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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.

News / Music
LIVE REVIEW: Were You One Of The Lucky Few Who Caught Nat Vazer In Melbourne?
"When Vazer delivers her songs, there is no sense of desperation or fear that the audience won’t understand. It’s the marker of an extremely good songwriter."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: New Order: 'This Might Be The Last Time We’re All Together'
"Like a combination of Danceteria at its peak and watching the orchestra on the Titanic."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bill Callahan
"Over and over tonight, Callahan expresses a yearning for the simplicity of personal fulfilment."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jay Som, Gena Rose Bruce
"Song after song, most of them from her acclaimed 2019 album 'Anak Ko', send the audience into raptures."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Grace Cummings, Cool Sounds, Freya Josephine Hollick
"What strikes the audience tonight is that [Cummings'] voice is so powerful."
Features / Music
The Music 2019 Writers' Poll: Andy Hazel
Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2019…
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Deacon Blue, Simon Shapiro
"[T]he venue feels like it’s full of competition winners."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: U2, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
"A meticulously constructed and dazzling night."
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Live Review: A Place To Bury Strangers, Flyying Colours
"Every aspect of their show forces the attention back onto the noises their instruments make and the sheer force behind it."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Reclink Community Cup - Elsternwick Park
"The typically excellent Reclink Community Cup music programming emerges victorious yet again."
Features / Music
Memory Lane
"I wasn’t a particularly modest person so it wasn’t a big deal to get my kit off, but I look back now and think, 'Oh yeah, I was a 21-year-old female artist who was fed up and looking for a ‘fuck you'."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Hunx & His Punx, The UV Race, Scott & Charlene's Wedding
Once a three-song set has been heckled out of them (including the killer I Don’t Want To Be In A Cult No More), and Hunx has fled the stage to the merch desk, the audience, still thirsty for more, flop toward each other, grinning like stroked cats.
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