Interviews/Reviews

An archive of articles by Andy Hazel.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Live Review: THE GO! TEAM, NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE

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THE CORNER HOTEL The cold night doesn’t stop the fans from crowding into a sweaty Corner Hotel tonight to witness The Go! Team tear th...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Live Review: SUGAR MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL

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Over 11 hours, three artspaces and two stages, the inaugural Sugar Mountain Festival saw multimedia get equal billing with some fresh intern...
Friday, April 15, 2011

SOMEONE LIKE HER: An interview with ADELE

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Experiencing the type of fame that comes only a few times a generation, Adele is a genuine, multi-million-selling diva in her native UK wh...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

NINJA TUNES: An interview with NINJA of THE GO! TEAM

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Ninja, singer with The Go! Team opens up about ‘destroying bands who sell millions of records’, the making of Rolling Blackouts and the pos...

Live Review: SANTANA

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ROD LAVER ARENA Seeing a legend like this is a strange experience, one almost crushed under safe expectations, stifling any chance to ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

WITTERTAINMENT: an interview with THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHER

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At the outset of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, The Bedroom Philosopher proclaims there is nothing more boring that hipsters and moves ...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Live Review: OMAR SOULEYMAN

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NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB There has rarely been a more diverse and uniformly excited crowd than that squeezed into a very sold-out Northco...

CD Review: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING COLLECTION OF SONGS – MY OWN PET RADIO

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(INDEPENDENT) Who exactly My Own Pet Radio is (Sam Cromack) and what he’s about should become apparent to anyone paying attention to the Au...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Live Review: GOLDEN PLAINS

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MEREDITH SUPERNATURAL AMPHITHEATRE When there is such a high level of expectation around a band and a festival there is a lot of room to fa...

CD Review: GIMME SOME – PETER, BJORN AND JOHN

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(Cooking Vinyl) Regardless that this is the band’s sixth album, most people will arrive at a PB&J album with expectations of s...

CD Review: BLUE SONGS – HERCULES AND THE LOVE AFFAIR

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(Shock/Moshi Moshi) Nostalgic house music can be incredibly powerful when done right, when songs are assembled with personality, intent and...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Live Review: ALPINE

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CORNER HOTEL Despite the murmuring of dissent in the weeks leading up to this gig, it turns out a local band with minimum airplay and ...
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FRIENDS IN DEED: An interview with NARDI SIMPSON from STIFF GINS

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NARDI SIMPSON fills ANDY HAZEL in on life as half of acoustic duo STIFF GINS and how stripping away your identity can sometimes be a good th...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

WRITTEN ABOUT LOVE: An interview with RICHARD COLBURN of BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

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Not minding being woken up at 8AM in the midst of a Glasgow winter, Belle and Sebastian’s drummer RICHARD COLBURN is happy to talk about ban...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

CD Review: NATURAL DISASTERS – D. ROGERS

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(Popboomerang) Often in the heady world of popular music, someone who isn’t an attention seeking charisma machine can find their songs lost...

CD Review: THE GO! TEAM – ROLLING BLACKOUTS

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(Memphis Industries / Shock) Go! Team mastermind Ian Parton recently described Rolling Blackouts as ‘all over the shop’, which is quite so...

Live Review: M WARD

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PALAIS THEATRE Tonight’s tickets state in black block writing ‘ M Ward , sponsored by Frankie Magazine’, and boy does it look like it....
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Live Review: ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI, PIKELET, LOST ANIMAL

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HI-FI BAR Mistletone again prove they're the promoters to beat as every band brings their own twisted logic to the theatre of elec...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Live Review: JOE COCKER, GEORGE THOROUGHGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS

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PALAIS THEATRE With your humble reporter the youngest in the room by a considerable amount, a rapt and enthusiastic audience greeted the re...
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