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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
Reclink Community Cup Is A Day Of Footy With An Admirable Cause
"It's a great opportunity to watch a fun and exciting game of footy with amateurs on the field and it's raising money for an excellent cause in Reclink."
Features / Music
Sixth Time's The Charm - You Have To Be Determined If You Want To Crack The 1%
"It's just something that I want to show my children and my grandchildren, and say, 'If you follow your dreams you can get there.'"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Queensland Music Festival: 16 Lovers Lane
"When Willsteed busts out the song's trademark acoustic solo the crowd goes wild, in the process hammering home the validity of this tribute."
Reviews / Film & TV
Descent Into The Maelstrom: The Radio Birdman Story
"...Often brutal but requisitely fascinating."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Japandroids, WAAX
"The pair keep powering through in an unrelenting squall of pace and passion."
Features / Music
On Embracing Brisbane's Cultural Past Via '16 Lovers Lane'
"It's not all about little Alfie Langer and Wally Lewis. God love 'em, but there's so much more to Brisbane than football."
Features / Music
Broken Social Scene Went Through Hell While Making Their New Album
"You just have to trust your instincts and also trust everyone else's instincts, because this band is just full of ideas."
Features / Music
WAAX's Marie DeVita On Documenting Her Downward Spiral Through Her Music
"The last record was very external and about wanting to change the world and all this stuff, but this record's more about how I want to save myself from going insane."
Features / Music
Ben Ottewell Compares Brexit To Being 'Knifed In The Back'
"It's very hard in the UK these days for current events not to have that impact on you, particularly with Brexit."
Features / Music
The Undertones' John O'Neill On The Life, Death And Rebirth Of The Undertones
"...We'd pretty much decided that we'd make a record and then we'd break up - that would be a really cool punk thing to do."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Died Pretty, Radio Birdman, Mick Medew & The Mesmerisers
"...The rock'n'roll tradition - and this wonderful, timeless music - is bound to outlive us all, and that can only be a good thing."
Features / Music
Leave Your Fragility At The Gate - Kram & The Co-Captains Give Us The Community Cup Lowdown
"...it’s just a real privilege to be able to play a game for a charity that has such like-minded values and beliefs."
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