Interviews/Reviews

An archive of articles by Andy Hazel.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Live Review: DJ SHADOW

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PALACE THEATRE With talk leading up to this gig focusing exclusively about the visual aspect of the show, there was little sense of impact ...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Live Review: TESSA AND THE TYPECAST

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THE TOFF IN TOWN Within seconds of the red curtain parting the band everyone is here to see boldly kick off their set with previous si...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Live Review: BOY & BEAR, JINJA SAFARI, EMMA LOUISE

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THE CORNER HOTEL The temptation to greet the sight of a quirkily dressed girl strumming a Maton and shyly introducing a song with her ...
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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...
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