Transform a Room with Accessories

Somethingyousaid.com offers some useful pointers about how to transform a room with accessories: If you want to give your home a bit of a decorative lift without going to the effort and expense… Read More

Music video: Jim Bob, Dream Come True

I find it absolutely bewildering that people still bother watching The X Factor. In the early days, riding in the slipstream of Pop Idol, it was a moderately entertaining talent contest. People would… Read More

Album Review: Lo Carmen & Peter Head

Somethingyousaid.com’s Jack Colwell gives a listen to the new longplayer by father/daughter duo Peter Head and Lo Carmen: In recent years there’s been a great return to ‘duet’ CDs, focused on capturing the… Read More

Photos: Snakadaktal in Sydney

Excellently named Australian five-piece Snakadaktal recently brought their dreamy indie pop to Sydney’s Metro Theatre. The Melbournites have been hitting the road (not literally – that hurts unless you are wearing thick gloves) in support… Read More

Rock di boat with your Oystah Card

Recently myself and a few friends spent a gloriously sunny afternoon aboard the Erasmus boat up-and-down the Thames for the Soundcrash Reggae Boat Party. The line-up consisted of Trojan Sound System, Wrongtom, The… Read More

Interview: Getting to Know Lauren Webster

Somethingyousaid.com catches up with Lauren Webster, a young creative type from Sydney, working under the alias of Lauren & The Lost Boys. She delves in art-making, styling and blogging and is excited to… Read More

Music: The Perch Creek Family Jugband

Australia’s The Perch Creek Family Jugband is comprised from four siblings and one stray partner. With humble beginnings as a street jug band led by their eccentric father, Bob Hodgkins (no, not Bob Hoskins),… Read More

Fashion video: Bless’ed are the Meek

Last week, somethingyousaid.com’s very own Oliver Heath premiered his stunning Bless’ed are the Meek fashion film at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory. The film is a celebration of Bless’ed are the Meek’s Spring/Summer 13/14 collection,… Read More

Album Review: London Grammar, If You Wait

London Grammar’s highly anticipated debut longplayer, If You Wait, is the culmination of 18 painstaking months spent writing and recording with producers Tim Bran (The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, La Roux) and Roy Kerr.… Read More

Lego builds the Sydney Opera House

Who doesn’t love Lego? Boring people, that’s who (or perhaps people who accidentally trod bare-footed on Lego pieces as a kid and got shooting pains up their leg – ouuchhhhhh). Anyway, we love… Read More

New Music: Rosie Catalano, Hearts

Australian songwriter Rosie Catalano’s newest ditty, Hearts, is a well constructed love-song with just the right amount of sleigh bells and vacant pauses that allow her vocals to ooze over the listener. In… Read More

Giant Drag farewell European tour

We first chanced upon amazing California duo Giant Drag when they supported The Cribs across the United Kingdom in 2006. Their outstanding and acclaimed debut, Hearts & Unicorns, was released around the same… Read More