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Andy Hazel, Journalist

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Andy Hazel is a writer and musician based in Melbourne. He is also the senior editorial producer at The Saturday Paper to which he contributes profiles on musicians, actors and directors. His writing also appears in IndieWire, The Monthly, Guardian Australia and A Rabbit's Foot. Andy is also the producer and host of Twin Peaks The Return: A Season Three Podcast.

Features / Music
Two For The Road
"I suffered from anxiety attacks myself, and I wrote the [Split Enz] song Dirty Creature about that, which helped enormously."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Feelings, Milk Teddy & Dumb Blonde
They’re not aiming for anything higher than ‘good times’, so in that sense the show is a success. But they could be so much more.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Laneway Festival
Sacrificing Alt-J for Jessie Ware, we are immediately rewarded with some hilarious banter, made even funnier for its incongruous setting between some sparkling neo-soul songs.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Waterboys & Oh Mercy
Their second encore of Fisherman’s Blues and A Man Is In Love sees everyone standing, aisles full of dancers and a broadly grinning band.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bohjass Upas Militia, Pataphysics, Spencer P Jones & The Escape Committee
This is a fascinating, unique band and a blast of a show.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Alabama Shakes & Bob Log II
All agree the house was rocked and, regardless of who Alabama Shakes remind you of, that’s what they came to do.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Elvis Costello & Joe Camilleri
He appears to be having as much fun as we are, which really isn’t that hard.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Animal Collective & Africa Hitech
Returning for an encore that features a new unnamed song, a boisterous take on My Girls and the Centipede Hz track Amanita, the band leave us sated for another year and, it seems, another album.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Morning After Girls
The MAGs have made their biggest step toward perfecting this oft-abused style, and with news of a new album due later this year it’s good to have them back.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: ESG, No Zu & Terrible Truths
All this and they didn’t even play their best song.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: New Gods, Montero, Jessica Says
"Though the Little Red elephant in the room is never mentioned, it exerts its influence in strange ways."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Yo La Tengo - Fade
Unlike Superchunk’s critic-uniting blazing return to form in 2011, Fade is more of a humble offering, but one that is richly rewarding.
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