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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
'It Wasn't For Nostalgia Reasons That We Did It Again, We Just Did It For Artistic Reasons'
"There seems something more at stake when you're faced with doing an LP - it's like doing a whole book instead of just writing a few pages."
Features / Music
'There's Always A Risk In Following Your Gut Instincts'
"I think if you're not scared of what you're doing then you're not doing it to the best of your abilities."
Features / Music
'Sometimes In Europe I Feel A Bit Like An Alien From Outerspace'
"It's just three chords and a couple of people but it really sounded like heaven and outer space at the same time."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Okkervil River - In The Rainbow Rain
"The scabrous delving into shadows of yore is a thing of the past."
Features / Music
Squeeze Are 'Coming Back From The Dead' & Getting Something Back From Audiences
"We were called 'new wave' for a while and then that went away, then we seemed to find our own corner."
Features / Music
'All Of The Drummers Who Have Played On This Record Are So Far In Excellent Shape'
"It would be a bit silly for me to cling to my youth - I don't look like my youth; I look like my craggy, aged self - so I'm aging gracefully."
News / Music
EXCLUSIVE: Australian Artists On Gurrumul's Impact - 'His Music Is Immortal'
"He was afforded the opportunity to represent his people to the world and that's why we say his name, so the world doesn't forget."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Hinds - I Don't Run
"Their endearing ramshackle edge remains."
Features / Music
'If You Want To Write Songs The Only Way To Do It Is Keep Living'
"You really can't force it. You really have to sit back and wait for things to come to you, because when you really try to sit down and just crank out a song it always sucks - at least for me it always sucks."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Deer Tick, Good Oak
"McCauley strangles notes from his guitar during the raucous 'Jumpstarting' before giving his bassist a lengthy kiss on the lips after the sultry 'Baltimore Blues No 1'."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Verge Collection - Flaneur
"Musically, the Perth four-piece's debut is as refreshingly breezy as the Freo Doctor on a stinking hot day..."
Features / Music
Picking Up Flavour On The Banks Of The Tennessee
"I've been drawn to America since I was little and then the opportunity to record in Muscle Shoals was just a total dream come true: it was a mythological place for me."
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