Interview: The Jezabels are on The Brink

In the lead-up to the imminent release of The Jezebels’ new album, The Brink, somethingyousaid.com’s Jess Matthews caught up with Heather Shannon, the lady behind the keys of the band: The first single… Read More

Something You Said’s most read posts of 2013

Somethingyousaid.com’s remit is pretty simple. We don’t give a solitary fuck about celebrity, we just wanna throw awesomeness at your eyes on a daily basis. Simple. Well, we hopefully stuck to that in… Read More

The Top 5 Electro tracks/albums of 2013

While tallying up the somethingyousaid.com contributors’ End of Year polls (results coming soon), we noticed a distinct lack of electro music within the Best Song and Best Album categories. So we thought we’d… Read More

Music review: The Kite String Tangle

Somethingyousaid.com’s Jess Matthews gives a listen to Australian producer Danny Harley: Got a broken heart? Listening to Given The Chance is probably the musical equivalent of rubbing salt in the wound. Aside from… Read More

Art review: Sculpture by the Sea

Somethingyousaid.com’s Jess Matthews checks out some artwork at the beach: Just as synonymous with Sydney as tans, coconut water and Bikram yoga and our love of the outdoors is the annual Sculpture by… Read More

How to go to a festival and not be a fuckwit

Going to a festival is HARD WORK. There’s set times to balance, mental weather conditions to endure, potent beverages to be consumed in dangerous quantities, police dogs to avoid, fake tan to be applied,… Read More

How to share a hostel room & not be an idiot

Travelling blesses us with some of the most poignant highs of our lives, but with those blissful new horizons come some pretty grizzly doses of reality. Usually in the form of shared accommodation.… Read More

How to buy a drink & not be an idiot

Right, listen up, because bartender Jess Matthews is dispensing invaluable advice on the etiquette of ordering drinks: The world of hospitality spins on a completely different axis to the rest of the ‘normal’… Read More