Bluesfest 2014, live review

Liana Gow-Killingbeck checked out legendary festival, Bluesfest: Bluesfest 2014, what a delicious way to spend Easter! I was lucky enough to trot down to Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm (just a smidge north of Byron… Read More →

Our Favourite Brisbane Haunts

Keely Thurecht walks you through some of somethingyousaid.com’s favourite places to hang/eat in Brisbane: When I sat down to compile my ultimate list of things to see, do and eat and drink in… Read More →

Music interview: Temples are free-flowing

The trajectory of Kettering’s psychedelic pop sweethearts Temples is surely set cloudward. Having recently played a fine set at Coachella, they’ve also landed opening slots with all manner of heavyweights, from The Rolling Stones… Read More →

British India ticket giveaway

If the idea of wrapping your ears around free live music while wrapping your lips around free booze doesn’t sound double-amazing, then you probably need to re-evaluate your lifestyle choices. If, however, it does whet… Read More →

Yellow Ostrich, Cosmos – album review

Hatched from the 2009 home recordings of 21-year-old Alex Shaaf, New York band Yellow Ostrich have taken huge sonic leaps throughout their six EPs and three studio albums – now landing themselves on… Read More →

The trouble with fake tanning

Sometimes fake tanning seems like a brilliant idea – a shortcut to looking healthy and glowing – yet in practice its application invariably turns into an absolute bloody nightmare, as Laura Ghafoor explains: I used… Read More →

Boarders without borders

With Skateistan co-founder Ollie Percovich over in Sydney for TEDx this weekend. Colin Delaney finds out about boardriding non-governmental organisations in war-torn countries. Take a few moments out of your day to read this. It’s… Read More →

Sui Zhen, Female Basic – EP review

Melbourne-based musician Sui Zhen returns with something of a direction-change in the form of her new EP, Female Basic. While the core foundations of a Sui Zhen record – sweet vocals floating above elegantly crafted songs –… Read More →

Twerking on MINI’s interactive dancefloor!

Anyone who’s ever witnessed our alcohol-fuelled flailing limbs knows it’s hardly the greatest secret that we’re particularly partial to cutting some ah-maze-ing shapes upon the dancefloor. So we were pretty darn excited to have… Read More →

From East To West in Ninety Days

TEN WAYS TO SAVE MONEY TRAVELLING CONTINENTAL EUROPE A female traveller can expect to receive all manner of advice/warnings from people about backpacking Europe alone. Mostly along the lines of ‘be safe, be… Read More →

Eleanor Dunlop in Sydney – Gig Review

Carol Bowditch headed to Brighton Up Bar to see New Brutalists supporting ex-Cameras vocalist/keyboardist Eleanor Dunlop: The gig began with Nic Cassey singing songs that were conceived in the wildest of places, from the… Read More →

Getting to Know Jimmy Tait

Melbourne band Jimmy Tait are currently touring their latest album ‘Golden’ around Australia. We grabbed a few minutes with frontwoman Sara Retallick: Jimmy Tait is… probably a really confusing name for what Jimmy Tait… Read More →