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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.

Features / Music
Flint Eastwood's Jax Anderson Is Making Art Out Of Angst
Flint Eastwood's Jax Anderson explains to Carley Hall how she found happiness - and songwriting inspiration - through the process of coming out.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Highasakite - Uranium Heart
"While [Havik's] voice itself is emotive, compelling and beautiful, it's just not enough to carry an album."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Prodigy, Enschway
"An evening of pure fun and loose raving."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: For Shore
"A vibrant, tidy festival for the people of North Brisbane that has hit the ground running."
Features / Music
The Music 2018 Writers' Poll: Carley Hall
Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2018...
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bon Jovi, Birds Of Tokyo
"This show is clearly a well-oiled machine and there doesn’t seem to be much deviating from script."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Mel Parsons - Glass Heart
"There’s plenty of those lovely bittersweet moments of melancholy."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Shihad, Young Lions, The Dead Love
"Such an impressive and steadfast performance along with consistently quality output needs to be applauded."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Drunk Mums - Urban Cowboy
"The same rambunctious chaos still remains."
Features / Music
Matt Corby Doesn't Think He'll Ever Do His 'Best Work'
Juggling new dad duties and caring less about what people think of his music is the pleasantly dichotomous world Matt Corby finds himself in. By Carley Hall.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Matt Corby - Rainbow Valley
"A silky stroll into a slightly more avant-garde realm with some splashes of psychedelic rock amidst his usual rootsy crooners and gospel-backed ballads."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Hands Like Houses - Anon.
"If 'Anon.' had a colour, it would most definitely be beige."