Tag Archive: germany

Haldern Pop Festival – live review

As the 2014 edition of the Haldern Pop Festival descended upon the meadows, we sent Chloe Mayne along to find out more about Germany’s best small-and-staying-that-way musical celebration. Haldern Pop Festival is a… Read More

Haldern Pop Festival: Who not to miss

Set in the heart of the countryside of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s legendary small-and-staying-that-way festival Haldern Pop is about to blossom upon the pastures for the thirty-first time. Its roots reach down to an… Read More

The Best Moments of the 2014 World Cup

It was always going to be difficult to justify the World Cup being staged in a country where the money would have been better utilised on vital improvements to its woefully insufficient infrastructure.… Read More

Getting to Know Milky Chance

Germany-based Milky Chance have garnered over 38 million hits on Youtube with their blend of singer-songwriter folk, which has elements of reggae and electronica. They’re a band you clearly need on your radar, so we… Read More

The Blue Angel Lounge – Interview

Chloe Mayne speaks to The Blue Angel Lounge keyboardist Theo Berwe about the creation of the new record, calamitous live shows and the growing redundancy of psychedelia: Said in no light terms, The… Read More

Getting to Know Kat Vinter

Berlin-based Kat Vinter has just unleashed her latest single. We asked her to tell us about herself: I am a solo Australian songwriter/artist living in Berlin. Wish I could add ‘multi-linguist,’ to the description but German… Read More

Black Market Karma – Interview & Review

South East London’s favourite psychedelic darlings, Black Market Karma have recently released their fifth (yes, fifth) studio album – and gosh-darn, it’s a goodun’. Titled Upside Out Inside Down, it’s a swirling, hemisphere-spanning… Read More

European Festival Guide 2014

The fact that the majority of Europe was recently hidden under snow/dirty floodwater makes it seem almost ludicrous to consider planning summer festival trips, but, believe it or not, festival season is just… Read More

Adolescent decoration, by Isidore Tillers

Germany-based Australian Isidore Tillers revisits her childhood bedroom: I went home a few months ago. And by home I don’t mean my beloved Sydney. Despite spending a good part of my childhood, as… Read More

Germany’s SIZARR blend genres

SIZARR are a group of childhood buddies that hail from a little German town called Landau. Sound-wise, SIZARR are an indie/electronic band with strong leading vocals, they could be likened to the more… Read More

La Folie purvey clique 80’s pop

Somethingyousaid.com’s Jemma Cole reviews the latest incarnation of Marc Houle, live in Berlin: Last week, Marc Houle unveiled his new band effort, exposing a side a side of himself which takes his techno… 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