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
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The Great Escape: Day Two
Amid hangovers and weary limbs after the opening day’s festivities, the second instalment of The Great Escape’13 creaked into life Friday lunchtime, yet it didn’t take long for things to hit full throttle.… 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
Review: The Place Beyond The Pines
The Place Beyond the Pines follows on from Derek Cianfrance’s heartbreaker, Blue Valentine. This dark, brooding romantic tale once again features Ryan Gosling trying to make ends meet with his estranged ladyfriend. The best… Read More
Three-D Exhibition at Boxbird gallery
With so much modern art and illustration existing only in a digital space, an exhibition that celebrates the hand-held, carefully crafted and painstakingly created is a lovely thing to see. It’s good for… Read More
Charli XCX is immediately gratifying
When Charli Aitchison cries in an exasperated sigh, “Give me the poison, I love the poison, hooked on the poison,” she’s doing exactly what the toxic Britney did pre-balding/making horrific will.i.am dance atrocities… Read More
Savages leave us speechless
Savages, Savages, Savages… say it three times quickly and it comes close to encapsulating the bands sound, pointy, jagged, claustrophobic and sexy. Silence Yourself, the Londoners’ first album, is, without any doubt at… Read More
Brighton Festival & House art preview
As a self-confessed luddite, I sometimes struggle with the language of art. I find it difficult to separate the genuine sentiment from the bullshit. So, usually, when an artist states something like, “Wallpaper… Read More
Yacht Club DJs tear up Sydney
Somethingyousaid.com’s Sonia Clarke bump-and-grinds to a selection of musical favourites, reworked by the Yacht Club DJ’s at their shindig in Sydney. If I was to sum up the Yacht Club DJs in one… Read More
Kirin J Callinan’s Tales From The Crypt
Beneath St James Cathedral, a lone figure stood. Licentious in nature (if only while onstage), a small few hundred, rubbing elbow-to-shoulder-to-mouth-to-nose, packed in like sardines to catch a glimpse of the flickering flame… Read More
The Growl high-five Friday night
Gooching, Growling and Garbage Can drumming – Just another Friday night at Brighton Up Bar. So Friday nights. They’re for throwing up arms in excitable fits of freedom. Your eyes are wide and… Read More
Marion, Let’s Sing About Sex
I thought Song For Marion would be the kind of movie I’d recommend my mother watched with her girlfriends as it seemed to be a happy-go-lucky tale about “climbing over the mountain” with… Read More