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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.

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cosmic Psychos, The Flangipanis, Clowns
"There’s a drunken camaraderie on display all throughout the room — both amidst the band and the crowd — which is epitomised when they unleash new single 'Bitter, Not Better'."
Features / Music
Looking Back At The Crusade
"The whole thing with The Church was that we were resisting the zeitgeist of the ‘80s — that whole New Romantic scene and bands like Duran Duran."
Features / Music
When You Play Your Own Wedding In Five Different Bands
“I’m in five bands playing on the night, that must go in the Guinness Book Of Records!"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Cosmic Psychos - Cum The Raw Prawns
"Possibly the dumbest batch of lyrics in the Psychos’ storied catalogue of dumb lyrics, but the music behind them is typically driving and unrelenting."
Features / Music
On Comedians, Outer Space And Being Mediocre
"I’m fascinated with comedians and reckon it must be the hardest bloody job. They must be so wracked by insecurity, and there must be nothing worse than being a mediocre comedian."
Features / Music
Cosmic Psychos
"Just Three Fucking Knobs Getting Pissed And Coming Up With Bad Ad-Libbing"
“You put yourself under a bit of pressure – which we love, because it just means you drink quicker."
News / Music
Ten Rock'N'Roll Meltdowns You Want To Remember
Diva moments from the biggest and best
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Hoodoo Gurus
"It’s time for the pièce de résistance as all the members ever to hold a station as a Hoodoo Guru come together at once for a raucous re-imagination of the classic 'Leilani'"
News / Music
Police Take To Stage At Sydney Opera House; Bring Royal Headache Show To A Halt
"I don't want to see my friends punched in the head by a bunch of fucking pigs."
Features / Music
On Gut Feelings, Perfection And Recording A Song Five Times
"I’m after a feeling, and it’s about chasing that feeling where you go, ‘Wow, that works!'"
Features / Music
A Loving Ode To A Prostitute
"We’d use pretty foul language and what could be perceived as awful concepts, but it was delivered in a friendly and lighthearted and almost loving way"
Reviews / Live
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Live Review: The Peel Tempel, Tape/Off, Walken
"They take no prisoners from the get-go, their primal music energetic and scabrous in equal doses"
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