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Carley Hall, Journalist

Carley Hall

Carley Hall is a Gold Coast-based writer who loves spinning a good yarn. She’s worked in print news rooms for more than a decade and now juggles young family life with a busy career in research communication, promoting all types of science from the dire and necessary to the weird and wonderful.

When she’s not doing all of the above, she’s dancing around her living room trying to brainwash her kids into liking her taste in music or getting out to see some gigs. Carley likes the heavy stuff most, but if it’s got hooky melodies, clever lyrics or off-kilter beats nothing is off limits.

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Slapshot, Driven Fear, The Lost Cause, Shackles, Bitter Lungs
The veterans are on their game and, despite the humble turnout, their return has not been in vain.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kaiser Chiefs - Education, Education, Education & War
If only something from left-field broke up the straight and narrow.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion
It’s almost frustrating in a way, that desire to be transported but being transfixed by every pattern, new sound or wayward chug. It’s just unavoidable.
Features / Music
Turn It On
"I’ve always been of the opinion that [touring] has to be about a good lifestyle."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Violent Soho, Bad//Dreems, The Sinking Teeth
Neighbour Neighbour gets the crowd surging, prompting some stern security presence.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Teeth & Tongue - Grids
Grids is an album to be appreciated for its ability to present entrancing music by deceptively simple means.
Features / Music
Thirty Horns
"What we’re trying to do with the band is not just be a generic ska band."
Features / Music
Frenzal Rhomb
Living On The Edge
"The tapeworm! I was dead for seven months! That’s the longest anyone’s ever been dead, and then not dead."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Beth Hart - Bang Bang Boom Boom
Beth Hart is one of those raw talents of bluesy vocal gymnastics whose repertoire does away with any expectations one carries into the genre.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The BossHoss - Liberty Of Action
The Answer and My Way have the boys swaggering around harmonicas and organs with redneck sentiment at breakneck speed.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Calling All Cars - Raise The People
Whether fans pull up stumps with a “meh” is a gamble Ing and co clearly felt was worth taking.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
It’s an ambitious debut, but gosh it’s a stunner.
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