Tag Archive: melbourne

Mama Kin at Northcote Social Club

Mama Kin compared her microphone stand to a penis, made an excellently complicated Harry Potter reference, told her mum to ‘put earplugs in’, twice, and swore repeatedly at her sister. She told stories… Read More

Exclusive Aluka video premiere

Space, the debut album by Melbourne experimental vocal-group Aluka was released Friday April 5th and somethingyousaid is happy to bring you an exclusive video clip, showing the making of Say, one of the… Read More

Get The Dirt on Dirt Farmer

Carol Bowditch chatted to Dirt Farmer for somethingyousaid.com about the non-farm related origin of their name, a guy made out of cardboard called Johnny Marble, and their plans for future domination of the… Read More

…For All Tomorrow’s Parties

Fit For One Who Sits And Cries/For All Tomorrow’s Parties, by Bianca Cornale  Over a sweltering weekend, some of the world’s most influential musicians touched down in Altona, Melbourne. And don’t worry, nobody else… Read More

Julia Johnson drops the F-Bomb

After last week reviewing Julia and the Deep Sea Sirens’ sophomore long-player, Jack Colwell has a conversation with Julia Johnson about the pros/cons of touring, getting advice from Gotye and dropping the F-bomb (F… Read More

Get Tasered at Tropfest this Sunday

With Tropfest happening this weekend, all across Australia, we have a conversation with Matt Bird about being a three-time finalist: In 1993, in a little Sydney café called Tropicana, John Polson decided to… Read More

It’s only just begun for Panama

Panama have been making waves with a sound heavily steeped in sunburn, the scent of coconut and beer drinking on the promenade. After their first single ‘Magic’ dropped to critical acclaim in 2012, Panama… Read More

Boomgates can’t stop themselves

Carol Bowditch has a quick chat to Steph Hughes of Boomgates in the run up to the Sugar Mountain Festival, which takes place next week in Melbourne: What was it that made you… Read More

Antony Hamilton joins forces

Antony Hamilton is a choreographer whose work is hard to pin down in that it unhinges the traditional cultural narrative of western dance as an art form. He has created works for the… Read More

Boomgates are a bunch of Puppets

I give the new Boomgates video clip for their track Flood Plains a lot of creativity credit points. Brown paper bags act as hand puppets which, with bits of steel wool and yarn… Read More

Olly talks to Whipped Cream Chargers’ Lucas

Oliver Heath has a few words with Lucas from Whipped Cream Chargers about birthdays, wizards, the end of the world and the band’s Sydney gig: So I hung out with you guys a… Read More

Kimbra talks awards and vintage shopping

Like me, you probably first chanced upon Kimbra as the female voice on Gotye’s mega hit, Somebody That I Used To Know. And, like me, you probably went on to fall in love… Read More