'Everything Fell Off': The Struggles That Birthed Telenova's New Album, 'The Warning'

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.

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Conrad Keely - Original Machines
"With plenty of weirdness buried in the margins, it somehow all hangs together nicely."
Features / Music
Trying To Get Away From The Eyeballs
"Nobody expected the eyeballs to be as popular as they have been."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Thee Oh Sees, Blank Realm, Kitchen's Floor
"Rock'n'roll is meant to be primal, but tonight's fearsome display verges on primordial."
Features / Music
Warren Ellis Made A Last Minute Decision Not To Attend EODM Show At Bataclan
"It was very strange to be sitting in a kind of circus with everybody on their iPhones, huddled over their phones trying to work out what was going on."
News / Music
20 Years Ago: Did Hubris Bring Down One Of The Great Festival Line-ups?
In 1995, then-fledgling promoter Stephen Pavlovic took on the Big Day Out with a killer roster of acts - and almost lost everything in the process
Features / Music
The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Steve Bell
Features / Music
On Why Their Disparate Worlds Are Converging At A Rapid Pace
"It kinda does some good stuff for us to have two different entities - it gives us a little more freedom to experiment and try different things."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Custard, Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side, Love Signs
"They do Brisbane proud (as ever)."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Father John Misty, Cameron Avery
"The Ideal Husband finds Tillman writhing on the ground with the mic inserted into the crotch of his strides."
Features / Music
Why Violent Femmes Are Writing New Material, If Only For Their Own Sanity
"The longer a band sticks around the more reduced their profile becomes — it's like they're trying to turn everybody into a one-hit wonder."
Features / Music
Bringing With Her The Old, The New, And The Long Guitar Solo
"When I come down to Australia I lean heavily upon the first couple of albums because that's the golden time of my music down there."
Features / Music
Lanie Lane Chose A Nomadic Life Over A Musical Career, And Found Love Along The Way
"That's my main mission; everything I do is just about unlimiting myself in every way. "