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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
From Tiny To The Opera House
"I think it's a nice idea to go from the smallest venue that you started out in to the Sydney Opera House the next night."
Features / Music
How Kristin Welchez "Kind Of Outgrew" Dum Dum Girls
"I wanted to have the freedom to do whatever it was I felt like doing..."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Violent Soho, DZ Deathrays, Dune Rats, The Gooch Palms
"Someone from the mosh throws him a goon bag in perfect synchronicity, which he catches, skulls and passes around his band."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Hinds, The Creases, Tempura Nights
"It's like we're at a sloppy house party."
Features / Arts
Cresting The Wave Of India's Comedy Big Bang
"It didn't exist and now it's there, like a big bang almost."
Reviews / Arts
An Evening With Mr Paul Foot
"Then things get weird."
Features / Music
Why Cherie Currie Of The Runaways Wasn't A Teenage Dirtbag
"If we wanted to party a little bit after the show then fine, but we never partied before because we needed to be good."
Features / Music
Why Nostalgia Can Be 'Fucking Schmaltzy'
"It just goes on and on and fucking on, it's merciless."
Features / Arts
Making Australians Give A Shit About His Comedy
"I don't have the self-esteem to know when I'm even being me, so I just try to not think about what I'm doing at any time."
Features / Music
How Kristin Hersh Is Making Herself Whole Again
"That disappearing act turned out to be dissociative disorder, which means multiple personalities — my other personality was music."
Features / Music
Shakespeare Says It Better, Even In Modern Times
"'method in his madness' or 'brevity is the soul of wit', they're just things that Shakespeare made up."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Paul Kelly - Seven Sonnets & A Song
"The project may seem highbrow in theory, but in practice it's anything but."