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Steve Bell, Journalist

Steve Bell

Many, many moons ago Steve Bell was unassumingly writing a small fanzine for the inner-city Brisbane record store where he worked when on one otherwise normal day he was poached into the cutthroat world of street press, embarking on an eye-opening journey interviewing bands and banging on about music for the street press publication Time Off. It's an association that's now existed for well over 20 years - including a decade full-time as the print editor for Time Off/The Music - and one which still provides him with immense enjoyment and satisfaction, even though in recent times it's nestled alongside other music-related vocations such as co-owning a record store and indie label, radio broadcasting and navigating the podcast world.

Features / Music
If You're A Black Mile From The Surface It's Time To Trust Your Instincts
"The whole time we were aware that it was definitely going to make a better memory than an experience."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sunnyboys, The Celibate Rifles
"What was meant as a one-off return six years ago continues as an unstoppable juggernaut: long may Jeremy and his regal cohorts reign."
Features / Music
Returning To '16 Lovers Lane' Thirty-one Years Later
"But in the case of '16 Lovers Lane' it meant that it lent the songs quite a classic, timeless sound that transcends their era and makes them relevant to any era."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Future Of The Left, Turnpike, Hound
"Once again Future Of The Left provide a wonderful, immersive amalgam of gloriously lowbrow rock'n'roll and highbrow humour."
Features / Music
The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Steve Bell
Features / Music
Tim Rogers Reckons He's The 'Least Accomplished Singer' In The 'Easy Fever' Troupe
"If you don't feel that red hot poker being shoved up you when those songs start then you shouldn't be there."
Features / Music
Violent Femmes' Brian Ritchie Is Listening To The Sound Of Freedom For Mofo 2018
"It just seemed like the right time for that focus, with all the bad things happening in the world, and with the uncertainty and anxiety and governments taking away freedoms from the people."
Features / Music
Andrew Falkous Explains The Power Inherent In Fusing The Conventional With The Unconventional
"Wherever you've got a business - particularly in the creative industries - some fucking cunt dressed like a pirate is taking the money that you should make, so for that actually not to be the case is great."
Features / Music
From Stockton To Brisbane, The Origins Of An Indie Rock Legend's Love Affair With Australia
"I wanted it to be more like a Beasts Of Bourbon song, which isn't miles away from The Saints, although obviously I can't pull it off because that band is awesome. But that was my idea."
Features / Music
Conquering Stage Fright Through Giving Much Less Of A Shit Than He Used To
"I'm less self-conscious on stage, and that's been a real breath of fresh air to me to not always get up there and have this kinda intense stage fright."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Supersuckers, Walken, The Dead Ringers
"A grinning hurricane of hedonism and debauchery that takes no prisoners."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Paul Kelly, Steve Earle, Middle Kids
"It's hard to imagine things getting any better from here, until Steve Earle re-emerges and the pair pay homage to the late, great Tom Petty... by tearing through a killer joint rendition of Traveling Wilburys' late-'80s standard 'Handle With Care'."
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