Tag Archive: festival

Live Review: OutsideIn Festival

Somethingyousaid.com headed to OutsideIn in Sydney: How do you top a sell-out inaugural Festival that attracts the likes of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke? OutsideIn certainly had plenty to live up to with this… Read More

Mixtape: Pitchfork Music Festival Paris

Just as we Northern Hemisphere dwellers were becoming used to the thought that all music festivals in Europe were preparing for hibernation during the winter months, Pitchfork, has come through with the musical… Read More

Top three acts to see at Listen Out

In the depths of (Australia’s admittedly less-than-bleak) midwinter, my thoughts naturally turn to that most joyous of summer rituals: the festival. Top pick this year is undoubtedly Listen Out, Fuzzy‘s new offering while… Read More

Optimus Primavera Sound makes us pee

Destination Porto. Portugal’s second largest city which, if your not familiar, is famous for port wine and a fucked-up beer-cheese deep-fried sandwich called Franceschina, which has enough different kinds of meat and, consequently,… Read More

Hope, pride & harmony at Barunga

Barunga Festival: Gurrumul, John Butler and a big slice of real Indigenous Australia. How much should Australians know about their Indigenous people? About the clans, the languages, the Dreamtime, the rituals and the… Read More

The Best European Summer Festivals

The countdown to European summertime has begun, which means Festival season is so close you can pretty-much smell it. It’s the smell of unwashed awesomeness. However, because there are  gazillions of amazing events to… Read More

The Great Escape: Day Three

The final countdown, do-do-do-do. Yes, seemingly so soon after it had begun, The Great Escape’13 had already reached its last day. The closing Saturday of the festival started as all the coolest events… Read More

Emerging Writers’ Festival: Our tips

Jess O’Callaghan gives you the heads up on some potential highlights from the upcoming Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne, which kicks off this week: Tucked into Melbourne’s lanes, libraries, and town halls, the… Read More

The Great Escape: Day One

There’s little denying that Brighton in the Spring sunshine is a location of absolute magnificence, so when you add 350 amazing bands playing in over twenty venues around the city to sixteen thousand… Read More

Our Top 5 acts to see at Great Escape

This week, Something You Said is heading to Brighton, on England’s sunny south coast for The Great Escape. The three-day festival and convention always entertains, informs and is firmly established as Europe’s answer to… Read More

Escape with Susanne Sundfør

We’ve been raving about Susanne Sundfør since we saw her mesmerising performance in London this year and we’re mad keen to catch her at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton next month. Safe… Read More

Don’t Cry For Coachella People

Best not to mention Coachella to Bianca Cornale, if you know what’s good for you: Since last weekend my social networking has been crowded by people bemoaning their distance from Coachella. Even worse… Read More