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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 / Film & TV
Step One: Fool About Until You've Got A Few Skeletons And A Bit Of Mumbo Jumbo
"Because I'd been experiencing a bit of writer's block it was really important for me to just reconnect with anything to do with why I got into music in the first place."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jeremy Neale - Getting The Team Back Together
"It's Neale's idiosyncratic style that shines through, everything liberally slathered in pop hooks, gang harmonies and earworm melodies."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Billy Bragg - Bridges Not Walls
"Even after all this time, it's still comforting knowing that Billy's got our back."
Features / Music
Scott Shriner Defends Weezer's Decision To Keep Mixing It Up
"Yeah, why is everybody busting our balls all the time for? Jesus Christ."
Features / Music
How The Scientists Filled Voids Left By The Birthday Party & Radio Birdman
"The Birthday Party made a really big splash there, a really big impression, and I think that people were looking for something that did the same thing."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Midnight Oil, George Telek & David Bridie
"Garrett [guarantees] the band's genuine affection for Queensland before eviscerating our past cultural improprieties with a thrashing version of 'Dreamworld' to bring it all home."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Wireheads - Lightning Ears
"A most awesome transmission from another (far weirder) dimension."
Features / Music
Just Churning Through 'The Old Favourites' Would Be The Death Of The Clouds
"There's nothing more abhorrent to us [than] to just be seen as a nostalgic band who just come out and play the old favourites."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Justin Townes Earle, Joshua Hedley, The Sadies
"Earle himself is no longer the young malcontent of previous tours - older and seemingly wiser... But his songs lack no bite or punch."
Features / Music
Why Jay Farrar Thinks Blues And Country Aren't All That Far From Each Other
"The realisation that blues was such an important part of country music was a reason to focus on that and really explore the nexus of where blues and country meet."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Old Crow Medicine Show, Valerie June
"A well-drilled theatricality to their stage demeanour that adds both joie de vivre and heft to songs like 'Pledging My Time' and 'Visions Of Johanna'."
Features / Music
How Relinquishing Control Allowed Justin Townes Earle To Love His New Album
"...I genuinely in a lot of ways did not know what to expect with this record and I won't say that I was surprised that I liked it, but I was surprised that I loved it."
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