Travel: Berlin for Cheapskates

While recently covering the Berlin Festival for Something You Said, Carol Bowditch set aside a few days to take in the German capital. Follow her comprehensive list of grand things to do and you’ll still have… Read More

How to make music on an iPad

Somethingyousaid.com’s 25ThC considers the best way to make music using an iPad, and interviews the people in the know: No-one can deny that the iPad, and the iPhone before it, has transformed how… Read More

New Music: McKisko, Good Grief

McKisko is set to release her sophomore album early next month and is packing up her gear to travel across Australia to perform music for lucky gig-goers at every post. The songstress, known to… Read More

Music Review: FKA Twigs, EP2

Somethingyousaid.com’s Ty Tong reviews the newest offering from Gloucestershire’s FKA Twigs: If Massive Attack and The Weeknd had a music baby, it would sound like FKA Twigs. I will nod and tap my fingers… Read More

Music interview: Lucy Roleff

The talented Lucy Roleff, a classically-trained musician from Melbourne, who works alone and with indie group Magic Hands, is set to release her first EP, Longbows. We chat to her about her time overseas… Read More

Live Review: Bigsound, days one and two

BIGSOUND, Australia’s biggest music industry conference, which takes over Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley for the best part of a week each year, can be taxing on the minds, livers and wallets of its attendees.… Read More

Flowers: An Expression of Love

Flowers: An Expression of Love Not Reserved for Valentine’s Day Flowers, one of nature’s most beautiful offerings, are a tried-and-true gift idea for many occasions. However, while giving them for holidays is a… Read More

My ill-fated run-ins with flying

The premier sat cross-legged on a leather couch ensconced within the Queensland Government’s private hangar on the outskirts of Brisbane, her attention too often focused on her left forearm as she repeatedly gauged… Read More

Album: Neko Case – The Worse Things Get

Somewhat of a modern musical veteran, Neko Case, began playing drums in various underground punk bands, which led her to becoming a resident member of Canadian super group, The New Pornographers. Releasing her… Read More

Music video: Brendan Maclean, Winner

Here at Something You Said, we can’t get enough of Sydney’s god of camp, Brendan Maclean. After a big year releasing his highly-acclaimed single, ‘Stupid’, Brendan has returned with another tongue-in-cheek lead-up, ‘Winner,’… Read More

Art: Drawing Owls Out and About

Somethingyousaid.com’s Alice Parsons embraces the opportunity to sketch some winged creatures: Instructed to keep my eyes closed, I was led (quite literally) up the garden path of my parent’s homestead. Having been told… Read More

Live Review: Berlin Festival Day Two

Somethingyousaid.com’s Jemma Cole managed to battle through her raging hangover in order to review the closing day of the Berlin Festival: Right on schedule I rolled out of bed at my usual post-Friday… Read More